UMKA-1 telescope satellite mission

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2026-04-11 09:12UTC

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2026-04-12 01:14 UTC

from my station-4451, obs link

and from another station-4469 that very good signal

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2026-04-12 08:53

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… and a few from the weekend for UmKA-1

11-Apr-26 1041UTC

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12-Apr-26 1025UTC

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2026-04-12 19:36

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I caught a BW8 SSTV image from the satellite. Unfortunately, it was already very low, so it wasn’t the best. I’ve never seen anything like this from Umka.

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2026-04-17 08:58

and 8:59 BW “ghost” :wink:

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… passing over my QTH in Cambodia just now…

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UMKA - 1 pass over VU Region

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They usually check if a new image has been successfully uploaded by transmitting it in B/W 8. Here is the image as received in :greece:. :wink:

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2026-04-18T19:21 UTC. Image received in :greece:, in Robot72 mode. It was transmitted twice in a row while the satellite was visible from the ground station in Podolsk, near Moscow. Much better quality compared to Robot36.

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2026-04-19 09:52

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"At the initiative of Brazilian radio amateurs, as part of strengthening cooperation and developing joint educational projects for youth, the UMKA-1 RS40S school orbital telescope is transmitting special images provided by colleagues in Brazil.

Frequency: 437.625 MHz
Intervals: 120 seconds
Mode: Robot-36

The broadcast is already underway and will end on April 27 at 00:00 UTC"

News from the ON AIR Telegram channel.

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