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It's Alive! It's Alive!
Posted By Charlene Anderson
2011/01/20 06:00 CST
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by Charlene Anderson
It was once thought lost in space, but it looks like NanoSail-D has ejected from its FastSat carrier and is preparing for deployment.
We just pulled this off the Nanosail-D Twitter
"Hello all! Checking in! I will open my sail this evening at 02:55 UTC or 9:55pm EST over Ireland. You know the luck o' the Irish helped."
The Nanosail team is asking ham radio operators for help in tracking the spacecraft. If you're a ham, the tweets say "Use 437.270MHz as the center frequency. Talk to you soon ....."
Fingers crossed for a successful sail deployment.
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