Delfi-C3 photo weblog

Going all the way back to a post made in July of 2007, you can see a picture of a Dutch kids programme shooting an episode in our cleanroom and at the vibration facility. It took them a while to piece the whole thing together and they promised us to air it on the 1-year anniversary of the sallite that’s coming up. Unfortunately this is not going to happen since they already broadcast it on the 16th of March. The episode is available online. Please note that it is entirely in Dutch but it is well worth watching because of some nice live shots of the cleanroom and the vibration test.

You can watch the episode at http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=9308737

ps: the satellite is still performing well coming up on it’s 1-year in orbit

From April 25 till April 27 the AMSAT UK Colloquium 2008 will be held in Guildford, United Kingdom. The Delfi-C3 team will be attending this colloquium with a group of team members. The team members will be giving presentations on the satellite and satellite operations and .

More information on the colloquium can be found here: http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/32/42/

Note: unfortunately we will not be able to permanently activate the Delfi-C3 transponder before leaving for the colloquium, as announced on the AMSAT UK website. During the colloquium we will turn on the Delfi-C3 transponder whenever possible and we will permanently switch it on in the period after the colloquium.

The response from the radio-amateur community that we have received up until this point has been overwhelming and we would like to thank all of the people that are listening to Delfi-C3 and submitting her telemetry to us! One of the radio-amateurs even went through the trouble of designing and building a cardboard model of our little satellite

All the credits go the Stefan Wagener, VE4NSA, for this fantastic-looking and very realistic model of Delfi-C3.

You can also build it yourself, just download the model & assembly instructions and get out the scissors and the glue

Final integration of Delfi-C3

First signal and telemetry received on launch day in our groundstation in Delft

Delfi-C3’s signal is so strong that today we went up to the roof during an overhead pass and received it on our handheld antennas. As you can see in the pictures below we had a lot of fun

From left to right: Wouter Weggelaar (PA3WEG), Wouter Jan Ubbels (PE4WJ) and Gerard Aalbers (no call yet)