The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced that three cubesat carrying Amateur Radio payloads were deployed from the ISS on May 11 at around 1030 UTC See AMSAT News Service bulletin ANS-133 for details

The following cubesats have been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE distribution and are designated by Space-Track as follows:

UBAKUSAT (Turkey)- NORAD CAT ID 43466 (a 3U cubesat with a CW beacon at 437 225 MHz, a telemetry beacon at 435 325 MHZ, and a linear transponder with a 435 200 - 435 250 MHz downlink / 145 940 - 145 990 MHz uplink)

1KUNS-PF (Kenya)- NORAD CAT ID 43467 (a 3U cubesat with a 1200 bps or 9600 bps telemetry beacon at 437 300 MHz)

Irazu (Costa Rica) - NORAD CAT ID 43468 (a 1U cubesat with a 9600 bps telemetry beacon at 436 500 MHz)

Nico Janssen (PA0DLO) reminds us that it is still too early to tell if the above CAT ID's are correct for each object There may be changes

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