WELL THE PACKET NOT ON IN THE PASS BUT THE PCSAT TELEMETRY ITS ON 9600 BAUD 437.975 OK TNX WP3OD

With those words, Bob Bruninga WB4APR informed the ham community that PCSAT2 had been activated at approximately 2040 UTC on Aug 3. Reports of contact including 9600 baud telemetry began pouring in to the AMSAT-BB mailing list. The PCSAT2 telemetry page began to display data as it was received through the APRS-IS network at http://www.pcsat2.info

In other news NASA informed the Discovery crew that they would not request a fourth EVA to repair a torn thermal blanket under the commanders front window. Mission control relayed the message from engineers that Discovery would be safe for re-entry.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php

Space Shuttle mission managers today completed their assessment of Discovery's fitness to handle the rigors of re-entry into the atmosphere.
We have cleared Discovery to re-enter," said Wayne Hale, chairman of the Mission Management Team (MMT), during a news conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston.

The MMT determined the Orbiter's heat shield and other systems are in good shape. They also decided a spacewalk is unnecessary to repair damage to a thermal blanket on Discovery's outer skin.

Good day, I have not recieved any signals from the "stack" all day in the u.s. @ CN98.

Ron , Western Washington

The shuttle crew may be active on voice during the next couple of orbits. No guaranteed but if they do activate the ham radio, they are expected to use the standard 2 meter frequencies of 145.80 down and 144.49 for ITU regions 2 & 3. Uplink for Region 1 is 145.20.

Good luck and be sure to pass along well wishes for a safe return.

Kenneth - N5VHO

Installation of PCSat2 on the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to come during a spacewalk set to begin very early Wednesday, August 3. The NA1SS/RS0ISS Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) equipment has been powered down while PCSat2 systems are installed and activation tests run. The ARISS gear will be returned to operation after a few days.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/48hour/msg06799.html

maybe you have seen them.. in case you didn´t here you can see some shots of John L. Phillips doing some hamming.
Enjoy them:
PIC 1

PIC 2

PIC 3

73s from Ourense, Spain

Fernando
@ EA1URO.COM

Dave G4DPZ captured a set of images off NASA TV during the PCSat2 installation.
You can find these images here:

www.pcsat2.info

The nine space fliers aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station will field media questions starting at 5:59
a.m. EDT, Tuesday. The news conference will be live on NASA TV.Questions will be taken from media at NASA's Johnson Space Center,
Houston; Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; NASA Headquarters, Washington; and
from the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, outside Moscow.

The International Space Station crew and STS-114 astronauts continue to unload supplies and equipment from the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module. Raffaello, a reusable cargo carrier, arrived at the Station in
Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay. It was attached to the ISS on Friday. Before Raffaello is returned to the payload bay for the trip
home, the crews will fill it with unneeded items from the Station.