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Es’Hail-2: An Updated Look at Amateur Radio’s 1st Geostationary Satellite

Author: Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, B.Eng. Electronics (Pretoria), M.Sc. Space Physics (Rhodes)
 

If all goes according to plan the Qatar Satellite Company’s second satellite, Es’Hail-2, will be placed in a geostationary orbit by a Space-X Falcon-9 rocket within the next year. It will carry an AMSAT linear transponder as a secondary payload, giving amateurs for the first time access to a geostationary satellite. The transponder uplink frequency will be 2.4 GHz, downlink frequency 10.489 GHz and the bandwidth 250 kHz.