Australia's First Ham Radio Satellite

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University students in Australia have convinced NASA to launch the Australis OSCAR 5 Amateur Radio satellite. 

In 1967, a group of students from the Melbourne University Astronautical Society came up with an idea to build a small amateur radio satellite.

It was just 10 years after the world's first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched and Australia had yet to enter the space race. But it was the hard work and persistence of the young students that convinced NASA to launch the Australis OSCAR 5 into space.

Now based in Adelaide, the project's coordinator Owen Mace said the technology at the time was "cutting edge".

"[The satellite would] transmit details about itself — how it was tumbling, the temperature and the like," Mr Mace told ABC Radio Adelaide's Nightlife program.

"It carried the first command system of an amateur radio satellite; for the first time we could control the satellite."

Australis OSCAR 5 was launched by NASA on 24th January 1970.

Media Story -  
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-06/how-uni-students-got-nasa-to-launch-australias-first-satellite/8421480

AMSAT-VK Yahoo Group - https://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmsatVK

NASA Launches Two CubeSats with Transponders

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Two satellites with Amateur Radio transponder payloads have been selected for future NASA launches 

AMSAT-NA reports TJREVERB is a CubeSat from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Alexandria, Virginia with a 435/145 MHz FM transponder.

HuskySat-1 has a 145/435 MHz SSB/CW transponder and was developed by students at the University of Washington in Seattle.

It is expected the launches will take place in the 2018-2020 time frame.

AMSAT-NA Story - http://www.amsat.org/?p=5795

NASA Announces Eighth Class of Candidates for Launch of CubeSat Space Missions - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-announces-eighth-class-of-candidates-for-launch-of-cubesat-space-missions

Students FM transponder Satellite Launched

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CAS-2T a technical verification satellite for CAMSAT CAS-2 series amateur radio satellite launched at 23:42 UT 9 November 2016 on a CZ-11 rocket

The 2U CubeSat, developed by students from Fengtai District, Xicheng and Haidian District secondary schools, carries a ham radio 145/435 MHz FM transponder. CAS-2T will not be separated from the final stage of rocket, so the orbital life may be 10 to 30 days before the final stage of the rocket re-enters the atmosphere.

Amateur radio payloads:

CW Telemetry Beacon ： 435.710 MHz
FM Transponder Uplink ： 145.925 MHz
FM Transponder Downlink ： 435.615 MHz

Launch vehicle: CZ-11(Y2) solid rocket
Launch time: 23:42, 9-Nov-2016
Epoch time: +620.615 seconds
Inclination degree: 97.400985 degrees
RA of node degree:
Eccentricity: 1.77E-4
Perigee degree: 328.206969 degrees
Mean anomaly degree: 198.226766 degrees
Period: 5685.564 seconds
Speed: 7607.496391 m/s
Longitude: 93.693693E
Latitude: 13.531945N

News report (in Chinese) - https://www.chinaspaceflight.com/satellite/fengtai-shaonian-01.html

Mike Rupprecht DK3WN – CAS-2T seems to be Object 2016-66E - http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=75971

‘Keps’ for new satellites launched in past 30 days - http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt