RAX-2 Tracking
The Northrop Grumman-built National Prepratory Project (NPP) spacecraft was launched on Thursday, the 27th,
just before midnight with six pico-sats on board. The Hooponopono team met in the UH lab at 10:00 PM to set up tracking
equipment to read telemetry from the RAX-2 Aurora Explorer pico-sat after the third orbit pass over Hawaii.
Students carried the antenna and support equipment up to the fifth floor roof of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics
(HIG) building on the University of Hawaii campus.
Students install the antenna on its altitude and asimuth pointing equipment which is automatically controlled.
Community volunteer Ron Hashiro helps students set up the receiving and telemetry recording equipment on the fourth
floor of the HIG building.
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