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On 5 October 2015, at 21:32 CEST, one of the first signals from the AAUSAT 5 cubsat was received by a ground station located at ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

The beacon signal we received is a short Morse code of about 10 seconds, sent every 5 minutes on UHF frequency 437.425 MHz.

It contains an identifier and information about the satellite's condition, providing data on battery voltage and the temperature inside the satellite.

More about AAUSAT5:
http://www.esa.int/aausat5
http://www.space.aau.dk/aausat5/