China Space Program Q&A

[Danderman]

Anyone have a source of information on radio frequencies used by Shenzhou for voice, telemetry, command, etc?

[Rusty_Barton]

NASA space frequencies
http://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/Monitoring%20NASA%20and%20Space%20Communications.pdf


Shenzhou frequencies found through Google search:

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/shehourv.htm
243 MHz VHF beacon
The crew also had handheld emergency 406 MHz transceivers.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200310/msg00211.html
> 160.00 MHz china 9B
> 179.985 MHz China 17,19  CW
> 180.0 MHz CHINA 4-7 SAT. TELEMETRY, CHINA 9c
>

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.history/msg/671771594e6a09c2?hl=en
> Are the frequencies used by Shenzhou V for space to ground comms known
> yet?

> Rupert

According to the AMSAT BBS: 160.000 MHz, 179.985 MHz CW,
and 180.000 MHz telemetry.

 
http://www.satellitenwelt.de/freqlisten/Raumfahrt_Freq.txt
chinesisches Satelliten-Telemetrieband 179-181 MHz-------------
179,565MHz Shenzhou-6: ca.15kHz breites PSK