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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/53S7IJIJIGH4MU2R2MTLFKMA43G4KDQR/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5CsHEUZy=_wSYLyRgZEdk=2yDUdg6=Zz87K4JmAeV_bRA@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "53S7IJIJIGH4MU2R2MTLFKMA43G4KDQR", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/53S7IJIJIGH4MU2R2MTLFKMA43G4KDQR/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "k0jm.mark (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Mark Johns, K0JM", "subject": "[AMSAT-BB] ANS-001 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Jan. 1", "date": "2023-01-01T00:10:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-001\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* W2RS Memorial AMSAT CW Activity Day to be Held January 1st\n* HAARP was used to ping Asteroid 2010 XC15\n* Space junk bill passes Senate unanimously\n* TJREVERB was deployed from the ISS on December 29, 2022\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for Jan 1, 2023\n* OSCAR number assigned for CAS-10\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information\nservice of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes\nnews related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities\nof a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active\ninterest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog\nand digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in\nSpace as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at]\namsat.org\n\nYou can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service\nBulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see:\nhttps://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/\n\nANS-001 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nTo: All RADIO AMATEURS\nFrom: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n712 H Street NE, Suite 1653\nWashington, DC 20002\n\nDATE 2023 Jan 01 - Wishing All a Happy and Prosperous New Year\n\n\nW2RS Memorial AMSAT CW Activity Day to be Held January 1st\n\nIn March 2022, the AMSAT community lost one of our pioneers when Ray\nSoifer, W2RS, became a silent key. In addition to his numerous\ncontributions to AMSAT and the worldwide amateur satellite community, Ray\nwas also the long time organizer of AMSAT's CW Activity Day - previously\nAMSAT Straight Key Night - held in conjunction with the ARRL's event on New\nYear's Day. In recognition of Ray's long time service to AMSAT and his keen\ninterest in CW operating via satellite, AMSAT is pleased to announce that\nAMSAT's CW Activity Day will now be known as the W2RS Memorial AMSAT CW\nActivity Day in Ray's honor.\n\nThe rules are simple - operate CW through any amateur satellite between\n0000 UTC and 2359 UTC on January 1, 2023. Straight keys and bugs are\nencouraged, but not required. Logs are not required, but operators are\nencouraged to submit a report of their activity to the AMSAT-BB. Photos and\nvideo clips of activity are also encouraged - post them on Twitter and tag\n@AMSAT.\n\nRemember to use the minimum power required for communication as constant\ncarrier modes, including CW, can disrupt transponder operation for other\nusers.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n Last Day for 2022 AMSAT President's Club Membership\n\nWhen They're Gone…They're Gone!\nJoin the 2022 AMSAT President's Club today and help\nKeep Amateur Radio in Space!\n https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n\n(2022 membership closes 1/3/2022)\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nHaarp Was Used To Ping Asteroid 2010 XC15\n\nResearchers at the HAARP array in Alaska attempted the lowest-frequency\nasteroid radar experiment ever. On Tuesday, Dec. 27th, they pinged a\npassing space rock with shortwave radio waves at 9.6 MHz. This could allow\nthem to see *inside* the asteroid.\n\nA number of amateur radio operators around the world were able to copy the\nsignal. The signal appeared in a sequence of frequency sweep pings centered\naroun the the 9.6MHz frequency in a \"Ping\" Wait 2 seconds. \"Ping\" Wait 2\nseconds \"Ping\" pattern.\n\nThat's what most ham radio operators heard last Tuesday when they received\nHAARP's radar transmission to asteroid 2010 XC15. Scott Tilley of Roberts\nCreek, British Columbia, provided a recording of what he saw. It may be\nviewed at: https://bit.ly/3C2YshF along with a vidoe that includes sound.\n\nThe pulse was lopsided with a fast rise and a slow decay,\" notes Tilley. \"I\nbelieve this is due to multipath propagation from HAARP in Alaska to my\nreceiver in British Columbia.\"\n\nEveryone who picked up the pulse did so because Earth's ionosphere\nreflected some of HAARP's radio energy back to Earth. Only a fraction\nescaped into space and reached the asteroid. Tilley's high-time-resolution\nrecording of the pulse shows that multiple reflections (probably with a\ndash of ducting and refraction) were involved.\n\nThe complexity of the ionosphere, and how it modifies shortwave signals, is\na key challenge for researchers who will be processing radar returns from\nasteroid 2010 XC15. Good luck to the radar team as we await their results!\n\n[ANS thanks spaceweather.com for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSpace junk bill passes Senate unanimously\n\nU.S. Senator John Hickenlooper applauded Senate passage of his Orbital\nSustainability (ORBITS) Act, a bipartisan bill to establish a\nfirst-of-its-kind demonstration program to reduce the amount of space junk\nin orbit. The bill passed the Senate unanimously.\n\n\"From satellite communications to rockets carrying humans into deep space,\nspace debris is a massive threat to space operations,\" said Hickenlooper,\nchair of the Senate Subcommittee on Space and Science. \"I'm over the moon\nthat our ORBITS Act passed and we can start cleaning up this space junk.\"\n\nSpace junk, or orbital debris, currently threatens human space exploration,\nscientific research missions, and emerging commercial space services. There\nare approximately 8,000 metric tons of debris currently in orbit, including\nat least 900,000 individual pieces of debris that are potentially lethal to\nsatellites. Because of the magnitude of the current debris, simply\npreventing more debris in the future is not enough. The ORBITS Act will\njumpstart a program focused on research, development, and the demonstration\nof technologies capable of safely carrying out successful Active Debris\nRemediation (ADR) missions to create a new market for these services.\n\nAdditional information may be found at https://bit.ly/3WwsCCa\n\n[ANS thanks spacedaily.com for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows,\n and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through\n AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards\n Keeping Amateur Radio in Space.\n https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nTJREVERB was deployed from the ISS on December 29, 2022\n\nTJREVERB, an APRS digipeater 2U cubesat on 145.825 MHz, built by students\nat the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology was deployed\non December 29, 2022 by NanoRacks from the International Space Station.\nTJREVERB was launched on November 22 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida as\npart of the SpaceX-26 Commercial Resupply Service Mission en route to the\nInternational Space Station. The launch is the culmination of seven years\nof hard work for TJ Space. Led by Robotics lab director Kristen Kucko, many\nstudents from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology have\nhad a hand in this historic launch.\n\nA statement and description of the mission by Michael Roth and Kristen\nKucko of Thomas Jefferson High School states: \"TJ REVERB is significant\nbecause the CubeSat was designed, built, coded and integrated entirely by\nhigh school students,\" said Kucko. \"The students did not use a satellite\nkit, nor did they have an industry or university partnership to assist\nthem. Building satellites is not an easy task. According to Col. Nick\nHague, Astronaut, (some)countries have not been able to build CubeSats. The\nstudents in TJ Space should be proud of their accomplishments.\" Additional\ninformation about the project may be found at:\nhttps://tjhsst.fcps.edu/features/launch-tjreverb-culmination-seven-year-project-tj-space\n\nKirsten Kucko, the teacher sponsoring the TJ Space team wrote, \"TJ Space\nreceived crowdsourced reports that there is an APRS unit digipeating within\nthe vicinity of the ISS. The spacecraft has the orbital characteristics of\none of the satellites launched during the NRCSD 24 mission.\" Since TJREVEB\nis the only CubeSat using APRS in that vicinity, TJREVERB could very well\nbe that spacecraft. It is TJ Space’s assertion that something went\ncritically wrong with TJREVERB's implementation of the Iridium radio and\nIridium did not receive power to turn on. The APRS radio powered on as the\nbackup radio and started digipeating. TJ Space continues to search for\nconfirmation that this spacecraft is indeed TJREVERB.\n\nAny help from the community would be greatly appreciated.\n\n[ANS thanks Michael Roth and Kristen Kucko or Thomas Jefferson High School\nand JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM, for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition?\n Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff\n from our Zazzle store!\n 25% of the purchase price of each product goes\n towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space\n https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for Jan 1, 2023\n\nTwo Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps\nin the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical\nmodel of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly\nupdates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. TLE bulletin\nfiles are updated Thursday evenings around 2300 UTC, or more frequently if\nnew high interest satellites are launched. More information may be found at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/\n\nThe following satellite has been removed from this week's AMSAT-NA TLE\ndistribution:\n\nMYSat 1 NORAD Cat ID 44045 (Decayed from orbit 12/16/2022 per SpaceTrack).\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOSCAR number assigned for CAS-10\n\nOn November 12, 2022, the XW-4 (CAS-10) satellite was launched to the\nChinese Space Station aboard the Tianzhou-5 spacecraft, by the Long March-7\nY6 launch vehicle from the Wenchang Launch Center in Hainan, China. On\nDecember 18, the XW-4 (CAS-10) satellite was separated from the station.\nThe Chinese Amateur Satellite Group (CAMSAT) built and operates the\nsatellite, in cooperation with a Chinese government space contractor and\nMacau University of Science and Technology, to serve radio amateurs around\nthe world and educate students in space and radio communication science and\ntechnology. This satellite is also known as Macao Student Science\nPopularization Satellite No. 1, and is the first satellite from the Macao\nSpecial Administrative Region. The satellite carries a V/u linear\ntransponder, and CW and GMSK telemetry beacons for amateur radio use.\n\nAt the request of CAMSAT and the XW-4 (CAS-10) team, AMSAT hereby\ndesignates the satellite as Hope-OSCAR 119 (HO-119). We congratulate all\nthe involved teams, thank them for their contribution to the amateur\nsatellite community, and wish them continued success on this and future\nprojects.\n\n[ANS thanks Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations / OSCAR Number\nAdministrator for the above information]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nARISS NEWS\n\nAmateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between\namateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with\nastronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The\ndownlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide.\n\nNo School Contacts are currently scheduled.\n\nThe latest information on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html\n\nThe latest list of frequencies in use can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors\nfor the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an Amateur\n Radio package, including two-way communication capability, to\n be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit.\n\n Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nChris VE3FU / VO2AC / VO1FUA / VE2FUA: The weekend of January 27-29\n@Dave_VE3KG and Chris, VE3FU will be competing in the CQ160 CW Contest as\nVO2AC from the Point Amour Lighthouse in Labrador (Zone 2). They will also\nbe on the other HF bands starting January 24 as VO2AC and VO2AAA. They also\nplan on operating the linear and FM satellites from grid GO11 as VO2AC and\nVO2AAA from January 24-27.\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n\nAMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through\namateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests,\nconventions, maker faires, and other events.\n\nMSAT Ambassador Clint Bradford K6ALCS has a few satellite\npresentations scheduled:\n-Greenville, North Carolina (1/10/23)\n-Ontario, Canada (1/16/23)\n-Thames Valley, England (5/11/23)\n\nHam Radio University will be held 1/7/2023. Registration is now open for\nthis virtual event at https://hamradiouniversity.org/. Peter Portanova,\nW2JV will be hosting a Satellite Forum on the History of Amateur Satellites.\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ SpaceX launches first mission for Starlink Gen2 constellation using a\nFalcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Wednesday with 54 more Starlink\ninternet satellites, a mission to begin populating a new orbital shell\nauthorized by federal regulators earlier this month for the company’s\nStarlink Gen2 network. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape\nCanaveral Space Force Station on SpaceX’s Starlink 5-1 mission occurred at\n4:34 a.m. EST (0934 GMT) Wednesday, about six minutes earlier than\npreviously announced. The mission was SpaceX’s 60th launch of the year,\nwith one more Falcon 9 flight set to blast off later this week from\nVandenberg Space Force Base, California, with an Israeli Earth-imaging\nsatellite. he 54 satellites launching Wednesday were the first spacecraft\ndeployed into a new segment of the Starlink constellation. The Falcon 9\nrocket released the 54 satellites at an orbital altitude and inclination\nset aside for use by SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink network, which the\ncompany eventually intends to launch on the new Starship mega-rocket. More\nat https://bit.ly/3IcrO0P. [ANS thanks spaceflightnow.com for the above\ninformation]\n\n+ An Israeli reconnaissance satellite was carried into orbit during the\nfinal SpaceX launch of the year. The EROS-3 Earth-imaging satellite was\nlaunched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in\nCalifornia at 11:38 p.m. Thursday. The first stage detached successfully\nand landed on a SpaceX pad eight minutes after launch. The rocket was\nlaunched in retrograde, against the direction of the Earth's rotation, and\ncarried the EROS-3 into low Earth orbit. More information is available at:\nhttps://bit.ly/3G8FXJI [ANS thanks Patrick Hilsman, UPI and Spacedaily.com\nfor the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nJoin AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org/\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:\n\n* Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).\n* Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate.\n* Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status\nshall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary\nyears in this status.\n* Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.\n\nContact info [at] amsat.org for additional membership information.\n\n73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\nThis week's ANS Editor, Jack Spitznagel\nkd4iz at frawg dot org\n\n\n", "attachments": [ { "email": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/53S7IJIJIGH4MU2R2MTLFKMA43G4KDQR/?format=api", "counter": 2, "name": "attachment.html", "content_type": "text/html", "encoding": "utf-8", "size": 18761, "download": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/53S7IJIJIGH4MU2R2MTLFKMA43G4KDQR/attachment/2/attachment.html" } ] }