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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-158 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2015-06-07T00:55:37Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-158\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-\nmation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite\nCorporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space\nincluding reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur\nRadio operators who share an active interest in designing, building,\nlaunching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio\nsatellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur\nRadio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\nans-editor at amsat.org.\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* OSCAR Numbers Assigned for BRICsat (NO-83) and PSAT (NO-84)\n* 2015 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations Notice\n* May/June 2015 AMSAT Journal is Complete\n* Fox 1C Engineering Model Update Video\n* Program for SA AMSAT Symposium Announced\n* Call For Papers: 2015 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference\n* Sailboat Expedition to Grid DM02 Begins June 10\n* AMSAT Will be at Ham-Com 2015\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-158.01\nANS-158 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 158.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE June 7, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-158.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nOSCAR Numbers Assigned for BRICsat (NO-83) and PSAT (NO-84)\n\n\nThe following message has been sent to Bob Bruninga, WB4APR and the team \nat the\nUS Naval Academy.\n\n\"Bob:\n\nYou have requested OSCAR numbers for BRICsat and PSAT built by you and your\nassociates at the U.S. Naval Academy.\n\n From everything I can determine, these satellites meet all of the \nrequirements\nfor OSCAR designations.\n\nTherefore, by the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA President, I hereby\nconfer the designation, Naval Academy OSCAR 83 on BRICsat amd Naval Academy\nOSCAR 84 on PSAT These designations can, of course, for convenience, be\nshortened to NO-83 and NO-84.\n\nI, and the entire amateur satellite community, hope for successful missions\nfor both NO-83 and NO-84 and congratulate you and the rest of the Naval \nAcademy\nteam who designed, built and tested these two OSCAR spacecraft.\n\n73,\nWilliam A. (Bill) Tynan, W3XO\nOSCAR Number Administrator\"\n\n\nNO-84 PSAT, a student satellite project named in honor of USNA alum\nBradford Parkinson, of GPS fame, contains an APRS transponder for relaying\nremote telemetry, sensor, and user data from remote users and Amateur Radio\nenvironmental experiments or other data sources back to Amateur Radio\nexperimenters via a global network of Internet-linked ground stations.\n\nPSAT is another APRS satelliite that can digipeat user packets just like the\noriginal PCSAT (NO44) and the packet system on the ISS. PSAT also \nsupports the\nsame digipeating alias of ARISS so that users do not have to change any\nparameters when using any of these three APRS transponders.\n\nsee\nhttp://www.aprs.org/psat.html\n\nNO-83 BRICsat-P (Ballistic Reinforced Communication Satellite) is a low cost\n1.5U CubeSat built by the US Naval Academy Satellite Lab in \ncollaboration with\nGeorge Washington University, that will demonstrate on-orbit operation of a\nMicro-Cathode Arc Thruster (µCAT) electric propulsion system and carries an\nAmateur communication payload.\n\nsee\nhttp://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/bricsat-p.htm\n\nFrequencies\nPSAT: 145.825 – 1200 baud AX.25 telemetry – digi off\nPSAT PSK31-5: 435.350 FM down, 28.120 SSB PK31 uplink – Brno University\nTransponder\n\nBRICsat: 437.975 – 9600 baud telemetry evry 20s\nBRICsat PSK31-6 – same as PSAT but PSK TLM on 375 Hz (PSAT on 315 Hz)\n\n\n[ANS thanks Bill Tynan, W3XO for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2015 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations Notice\n\n\nIt is time to submit nominations for the upcoming AMSAT-NA Board of\nDirectors election. Four director's terms expire this year: Barry Baines,\nWD4ASW, Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, Mark Hammond, N8MH, and Jerry Buxton, N0JY. In\naddition, up to two Alternates may be elected for one year terms.\n\nA valid nomination requires either one Member Society or five current\nindividual members in good standing to nominate an AMSAT-NA member for\nDirector. Written nominations, consisting of the nominee's name and call,\nand the nominating individual's names, calls and individual signatures\nshould be mailed to: AMSAT-NA, 10605 Concord St, #304 Kensington, MD\n20895-2526.\n\nIn addition to traditional submissions of written nominations, which is the\npreferred method, the intent to nominate someone may be made by electronic\nmeans. These include e-mail, Fax, or electronic image of a petition.\nElectronic petitions should be sent to [email protected] or Faxed to (301)\n822-4371.\n\nNo matter what means is used, petitions MUST arrive no later than June 15th\nat the AMSAT-NA office. If the nomination is a traditional written\nnomination, no other action is required. If it is other than this, i.e.\nelectronic, a verifying traditional written petition MUST be received at the\nAMSAT-NA office at the above address within 7 days following the close of\nnominations on June 15th. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WITHOUT THIS SECOND,\nWRITTEN VERIFICATION ARE NOT VALID UNDER THE EXISTING AMSAT-NA BYLAWS.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, AMSAT-NA Corporate Secretary for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nMay/June 2015 AMSAT Journal is Complete\n\n\nThe May/June 2015 AMSAT Journal is complete and has been sent to the\nprint shop. The AMSAT Journal is a key membership benefit, mailed to\nall members six times a year. If you are a member of AMSAT look for\nyour copy to arrive in your mailbox within a few weeks.\n\nIn this issue you will find ...\n\n+ The Apogee View column by AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW\n+ AMSAT-NA Opportunity for Ride-share to Geosynchronous Orbit\n+ Fox-1A on the Road to Vandenberg\n+ Getting on the Air With Fox-1A\n+ Minutes of the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Teleconference\n   by AMSAT Corporate Secretary, Alan Biddle, WA4SCA\n+ CNCTRK - A LinuxCNC Based Satellite Tracking System\n   by Bob Freeman, KI4SBL\n+ US Naval Academy Launches PSAT, BRICsat, and USS Langley\n   Cubesats by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR\n+ Extreme DXing on FO-29 with a Portable Station\n   by Hector Martinez, CO6CBF/W5CBF\n+ Radio Amateurs invited to test APRS on Duchifat-1\n+ Planetary Society Lightsail Launched\n+ CAMSAT Press Release: Multiple Amateur Satellite Launch in July\n+ AMSAT Activities at Greater Houston Hamfest 2015\n   by Allen Mattis, N5AFV -and- Andy MacAllister, W5ACM\n+ Monitoring Satellites Outside the Amateur Bands by Alex\n\nThanks to all who contributed to this issue and to the AMSAT Journa;\neditorial team: Bernhard, VA6BMJ; Douglas, KA2UPW/5; James, K3JPH;\nand Joe, KB6IGK.\n\nPlease send your articles, photos, reports of operating activities\nto [email protected]. See\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=1709\nfor anauthor's guide. The Journal editors will be happy to work with you\nto get into print!\n\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Journal editorial team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFox 1C Engineering Model Update Video\n\n\nA video update on Fox 1C Engineering Model from Fox Labs, Texas.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdx3AqMUTO4&feature=youtu.be\n\n\n[ANS thanks Jerry, N0JY, AMSAT Vice President for Engineering for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nProgram for SA AMSAT Symposium Announced\n\n\nThe program has been announced for the SA AMSAT Space Symposium 2015. The\nSymposium will be on June 20, 2015 at the Innovation Centre, Pretoria, South\nAfrica.\n\nSee http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ for full details of the Symposium.\n\nSpeakers include:\n\n+ Make Satellites your next journey into Amateur Radio\n   Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV, President SA AMSAT\n\n+ Keynote address - South Africa's contribution to space operations\n   Raoul C Hodges, Managing Director, SANSA Space Operations\n\n+ Gossamer sails for satellite deorbiting\n   Lourens Visagie, ADCS Functional Area Engineer\n   Space Advisory Company\n\n+ ZACube-2: The successor to Africa's first nanosatellite.\n   Danie de Villiers, Creative Technologist MTech/MSc Electronic\n   Engineering CPUT\n\n   The satellite will serve as technology demonstrator for essential\n   subsystems and form the basis on which an innovative Software\n   Defined Radio platform will be developed as primary payload.\n   Secondary payload includes imaging capbilities\n\n+ ZS6SRC - BACAR programme - Stimulating Science, Technology,\n   Engineering and Mathematics with high performance learners.\n   Christo Kriek ZR6LJK\n\n+ KLETSKOUS -getting Africa into space\n   Hannes Coetzee ZS6BZP, KLETSKOUS Project leader\n\n+ Kletskous Space frame - From concept to experimental model\n   Deon Coetzee ZR1DX\n\n+ Methods to increase the strength-to-weight ratio\n   of a cube-satellite\n   Johannes Francois Oberholzer\n   Stellenbosch University: Industrial Engineering Department\n\n+ KLETSKOUS power unit - From concept to first prototype -\n   Fritz Sutherland Jnr ZS6FSJ, Kletskous team\n\n+ KLETSKOUS Communication Data Structure\n   Brian Mckenzie ZS6BMN, Kletskous team\n\n+ Second Proto type of the Transponder\n   Jacques Roux ZR1ADC, Kletskous team\n\n+ Development of ground control at VUT - B.Tech laboratory upgrade\n   Riaan Greeff, ZS4PR, Vaal University of Technology\n\nThe presentations will be followed by the Annual General Meeting.\n\n\n[ANS thanks SA AMSAT for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCall For Papers: 2015 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference\n\n\nWe're soliciting technical papers for presentation at the 34th Annual\nARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference, to be held October 9-11 in\nChicago, Illinois. Papers will also be published in the Conference \nProceedings.\nYou do not have to attend the conference to have your paper included in the\nProceedings. The submission deadline is August 17, 2015.\n\nE-mail your submission to Maty Weinberg at ARRL Headquarters at\[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>\nPlease to do not send zip files as these will be rejected by our e-mail \nserver.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL and TAPR for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSailboat Expedition to Grid DM02 Begins June 10\n\n\nBud, N7CW; Jim, K6ZH; and Phil, N0KE, plan to activate Grid DM02 from a\nsailboat expedition to the waters near San Clemente Island off of the\nsouthern California coast. Departure from San Diego will be on Wednesday,\nJune 10 aboard a 49' sailboat. The team plans to be on the air sometime late\nWednesday, through sometime on Sunday, June 14, including most of the VHF\ncontest. Unfortunately, they have to leave before the end of the contest\nbecause the Navy has scheduled exercises in the area on Monday.\n\nActivity includes 6 M, 2 M, probably 432, 1296 and satellites. Phil is\nresponsible for everything other than 6 M. They plan to look for meteor\nscatter every morning and perhaps the evenings, unless there is Es. Since\nthere is no cell service they will be in contact with pilot stations on 2 M\nFM in order to announce ourselves on Ping Jockey.  If you don't use meteor\nscatter, it's not too late to learn! Otherwise you will have to listen for a\nvery short (distance) Es opening or backscatter or some other nearly\nimpossible propagation mode.\n\nThe expedition will be running about 500 W and a 3 el yagi (due to\nconstraints from having to mount the antenna on a sailboat). They will use\nthe call K6ZH. Watch for packet spots announcing their transmit frequency.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Bud, N7CW and Patrick, WD9EWK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Will be at Ham-Com 2015\n\n\nIf you're going to Ham-Com 2015 at the Irving Convention Center in the\nDallas - Ft. Worth area on June 12 to 13 look for AMSAT in booth #103. Also,\ncheck the Ham-Com program for the presentation by Clayton Coleman W5PFG.\nClayton is an active member of AMSAT and the ARRL with a passion for Amateur\nRadio in Space. Having activated over 100 grid squares, Clayton enjoys\nhelping others learn how to use minimal equipment\nto enjoy our fleet of OSCAR's.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Ham-Com for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Events\n\n\nInformation about AMSAT activities at other important events around\nthe country.  Examples of these events are radio club meetings where\nAMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working\namateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with\nAMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations,\nforums, and/or demonstrations).\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 12-13 June 2015 – HAM-COM in Irving TX (west of\nDallas)\n\n*Thursday, 9 July 2015 – presentation for the Escondido Amateur Radio\nSociety in Escondido CA\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 7-8 August 2015 – Austin Summerfest in Austin TX\n\n*Saturday and Sunday, 22-23 August 2015 – Boxboro Hamfest and ARRL\nNew England Convention in Boxborough MA\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 16-18 2015, AMSAT Symposium in\nDayton OH (Dayton Crown Plaza)\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contacts\n\nIt is unlikely that there will be any contacts with the Columbus module\nstation until after a crew change, which will probably occur in late June or\nJuly.\n\nWatch\nhttp://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html\nfor information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n* LightSail Drama Continues as Spacecraft Wakes for Second Time\n\nLightSail is back in business, following the second extended outage of the\ntest spacecraft’s mission. The CubeSat checked in at 2:21 p.m. EDT \n(18:21 UTC)\nSaturday for the first time since Wednesday afternoon. Over the course \nof two\noverflights, 23 beacon telemetry packets were received by the \nspacecraft's Cal\nPoly San Luis Obispo ground station.\n\nA rapid sail deployment was briefly considered, but with battery levels \nstill\nunsteady and just one ground pass remaining before an eight-and-a-half hour\noutage, the team scrapped the idea. When LightSail came around the Earth \nagain,\ntelemetry showed its batteries were charging—the first time since solar \npanel\ndeployment three days ago.\n\nIf battery levels continue to trend stably during Sunday’s early morning\nground station passes, sail deployment will be scheduled for 2:02 p.m. EDT\n(18:02 UTC).\n\nEngineers have been working to narrow down the reason LightSail’s batteries\ntripped into a safe mode-like condition following solar panel deployment.\nBefore this afternoon's signal acquisition, the leading theory was that the\nspacecraft was stuck in a loop where power levels were too low in Earth's\nshadow, but too high in sunlight. This power ping-pong could have \nprevented the\nbatteries from reattaching their circuits to the spacecraft and allowing \nnormal\noperations to resume. The analysis is still ongoing.\n\n{ANS thanks the Planetary Society's Jason Davis for the above information]\n\n\n* Goddard Technologist Advances CubeSat Concept for Planetary Exploration\n\n  Although scientists are increasingly using pint-size satellites \nsometimes no\nlarger than a loaf of bread to gather data from low-Earth orbit, they \nhave yet\nto apply the less-expensive small-satellite technology to observe physical\nphenomena far from terra firma.\n\nJaime Esper, a technologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in\nGreenbelt, Maryland, however, is advancing a CubeSat concept that would give\nscientists that capability.\n\nDubbed the CubeSat Application for Planetary Entry Missions (CAPE), the\nconcept involves the development of two modules: a service module that would\npropel the spacecraft to its celestial target and a separate planetary entry\nprobe that could survive a rapid dive through the atmosphere of an\nextraterrestrial planet, all while reliably transmitting scientific and\nengineering data.\n\nEsper and his team are planning to test the stability of a prototype entry\nvehicle -the Micro-Reentry Capsule (MIRCA) - this summer during a \nhigh-altitude\nballoon mission from Fort Sumner, New Mexico.\n\n'Like No Other CubeSat Mission'\n\"The CAPE/MIRCA concept is like no other CubeSat mission,\" Esper said. \"It\ngoes the extra step in delivering a complete spacecraft for carrying out\nscientific investigations. We are the only researchers working on a concept\nlike this.\"\n\nUnder his concept, the CAPE/MIRCA spacecraft, including the service \nmodule and\nentry probe, would weigh less than 11 pounds (4.9 kilograms) and measure no\nmore than 4 inches (10.1 centimeters) on a side. After being ejected from a\ncanister housed by its mother ship, the tiny spacecraft would unfurl its\nminiaturized solar panels or operate on internal battery power to begin its\njourney to another planetary body.\n\nOnce it reached its destination, the sensor-loaded entry vehicle would\nseparate from its service module and begin its descent through the target's\natmosphere. It would communicate atmospheric pressure, temperature, and\ncomposition data to the mother ship, which then would transmit the \ninformation\nback to Earth.\n\nThe beauty of CubeSats is their versatility. Because they are relatively\ninexpensive to build and deploy, scientists could conceivably launch \nmultiple\nspacecraft for multi-point sampling - a capability currently not \navailable with\nsingle planetary probes that are the NASA norm today.\n\nEsper would equip the MIRCA craft with accelerometers, gyros, thermal and\npressure sensors, and radiometers, which measure specific gases; however,\nscientists could tailor the instrument package depending on the targets, \nEsper\nsaid.\n\nA Balloon Flight is designed to test stability.\nThe first step in realizing the concept is demonstrating a prototype of the\nMIRCA design during a balloon mission this summer. According to the \nplan, the\ncapsule, manufactured at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's \nEastern\nShore, would be dropped from the balloon gondola at an altitude of about \n18.6\nmiles (30 kilometers) to test the design's aerodynamic stability and\noperational concept. During its free fall, MIRCA is expected to reach \nspeeds of\nup to Mach 1, roughly the speed of sound.\n\n\"If I can demonstrate the entry vehicle, I then could attract potential\npartners to provide the rest of the vehicle,\" Esper said, referring to the\nservice module, including propulsion and attitude-control subsystems. He \nadded\nthat the concept might be particularly attractive to universities and\nresearchers with limited resources.\n\nIn addition to the balloon flight, Esper said he would like to drop the \nentry\nvehicle from the International Space Station perhaps as early as 2016 - \na test\nthat would expose the capsule to spaceflight and reentry heating \nconditions and\nfurther advance its technology-readiness level.\n\n\"The balloon drop of MIRCA will in itself mark the first time a CubeSat\nplanetary entry capsule is flight tested, not only at Goddard, but anywhere\nelse in the world,\" he said. \"That in turn enables new opportunities in\nplanetary exploration not available to date, and represents a game-changing\nopportunity for Goddard.\"\n\nhttp://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_CAPEd_Crusader_Goddard_Technologist_\nAdvances_CubeSat_Concept_for_Planetary_Exploration_999.html\n\n[ANS thanks NASA Goddard, and Spacedaily.com for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n/EX\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the\nPresident's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining\ndonors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi-\ntional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT\nOffice.\n\nPrimary and secondary school students are eligible for membership\nat one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students\nenrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu-\ndent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status.\nContact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership\ninformation.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n",
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