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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DQWZ6NJ2BXX5SSZEI3JEO4YJFG4L7OB5/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5DN_PsGbUW=Fx_DD=ySi5fRFNX8s5+EyUvC=G_mPvXSvQ@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "DQWZ6NJ2BXX5SSZEI3JEO4YJFG4L7OB5", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/DQWZ6NJ2BXX5SSZEI3JEO4YJFG4L7OB5/?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-016 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Jan. 16", "date": "2022-01-16T00:05:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-016\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\nIn this edition:\n\n* SpaceX Rideshare Mission Carries Multiple Amateur Satellites\n* Tevel Mission Launched on SpaceX Transporter-3 Mission January 13\n* EASAT-2 and Hades Satellites with FM Repeaters Are Launched\n* SpaceX Launches TU Delft Mini-Satellite\n* AMSAT Awards Update\n* First Ever Svalbard QO-100 DXpedition JW100QO\n* Eight U.S. Schools Moved Forward in ARISS Selection Process\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nANS-016 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 2022 Jan 16\n\n\nSpaceX Rideshare Mission Carries Multiple Amateur Satellites\n\nA SpaceX Falcon 9 placed more than 100 smallsats into orbit on January 13\nas the company accelerates the pace of its dedicated rideshare missions.\nThe mission, dubbed Transporter-3, or TR-3, carried a number of Amateur\nRadio satellites to orbit.\n\nThe Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral\nSpace Force Station in Florida at 15:25 UTC. The upper stage reached orbit\neight and a half minutes later and, after a second burn 55 minutes after\nliftoff, deployed its payloads into a 525-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit\nover the following half-hour.\n\nThe Falcon 9 first stage landed at the company’s Landing Zone 1 at Cape\nCanaveral, the first land landing of a Falcon 9 booster since the\nTransporter-2 rideshare mission in June 2021. The booster was on its tenth\nflight, having first launched in May 2020 on the Demo-2 commercial crew\nmission for NASA. It subsequently launched the ANASIS-2 satellite, CRS-21\ncargo mission, Transporter-1 and five Starlink missions before\nTransporter-3. SpaceX is planning up to three more dedicated rideshare\nlaunches this year.\n\nSpaceX said that the TR-3 launch carried 105 spacecraft. Among them were\nthe long-delayed EASAT-2 and Hades satellites from Spanish satellite\norganization AMSAT-EA, and the Tevel mission consisting of 8 satellites\ndeveloped by the Herzliya Science Center in Israel. All ten of these\nsatellites carry FM repeaters, among other function, and are detailed in\nthe following stories.\n\n[ANS thanks SpaceNews.com for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n The 2022 AMSAT President's Club coins have arrived!\n To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its launch on\nOctober 15, 1972, this year's coin features\nan image of AMSAT-OSCAR 6.\n Join the AMSAT President's Club today and help\nKeep Amateur Radio in Space!\n https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nTevel Mission Launched on SpaceX Transporter-3 Mission January 13\n\nThe Tevel mission consisting of 8 satellites developed by the Herzliya\nScience Center in Israel, each carrying an FM transponder, was launched on\nJanuary 13 at 15:25 GMT on the SpaceX Falcon-9 Transporter-3 mission. This\nmission also carries AMSAT-EA's EASAT-2 and HADES satellites.\n\nTevel-1, Tevel-2 ….Tevel-8\n\nBeacon transmissions on 436.400 MHz, (9600bps BPSK G3RUH)\nFM transponders uplink frequency: 145.970 MHz|\nFM transponders downlink frequency: 436.400 MHz\n\nAll 8 satellites will have the same frequencies, so as long as the\nfootprints are overlapping, only one FM transponder will be activated. The\nsatellites were built by 8 schools in different parts of Israel.\n\nPrelaunch TLEs:\n\nDeployment number 28\n\nTEVEL-4/TEVEL-5\n1 12345U 22-T3TE 22013.69008102 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 9997\n2 12345 97.3652 83.6317 0010843 246.0911 147.6817 15.12493461 06\n\nDeployment number 30\n\nTEVEL-1/TEVEL-2/TEVEL-3\n1 12345U 22-T3TE 22013.69038194 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 9991\n2 12345 97.3658 83.6317 0009074 254.1211 141.2940 15.11975594 07\n\nDeployment number 55\n\nTEVEL-6/TEVEL-7/TEVEL-8\n1 12345U 22-T3TE 22013.69375000 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 9991\n2 12345 97.3676 83.6318 0009046 252.0606 161.7026 15.11914367 05\n\nControl station will be 4X4HSC at the Herzliya Science Center.\n\n[ANS thanks David Greenberg, 4X1DG, for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nEASAT-2 and Hades Satellites with FM Repeaters Are Launched\n\nThe Scottish space broker Alba Orbital has confirmed the launch of the\nEASAT-2 and Hades satellites in the Falcon-9 vehicle, using the company's\nAlbaPOD ejector for this purpose. The launch took place as schedule on\nJanuary 13 at 15:25 UTC (16:25 Spanish peninsular time). Both satellites\nshould have been launched a year ago, but the problems of the Momentus\nintegrator, on whose Vigoride vehicle Alba Orbital's AlbaPod ejectors were\nto be integrated with the American administration, caused this delay.\nMomentus was replaced by Exolaunch for the flight.\n\nBoth satellites offer FM voice communications and data retransmission in\nFSK or AFSK up to 2400 bps, such as AX.25 or APRS frames. They also emit FM\nvoice beacons with the callsigns AM5SAT and AM6SAT, as well as CW.\n\nThe EASAT-2 satellite, designed and built jointly by AMSAT-EA and students\nof the European University of the Degrees in Aerospace Engineering in\nAircraft and in Telecommunications Systems Engineering, with contributions\nfrom ICAI in the communications part, incorporates as an experimental load\nBasaltic material from Lanzarote, similar to lunar basalts, provided by the\nCSIC's research group on meteorites and planetary geosciences at the\nInstitute of Geosciences, IGEO (CSIC-UCM) and which could be used as a\nconstruction material on the Moon. This project was promoted and has the\ncollaboration of the ETSICCP (UPM).\n\nAs for Hades, its payload consists of a miniature camera module that sends\nthe captured images as an audio signal in SSTV mode. The SSTV formats it\nuses are compatible with Robot36, Robot72, MP73 and MP115.\n\nThe design is based on the one used in the successful mission of the PSAT2\nsatellite, an amateur radio satellite of the United States Naval Academy\nand the Brno University of Technology. This camera has been operational\nsince June 25, 2019: (http://www.aprs.org/psat2.html).\n\nThe camera chip is the Omnivision OV2640, which provides a resolution of up\nto 2M pixels and compressed JPEG output. Resolution is limited by the\ninternal memory of the CPU (MCU) that controls the camera to 320x240\n(typical) or 640x480 maximum. The MCU selected for control is the\nSTM32F446RET6, which has the smallest footprint possible with connection to\nDCMI peripheral, necessary for connection to the camera.\nImages can be stored in 2 MB serial flash memory. The complete SSTV encoder\nhas managed to be implemented on a 4-layer PCB with dimensions of just\n38x38mm.\n\nThe MCU can be fully controlled from ground stations. The firmware allows\nthe sending of live camera images, images previously saved in flash memory\nor images encoded in ROM. It also provides advance PSK telemetry and\nimaging schedule with current status (event counters, temperature, voltage,\nlight conditions, etc.) and a brief summary.\n\nThe described module has been developed and manufactured in the\nRadioelectronics Department of the Brno University of Technology in the\nCzech Republic. Both hardware and firmware designs with source codes will\nbe available on Github under the MIT license (\nhttps://github.com/alpov/SatCam).\nInitially, only the EASAT-2 repeater is active. The Hades one will be\nactivated by telecommand a few days after launch.\n\nThe frequencies coordinated with IARU for both satellites are as follows:\n\nEASAT-2\n 145.875 MHz uplink, Modes: FM voice (no subtone) and FSK 50 bps, AFSK,\nAX.25, APRS 1200 / 2400 bps\n 436.666 MHz downlink, Modes: FM voice, CW, FSK 50 bps, FM voice beacon\nwith AM5SAT callsign\n\nHades\n 145.925 MHz uplink, Modes: FM voice (no subtone) and FSK 50 bps, AFSK,\nAX.25, APRS 1200 / 2400 bps\n 436.888 MHz downlink, Modes: FM voice, CW FSK 50 bps, SSTV Robot 36, FM\nvoice beacon with AM6SAT callsign\n\nThe description of the transmissions in English can be found in the .pdf\ndocument at:\nhttps://bit.ly/31VmA6W\n\nAMSAT-EA appreciates the reception of telemetry, voice beacons and SSTV\nimages. A paper QSL is sent to those who send their transmissions. It can\nbe done through the following link: http://data.amsat-ea.org\n\nPreliminary post-launch Keplerian elements for EASAT-2 and HADES are:\n1 99999U 22013.68430556 .00000000 00000-0 50000-4 0 02\n2 99999 97.5220 83.8550 0002429 -171.2750 173.6400 15.12786821 04\n\n[ANS thanks Felix Paez, EA4GQS, and AMSAT-EA 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\nSpaceX Launches TU Delft Mini-Satellite\n\nDuring the Transporter-3 satellite launch by SpaceX on 13 January from Cape\nCanaveral a small satellite from Delft in the Netherlands also traveled\ninto space. The DelfiPQ is one of the smallest satellites in the world.\nSatellite researchers Alessandra Menicucci, Stefano Speretta and Sevket\nUludag from TU Delft designed and built the satellite themselves to\ndemonstrate that technology on such a small scale can actually function in\nspace. Swarms of these small satellites are better able than today's large\nsatellites to observe the earth. They could play an important role in\nmonitoring climate change and in fast wireless broadband connections, among\nother things.\n\nAn important goal of these tiny satellites is that they prove that even\nminiature-scale technology can still function in space. And moreover, that\nthe satellites can be monitored from Earth and can be distinguished from\nspace debris. A big advantage is that the development time is much shorter\nthan for larger satellites, some of which still run on 20-year-old\ntechnology. “We can build and launch a whole new generation of instruments\nevery one or two years, so we can always incorporate the latest\ntechnology,“ says Speretta. In the future, satellite swarms may even play a\nrole in high-speed wireless broadband connections.\n\nThe DelfiPQ measures just 5 by 5 by 18 centimetres, making it one of the\nsmallest satellites in the world. The satellite is the third TU Delft\nsatellite to actually go into space. DelfiC3 was the first. This satellite\nhas been in space for over 12.5 years and is still alive. DelfiN3xt was\nlaunched in 2013. Contact has recently been re-established with this\nsatellite. University lecturer and project leader Alessandra Menicucci:\n\"Whether the DelfiPQ also comes to life in space is the most exciting of\nall three. DelfiPQ is eight times smaller than its brothers. And those were\nalready no bigger than a milk carton.\"\n\nThe DelfiPQ has UHF downlink for GMSK at up to 19k2. A downlink on 436.650\nMHz has been coordinated.\n\n[ANS thanks Delft University of Technology for the above information]\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAMSAT Awards Update\n\nAs we have rolled into 2022, I am posting the awards from the last part of\n2021 and a couple from 2022.\n\nAMSAT Satellite Communicators Award for making their first satellite QSO\n\nJohn Gesell, KB7JJG\nBrian Lopeman, KI7WXP\nPeter Stover, KD4QNA\nJames Gillanders, KG6HXN\n\n------\n\nAMSAT Communications Achievement Award\n\nRichard Nolet, VA3VGR #639\n\n------\n\nAMSAT South Africa Satellite Communications Achievement Award\n\nRichard Nolet, VA3VGR #242\n\n------\n\nAMSAT Robert W. Barbee Jr., W4AMI Award (1,000-4,000)\n\nEdward Campagnulol, KN4ZAA #US120\nHector Martinez, W5CBF #US121 4,000 Upgrade\nKeith Austermiller, KB9STR #US122\nGiancarlo Zanella, IK1DOC #US123\nDwight Fletcher, N1RCN #US124\n\n------\n\nAMSAT Robert W. Barbee Jr., W4AMI Award (5,000)\n\nHector Martinez, W5CBF #39\nMitchell Ahrenstorff, AD0HJ #40\n\n-----\n\nAMSAT Rover Award\n\nRover Call\n===== ========\n#60 KF6JOQ\n#61 VA3VGR\n#62 N6UTC\n\n------\n\nGridMaster Award\n\n#33 Dave Chasey, N9FN\n#34 Douglas Tabor, N6UA\n\n-----\n\nOur newest award the Reverse VUCC or VUCC/r\n\n#03 James Clary, ND9M Ugrade to 385\n#09 Randy Kohlwey, WI7P\n\nTo see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org and click on Services then\nAwards.\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Board Member and Director Contests\nand Awards, for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nAMSAT's GOLF Program is about getting back to higher orbits, and it all\nbegins with GOLF-TEE – a technology demonstrator for deployable solar\npanels, propulsion, and attitude control, now manifested for launch on\nNASA's ELaNa 46 mission. Come along for the ride. The journey will be\nworth it!\n\n https://tinyurl.com/ANS-GOLF\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nFirst Ever Svalbard QO-100 DXpedition JW100QO\n\nA DXpedition to Svalbard (78° North) is planned for April 19-26 with the\ncallsign JW0X. In addition to the five HF stations (FT8/FT4/RTTY/SSB/CW)\nthe team will activate the first QO-100 satellite DX Station callsign\nJW100QO April 22-24.\n\nMaking the first ever QO-100 calls from Svalbard is the biggest challenge\nof this DXpedition. ON4CKM Cedric, ON4DCU Patrick and ON5UR Max will make a\nrugged snowmobile ride of almost 100 km in temperatures of -20° – 25°\nCelsius to reach their goal. Kapp Linné is the only place in the area that\nallows a view of the QO-100 satellite at only 3° above the horizon.\nSvalbard also lies on the edge of the satellite area (footprint), which\nmakes the challenge even greater. We want to give as many radio amateurs as\npossible the opportunity to work this first QO-100 DXpedition. For this\nunique challenge we also have a special callsign JW100QO.\n\nFurther info at:\n\nSvalbard QO-100 JW100QO April 22-24\nhttps://www.dx-adventure.com/en/qo-100-our-goal/\n\nSvalbard JW0X April 19-26\nhttps://www.dx-adventure.com/en/svalbard-dx-pedition/\n\nQO-100 geostationary amateur satellite transponder provides coverage from\nBrazil to Thailand, see\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/satellites/geo/eshail-2/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK 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\nEight U.S. Schools Moved Forward in ARISS Selection Process\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is pleased to\nannounce the schools/host organizations selected for the July 1 through\nDecember 31, 2022, time period. A total of eight of the submitted proposals\nduring the recent proposal window have been accepted to move forward in the\nprocesses of planning to host a scheduled amateur radio contact with crew\non the ISS. The primary goal of the ARISS program is to engage young people\nin Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM)\nactivities and raise their awareness of space communications, radio\ncommunications, space exploration, and related areas of study and career\npossibilities.\n\nThe ARISS program anticipates that NASA will be able to provide scheduling\nopportunities for the eight US host organizations during the July 1 through\nDecember 31, 2022, time period. They are now at work completing an\nacceptable equipment plan that demonstrates their ability to execute the\nham radio contact. Once their equipment plan is approved by the ARISS\nTechnical Mentors, the final selected schools/organizations will be\nscheduled as their availability and flexibility match up with the\nscheduling opportunities offered by NASA.\n\nThe schools and host organizations are:\n* Buehler Challenger & Science Center, Paramus, NJ\n* Eaton Public Library, Eaton, CO\n* Davis Aerospace Technical High School, Detroit, MI\n* St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Houston, Houston, TX\n* Harris Middle School, Spruce Pine, NC\n* Kopernik Observatory & Science, Vestal, NY\n* Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN\n* Canterbury School of Fort Myers, Ft Myers, FL\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative\nventure of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies\nthat support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States,\nsponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American\nRadio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers,\nand NASA’s Space communications and Navigation program. The primary goal of\nARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the\narts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled\ncontacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and\nstudents. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators,\nparents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to\nspace, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see\nwww.ariss.org\n\n[ANS thanks Dave Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS PR 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\nThe next scheduled contact is with Quantorium Children's Technopark,\nKomsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia, direct via TBD. The ISS callsign is presently\nscheduled to be RSØISS, and the scheduled crewmember is Russian Cosmonaut,\nAnton Shkaplerov. The contact is go for 2022-01-25 08:45 UTC.\n\nThe next mode change, from APRS digital repeater to FM voice cross band\nrepeater is expected to occur in late January/early February 2022.\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\n4A90, MEXICO (Special Event). Members of the Federacion Mexicana de Radio\nExperimentadores (FMRE)[Mexican Society]are celebrating their 90th\nanniversary during January, February and March 2022 promoting each of the\n31 States and Mexico City with the following 32 different special event\ncallsigns and 4A90FMRE:\n\nJanuary 16-30th: 4A90MOR, 4A90NAY, 4A90PUE, 4A90QRO, 4A90TLX and 4A90VER\n\nJanuary 31st-February 14th: 4A90AGS, 4A90BAC, 4A90BCS, 4A90COA, 4A90CHH and\n4A90DGO\n\nFebruary 15th-March 1st: 4A90NLE, 4A90SLP, 4A90SIN, 4A90SON, 4A90TAM and\n4A90ZAC\n\nMarch 2-16th: 4A90CAM, 4A90CHI, 4A90GRO, 4A90OAX, 4A90QUI, 4A90TAB and\n4A90YUC\n\nActivity will be on various HF bands using CW, SSB, RTTY, FT8/FT4 and the\nsatellites. Awards are available (see QRZ.com for details). For more\ndetails on the event, see: http://fmre90.puebladx.org\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\nEvents with a confirmed AMSAT presence:\n\nHamCation 2022 - The ARRL National Convention\n\nFriday, February 11th, 2022 to Sunday, February 13, 2022\n\nCentral Florida Fairgrounds and Expo Park\n4603 West Colonial Drive\nOrlando, Florida 32808\n\nhttps://www.hamcation.com/\n\n------\n\nHamvention 2022\n\nFriday May 20, 2022 to Sunday May 22, 2022\n\nGreene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center\n\n210 Fairground Road\nXenia, Ohio 45385\n\nhttps://hamvention.org/\n\n------\n\n2022 Rocky Mountain ARRL Division Convention\n\nFriday, October 7th, 2022 to Sunday, October 9th, 2022\n\nEvent Center at Archer\n3921 Archer Pkwy\nCheyenne, Wyoming 82007\n\nhttps://wyhamcon.org/site\n\n------\n\nClint Bradford, K6LCS reports:\n\n2022 is starting off with a bang! Presentations set for clubs in …\n\nTennessee\nSouth Bay CA\nNew York\nBritish Columbia\nOntario Canada\nVictoria BC\nSonoma CA\nTampa FL\nTexas\nNevada\n\nThink a 90-minute lively, informative, and fun “How to Work the Easy\n Satellites” Zoom presentation would be appropriate for your convention or\nclub? Always included are overviews of the ARRL, AMSAT, and ARISS. And\npre-presentation questions are solicited and welcome.\n\nSend an email or call!\n\nClint Bradford K6LCS\nAMSAT Ambassador, ARRL instructor\nhttp://www.work-sat.com\n909-999-SATS (7287)\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events page manager, and Clint\nBradford, K6LCS, for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ NASA has recognized Amateur Radio on the International Space Station\n(ARISS) as a science education and research program. Two images of ARISS\nactivity are among those singled out by the space agency as some of the\nBest Space Station Science Pictures of 2021. The photos feature \"some of\nthe best photos of breakthrough investigations crew members worked on in\n2021.\" The complete gallary of photos can be seen at\nhttps://go.nasa.gov/3rdedwh (ANS thanks ARRL and NASA for the above\ninformation)\n\n+ Among the 105 satellites launched on Thursday aboard the SpaceX TR-3\nrideshare was the Brazilian satellite PION-BR1, \"a radio amateur mission\ncombined with education with the aim of promoting access to space\ntechnologies and interaction between students and the radio amateur\ncommunity.” In addition, “the satellite’s main mission will be a digital\nexperiment in storing and sending messages using the NGHam protocol.” A\ndownlink on 437.300 MHz has been coordinated. (ANS thanks the Internation\nAmateur Radio Union frequency coordination site for the above information.)\n\n+ In addition to the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-3 launch on January 13,\nVirgin Orbit completed another flight of its air-dropped rocket later the\nsame day off the coast of California. The LauncherOne rocket carried seven\nmini-payloads into low Earth orbit. The Boeing 747 carrier jet took off\nfrom the Mojave runway around 2100 GMT) to begin an hour-long flight out to\nthe mission's drop point 35,000 feet (10,700 meters) over the Pacific\nOcean. The satellites on-board were from three customers: The U.S. Space\nForce, SatRevolution of Poland, and Spire. There were no Amateur Radio\npayloads this time. (ANS thanks Spaceflight Now for the above information)\n\n+ U.S. space tracking has linked the breakup of Chinese satellite Yunhai-1\n(02) to a collision with a small piece of debris from a Russian satellite\nlaunch, according to NASA. The Yunhai-1 (02) satellite was developed by the\nShanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology and launched in September 2019\ninto a Sun-synchronous orbit with an altitude of around 783 kilometers. It\nsuffered a breakup event on March 18, 2021, creating a number of pieces of\ndebris. The breakup of Yunhai-1 (02) is the fifth confirmed accidental\ncollision between two cataloged objects, according to the report. A total\nof 37 fragments from the collision have been cataloged as of 1 October\n2021, with four of these having reentered the atmosphere. (ANS thanks\nSpaceNews.com for the above information)\n\n+ As widely reported in the media, the ESA/NASA James Web Space Telescope\n(JWST) has successfully deployed. We can now all breathe out and marvel at\nhow complex it all was. According to NASA, “The unfolding and tensioning of\nthe sunshield involved 139 of Webb’s 178 release mechanisms, 70 hinge\nassemblies, eight deployment motors, roughly 400 pulleys, and 90 individual\ncables totaling roughly one quarter of a mile in length.” The telescope now\nfaces approximately six more months of commissioning and calibration before\nbeginning operation. (ANS thanks NASA and The Orbital Index for the above\ninformation)\n\n+ Now that the JWST is deployed and could have a lifespan of 20 years, some\nare already turning attention to NASA’s next telescope. The wide-field\ninfrared Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (née WFIRST) is scheduled to\nlaunch in 2025. Like JWST, it will also orbit at the Sun-Earth L2 point.\nThe NGRST has two instruments: the Wide Field Instrument, a 300-megapixel\ncamera with a Hubble-class 2.4 m aperture, but 100x the field of view, and\nthe Coronagraph Instrument, for imaging and spectroscopy of nearby\nexoplanets. It is predicted to find 100,000 transiting exoplanets,\nexpanding far beyond the 4,884 exoplanets discovered so far. 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