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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/GPKCYKT2ZQELTGFLCS5QBGUYNYYH6R2M/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "GPKCYKT2ZQELTGFLCS5QBGUYNYYH6R2M", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/GPKCYKT2ZQELTGFLCS5QBGUYNYYH6R2M/", "sender": { "address": "kd4iz (a) frawg.org", "mailman_id": "1fdf0f044fe749019e5f691eda02fd28", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/1fdf0f044fe749019e5f691eda02fd28/emails/" }, "sender_name": "[email protected]", "subject": "[AMSAT-BB] ANS-114 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for April 24, 2022", "date": "2022-04-24T01:17:10Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-114\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 interest\nin designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and\ndigital 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 Bulletins\nvia the ANS List; to join this list see:\nhttps://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* AMSAT Hamvention Update\n* MIR-SAT 1 (MO112) has de-orbited\n* Ron Parsons, W5RKN SK April 19, 2022\n* \n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nANS-114 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 Apr 24\n\nAMSAT Hamvention Update:\n\nThe Dayton Hamvention is four weeks away! It is time to be creating your\nshopping list and making your travel plans. AMSAT's presence will be felt in\nwith eight adjoining booths in Building 1. Highlighting the exhibit will be:\n\n - CubeSat Simulator hardware and software demonstrations\n - SatPC software demonstrations\n - AMSAT Engineering staff question and answer table\n - AMSAT Youth Initiative (KidzSat) introduction\n - OSCAR ground station for live satellite operations\n - Annual Membership sign-up and renewals\n - AMSAT President's Club recognition\n - AMSAT Board of Directors and Senior Officers Meet and Greet\n - AMSAT Store offering AMSAT trinkets, books and Arrow Antennas\n\nIn past years, we had 30 people assist with the AMSAT booth at Dayton. We've\nhad a good response so far to our call for volunteers, but we could really\nuse another 10-15 people. The 2022 Hamvention is May 20-22 in Xenia, Ohio.\nWould you consider helping AMSAT at the Hamvention this year?\n\nThe interaction with AMSAT members, satellite operators, designers, and\nbuilders makes the whole experience a lot of fun. Meet or renew\nacquaintances, exchange operating tips, and find out what antennas, software\nand equipment other AMSAT members use. We currently expect the AMSAT senior\nofficers and board members to be there too.\n\nIf you're an experienced operator, great! We can use you and your\nexperience. \n\nIf you've never operated a satellite before, but want to learn more, that's\nOK. We can use your help too.\n\nWhether you're available for only a couple of hours or if you can spend the\nentire weekend with us, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please send\nan e-mail to Phil, (w1eme[at]amsat[dot]org if you can help. Thank you!\n\nAMSAT/TAPR Banquet will honor the life of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR\nThe 13th annual AMSAT/TAPR Banquet will be held at the Kohler Presidential\nBanquet Center on Friday, May 20th at 18:30 EDT. This dinner is always a\nhighlight of the AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corp.) and TAPR (Tucson\nAmateur Packet Radio) activities during the Dayton Hamvention. This year's\nbanquet will honor the life and accomplishments of long time amateur\nsatellite and amateur packet pioneer Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, who passed away\nin February.\n\nThe Kohler Presidential Banquet Center is located at 4548 Presidential Way,\nKettering, Ohio. That is about 20 minutes away from the Greene County\nFairgrounds.\n\nTickets ($57 each) may be purchased from the AMSAT store. The banquet ticket\npurchase deadline is Friday, May 13th. Banquet tickets must be purchased in\nadvance and will not be sold at the AMSAT booth. There will be no tickets to\npick up at the AMSAT booth. Tickets purchased on-line will be maintained on\na list with check-in at the door at the banquet center. Seating is limited\nto the number of meals reserved with the Kohler caterers based on the number\nof tickets sold by the deadline.\nRegister today at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/product/amsat-tapr-joint-hamvention-banquet-registrati\non/\n\n[ANS thanks Phil Smith, W1EME, AMSAT Hamvention Exhibit organizer, AMSAT\nNews & TAPR for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n The 2022 AMSAT President's Club coins have arrived! \n\t\t To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its launch on \n\t\t\t\tOctober 15, 1972, this year's coin features \n\t\t\t\t\t\tan image of AMSAT-OSCAR 6. \n\t\t Join the AMSAT President's Club today and help \n\t\t\t\t\t\tKeep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\n\t\t https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nMIR-SAT 1 (MO112) has de-orbited\n\nJean Marc Momple, 3B8DU reports: \"It seems to be confirmed that MIR-SAT 1\nre-entered.\nThe last valid telemetry signals of MIR-SAT 1 (worldwide) was received in\nMauritius with the UoM ground station by YOG-3B8 (Dr Yogesh Beeharry,\nLecturer of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty\nof Engineering of the University of Mauritius). Yogesh, member of this forum\nled a team of UoM students who build their own ground station. This was at\n01:36 Hrs local time this morning and JA0CAW (Tetsu, an experience Satellite\nHAM) confirmed to me by mail that no signals was received from MIR-SAT 1 at\n05:03 (MRU time). More many other regular reporting HAMs confirmed to me\nthat no signals received from our bird today.\nThis confirms that MIR-SAT 1 re-entered between 01:36 and 05:03 Hrs and\nprobably burned up around 110Km in a blast of flame, unfortunately the\nlocation is not known as mainly over oceans during the time window.\nI also confirm that a few minutes before last observation from Yogesh that I\nreceived the TLM of MIR-SAT 1 and also made successful Digipeats through it\n(see attached screenshot), the bird was at about 160km altitude at that\ntime, this was my farewell to MO-112.\nCongratulations to Yogesh to be the last recorded person on this planet to\nhave successfully decoded our 3B8 bird.\nRIP MIR-SAT 1, you have been a great tool for educational and HAM\nexperiments.\nOne page turned and the next (better) opens, MIR-SAT 2 ??? why not?, just a\nquestion of vision, willingness, motivation and hard work. 73, Jean Marc,\n3B8DU\"\n\n[ANS thanks Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU 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\nRon Parsons, W5RKN SK April 19, 2022\n\nFrom Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT President:\n\"Ron has been an important part of amateur radio in space and his passion\nfor implementing Flex Radio Systems. If you are not familiar with his work,\nplease take time to visit his website, http://www.w5rkn.com/.\nA memorial service will be held at 3pm on Saturday, April 23rd at the\nRemembrance Gardens at Riverbend (4214 Capital of TX Hwy, N, Austin, TX\n78746).\nFor those unable to attend in person, you may attend via Zoom\n(https://austinisd-org.zoom.us/j/83862240962?pwd=NS80SWJTaUFCNGpVdWRteU1MUml\n.).\nObituary will be posted here:\nhttps://www.centraltexascremation.com/obituaries/\nBiography: https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/utphysicshistory/RonGParsons.html\"\n\nFrom Rick Lawn K2JAZ:\n\"I regret to inform the satellite community that our good friend, who many\nof us relied on for advice, or a new grid square, passed away on Tuesday,\nApril 19th at the age of 84. Not long ago I recall he earned the distinction\nof Grid Master and had been an active member of AMSAT for decades. He was\ninstrumental in arranging for at least two ARISS contacts with Austin, TX\nschools and wrote an important paper on Doppler shift that has been\nreferenced on countless occasions. Ron also was a strong advocate for the\nuse of SDR equipment for satellite communications and had recently\ncontributed, along with co-authors, a number of articles on related subjects\nto the AMSAT Journal. I am sure that he will be greatly missed by many of\nus. Donations in his name and memory can be made to any charity.\"\n\n[ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT President and Rick Lawn, W2JAZ for\nthe above information]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n[ANS thanks 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\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 on the immediate schedule.\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\nQuick Hits:\n+ WL7T: 4/30, DM02 Check twitter for passes.\n\n+ Hawaii!: K5ZM is heading to HI on May 16-26.\n\n+ WL7T: EL84, June 24-27.\n\n+ W3IPA: DM42 vacation planned for Jul 30- Aug 6th will be on FM passes\nvacation style. I will be close to DM41 so might be able to work a gridline.\nWill post more updates closer to that week!\n\n+ N8MR: EN 57,67,56 8/6 through 8/13. More to come as date gets closer.\n\nMajor Roves:\n+ Eastern Nevada: AD7DB to visit Eastern Nevada, DM25, DM26, DM27, DM28,\nDM29, DM36, and maybe DM37 and DM38. April 25 through April 30th 2022. List\nof passes at https://bit.ly/3OG3jdt\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for April 21, 2022\n\nThe following satellites have decayed from orbit and has been removed from\nthis week's AMSAT-NA TLE distribution.\n\nSTARS-EC NORAD Cat ID 47928 (decayed form orbit on 4/15/2022 per\nSpace-Track).\nOPUSAT-II NORAD Cat ID 47930 (decayed form orbit on 4/15/2022 per\nSpace-Track).\nMO-112 (MIR-SAT 1) NORAD Cat ID 48868 (decayed form orbit on 4/18/2022 per\nSpace-Track).\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements 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\nAMSAT Ambassador Schedules\n\nScheduled Events with AMSAT involvement:\n\n+ CubeSat Developers Workshop\n April 26-28, 2022\n San Luis Obispo, CA \n\n+ Hamvention 2022\n May 20, 2022 to May 22, 2022\n Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center\n 210 Fairground Road\n Xenia, Ohio 45385\n https://www.hamvention.org\n\n+ 2022 Rocky Mountain ARRL Division Convention\n October 7, 2022 - October 9, 2022\n Event Center at Archer\n 3921 Archer Pkwy\n Cheyenne, Wyoming 82007\n https://wyhamcon.org/site.\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+ Ax-1. Commanded by Spanish-American Michael Lopez-Alegria on his fifth\ntrip to the ISS, and accompanied by pilot Larry Connor (US) and mission\nspecialists Eytan Stibbe (Israel) and Mark Pathy (Canada), Ax-1 has\nconducted the first all-commercial crewed mission to the station. Delayed by\nweather, the team will soon depart the ISS and will splash down off the\ncoast of Florida after spending about 10 days in space and a bit more than a\nweek on the ISS. More at https://bit.ly/3v37PdT [ANS thanks The Orbital\nIndex for the above information]\n\n+ SLS Wet Dress Rehearsal update. After three attempts, each ending in an\nabort, unexpectedly high lox temperatures, a helium check valve failure on\nthe SLS's second stage, and a hydrogen leak on the mobile platform's service\nmast umbilical. NASA is now rolling the fully stacked SLS back to the VAB to\nfix some of these issues and upgrade the mobile launcher's gaseous nitrogen\n(GN2) supply. What was optimistically supposed to be a two-day test took\nthree weeks, and Artemis I is probably not launching before the end of the\nsummer (although NASA said Monday that they are currently hoping to make a\nbeginning of July launch window). We definitely want to see Artemis I go\nwell (especially for those 10 plucky little rideshare science missions), and\nthese growing pains are better worked out now than on a future crewed\nmission, but the whole thing just feels kind of arduous. More at\nhttps://bit.ly/3v37PdT [ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above\ninformation]\n\n+ The Great Solar Eclipse of 2024. Perhaps we're getting ahead of ourselves,\nbut it pays to start planning early. Where will you be in approximately two\nyears? Andrew had the chance to watch 2017's total solar eclipse from Idaho\nand was blown away by how visceral the experience was, complete with a storm\nof moths that materialized out of nowhere as if through transient solar\nabiogenesis. For those of us in North America, the next (and last until\n2044) opportunity for a total solar eclipse is on April 8th, 2024. You don't\nwant to miss this! More at https://bit.ly/3v37PdT [ANS thanks The Orbital\nIndex for the above information]\n\n+ ULA begins stacking Atlas 5 rocket for Boeing's Starliner test flight.\nFinal assembly of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket began Wednesday\nwith the hoisting of a first stage booster onto a mobile launch platform at\nCape Canaveral, kicking off a campaign to prepare for liftoff May 19 on a\ndelayed unpiloted test flight of Boeing's Starliner crew capsule. ULA's\nground team raised the Atlas first stage off its trailer transporter, and a\ncrane lifted the rocket into the Vertical Integration Facility Wednesday\nmorning. The 107-foot-tall (33-meter) rocket stage was then lowered onto the\nAtlas 5's mobile launch platform inside the integration building just south\nof ULA's launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41. The milestone event\nWednesday, known as Launch Vehicle On Stand, will be followed in the coming\ndays by the addition of two strap-on AJ-60A solid rocket boosters made by\nAerojet Rocketdyne. Then a dual-engine Centaur upper stage will be raised on\ntop of the Atlas first stage to complete the initial build-up of the\nlauncher. In early May, Boeing and ULA will move the Starliner spacecraft\nfrom its hangar at the Kennedy Space Center to the VIF for stacking atop the\nAtlas 5. The launch preparations will culminate in rollout of the Atlas 5\nrocket and Starliner spacecraft to pad 41 on May 18. Liftoff to begin\nBoeing's Orbital Flight Test 2 mission to the International Space Station is\nscheduled for 6:54 p.m. EDT (2254 GMT). More at https://bit.ly/3vCZkpe [ANS\nthanks Stephen Clark, Spaceflight Now for 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 shall\nbe eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in\nthis 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, KD4IZ\nkd4iz at arrl dot org\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }