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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/IOI73F6U4I2SPRWE2XHM3Z6JI22DPNUS/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5BvSLQS-k+RAHNMNGvzaGFcFr4YE+TyFddtgHhELFvQzw@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "IOI73F6U4I2SPRWE2XHM3Z6JI22DPNUS", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/IOI73F6U4I2SPRWE2XHM3Z6JI22DPNUS/?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-073 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for March 14", "date": "2021-03-14T00:03:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-073\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: [email protected]\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* Spacewalk Addresses ARISS Equipment Issue\n* Eight Amateur Radio Satellites to Deploy From ISS On March 14\n* Delfi-N3xt Back To Life After 7 Years Of Silence\n* First Contact Via UVSQ-Sat FM Transponder\n* Another Achievement For Explorer Richard Garriott\n* Renewal of Orbital Data Request for TLE Redistribution by AMSAT\n* News Conference Details ARISS Efforts\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nANS-073 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 073.01\nTo: All RADIO AMATEURS\nFrom: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n712 H Street NE Suite 1653\nWashington, DC 20002\n\nDATE 2021 Mar 14\n\n\nSpacewalk Addresses ARISS Equipment Issue\n\nInternational Space Station Expedition 64 U.S. Spacewalk #73 to Continue\nStation Upgrades took place on Saturday, March 13 beginning at\napproximately 12:30z. Astronaunts Victor Glover, KI5BKC, and Mike Hopkins,\nKF5LJG, undertook a number of tasks left incomplete when a previous\nspacewalk had to be terminated early.\n\nOne of those tasks was a re-connection of four cables on the Bartolomao\nplatform which is attached to the Columbus Module of the space station.\nColumbus is the home of the primary ARISS amateur radio station, which is\nused for school contacts and other ARISS activities.\n\nAfter an extended effort to complete some cable connections on the\nBartolomao platform, Hopkins moved on to the ARISS VHF/UHF antenna on the\n\"Earth side\" of the Columbus Module at approximately 18:15z, roughly five\nhours into the spacewalk, and successfully removed a jumper cable between\nColumbus and the antenna. Hopkins raised a question concerning a sharp bend\nin the cable near the connector. However, no adjustments were possible.\n\nBecause NASA safety protocols require the ARISS radios to be powered down\nduring spacewalks, there will be no opportunity to check the success of the\ncable re-configurations until Sunday, March 14. The Columbus Module ARISS\nradios are expected to be powered up in the VHF packet mode at about 12:00z\non that day.\n\n[ANS thanks NASA TV and Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, ARISS Chair, for the above\ninformation]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n Join the 2021 President's Club!\n Score your 2\" 4-Color Accent Commemorative Coin.\n This gold finished coin comes with\nFull Color Certificate and Embroidered \"Remove Before Flight\" Key Tag\n Donate today at\n https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n You won't want to miss it!\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nEight Amateur Radio Satellites to Deploy From ISS On March 14\n\nEight satellites, all coordinated by the IARU Satellite Frequency\nCoordination Panel, are planned to be deployed from the International Space\nStation on Sunday, March 14.\n\nThe deployment should be streamed live on YouTube, watch from 09:15 GMT at\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLltILh8SLw\n\nThe CubeSats being deployed are:\n• OPUSAT-II\n• GuaraniSat-1 (BIRDS-4)\n• Maya-2 (BIRDS-4)\n• Tsuru (BIRDS-4)\n• RSP-01\n• WARP-01\n• TAUSAT-1\n• STARS-EC\n\nIt is understood the BIRDS-4 satellites are carrying digipeaters and\nTAUSAT-1 has an FM transponder. Further information including the IARU\ncoordinated frequencies are at http://amsat.org.uk/iaru/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDelfi-N3xt Back To Life After 7 Years Of Silence\n\nRecently, a signal was picked up from the Delfi-n3Xt, the satellite of the\nTU Delft with which contact was lost in 2014. This came as a big surprise\nto all involved. Delfi-n3Xt is the second satellite launched by TU Delft,\nas part of the Delfi Program, which develops very small satellites. Now\nthat the satellite is transmitting again, steps are being taken to further\nthe mission. The first Delfi satellite, Delfi-C3, is still working as well.\n\nThe Delfi-n3Xt project started in 2007 and the satellite was launched in\nNovember 2013. The satellite operated successfully for three months,\nfulfilling its main mission objectives and achieving mission success.\nUnfortunately, in February 2014 contact with the satellite was lost after\nan experiment with the linear transponder. The satellite was not heard\nsince and was considered silent.\n\nThree weeks ago, on February 9th, an automatic email notification was\nreceived from the satellite's ground station, indicating that a signal from\nthe Delfi-n3Xt had been picked up. “I always considered the possibility\nthat the satellite might still be working but just not transmitting for\nsome unknown reason. I programmed the ground station software such that it\nwould still continue to track Delfi-n3Xt every single day and send me an\nemail notification if it ever would come back to life,” says Nils von\nStorch, student and operator on the project in 2013 and technical\nresponsible at the ground station since. Carrying out relevant checks and\nanalysing the received telemetry frames prove the satellite is transmitting\nagain.\n\nThe cause of the sudden silence has never been determined, and now the big\nquestion is how Delfi-n3Xt could come ‘back to life.' There are hypotheses:\nthe software might have caused the problem and a bit may have ‘flipped’\nrecently. This can occur when charged high energy particles hit electronic\ncomponents in space. Or perhaps a component caused a short circuit, and\nafter being exposed to the extreme conditions in space for years it may\nhave broken off. “Of course, in the past we have looked for all kinds of\nexplanations, and we also had theories about how the contact could ever\ncome back. But after so long, I hadn't counted on it anymore. Whether we\nwill ever find out exactly how it happened, I doubt it,” says Jasper\nBouwmeester, project manager of the mission since 2007.\n\nBouwmeester is confident that the satellite can still be of use to science.\n “We can learn how the satellite and its technologies and systems have held\nup after seven years in space. Testing systems such as the propulsion\nsystem, is relevant too, and using the Delfi-n3Xt for educational purposes\nis another possibility.” Before any research can be carried out, a number\nof steps have to be taken. A lot depends on whether the satellite can still\nbe controlled. Also, the ground station at the EEMCS faculty is temporarily\ninaccessible and some of the software from 2014 no longer works on modern\ncomputers. At the same time, a formal process is necessary, as permits and\ninsurance have expired. \"But I am sure that we will be able to find\nsolutions,\" says Stefano Speretta, managing operations. \"If we don't lose\nthe signal again, there are interesting times ahead.\"\n\n[ANS thanks Delft University of Technology for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFirst Contact Via UVSQ-Sat FM Transponder\n\nThe first contact was made via the FM transponder on the UVSQ-Sat CubeSat\non Friday, March 5, 2021.\n\nMichel Mahé, F4DEY, of the F6KRK radio club carried out the transponder\ntest from the Latmos ground station near Paris. The first contact was with\nPeter Goodhall, 2M0SQL, in Elgin, Scotland.\n\nAfter the contact Michel tweeted \"Very happy to have been able to operate\nthe Latmos station and do #F6KRKR/P validate the transponder #UVSQSat \"on\n#space\" after validation of the satellite at the Lab of #Latmos in October\n2020!\"\n\nPeter tweeted \"Fantastic to be QSO #1 on UVSQ-SATs FM transponder wish the\n@uvsqsat good luck in their commissioning and it being available more often\n:)\"\n\nUVSQ-Sat\nhttp://uvsq-sat.projet.latmos.ipsl.fr/?ong=Ham-Radio\nhttps://twitter.com/uvsqsat\n\nMichel Mahé F4DEY https://twitter.com/F4DEY_78\n\nPeter Goodhall 2M0SQL\nhttps://www.2m0sql.com/\nhttps://twitter.com/2m0sql\n\nAs part of the ham radio mission, the UVSQ-SAT one-unit CubeSat embeds a\nradio transponder which will be accessible to the community in parallel of\nthe other scientific objectives according to the power budget. The UVSQ-SAT\nteam will provide an availability of the transponder up to 20% (schedule 7\nto 15 days in advance with a distribution via the project's website and /\nor Twitter account).\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and LATMOS 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\nAnother Achievement For Explorer Richard Garriott\n\nBritish-born Richard Garriott, W5KWQ, has become the first explorer to have\nbeen to both poles, orbited the Earth and reached the bottom of the deepest\nocean.\n\nOn February 28, 2021, he traveled to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, at\n11,034 metres (36,201 ft) the deepest oceanic trench on the planet.\nHe is not the first astronaut to make the descent to the bottom of the\nMariana Trench, former-NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan ex-N5YYV did that in\n2020 but Richard is the first person to also have visited the North Pole\n(2018) and the South Pole (2000).\n\nRichard's US amateur radio callsign W5KWQ recently expired but in a tweet\nsent March 7 he said he would be renewing his license as soon as possible\nhttps://twitter.com/RichardGarriott/status/1368523553881006082\n\nHe made many amateur radio contacts during his space mission in 2008\nincluding one to pupils at Budbrooke Primary School in Warwick, UK. You can\nwatch the video of that contact at\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNIct1g26DQ\n\nRichard's father was astronaut Owen K. Garriott W5LFL who in 1983, during\nthe STS-9 Columbia mission, made the first amateur radio contacts from\nspace, see\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/2012/05/09/vintage-video-of-sts-9-columbia-mission-and-spacelab/\n\n2008 Richard Garriott, W5KWQ, Gets Busy from Space\nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/richard-garriott-w5kwq-gets-busy-from-space\n\nRichard Garriott https://richardgarriott.com/\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARC 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. Come along for the ride. The\njourney will be worth it!\n\n https://tinyurl.com/ANS-GOLF\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nRenewal of Orbital Data Request for TLE Redistribution by AMSAT\n\nI am pleased to announce that AMSAT-NA's request to re-distribute TLE\nelements from Space-Track website has been approved for the period April 1,\n2021 to April 1, 2022. Our ODR (Orbital Data Request) to distribute the\nSpace-Track TLEs was approved by Air Force 18 SPCS, Vandenburg AFB on March\n12, 2021.\n\nThanks to Air Force 18 SPCS, Perry Klein (W3PK), Paul Stoetzer (N8HM) and\nJoe Fitzgerald (KM1P) for their help in this yearly process.\n\nWe are \"good to go\" for another year.\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above\ninformation]\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\nNews Conference Details ARISS Efforts to Return ISS Ham Station to the Air\n\nAt a March 10 news conference, Amateur Radio on the International Space\nStation (ARISS) reported that, so far, all efforts to determine what's\nkeeping the ham station in the ISS Columbus module off the air have been\nunsuccessful. It appears that the radio equipment is working, but no signal\nappears to be reaching the external ARISS antenna. The station, typically\noperated as NA1SS, has not been usable since new RF cables were installed\nduring a January 27 spacewalk (EVA) to support the commissioning of the\nBartolomeo payload hosting platform installed last spring. During the\nJanuary EVA, the coax feed line installed 11 years ago was replaced with\nanother built by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus. Responding to\na question during the news conference, ARISS International Chair Frank\nBauer, KA3HDO, did not rule out a fault in the radio equipment.\n\n\"There is still that possibility that there might be a problem with the\nradio,\" he said. Bauer listed three possible problem areas: The HMU-898\ncable inside the cabin may have a break due to a previous tight turn, a\nconnector may be installed improperly, or an HMU-601 cable installation or\nworkmanship anomaly. During the January 27 EVA, the HMU-601 cable was\ninstalled in series with the ARISS antenna cable.\n\nDuring a March 13 spacewalk (EVA), astronauts Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG, and\nVictor Glover, KI5BKC, plan to return the ARISS antenna feed line cabling\nto its configuration prior to the January 27 spacewalk.\n\nThe news conference covered details of the cable troubleshooting already\nconducted. Bauer said the ARISS team has been working closely with NASA and\nthe ESA to identify what may have caused the \"radio anomaly\" keeping the\nISS Columbus module ham station off the air. He thanked ARISS-Russia's\nSergey Samburov, RV3DR, for allowing ARISS to use the ham station in the\nservice module to continue its contact schedule.\n\nThis past week, astronauts on the ISS performed troubleshooting tests on\nall four new feed lines installed on the Columbus module. One cable was\nearmarked for the ARISS station, while the other three are for Bartolomeo.\nARISS reported over the weekend, however, that it was unable to establish\ncommunication using any of the feed line cables connected to the ARISS\nradio system, which was tested in APRS mode.\n\nThe plan to return the ARISS cabling to its original configuration was a\n\"contingency task\" for a March 5 spacewalk, but the astronauts ran out of\ntime.\n\nARISS became aware of the station problem after a contact with a school in\nWyoming, between ON4ISS on Earth and Hopkins at NA1SS, had to abort when no\ndownlink signal was heard. For the time being, ARISS school and group\ncontacts with crew members have been conducted using the ham station in the\nISS service module.\n\nA recording of the news conference is available for viewing on YouTube at:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hm4h4rBE9k\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL and Dave Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS operation team member, for\nthe 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\nA contact with Goodwood Primary School, Adelaide, South Australia,\nAustralia, is scheduled for Wed 2021-03-17 08:32:31 UTC. The scheduled\nastronaut is Victor Glover KI5BKC, using the space station callsign of\nNA1SS. This will be a telebridge contact via NA7V, so it will be heard over\nNorth America. Maximum elelvation will be 33 degrees. The latest\ninformation on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, ARISS operation team member, for the\nabove 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\n****Watch Twitter, there are lots pop-up roves happening lately, and I\ncan’t keep this page updated with all of them.****\n\nEN55/EN56: KC9BKA Hoping to hit up the EN55/56 grid line on Friday, March\n19 for mid day passes. I haven’t checked the pass lineup yet. Would anyone\nneed EN55/56\n\n@AK7DD and Ledger: We will be headed to DN41 on the 14th of March. My plan\nis to hit DN30 on the way up. Our plans are to be in the area there until\naround the 24th of March, and we will hit a few of our normal activation\ngrids on the way home, DN30, DM39 & DM49, etc. Anyhow, once we have landed\nin DN41, we will be doing a handful of roves in Utah and Idaho as time\nallows.\n\nEL58: W7LT: EL58 happening April 1 … more to come. And then thinking Maine\nfor the first weekend in April. Taking requests …\n\nEM68/68: WB9VPG: Upcoming trip to EM67/68 and 58/68 possible on Wednesday,\nMarch 17. I’ll post more when I know more.\n\nFN44: N1AIA I plan to operate from FN44 Thu 11 March 1400-1500z. SO-50,\nmaybe AO-27, RS-44\n\nMajor Roves:\n\nCM93 Possibility: N6DNM Very long shot, but might want to put it on your\ncalendar for May 15th, if you can figure out where it is and for #SOTA\nfolks, that would be W6/SC-336, Santa Rosa Island, activated only once\nbefore.\n\nPlease submit any additions or corrections to Ke0pbr (at) gmail.com\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\nOne of the AMSAT Ambassadors, and an ARRL registered instructor, is Clint\nBradford, K6LCS. Clint has the following presentations scheduled, with more\non the way:\n03/16 – Palm Springs, CA\n03/20 – Bonham, Texas\n04/01 – Orem, Utah\n06/15 – East Massachusetts\nIf a 90-minute lively, informative, and fun “How to Work the Easy\nSatellites” Zoom presentation would be appropriate for your convention or\nclub, contact Clint, or one of the other Ambassadors:\nClint Bradford K6LCS\nhttp://www.work-sat.com\n909-999-SATS (7287)\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+ If you enjoy seeing things blow up (and who doesn't like good fireworks?)\nthere is a glorious slow-motion video of the \"Rapid Unplanned Disassembly\"\nof the SpaceX SN10 test flight at:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIZOcsu8tWk&t=120s The explosion, which\noccurred after what appeared to be a successful landing, was probably\ncaused by malfunctioning landing legs on the rocket. But fear not, SpaceX\nalready has SN11 on the pad for another attempt. If at first you don't\nsucceed.... (ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above information).\n\n+ Continuing a high-tempo launch cadence, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a new\nset of Starlink satellites and landed the booster March 11. The launch\nbrings the total number of Starlink satellites launched to 1,265, although\nmore than 60 of them have since deorbited. In a Feb. 22 filing with the\nFederal Communications Commission, SpaceX requested to modify its FCC\nlicense, allowing it to move satellites into lower orbits. Several other\nsatellite operators oppose the request, primarily on concerns that the\nmodified constellation will interfere with their systems. The FCC has not\nindicated when it will rule on SpaceX’s request. (ANS thanks SpaceNews.com\nand SpaceflightNow.com for the above information)\n\n+ NASA has assigned astronaut Mark Vande Hei, KG5GNP, to an upcoming\nmission to the International Space Station as a flight engineer and member\nof the Expedition 64/65 crew. Vande Hei, along with cosmonauts Oleg\nNovitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, are\nscheduled to launch Friday, April 9, on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft from the\nBaikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will be joined on the ISS by\nastronauts Shane Kimbrough, KE5HOD, Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide,\nKE5DNI, and Thomas Pesquet, KG5FYG, who will arrive on the SpaceX Crew\nDragon “Endeavour” spacecraft now scheduled for launch on April 22. (ANS\nthanks NASA for the above information)\n\n+ NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope resumed observations March 11 after a\nsoftware error placed it in a protective safe mode several days earlier,\nbut the incident is a reminder of the telescope’s mortality. The spacecraft\nwas launched in April 1990 and serviced by the space shuttle five times,\nmost recently in May 2009. With the shuttle long since retired, astronomers\nknow that, at some point, Hubble will suffer an unrecoverable failure that\nwill end its historic mission. (ANS thanks SpaceNews.com for the above\ninformation)\n\n+ Three residents of the International Space Station will take a spin\naround their orbital neighborhood in the Soyuz MS-17 on Friday, March 19,\nrelocating the spacecraft to prepare for the arrival of the next set of\ncrew members. Live coverage on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the\nagency’s website will begin at 16:15 UTC. Expedition 64 Flight Engineer\nKate Rubins of NASA and Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov,\nboth of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, will undock from the\nEarth-facing port of the station’s Rassvet module at 16:38z and dock again\nat the space-facing Poisk docking port at 17:07z (ANS thanks NASA for the\nabove information)\n\n+ The largest asteroid predicted to pass by our planet in 2021 will be at\nits closest on March 21, providing astronomers a rare opportunity to get a\ngood look at a rocky relic that formed at the dawn of our solar system.\nCalled 2001 FO32, the near-Earth asteroid will make its closest approach at\na distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) - or 5 1/4\ntimes the distance from Earth to the Moon. There is no threat of a\ncollision with our planet, even though that distance is \"close\" in\nastronomical terms. (ANS thanks Space Daily 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 donors to\nAMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits.\nApplication forms are available from the AMSAT Store.\n\nPrimary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled\nin at least half time status shall be eligible for the student rate for a\nmaximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact info [at]\namsat.org for additional student membership information.\n\n73 and Remember to help keep amateur radio in space,\nThis week's ANS Editor, Mark Johns, K0JM\nk0jm at amsat dot org\n\n\n", "attachments": [ { "email": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/IOI73F6U4I2SPRWE2XHM3Z6JI22DPNUS/?format=api", "counter": 2, "name": "attachment.html", "content_type": "text/html", "encoding": "utf-8", "size": 26749, "download": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/IOI73F6U4I2SPRWE2XHM3Z6JI22DPNUS/attachment/2/attachment.html" } ] }