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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-165 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2015-06-14T02:37:51Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-165\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* Dave Jordan's (AA4KN) article about Fox-1 Featured in July QST\n* Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF Silent Key\n* Free Education Webinars From NASA Educator Professional Development\n* AMSAT-NA BoD Nominations Notice - Last Chance for June 15 Deadline\n* AMSAT 2015 Field Day Announcement – June 27-28\n* Montserrat (FK86)  active on satellites June 10 – June 18, 2015 -\n  Update\n* ARISS Announces Challenge Coin for Donation\n* Twin Cubesat Mars Flyby Will Support NASA InSight Landing\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-165\nANS-165 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 165\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE June 14, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-165\n\n\n\nDave Jordan's (AA4KN) article about Fox-1 Featured in July QST\n\nDave Jordan AA4KN, writing on behalf of the Fox Team, has published\nan article, \"Fox-1: The New Era of Amateur Satellites\" which will\nappear in the July 2015 issue of QST. The article introduces the\nCubeSate program, describes the Fox-1 class of CubeSats, outlines the\nthe student experiments and briefd on using Fox-1. The article is\neligible for the cover plaque award. Look for it on pages 43-45 of\nthe Jult QST.\n\n[ANS Thanks the ARRL and QST for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAmateur Radio Newsline's Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF Silent Key\n\nThe AMSAT News Service has received the sad news of the passing of\nAmateur Radio Newsline's Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. James Pastorfield,\nKB7TBT, reported on Friday, June 12 on behalf of Amateur Radio\nNewsline that Bill's key had gone silent.\n\nBill had been recently hospitalized; Skeeter Nash, N5ASH, reported\nthat, \"Bill was in serious condition after being diagnosed with--as\nhe termed it--”a broken back.” I take this to mean he has fractured\nat least one vertebrae. He is being treated for the pain associated\nwith such an injury, and thus is not able to write (type), nor can he\nread for very long.\"\n\nNash continued, \"Don Wilbanks, AE5DW and I discussed the long-term\nfuture of the Amateur Radio Newsline, and what is needed to get it\nback into production. The Newsline team is more committed than ever\nto get production re-started as soon as possible.\n\nWilbanks wrote, \"A dear friend has left us after a long struggle\nwith his health. Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, as our mutual friend Beau\nWeaver, W6KHJ so eloquently says, has taken his light into another\nroom. Bill touched lives all over the world through amateur radio. He\nwas like a big brother, an uncle to me. He was my mentor. He was my\nfriend. Rest my friend. I'll see you again one day.\"\n\nBill was a friend to all a strong advocate to the AMSAT News Service\n(ANS). He will be missed.\n\n[ANS thanks Amateur Radio Newsline for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFree Education Webinars From NASA Educator Professional Development\n\nNASA Educator Professional Development is presenting a series of\nfree webinars open to all educators. Join NASA education specialists\nto learn about activities, lesson plans, educator guides and\nresources that bring NASA into your classroom. Registration is\nrequired to participate. Simply click on the provided link to\nregister.\n\nEyes on the Solar System: Pluto\nAudience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal\nEducators of Grades 6-12\nEvent Date: June 16, 2015, at 5 p.m. EDT\n\"Eyes on the Solar System\" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA\nmission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Fly with NASA's\nNew Horizon spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and takes very first\nclose up pictures of the dwarf planet and its moons. Learn how to use\nthis free software and see the entire solar system moving in real\ntime.\nRegister online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/131330\n\nISS Across the Curriculum Series: Solar Energy for Space Exploration\nAudience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal\nEducators of Grades 5-8\nEvent Date: June 17, 2015, at 3 p.m. EDT\nSolar Energy for Space Exploration is a series of activities\ndesigned to introduce your students to the basics of electrical\ncircuits while using the development of space habitats as a thematic\nbackdrop. Updated online resources and adaptation of classroom\nactivities will be discussed.\nRegister online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/130151\n\nNASA Engineering Design Process 101: An Introduction to Classroom\nApplication\nAudience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal\nEducators of Grades 4-8\nEvent Date: June 18, 2015, at 6 p.m. EDT\nLearn more about the engineering design process and its application\nto real-world problem solving. Explore NASA design challenges and\nother NASA STEM classroom resources. Engineering design is a common\ntopic across each grade level in the Next Generation Science\nStandards and an important concept in understanding the world around\nus.\nRegister online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/130414\n\nFor a full schedule of upcoming NASA Educator Professional Development\nwebinars, visit http://www.txstate-epdc.net/events/.\n\nQuestions about this series of webinars should be directed to Steve\nCulivan at [email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks NASA Education Express Message -- June 11, 2015 for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-NA BoD Nominations Notice - Last Chance for June 15 Deadline\n\n2015 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nomination petitions MUST ARRIVE no\nlater than JUNE 15th at the AMSAT-NA office.\nIf the nomination is a traditional written nomination, no other\naction is required.\n\nIf it is other than this, i.e. electronic, a verifying traditional\nwritten petition MUST BE RECEIVED at the AMSAT-NA office at the above\naddress within 7 days following the close of nominations on June\n15th.\n\nELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WITHOUT THIS SECOND, WRITTEN VERIFICATION ARE\nNOT VALID UNDER THE EXISTING AMSAT-NA BYLAWS.\n\nOnly one day left to submit nominations for the upcoming AMSAT-NA\nBoard of Directors election. Four director’s terms expire this year:\nBarry Baines, WD4ASW, Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, Mark Hammond, N8MH, and\nJerry Buxton, N0JY. In addition, up to two Alternates may be elected\nfor one year terms.\n\nA valid nomination requires either one Member Society or five\ncurrent individual members in good standing to nominate an AMSAT-NA\nmember for Director. Written nominations, consisting of the nominee’s\nname and call, and the nominating individual’s names, calls and\nindividual signatures should be mailed to: AMSAT-NA, 10605 Concord\nSt, #304 Kensington, MD 20895-2526.\n\nIn addition to traditional submissions of written nominations, which\nis the preferred method, the intent to nominate someone may be made\nby electronic means. These include e-mail, Fax, or electronic image\nof a petition. Electronic petitions should be sent to\[email protected] or Faxed to\n(301) 822-4371.\n\n[ANS thanks Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, AMSAT-NA Corporate Secretary for\nthe above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT 2015 Field Day Announcement – June 27-28\n\nIt’s that time of year again: Field Day! Each year the American\nRadio Relay League (ARRL) sponsors Field Day as a “picnic, a campout,\npractice for emergencies, an informal contest and, most of all, FUN!”\n\nThe event takes place during a 24-hour period on the fourth weekend\nof June. For 2015, the event takes place during a 27-hour period from\n1800 UTC on Saturday June 27, through 2100 UTC on Sunday June 28,\nThose who set up prior to 1800 UTC on June 27 can operate only 24\nhours.\n\nThe Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) promotes its own\nversion of Field Day for operation via the amateur satellites, held\nconcurrently with the ARRL event.\n\nIf you are considering ONLY the FM voice satellite SO-50 for your\nAMSAT Field Day focus – don’t – unless you are simply hoping to make\none contact for the ARRL rules bonus points. The congestion on FM LEO\nsatellites was so intense in prior years that we must continue to\nlimit their use to one-QSO-per-FM-satellite. This includes the\nInternational Space Station. You will be allowed one QSO if the ISS\nis operating voice.\n\nYou will also be allowed one digital QSO with the ISS or any other\ndigital, non-store-and-forward, packet satellite (if operational).\nMany good contacts can be made on the linear transponder satellites\nincluding AO-73, FO-29, and AO-7. During Field Day the transponders\ncome alive like 20 meters on a weekend. The transponders on these\nsatellites will support multiple simultaneous SSB or CW contacts.\n\nThe 2015 AMSAT Field Day event is open to all Amateur Radio\noperators. Amateurs are to use the exchange as specified in ARRL\nrules for Field Day. The AMSAT competition is to encourage the use of\nall amateur satellites, both analog and digital.\n\nAMSAT Field Day information is also posted on the web at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=216\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and\nAwards, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nMontserrat (FK86)  active on satellites June 10 – June 18, 2015 -\nUpdate\n\nJim White WD0E reports on the status of the Montserrat (FK86)\nactivation, \"We finally got the crate of antennas out of customs\ntoday and have the sat station set up...  We will transmit on 145.925\nand tune the passband for callers.\"\n\nMontserrat (FK86) – Jim White, WD0E, will be active on satellites\nfrom Gingerbread Hill, St. Peters, Montserrat (FK86) as part of the\nVP2MKV team June 10 – June 18, 2015. WD0E will attempt to post a list\nof satellite QSOs daily on the AMSAT-BB. There will also be HF\nactivity and an entry in the ARRL June VHF Contest. QSL via N0KV and\nLoTW. From WD0E: “VP2MKV will operate FO-29 only on selected passes.\nWe will attempt the long hops to the edges of coverage if the\nequipment performs well at low elevations and obstructions allow. We\nwill attempt to post passes we plan to work 24 hours in advance on\namsat-bb. The uplink frequency will be 145.925 and we will tune our\ndownlink for stations calling. The location is 16.776924N 62.214474W\nin grid FK86vs. Equipment is an ICOM 910H and Arrow antenna. Uplink\npower will be about 20W. Stations are asked to work us only once on\nthe satellite. If we respond with your call you are in the log.”\nTentative pass plan, from WD0E: “We will attempt to be on the first\ntwo FO-29 ascending node passes June 11 through 20.  If time allows\nwe may be on the third ascending node those days.  Those passes\nhappen in late morning to mid afternoon Montserrat time.  On those\npasses we will look first for South America when the satellite is\nSouth of us, then North America, then Europe during the short mutual\nwindow.  If there are 2 meter or 6 meter terrestrial openings during\nthe VHF contest June 13 and 14 we will not be on satellite at those\ntimes.”\n\n[ANS thanks Jim WD0E for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS Announces Challenge Coin for Donation\n\nReceive an ARISS Challenge Coin for a donation of  $100 or more\n\n* ARISS is Amateur Radio on the International Space Station.\n\n* Licensed hams contact the ISS via Amateur Radio voice,\n  packet/APRS, SSTV, and digital TV.\n\n* Students interview astronauts in space and learn about life in\n  space, space research, and radio science.\n\n* Hams on the ground experiment with space communications\n\n* Amateur Radio supports NASA by providing ISS backup\n  communications\n\n* Your donations will help support continuing operations and Amateur\n  Radio equipment upgrades on the ISS.\n\nGo to www.amsat.org/ and click on “Donate ARISS” to help keep\nAmateur Radio on the ISS in orbit!\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nTwin Cubesat Mars Flyby Will Support NASA InSight Landing\n\nWhen NASA launches its next mission on the journey to Mars - a\nstationary lander in 2016 - the flight will include two CubeSats.\nThis will be the first time CubeSats have flown in deep space.  If\nthis flyby demonstration is successful, the technology will provide\nNASA the ability to quickly transmit status information about the\nmain spacecraft after it lands on Mars.\n\nThe twin communications-relay CubeSats, being built by NASA's Jet\nPropulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California, constitute a\ntechnology demonstration called Mars Cube One (MarCO).  CubeSats are\na class of spacecraft based on a standardized small size and modular\nuse of off-the-shelf technologies. Many have been made by university\nstudents, and dozens have been launched into Earth orbit using extra\npayload mass available on launches of larger spacecraft.\n\nThe basic CubeSat unit is a box roughly 4 inches (10 centimeters)\nsquare. Larger CubeSats are multiples of that unit. MarCO's design is\na six-unit CubeSat - about the size of a briefcase -- with a stowed\nsize of about 14.4 inches (36.6 centimeters) by 9.5 inches (24.3\ncentimeters) by 4.6 inches (11.8 centimeters).\n\nMarCO will launch in March 2016 from Vandenberg Air Force Base,\nCalifornia on the same United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket as\nNASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and\nHeat Transport (InSight) lander. Insight is NASA's first mission to\nunderstand the interior structure of the Red Planet. MarCO will fly\nby Mars while InSight is landing, in September 2016.\n\n\"MarCO is an experimental capability that has been added to the\nInSight mission, but is not needed for mission success,\" said Jim\nGreen, director of NASA's planetary science division at the agency's\nheadquarters in Washington. \"MarCO will fly independently to Mars.\"\n\nDuring InSight's entry, descent and landing (EDL) operations on\nSept. 28, 2016, the lander will transmit information in the UHF radio\nband to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) flying overhead. MRO\nwill forward EDL information to Earth using a radio frequency in the\nX band, but cannot simultaneously receive information over one band\nwhile transmitting on another. Confirmation of a successful landing\ncould be received by the orbiter more than an hour before it's\nrelayed to Earth.\n\nMarCO's radio is about softball-size and provides both UHF (receive\nonly) and X-band (receive and transmit) functions capable of\nimmediately relaying information received over UHF.\n\nThe two CubeSats will separate from the Atlas V booster after launch\nand travel along their own trajectories to the Red Planet. After\nrelease from the launch vehicle, MarCO's first challenges are to\ndeploy two radio antennas and two solar panels. The high-gain, X-band\nantenna is a flat panel engineered to direct radio waves the way a\nparabolic dish antenna does. MarCO will be navigated to Mars\nindependently of the InSight spacecraft, with its own course\nadjustments on the way.\n\nUltimately, if the MarCO demonstration mission succeeds, it could\nallow for a \"bring-your-own\" communications relay option for use by\nfuture Mars missions in the critical few minutes between Martian\natmospheric entry and touchdown.\n\nBy verifying CubeSats are a viable technology for interplanetary\nmissions, and feasible on a short development timeline, this\ntechnology demonstration could lead to many other applications to\nexplore and study our solar system.\n\nJPL manages MarCO, InSight and MRO for NASA's Science Mission\nDirectorate in Washington. Technology suppliers for MarCO include:\nBlue Canyon Technologies of Boulder, Colorado, for the attitude-\ncontrol system; VACCO Industries of South El Monte, California, for\nthe propulsion system; AstroDev of Ann Arbor, Michigan, for\nelectronics; MMA Design LLC, also of Boulder, for solar arrays; and\nTyvak Nano-Satellite Systems Inc., a Terran Orbital Company in San\nLuis Obispo, California, for the CubeSat dispenser system.\n\nFor information about MarCO, visit:\nhttp://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/missions/marco.php\n\nFor information about InSight, visit:\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/insight\n\nLearn more about NASA's journey to Mars at:\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/content/journey-to-mars-overview\n\n[ANS thanks NASA Press Release 15-122, June 12, 2015 for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2015-06-13  05:00 UTC\n\n>From  2015-06-11 to 2015-07-24, there will be no US Operational\nSegment (USOS) hams  on board ISS.  So any school contacts during\nthis period will be conducted  by the ARISS Russia  team.\n\nWatch\nhttp://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html\nfor information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled.\n\nExp. 42/43 has returned to earth. Congratulations for the job well\ndone!\nTerry Virts\nAnton  Shkaplerov\nSamantha Cristoforetti  IZØUDF\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\nPanoramic Tour of ISS\n\nESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has been cataloguing her home\nof six months to create panoramic images you can rotate and explore.\nEach section of the Space Station required around 14 fisheye photos\nstitched together.\n\nAreas of interest can be clicked on for more information in another\nbrowser window.\n\nEventually, the entire Station will be available to explore right\nhere on this page – follow us to receive updates.\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS165-ISSTour\n\nCan you find the HAMTV transmitter on the floor?\n\n[ANS Thanks European Space Agency for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n/EX\n\nAMSAT User Services and the Editors of the AMSAT New Service pass on\nour condolences to ANS Weekly Co-Editor Joe Spier K6WAO and his\nfamily on the death of Joe's mother this week.\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,\nEMike McCardel, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n",
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