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    "subject": "[AMSAT-BB] ANS-105 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for April 14",
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    "content": " AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\n\nANS-105\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return from ISS\n* 2024 AMSAT/TAPR Banquet To Be Held Friday, May 17\n* New NASA Strategy Envisions Sustainable Future for Space Ops\n* Trash From The ISS May Have Hit A House In Florida\n* VUCC and DXCC Satellite Standings for April 2024\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for April 12\n* Ending an Era, Final Delta Rocket Launched This Week\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\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\n*Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at]\namsat.org <http://amsat.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\n*ANS-105 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins*\n\n*DATE 2024 April 14*\nNASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return from ISS\n\nNASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, KI5TOM, returned to Earth after a six-month\nresearch mission aboard the International Space Station on April 6, along\nwith Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight\nparticipant Marina Vasilevskaya.\n\nThe trio departed the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at\n03:54 UTC, and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 07:17 (12:17 p.m.\nKazakhstan time), southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.\n\n\n\n*NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara returned to Earth on April 6, 2024, after a\nsix-month research mission aboard the International Space Station. (NASA\nimage)*\n\nO’Hara launched Sept. 15, 2023, alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg\nKononenko, RN3DX, and Nikolai Chub, who both will remain aboard the space\nstation to complete a one-year mission. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya launched\naboard Soyuz MS-25 on March 23 along with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson,\nwho will remain aboard the orbiting laboratory until this fall.\n\nO’Hara spent a total of 204 days in space as part of her first spaceflight.\nShe completed approximately 3,264 orbits of the Earth and a journey of more\nthan 86.5 million miles. O’Hara worked on scientific activities aboard the\nspace station, including investigating heart health, cancer treatments, and\nspace manufacturing techniques during her stay aboard the orbiting\nlaboratory.\n\nFollowing post-landing medical checks, the crew returned to the recovery\nstaging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. O’Hara then boarded a NASA plane\nbound for her return to the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.\n\n*(Oct. 4, 2023) — The official Expedition 71 crew portrait with (bottom row\nfrom left) Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin and NASA astronauts Mike\nBarratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps. In the back row (from left)\nare, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and\nOleg Kononenko. (NASA photo)*\n\nWith the undocking of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with O’Hara, Novitskiy and\nVasilevskaya, Expedition 71 officially began aboard the station. NASA\nastronauts Michael Barratt, KD5MIJ, Matthew Dominick, KCØTOR, Tracy C.\nDyson, and Jeannette Epps, KF5QNU, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai\nChub, Alexander Grebenkin, RZ3DSE, and Oleg Kononenko, RN3DX, make up\nExpedition 71 and will remain on the orbiting laboratory until this fall.\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]\n------------------------------\n\n*The 2024 AMSAT President’s Club coins are here now!*\n*Help Support GOLF and Fox Plus*\n\n*Join the AMSAT President’s Club today and help*\n*Keep Amateur Radio in Space!*\n*https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/*\n<https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/>\n------------------------------\n2024 AMSAT/TAPR Banquet To Be Held Friday, May 17\n\nThe 15th annual AMSAT/TAPR Banquet will be held at the Kohler Presidential\nBanquet Center on Friday, May 17th at 18:30 EDT. This dinner is always a\nhighlight of the TAPR (Tucson Amateur Packet Radio) and AMSAT (Radio\nAmateur Satellite Corp.) activities during the Dayton Hamvention. This\nyear’s banquet speaker will be Bill Reed, NX5R, AMSAT PACSAT Project\nManager, who will highlight the forthcoming PACSAT digital communications\npayload.\n\nThe Kohler Presidential Banquet Center is located at 4548 Presidential Way,\nKettering, Ohio – about 20 minutes away from the Greene County Fairgrounds.\n\nTickets ($60 each) may be purchased from the AMSAT store. The banquet\nticket purchase deadline is Friday, May 10th. Banquet tickets must be\npurchased in advance and will not be sold at the AMSAT booth. There will be\nno tickets to pick up at the AMSAT booth. Tickets purchased on-line will be\nmaintained on a list with check-in at the door at the banquet center.\nSeating is limited to the number of meals reserved with the Kohler caterers\nbased on the number of tickets sold by the deadline.\n\n*Menu*\n\n*Set out as guests arrive*\n\nCrudite Platter\nwith dip on the side\n\nDinner Buffet\n\nRoast Prime Rib of Beef Au jus\nCarved on site. Served with horseradish and au jus on the side.\n\nAlmond Chicken\n\nDeep Fried Tempura Shrimp\nwith Tomato Lemon Aioli\n\nRisotto Cake\n\nFresh Asparagus\n\nSmashed Cauliflower\n\n*Served to the table*\n\nStrawberry Fields\n\nAssorted Dinner Rolls\nServed with butter\n\n*Separate table*\n\nAssorted Layer Cake\n\nCheesecake\n\n*Beverages*\n\nCash Bar\n\nRegular and Decaf Coffee, Hot & Iced Tea, Water\n------------------------------\nNew NASA Strategy Envisions Sustainable Future for Space Operations\n\nTo address a rapidly changing space operating environment and ensure its\npreservation for generations to come, NASA released the first part of its\nintegrated Space Sustainability Strategy, on April 9, advancing the\nagency’s role as a global leader on this crucial issue.\n\n“The release of this strategy marks true progress for NASA on space\nsustainability,” said NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy. “Space is busy\n– and only getting busier. If we want to make sure that critical parts of\nspace are preserved so that our children and grandchildren can continue to\nuse them for the benefit of humanity, the time to act is now. NASA is\nmaking sure that we’re aligning our resources to support sustainable\nactivity for us and for all.”\n\nFor decades, NASA has served as a proactive leader for responsible and\nsustainable space operations. Entities across the agency develop best\npractices, analytic tools, and technologies widely adopted by operators\naround the world. The new strategy seeks to integrate those efforts through\na whole-of-agency approach – allowing NASA to focus its resources on the\nmost pressing issues. To facilitate that integration, NASA will appoint a\nnew director of space sustainability to coordinate activities across the\nagency.\n\nKey aspects of our approach include providing global leadership in space\nsustainability, supporting equitable access to space, and ensuring NASA’s\nmissions and operations enhance space sustainability.\n\nSpace environments currently are seeing the rapid emergence of commercial\ncapabilities, many of them championed by NASA. These capabilities include\nincreased low Earth orbit satellite activity and plans for the use of\nsatellite constellations, autonomous spacecraft, and commercial space\ndestinations. However, this increased activity also has generated\nchallenges, such as an operating environment more crowded with spacecraft\nand increased debris. Understanding the risks and benefits associated with\nthis growth is crucial for space sustainability.\n\nDeveloped under the leadership of a crossagency advisory board, the space\nsustainability strategy focuses on advancements NASA can make toward\nmeasuring and assessing space sustainability in Earth orbit, identifying\ncost-effective ways to meet sustainability targets, incentivizing the\nadoption of sustainable practices through technology and policy\ndevelopment, and increasing efforts to share and receive information with\nthe rest of the global space community.\n\nNASA’s approach to space sustainability recognizes four operational\ndomains: Earth, Earth orbit, the orbital area near and around the Moon\nknown as cislunar space, and deep space, including other celestial bodies.\nThe first volume of the strategy focuses on sustainability in Earth orbit.\nNASA plans to produce additional volumes focusing on the other domains.\n\nLearn more about the Space Sustainability Strategy at:\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/spacesustainability\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]\n------------------------------\n\n*Need new satellite antennas?*\n*Purchase M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store.*\n\n*When you purchase through AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards*\n*Keeping Amateur Radio in Space.*\n*https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/*\n<https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/>\n------------------------------\nTrash From The ISS May Have Hit A House In Florida\n\nA few weeks ago, something from the heavens came crashing through the roof\nof Alejandro Otero’s Florida home, and NASA is on the case.\n\nOtero wasn’t home at the time. A Nest home security camera captured the\nsound of the crash at 2:34 pm local time (19:34 UTC) on March 8. That’s an\nimportant piece of information because it is a close match for the\ntime—2:29 pm EST (19:29 UTC)—that US Space Command recorded the reentry of\na piece of space debris from the space station. At that time, the object\nwas on a path over the Gulf of Mexico, heading toward southwest Florida.\n\n\n\n\n\n*In all likelihood, this nearly 2-pound object came from the International\nSpace Station. Otero said it tore through the roof and both floors of his\ntwo-story house in Naples, Florida. (Photo by Alejandro Otero on X) *\n\nThis space junk consisted of depleted batteries from the ISS, attached to a\ncargo pallet that was originally supposed to come back to Earth in a\ncontrolled manner. But a series of delays meant this cargo pallet missed\nits ride back to Earth, so NASA jettisoned the batteries from the space\nstation in 2021 to head for an unguided reentry.\n\nNASA has recovered the debris from the homeowner, according to Josh Finch,\nan agency spokesperson. Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center will\nanalyze the object “as soon as possible to determine its origin,” Finch\ntold Ars. “More information will be available once the analysis is\ncomplete.”\n\nThe entire pallet, including the nine disused batteries from the space\nstation’s power system, had a mass of more than 2.6 metric tons (5,800\npounds), according to NASA. Size-wise, it was about twice as tall as a\nstandard kitchen refrigerator. It’s important to note that objects of this\nmass, or larger, regularly fall to Earth on guided trajectories, but\nthey’re usually failed satellites or spent rocket stages left in orbit\nafter completing their missions.\n\nIn a post on X, Otero said he is waiting for communication from “the\nresponsible agencies” to resolve the cost of damages to his home. If the\nobject is owned by NASA, Otero or his insurance company could make a claim\nagainst the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act, according\nto Michelle Hanlon, executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law\nat the University of Mississippi.\n\n“It gets more interesting if this material is discovered to be not\noriginally from the United States,” she told Ars. “If it is a human-made\nspace object which was launched into space by another country, which caused\ndamage on Earth, that country would be absolutely liable to the homeowner\nfor the damage caused.”\n\nThis could be an issue in this case. The batteries were owned by NASA, but\nthey were attached to a pallet structure launched by Japan’s space agency.\n\nNASA typically doesn’t want large chunks of space debris falling to Earth\nwith an uncontrolled reentry. You can trace the reason this object came\ndown unguided back to a Russian launch failure more than five years ago.\nNASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian commander Alexey Ovchinin aborted\ntheir launch on a Soyuz spacecraft when their rocket failed shortly after\nliftoff.\n\nOne of Hague’s jobs at the International Space Station would have been to\ngo outside on spacewalks to help install a new set of lithium-ion batteries\nrecently delivered by a Japanese HTV cargo ship. But Hague didn’t reach the\nstation in 2018, so NASA put off the spacewalks until a new team of\nastronauts arrived at the complex.\n\nThis interruption to the space station’s carefully choreographed schedule\nthrew off the entire multiyear plan for upgrading the batteries on the\noutpost’s electrical system. Instead of putting the old batteries back into\nthe HTV for a guided destructive reentry over the open ocean, NASA held\nonto the cargo pallet at the station when the HTV supply ship needed to\ndepart.\n\nEach of the subsequent HTV missions delivered more fresh batteries to the\nspace station and then departed the complex with the cargo pallet and\ndecommissioned batteries from the previous HTV mission. That was the case\nuntil there were no more HTVs to fly. Japan’s last HTV spacecraft departed\nthe ISS in 2020 with the cargo pallet and batteries from the prior flight,\nstranding the last battery pallet at the station.\n\nThe space station’s other cargo vehicles—SpaceX’s Dragon, Northrop\nGrumman’s Cygnus, and the Russian Progress—can’t accommodate the HTV cargo\npallet.\n\nSo NASA decided to jettison the battery pallet using the space station’s\nrobotic arm in March 2021 in order to free up real estate on the lab.\nWithout any propulsion of their own, the batteries were adrift in orbit for\nthree years until aerodynamic drag finally pulled the pallet back into the\natmosphere on March 8, almost exactly three years later.\n\nIt is notoriously difficult to predict where a piece of space junk will\nreenter the atmosphere. US Space Command precisely tracks tens of thousands\nof objects in Earth orbit, but the exact density of the upper atmosphere is\nstill largely an unknown variable. Even a half-day before the reentry, US\nSpace Command’s estimate for when the battery pallet would fall to Earth\nhad a window of uncertainty spanning six hours, enough time for the object\nto circle the planet four times.\n\nAnd if you don’t know when something will reenter the atmosphere, you can’t\npredict where it will come down.\n\nIf NASA confirms the projectile that fell through Otero’s house last month\ncame from the ISS, it would join a small handful of incidents when an\nobject falling out of orbit damaged someone’s property.\n\nEarth is a big place. It’s fairly common for someone to find a piece of\nfallen space junk in a field or washed up on a beach. But it is rare for a\nreentry to hit a structure or injure a person.\n\nFalling space debris has never killed anyone. According to ESA, the annual\nrisk of an individual human being injured by space debris is less than 1 in\n100 billion.\n\n[ANS thanks ARS Technical for the above information. Read the entire story\nat https://bit.ly/3xFJs9W.]\n------------------------------\nVUCC and DXCC Satellite Standings for April 2024\n\n————————————————————\nVUCC Satellite Award/Endorsement Change Summary for March 01, 2024 to April\n01, 2024.\n————————————————————\n\nCallsignMarch 2024April 2024\nK8DP 1629 1701\nAA5PK 1450 1500\nN8RO 1444 1455\nKF7R 1128 1154\nXE1AO 1000 1111\nKE8RJU 950 1030\nWI7P 975 1008\nK9UO 950 1001\nKQ4DO 880 906\nK0JM 702 801\nKK4YEL 728 768\nN8MR 684 700\nA65BR 554 632\nJS1LQI 500 617\nN3CAL 580 610\nSV8CS New 511\nJR0GAS 360 500\nKO9A 434 472\nN7UJJ 308 462\nHC2FG 350 413\nPA7RA 408 409\nDL8GAM 375 400\nHB9RYZ 248 365\nW6AER 302 355\nK6VHF 300 325\nJH0BBE 322 324\nXE1BMG 120 300\nKA9CFD 126 283\nI1FQH 173 249\nAG1A 100 200\nJO4JKL 135 188\nW0PR New 176\nJK4JMO New 161\nAA0K 100 155\nWD9EWK(DM25) 120 138\nN6UTC(DM05) 101 128\nN8HRZ New 102\nWD5GRW New 101\nK9DOG New 100\nW9FF New 100\n————————————————————\n\nCongratulations to the new VUCC holders.\nSV8CS is first VUCC Satellite holder from KM07\n\nDXCC Satellite Standing April 2024\n————————————————————\nDXCC Satellite Award/Endorsement Change Summary for March 01, 2024 to April\n01, 2024.\n————————————————————\n\nCallsignMarch 2024April 2024\nSV8CS 153 159\nKB8VAO 135 148\nHB9RYZ 145 147\nDL4ZAB 138 139\nNK1K 129 138\nDL2MIH 111 132\nXE1MEX 122 125\nKK5DO 106 108\nK9UO 101 106\nDL8GAM 100 101\nXE1L New 100\n————————————————————\n\nCongratulations to the new DXCC Satellite holder.\nXE1L is first DXCC Satellite holder from DL80\n\n[ANS thanks Jon Goering, N7AZ, for the above information]\n------------------------------\n\n*Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition?*\n\n*Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff from our Zazzle store!*\n*25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards*\n*Keeping Amateur Radio in Space*\n*https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear* <https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear>\n------------------------------\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for April 12\n\nTwo Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps\nin the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical\nmodel of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly\nupdates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. TLE bulletin\nfiles are updated daily in the first hour of the UTC day. New bulletin\nfiles will be posted immediately after reliable elements become available\nfor new amateur satellites. More information may be found at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/.\n\nThis week there are no additions or deletions to the AMSAT TLE distribution.\n\n[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the\nabove information]\n------------------------------\nEnding an Era, Final Delta Rocket Launched This Week\n\nEnding an era in U.S. rocketry, United Launch Alliance fired off its 16th\nand final triple-core Delta 4 Heavy Tuesday, launching a classified spy\nsatellite in the last hurrah of a storied family of rockets dating back to\nthe dawn of the space age.\n\nThe Heavy’s three hydrogen-fueled RS-68A first stage engines ignited with a\nrush of bright orange flame at 12:53 p.m. EDT, smoothly pushing the\n235-foot-tall rocket away from pad 37 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force\nStation in Florida.\n\n\n\n*The last Delta 4 Heavy rocket climbs away from the Cape Canaveral Space\nForce Station on April 9, 2024, carrying a classified National\nReconnaissance Office spy satellite. (United Launch Alliance photo.)*\n\nThe launch came 12 days late, primarily because of work to replace a pump\nin a system that supplies nitrogen gas to multiple launch pads from a\npipeline running through the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral\nSpace Force Station. There were no problems Tuesday.\n\nMounted atop the rocket was a classified satellite provided by the National\nReconnaissance Office, the secretive government agency that manages the\nnation’s fleet of sophisticated optical and radar imaging reconnaissance\nsatellites and electronic eavesdropping stations.\n\nIn keeping with standard NRO-U.S. Space Force policy for such missions, no\ndetails about the NROL-70 payload were released. But about six hours after\nlaunch, the National Reconnaissance Office declared the launch a success,\nindicating the satellite reached its planned orbit.The final appearance of\na Delta rocket 63 years after the first variant’s maiden flight was an\nemotional milestone for the managers, engineers and technicians who\nassembled and launched the last member of the family.\n\nThe Delta family of stages and rockets had its roots in the early space\nprogram, first serving in the nation’s fleet of intermediate-range\nballistic missiles and evolving through multiple versions used to put\nmilitary, NASA and civilian payloads into orbit.\n\nThe now-retired Delta 2 debuted in 1990, putting the first Global\nPositioning System satellites into orbit and sending multiple planetary\nprobes into deep space, including Messenger to Mercury, multiple Mars\norbiters, the Pathfinder, Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, the Spitzer\nSpace Telescope and many more.\n\nThe single-core Delta 4 first flew in 2002 with the first Heavy following\ntwo years later. The single-core version flew the program’s final flight in\n2019. Tuesday’s launch was the 45th flight of a Delta 4 and the 16th and\nfinal Delta 4 Heavy.\n\n“Launching the last Delta 4 is bittersweet for me,” Col. Eric Zarybnisky,\ndirector of NRO’s Office of Space Launch, said in a statement. “I was part\nof the team that launched the first Delta 4 for the NRO. Since that time,\nthe Delta 4 has put amazing capability on orbit for this nation.”\n\nTory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, also called the\nflight a “bittersweet” moment as the company continues its transition to\nnext-generation Vulcan rockets, phasing out its more expensive Delta and\nAtlas families.\n\n“Soon, Vulcan will pick up that mantle and we’re going to retire this\nvenerable rocket that has made so much important work for our country,” he\nsaid after launch in a pre-recorded video.\n\n[ANS thanks William Harwood, CBS News, for the above information]\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\n*RECENTLY COMPLETED*\n\nARTADEMIA, Milano, Italy, AND Scuola Secondaria I grado “A. Moro”, Ponte\nLambro (CO), Italy, direct via IK1SLD\nThe ISS callsign was OR4ISS. The crewmember was Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU. The\nARISS mentor was IZ2GOJ.\nContact was successful: Wed 2024-04-10 13:16:48 UTC 53 degrees elevation\nCongratulations to the ARTADEMIA and Scuola Secondaria I grado “A. Moro”\nstudents, Jeanette, mentor IZ2GOJ, and ground station IK1SLD!\nWatch the recorded Livestream at\nhttps://www.youtube.com/live/sJoKzK2292U?si=BxXWi41cfsJJv4c2\n\n*UPCOMING*\n\nMrs Ethelston’s CE Primary Academy at Axminster Community Academy Trust,\nLyme Regis, United Kingdom, direct via GB4ACA\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The scheduled\ncrewmember is Matthew Dominick, KCØTOR. The ARISS mentor is MØXTD.\nContact is go for: Wed 2024-04-17 10:44:49 UTC 81 degrees elevation\nWatch for Livestream at https://live.ariss.org\n\nMountain View Elementary, Marietta, GA, direct via KQ4JVI\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The scheduled\ncrewmember is Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU. The ARISS mentor is K4RGK.\nContact is go for: Thu 2024-04-18 17:48:40 UTC 44 deg\nWatch for Livestream at https://youtube.com/live/lDjyV6P9x6I\n\nThe crossband repeater continues to be active (145.990 MHz up {PL 67} &\n437.800 MHz down). If any crewmember is so inclined, all they have to do is\npick up the microphone, raise the volume up, and talk on the crossband\nrepeater. So give a listen, you just never know.\n\nThe packet system (145.825 MHz up & down) is currently misconfigured and\nnot in operation.\n\nThe Ham TV system (2395.00 MHz down) is aboard but currently stowed. The\nBATC Ham TV wiki is at https://wiki.batc.org.uk/HAMTV_from_the_ISS and\nthere is also a discussion channel available on the site.\n\nThe SSTV system (145.800 MHz down) is currently stowed.\n\nAs always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios\nare turned off as part of the safety protocol.\n\nNote, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own\norbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed\ntime.\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------------------------------\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nDoug, N6UA will soon embark on a big circuitous rove covering parts of MT,\nID, OR and NV. I’m guessing this will take place in the next week or two,\nbut only Doug knows for certain. APRS is gonna be your friend here.\n\nA growing number of satellite rovers are currently engaged in sharing their\ngrid square activations on https://hams.at. By visiting the website, you\ngain easy access to comprehensive information about the operators\nresponsible for activating specific grid squares. Additionally, you have\nthe ability to assess the match score between yourself and a particular\nrover for a given pass, while also being able to identify the upcoming\nsatellite passes that are accessible from your location.\n\n[ANS thanks Ian Parsons, K5ZM, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above\ninformation]\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\n2024 CubeSat Developer’s Workshop\nTuesday April 23rd – Thursday April 25th\nCal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA\nhttps://www.cubesatdw.org/\n\nDayton Hamvention 2024\nFriday May 17th – Sunday May 19th\nGreene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center\n120 Fairground Road\nXenia, OH 45385\nhttps://hamvention.org\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Events page for the above information]\n------------------------------\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ NASA now knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while\nto fix. Voyager 1’s remaining Flight Data Subsystem (its redundant copy\nfailed in 1982) is the reason that the distant spacecraft is currently\noffline. Voyager’s FDS were the first computers on a spacecraft to use\nvolatile memory. Unfortunately, one of Voyager 1’s FDS memory chips is\nmalfunctioning—NASA hopes they can work around it, but it will likely take\nmonths.(ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above information.)\n\n+ If you have 26 minutes to spare, and want to explore more intricacies of\nOhm’s Law than you were taught in school, watch electricity flow through a\nwire a nanosecond at a time at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AXv49dDQJw\n(ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above information.)\n\n+ Following repairs to a liquid oxygen leak in the Falcon Heavy’s core\nbooster, NASA and SpaceX have rescheduled the launch of the GOES-U\nsatellite, the final installment in NOAA’s GOES-R Series, for June 25. The\nadjustment aims to ensure thorough examination and resolution of the issue,\ndiscovered during a routine inspection in February. With preparations now\nback on track, the deployment of GOES-U from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch\nComplex 39A will proceed using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Managed\ncooperatively by NOAA and NASA, the GOES-R Series Program encompasses\nsatellite operations, data dissemination, and ground systems oversight,\nwith NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center leading spacecraft acquisition and\ninstrument development. Lockheed Martin’s contributions include design,\nconstruction, and testing of the satellites, while L3Harris Technologies\nhas provided key instruments and ground systems essential for capturing\natmospheric observations. (ANS thanks Clarence Oxford, SpaceDaily, for the\nabove information)\n\n+ The European Union is poised to finalize a security deal with the United\nStates, enabling payments to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for satellite launches due\nto delays in Europe’s Ariane rocket system. Approved by national general\naffairs ministers, the agreement grants European Union and European Space\nAgency (ESA) personnel continuous access to launch facilities and\nprioritized debris retrieval rights in case of SpaceX rocket failures. With\na 200 million deal already struck last year, SpaceX is contracted to launch\nfour Galileo satellites as Ariane 6 faces further delays. While Ariane 6 is\nslated for a summer launch, commercial missions await later scheduling. The\narrangement with SpaceX allows for two Galileo satellite launches this\nyear, necessitated by Soyuz launcher cancellations and Ariane 6 delays. The\nsecurity pact ensures access to classified Galileo equipment, with\nprovisions for debris retrieval and a sunset clause by 2027 to address\nconcerns about reliance on SpaceX over Ariane. (ANS thanks Joshua Poaaner,\nPolitico Europe, for the above information)\n\n+ NASA has been tasked by the White House to establish a lunar-centric time\nreference system, known as Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), to aid missions\nrequiring extreme precision on the moon. The agency has until the end of\n2026 to set up LTC, which is not akin to Earth’s time zones but provides a\nframe of time reference for the moon. LTC will accommodate the slightly\nfaster passage of time on the moon, approximately 58.7 microseconds each\nday compared to Earth, due to its lower gravity. It will serve as a\nbenchmark for timekeeping for lunar spacecraft and satellites, crucial for\ntheir missions. NASA’s Artemis program, set to begin astronaut missions to\nthe lunar surface in 2026, necessitates LTC for synchronization among\nEarth, lunar satellites, bases, and astronauts, without which data\ntransfers and communications could be compromised. Developing LTC will\nrequire international agreements, possibly influenced by the Universal\nCoordinated Time (UTC) standard, with potential implementation involving\natomic clocks on the moon and adherence to existing space agreements like\nthe Artemis accords. (ANS thanks Diana Ramirez-Simon, The Guardian, for the\nabove 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\nshall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary\nyears in this 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, Mark Johns, KØJM\nk0jm [at] amsat.org\n\n\n",
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