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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-173\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* 2014 Candidates for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Announced\n* Russian Dnepr rocket lofts record haul of 37 satellites\n* Amateur Radio Role on Space Station Featured at ISS Research and\nDevelopment Conference\n* Successful launch of amateur radio satellite payloads\n* Dnepr Launch for D-STAR Satellite\n* FUNcube-3 payload launch information\n* Upcoming AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-173.01\nANS-173 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 173.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE June 22, 2014\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-173.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2014 Candidates for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Announced\n\n\nThe 2014 candidates, in alphabetical order by last names are:\n\nJerry Buxton, N0JY\nTom Clark, K3IO\nSteve Coy, K8UD\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA\nFrank Griffin, K4FEG\nBryan Klofas, KF6ZEO\nLou McFadin, W5DID\nJoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM\n\nNormally there would be 3 full Board seats open this year, plus 2\nalternates. However, with the passing of Tony Monteiro, AA2TX (SK),\nthere will be an additional full Board seat open to fill the\nremaining year of his term. This means that the top three recipients\nof votes will have two-year terms, the fourth most vote recipient\nwill serve as full member for one year, and the fifth and sixth\nhighest vote recipients will serve as first and second alternate\nrespectively.\n\nBallots will be mailed to the AMSAT-NA membership by 15 JUL 2014 and\nmust be received at the AMSAT office by 15 SEP 2014 in order to be\ncounted. Those sent outside North America will go by air mail.\nIf you have not received your ballot package in a reasonable time\nfor your QTH, please contact the AMSAT office. Returned ballots\nshould be sent as promptly as possible, and those from outside North\nAmerican preferably by air mail.\n\nElection of board members is both an obligation as well as an\nopportunity by our membership to help shape the future direction of\nAMSAT. Please take the time to review the candidate statements that\nwill accompany the ballot and determine who you wish to see on the\nBoard. You have the option to vote for up to four candidates.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nRussian Dnepr rocket lofts record haul of 37 satellites\n\n\nA Russian Dnepr rocket launched a record-breaking thirty-seven\nsatellites on Friday morning local time, deploying a cluster of\nspacecraft for scientific research and commercial operation. The\nmission departed on schedule from Dombarovsky in Southern Russia at\n01:11 local time (19:11 UTC on Thursday).\n\n\nDnepr Record Breaker:\nWith thirty-seven satellites aboard the Dnepr, Friday’s launch saw\nthe record for most spacecraft launched by a single rocket broken for\nthe fourth time in less than a year.\n\nThe previous record was set at 34 by January’s Antares launch with\nOrbital Sciences’ first CRS mission to the International Space\nStation.\n\nThirty-three of the satellites werre deployed directly by the Dnepr\n– as opposed to being released by other payloads or transported to\nthe International Space Station for later deployment – which is also\na new record. That record had previously been held by an American\nMinotaur launch which occurred last year.\n\nDeimos-2, KazEOSat-2 and Hodoyoshi-3 and 4 were the main payloads\nfor what was the twentieth Dnepr launch.\n\nZ3Built by South Korea’s SATREC Initiative for Deimos Imaging of\nSpain, the Deimos-2 satellite follows on from the smaller Deimos-1\nwhich launched in 2009.\n\nBased around the SI-300 bus, Deimos-2 has a mass of around 300\nkilograms (660 lb). It will be used for high-resolution Earth\nimaging; it’s EOS-D imager is capable of producing pictures at\nresolutions as high as 0.75 metres (2.5 feet).\n\nKazEOSat-2, which was previously known as the Medium Resolution\nEarth Observation Satellite, or DZZ-MH, will be operated by\nKazakhstan Gharysh Sapary, the main contractor to the space programme\nof Kazakhstan.\nBuilt by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited of the\nUnited Kingdom, KazEOSat-2 is based upon the SSTL-150+ satellite bus\nand carries a camera which can image the Earth at resolutions of up\nto 6.5 metres.\n\nThe 185 kilogram (408 lb) satellite will complement the larger and\nhigher-resolution KazEOSat-1, which was launched by Europe’s Vega\nrocket in April.\n\nThe University of Tokyo’s Hodoyoshi-3 and 4 are prototype remote\nsensing satellites.\n\nWith masses of 60 and 66 kilograms (132 and 145 lb) respectively,\nHodoyoshi-3 carries two cameras with resolutions of 40 and 200 metres\n(131 and 656 feet), while Hodoyoshi-4 is equipped with a single, more\npowerful, instrument providing a resolution of 6 metres (20 ft) per\npixel.\n\nThe spacecraft are also equipped for further technology\ndemonstration, and store-and-forward communications.\n\nThe other payloads on the Dnepr include AprizeSat-9 and 10, which\nwill be used for commercial communications. The ownership of these\nsatellites is not entirely clear; they were built by SpaceQuest, who\nwill operate them for the early phases of their missions.\n\nOnce operational, the two twelve kilogram satellites may be\ntransferred to exactEarth or retained for operation by SpaceQuest.\nThey are the eleventh and twelfth satellites in a series which was\noriginally named LatinSat.\n\nBRITE-Toronto and BRITE-Montreal, also known as BRITE-CA 1 and 2,\nare the fourth and fifth members of the six-satellite Bright Star\nTarget Explorer (BRITE) constellation, a joint venture between\nCanada’s Universities of Toronto and Montreal, Austria’s University\nof Vienna and the Polish Academy of Sciences.\n\nThe two satellites launched on Friday form the Canadian part of the\nconstellation, although the University of Toronto were responsible\nfor designing all six satellites and manufacturing most of them. The\nfinal BRITE satellite, Poland’s Heweliusz, is scheduled to be\nlaunched atop a Chang Zheng 4B rocket from China later this year.\n\nThe BRITE programme is aimed at studying variations in the amount of\nlight coming from the brightest stars visible from Earth. The\nCanadian satellites are identical apart from the filters used in\ntheir telescopes; Toronto’s satellite will use a red filter to study\nthe lower-energy end of the spectrum, while Montreal’s will study\nlight with shorter wavelengths using a blue filter.\n\nBugSat-1, which will be operated by Argentina’s Satellogic S.A, is a\n22 kilogram technology demonstrator. Intended to demonstrate a\nmedium-resolution camera in addition to UHF and C-band communications\nsystems, the satellite will be made available for amateur radio users\nat the end of its primary mission.\n\nSaudi Arabia’s SaudiSat-4 spacecraft will be used to study whether a\nphenomenon called the photoelectric effect, which causes metals to\nemit electrons when exposed to ultraviolet radiation, can be use to\ncancel out electrical charges which build up in satellite components\nover time.\n\nThe 100-kilogram (220 lb) satellite was built by the King Abdulaziz\nCity for Science and Technology (KACST) in association with NASA’s\nAmes Research Center.\n\nTabletSat-Aurora was developed by Russian company Sputnix. A 25\nkilogram (55 lb) spacecraft, the satellite will be used to test the\nTabletSat-2U-EO bus upon which it is based. In addition, the\nspacecraft will observe the Earth, returning images with a resolution\nof up to 15 metres (49 feet).\n\nThe UniSat-6 satellite, of Rome’s La Sapienza University, is a\ntechnology demonstration mission which follows on from last year’s\nUniSat-5 mission. Like UniSat-5, UniSat-6 carries CubeSat dispensers\nhowever it lacks the PocketQube deployers flown on the previous\nmission.\n\nFour CubeSats are expected to be deployed from UniSat-6 at a later\ndate. AeroCube-6 is an American technology demonstration satellite\nwhich will be operated by The Aerospace Corporation. Intended to test\na new CubeSat bus, it is a single-unit satellite with sides of 10\ncentimetres (3.9 in), which will collect data on radiation levels in\nlow Earth orbit.\n\nIt is joined by Lemur-1, a prototype Earth-imaging satellite for\nNanoSatisfi Incorporated, also of the United States. The three-unit\nCubeSat carries visible-light and infrared imagers, however its\nprimary objective is to demonstrate how the satellite bus functions\nunder operational conditions.\n\nA three-unit CubeSat, TigriSat, is the first satellite to be\nlaunched for Iraq. Built for the country’s Ministry of Science\nand Technology by Iraqi students working at the La Sapienza\nUniversity in Rome, TigriSat will be used to monitor dust storms\nin Iraq.\n\nIraq previously claimed to have launched a satellite in 1989,\nhowever this was discredited after footage of the rocket exploding\nduring first stage flight surfaced. Analysts have also determined\nthat it was unlikely to have been an orbital launch attempt in any\ncase.\n\nAntelsat, the fourth satellite to be deployed from UniSat-6, will be\nUruguay’s first spacecraft. It is a two-unit CubeSat, which will be\nused for amateur radio, Earth observation and to advance Uruguayan\nsatellite technology.\n\nIn addition to the CubeSats aboard UniSat-6, twenty-one more will be\ndeployed from the Dnepr itself.\n\nDTUSat-2 is a Danish satellite being launched for the Danmarks\nTekniske Universitet. It will be used to aid studies of bird\nmigration by relaying data from GPS trackers attached to the birds.\nDuchifat-1 is a single-unit CubeSat which will be operated by\nIsrael’s Herzliya Science Centre.\n\nThe spacecraft has served as an educational project and once in\norbit will be used to test location determination, with the satellite\nreturning data on its calculated position to be plotted onto maps on\nthe ground.\n\nEleven Flock-1c spacecraft will be launched for Planet Labs’ Flock\nconstellation. Earth imaging spacecraft, each three-unit CubeSat is\nequipped with cameras capable of producing photographs at resolutions\nof up to three metres.\n\nFollowing four technology demonstration missions using Dove\nsatellites, the first twenty-eight Flock-1 spacecraft were carried\ninto orbit by January’s Cygnus mission, for subsequent deployment\nfrom the ISS. Twenty-eight more satellites will be launched aboard\nthe next Cygnus mission, currently scheduled for July.\n\nNanoSatC-Br 1, a single-unit Brazilian spacecraft, is based on a kit\npurchased from ISIS. The spacecraft carries a magnetometer to study\nthe South Atlantic Anomaly, an area where the Van Allen belts are\nunusually close to the Earth’s surface exposing satellites to\ngreater radiation levels than would otherwise be expected at those\naltitudes.\n\nThe Platform for Attitude Control Experiments (PACE) CubeSat will be\nused by Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University to test an attitude\ncontrol system, returning data on how the satellite’s orientation\nchanges as it attempts to manoeuvre. By studying its performance, the\nsatellite’s operators hope to be able to develop better attitude\ncontrol systems for small satellites.\n\nPerseus-M 1 and 2 are the first six-unit CubeSats to launch, with\ndimensions of 30 by 20 by 10 centimetres (12 by 8 by 4 in). The\nsatellites will be operated by Russia’s Dauria Aerospace, having been\nconstructed by Dauria’s American subsidiary Canopus Systems. Each\nspacecraft carries an AIS receiver intended to collect data on the\nposition and status of ships at sea.\n\nUkraine’s PolyITAN-1 will be operated by the country’s National\nTechnical University. Itis intended to demonstrate that Ukraine can\nconduct a CubeSat mission and study the performance of the\nsatellite’s single-unit bus in orbit.\n\nPOPSAT-HIP-1 will test attitude control and imaging systems\nfor Singapore’s Microspace Limited. It is a three-unit CubeSat.\n\nThe last two CubeSats, QB50P1 and QB50P2, form part of the QB50\nprogramme which aims to launch and operate a constellation of fifty\nsmall satellites for scientific research. These two demonstration\nsatellites will be operated by Belgium’s von Karman Institute with\ncontributions from other institutions.\n\nQB50P1 carries an Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer, an attitude\ncontrol experiment, a thermocouple to monitor the spacecraft’s\ntemperature and FUNCube-3, an amateur radio payload for the Dutch\nbranch of AMSAT. QB50P2 carries the same attitude control system and\nthermocouple, combining them with a French amateur radio system and\nthe FIPEX experiment for the Technical University of Dresden, which\nwill study the oxygen flux in the satellite’s environment.\n\nConverted from the R-36 missile, the Dnepr is a three-stage rocket\nwhich incorporates the two stages of the R-36MUTTH, with the\nmissile’s post-boost module converted to act as a third stage and\nsatellite dispenser.\n\nThe R-36 originally served as an intercontinental ballistic missile\ncapable of delivering an 18 megaton nuclear warhead, although later\nversions were equipped to carry up to ten Multiple Independently-\nTargetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs), each armed with a nuclear device.\n\nAnother variant, the R-36O, was designed to place its warhead into\norbit, and then deorbit it onto a target anywhere in the world.\n\nThis was subsequently banned under an international treaty in 1979.\n\nThe Dnepr made its first launch in April 1999, when it deployed\nBritain’s UoSAT-12. Among the other payloads it has launched on\nprevious missions are the two Genesis demonstrators for Bigelow\nAerospace.\n\nLaunched in 2006 and 2007, these prototype inflatable space station\nmodules paved the way for the work Bigelow is now doing on inflatable\nspace habitats and an experimental module for the International Space\nStation.\n\nFriday’s launch marked the Dnepr’s twentieth flight, with only one\nof its previous missions ending in failure. That came in July 2006,\nwhen a first stage hydraulic failure brought down a cluster launch\nwhich had been carrying eighteen satellites.\n\nThe Dnepr launched from a silo at Site 370/13 of Russia’s\nDombarovsky launch site. The first stage did not ignite until the\nmissile is clear of the silo, with ejection being accomplished by\nmeans of a gas generator at the aft of the vehicle which separated\nshortly after ejection is complete.\n\nThe first stage was powered by four RD-263 engines, while an RD-0255\npowers the second stage and an RD-869 powered the third. The\npayloads were enclosed within a Gas Dynamic Shield, which protected\nthem from the exhaust of the third stage, in addition to a regular\npayload fairing.\n\nThis shielding is necessary because, due to its missile heritage,\nthe third stage flies backwards with the payloads mounted on the same\nside as its engine nozzles.\n\nSpacecraft separation occurred while the stage was still firing,\nwith the satellites ejecting from the back of the rocket. Once\nseparation was complete, the stage continued to burn to remove itself\nfrom the operational orbit.\n\nThe Dnepr launch was the thirty-fourth orbital launch of 2014, and\nthe first to make use of a Dnepr. The Dnepr’s next launch is\nscheduled for no earlier than August, with five satellites including\nJapan’s Hodoyoshi-1 and Asnaro-1.\n\nRussia’s next launch, in early July, will see a Proton-M orbit a\nLuch communications satellite. This will be a return-to-flight\nmission for the Proton, which suffered its ninth failure in ten years\nin May.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA, AMSAT-UK, & the NASA Spaceflight.com for\nthe above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAmateur Radio Role on Space Station Featured at ISS Research and\nDevelopment Conference\n\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) will have a\nprominent place at the third annual ISS Research and Development\nConference this week. The conference, organized by American\nAstronautical Society (AAS) in cooperation with the Center for the\nAdvancement of Science in Space and NASA, takes place June 17-19 in\nChicago.\n\nARISS International Chairman and AMSAT Vice President for Human\nSpaceflight Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, will be the lead presenter for a\nprogram compiled by members of the ARISS US team — which includes\nARISS International Secretary and ARRL Delegate Rosalie White, K1STO,\nARRL Education Services Manager Debra Johnson, K1DMJ, and E. Mike\nMcCardel, KC8YLD, of AMSAT. “ARISS — Inspiring and Educating Youth\nthrough Direct Connections with the ISS Crew” focuses on ARISS and\nits role in education.\n\nARISS is the first and longest continuously running educational\noutreach program involving the International Space Station. The first\nARISS school contact took place in late 2000, and nearly 900 such\nAmateur Radio contacts have taken place since then. ARISS functions\nwith participation from the ARRL, NASA, the European Space Agency\n(ESA), the Russian Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS), CNES, JAXA, CSA and\nAMSAT. It allows students, as part of a science and technology\ncurriculum, to speak with a member of the ISS crew and ask questions\nabout life in space or other space-related topics.\n\nARISS conducts about 100 such school contacts per year, each about\n10 minutes long — the time of a typical ISS pass — with students in\nthe US and around the world. Preparation for the ARISS experience\nmotivates both students and teachers to further their educations.\nEducators involved in an ARISS event can learn about electronics and\nwireless technology through the hands-on training provided in an ARRL\nTeachers Institute on Wireless Technology session — several are held\neach year. In similar fashion, youngsters preparing for a contact\nwith an ISS crew member may learn about radio waves, space\ntechnology, science experiments onboard the ISS, geography, and the\nspace environment. Some 15,000 students are touched directly by an\nARISS contact each year, and many more become aware the program and\nits benefits either directly or via news media coverage resulting\nfrom an event.\n\nThe ARISS presentation at this week’s AAS conference will provide\nsome historical background on the ARISS program, describe the\ninternational volunteer team responsible for making program a\nsuccess, and provide an overview of the process for schools to apply\nfor an ARISS school contact. It will also explain how the ARISS team,\npartnered with NASA Education Office’s Teaching from Space program to\nengage schools and students. And it will describe some of the\neducational outcomes from ARISS, including data and feedback from\nschools, students, and organizations.\n\nIn addition to inspiring an interest in science, technology,\nengineering, and math (STEM) curricula and careers, ARISS offers an\nopportunity for Amateur Radio experimentation and for evaluating new\ntechnologies. Today the ISS is only very rarely without an Amateur\nRadio licensee onboard, and the complement of Amateur Radio equipment\non the ISS has expanded considerably since the early days of the\nARISS program. While the initial hand-held VHF and UHF transceivers\nremain in use, mobile-type transceivers have been installed since,\nthe ISS has slow-scan TV and digital capabilities, and, more\nrecently, the ARISS program completed the commissioning of digital\nAmateur Radio television equipment to transmit video from space in\nconjunction with ARISS school contacts. That effort remain under\ndevelopment.\n\nThe emphasis of the overall AAS conference is on ISS research and\ndevelopment — Discoveries in Microgravity Science; Discoveries in\nSpace Science, Earth Science, Engineering and Education; Applications\nBenefitting Earth; Applications Enabling Technology and Exploration;\nand Opportunities.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-BB, ARISS, & the ARRL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSuccessful launch of amateur radio satellite payloads\n\n\nOn Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT a Dnepr rocket was\nlaunched from Dombarovsky near Yasny in the Russian Federation\ncarrying 37 satellites, 12 of which had amateur radio payloads.\n\nAmong the amateur radio payloads are a SSB/CW linear transponder, FM\nvoice transponder, D-STAR Parrot Repeater and three Packet Radio\nDigipeaters.\n\nIn total 33 satellites were deployed, the remaining four, Tigrisat,\nLemur 1, ANTELSat and AeroCube 6, are being carried by the\nmicrosatellite UniSat-6 and should be deployed on Friday, June 20.\n\nIn the hours immediately after launch signals were reported from\nPOPSAT, QB50p1, QB50p2, UniSat-6, BugSat-1, NanosatC-BR1, Duchifat-1\nand TabletSat-Aurora.\n\nThe two QB50 precursor Cubesats on the launch carry amateur radio\ntransponders. They were deployed at 19:32 UT and CW signals from both\nwere received shortly after by Andre Van Deventer ZS2BK in Port\nElizabeth, South Africa. Brian Best ZS5SB also reported receiving\nQB50p1.\n\nRichard Dailey N8UX in Kentucky, USA made use of the Southampton\nUniversity Wireless Society (SUWS) WebSDR to receive the QB50P2\nbeacon when the satellite was in range of the UK.\n\nThe details of the initial 145 MHz CW transmission format for both\nQB50p1, and its near twin QB50p2, is at\nhttp://www.isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html\n\nQB50p1 carries the FUNcube-3 400 mW inverting linear 435/145 MHz\ntransponder provided by AMSAT-NL.\n• 145.815 MHz BPSK telemetry\n• FUNcube inverting 400 mW SSB/CW transponder\n- 435.035-435.065 MHz Uplink LSB\n- 145.935-145.965 MHz Downlink USB\n\nQB50p2 carries a 435/145 MHz FM transponder and FX25 data\ntransmitter from AMSAT-F.\n• 145.880 MHz BPSK telemetry\n• 145.840 MHz 9600 bps FSK FX25\n\nIt is expected that both these transponder payloads will be\nactivated after the science missions have been completed.\n\nQB50 precursor amateur radio operator page\nhttp://www.isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html\n\nThere were 37 satellites and a 2U Mass Dummy on the launch,\nfrequencies at\nhttp://r4uab.ru/?p=6393\n\nFor a short description of each of the satellites see\nhttp://www.zarya.info/Calendar.php#Dnepr\n\nArticle about the launch and payloads\nhttp://www.spaceflight101.com/dnepr-launch-updates—2014-cluster-\nlaunch.html\n\nSouthampton University Wireless Society WebSDR\nhttp://websdr.suws.org.uk/\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDnepr Launch for D-STAR Satellite\n\n\nThe D-STAR satellite TabletSat-Aurora launched with 11\nother satellites carrying amateur radio payloads from Dombarovsky\nnear Yasny on Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT.\n\nIt carries a D-STAR Parrot (Store and Forward) Repeater running 0.8\nwatts of GMSK on 437.050 MHz (+/- 10 kHz) to a whip antenna. It can\nstore up to 8 seconds of voice message.\n\nThere are two other transceivers on the satellite that operate on\n435.550 MHz and 436.100 MHz. Their power can be varied by command\nfrom the ground station between 0.8 and 2.0 watts and it is\nunderstood they will be used for command and control and transmit\nGMSK telemetry data. There is also a downlink on 8192 MHz.\n\nDmitry Pashkov R4UAB reports the D-STAR repeater could become\noperational in early July. It is understood that when the D-STAR\nrepeater is active the telemetry transmitters will be inactive.\n\nDescription of TabletSat-Aurora in Google English\nhttp://tinyurl.com/TabletSat-Aurora-Description\n\nA description of the satellites amateur radio capability is at\nhttps://www.facebook.com/SPUTNIX.ltd/photos/a.336584396454237.77484.2\n93701294075881/569763353136339/\n\nFacebook https://www.facebook.com/SPUTNIX.ltd/\n\nThere are 37 satellites and a 2U Mass Dummy on the launch and it is\nthought a dozen of them are carrying amateur radio payloads. A list\nof frequencies is at http://r4uab.ru/?p=6393\n\nFor a short description of each of the satellites see\nhttp://www.zarya.info/Calendar.php#Dnepr\n\nArticle about the launch and payloads\nhttp://www.spaceflight101.com/dnepr-launch-updates—2014-cluster-\nlaunch.html\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFUNcube-3 payload launch information\n\nThe FUNcube team anticipate that the Dnepr launch of the amateur\nradio FUNcube-3 payload on the QB50p1 CubeSat will take place as\npreviously stated.\n\nThis Thursday is the day!\n\nTo be precise, lift off is expected to take place from Yasny on June\n19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT and the deployment of the various payloads\nwill take place over the Indian Ocean in a similar fashion to the\nlaunch of FUNcube-1 last November.\n\nPre-launch Keplerian elements / Two-Line Elements (TLEs) can be seen\nbelow. The details of the initial 145 MHz CW transmission format for\nboth QB50p1, and its near twin QB50p2, is at\nhttp://www.isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html\n\nQB50p1 carries an inverting linear UV transponder with 400 mW output\nprovided by AMSAT-NL and which is similar to that on FUNcube-1.\n• 145.815 MHz BPSK telemetry\n• FUNcube inverting 400 mW SSB/CW transponder\n- 435.035-435.065 MHz Uplink LSB\n- 145.935-145.965 MHz Downlink USB\n\nQB50p2 carries an UV FM transponder and FX25 data transmitter from\nAMSAT-F. It is expected that these payloads will be activated after\nthe science missions have been completed.\n• 145.880 MHz BPSK telemetry\n• 145.840 MHz 9600 bps FSK FX25\n\nAMSAT-UK will be monitoring the launch event and watching for signal\nreports on the #cubesat IRC channel throughout the evening. A web\nclient is available at\nhttp://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cubesat\n\nQB50 precursor amateur radio operator page\nhttp://www.isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html\n\nThere are 37 satellites and a 2U Mass Dummy on the launch,\nfrequencies at\nhttp://r4uab.ru/?p=6393\n\nFor a short description of each of the satellites see\nhttp://www.zarya.info/Calendar.php#Dnepr\n\nArticle about the launch and payloads\nhttp://www.spaceflight101.com/dnepr-launch-updates—2014-cluster-\nlaunch.html\n\nPreliminary orbital information:\n\nLaunch Time: 19:11:11 UT\nSeparation of Platform A: 19:27:07 UT\nSeparation of QB50p1: 19:32:07 UT\nSeparation of QB50p2: 19:32:27 UT\n1st pass over Delft/VKI: 20:46:46 UT\n\nQB50p_PRELAUNCHKEPS\n1 00362U 00362A 14170.81049769 .00000000 00000-0 10000-4 0 7\n2 00362 97.9897 66.2289 0012982 291.8733 244.3145 14.85013404 03\n\nFUNcube website http://www.funcube.org.uk/\n\nFUNcube Yahoo Group http://amsat-uk.org/funcube/yahoo-group/\n\nFUNcube Forum http://forum.funcube.org.uk/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUpcoming AMSAT Events\n\n\nInformation about AMSAT activities at other important events around\nthe country. Examples of these events are radio club meetings where\nAMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working\namateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with\nAMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations,\nforums, and/or demonstrations).\n\nThursday through Sunday, 17-20 July 2014 – ARRL Centennial\nConvention in Hartford CT. AMSAT will host a day-long Satellite\nWorkshop on Thursday, and have a booth at the convention along with\nan AMSAT Forum and demonstrations throughout the convention.\n\nFriday through Sunday, 12-14 September 2014 – ARRL Southwestern\nDivision Convention 2014 in San Diego CA (north of the city center,\nnear Montgomery Field airport & I-805/CA-163 interchange) – AMSAT\nwill have a booth at this convention, there will be on-air\ndemonstrations using satellites throughout the convention, and a\npresentation on amateur satellites and AMSAT\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nUpcoming Contacts\nas of 2014-06-16\n\nFocus Camps in Sterrenlab, Italy and European Space Center,\nTransinne, Belgium are scheduled for a joint telebridge contact via\nIK1SLD on Fri 2014-06-20 18:36:47 UTC 46 deg. (more information\nbelow)\n\n\nThe questions will be asked alternately by participants of the Focus\nCamp in Italy and by participants of the Mission X Closing Event at\nthe Euro Space Center in Belgium.\n\nFocus Camp, Candriai, Italy\n\nThe radio contact with the ISS will take place during the Focus\nCampus, a science summer camp addressed to children aged 8 to 13\norganized by Focus Junior - the most popular science magazine for\nchildren in Italy - and Sterrenlab, the camp organizer. During the\nweek children will participate to science laboratories, learn about\nscience topics and challenge themselves to design and build\nexperiments and machines. The Focus Campus in Candriai (Trento)\nfocuses on tinkering and DIY activities (\"Una scienza da creare\" - \"A\nscience to create\"). Children will also have the opportunity to do\nsport in the morning, play with their friends and visit the alpine\nnature surrounding the camp premises.\n\nEuro Space Center, Redu, Belgium\n\nAbout 150 youngsters from all over Europe celebrate the\nInternational Closing Event for Mission X 2014 at the Euro Space\nCenter in Belgium. “Mission X train like an astronaut” is an\ninternational education project that encourages children to take part\nin a challenge, adopting a life style reflecting astronaut training.\nThe Closing Event offers participants the opportunity to meet\nastronauts and trainers, to experience the training simulators for\nastronauts, to simulate a Shuttle mission and to build a rocket.\n\nThe telebridge contact with Euro Space Center was a success.\n- 14 questions answered by Alex Gerst\n- audience 70\n- signals 5.9 in the middle of the pass\nThe landline with Candriai Focus Camp was still down.\n\n\nStudents at Ufa University, Ufa, Russia are planning a direct\ncontact for Sat 2014-06-21 14:45 UTC. No additional information has\nbeen provided.\n\nA direct contact with students at Gymnasium Markt Indersdorf,\nMarkt Indersdorf, Bavaria, Germany, via DN4OD is planned for Thu 2014-\n06-26 12:08:49 UTC 66 deg. The contact is expected to be conducted in\nGerman.\n\nThe grammar school/high school of Markt Indersdorf (Gymnasium Markt\nIndersdorf GMI, Germany) began operations in the school year of\n2001/2002. In 2007 the first students graduated successfully with the\ncertificate qualifying them to go to university (Abitur). Currently,\nabout 90 teachers instruct approximately 1,100 pupils aged 10 to 19,\nabout 250 of them are in the qualification phase (years/grades 11 and\n12).\n\nThe GMI offers the choice between two faculties, the linguistic and\nscientific-technological one. Approximately 75 percent of the pupils\ndecide for the latter. The pupils obtain an education in science from\nthe 5th year/grade on, the subject Physics is taught from year/grade\n8 on for both faculties, in the scientific-technological profile\nadditional hours for more in-depth education are mandatory. In\nyears/grades 11 and 12, the pupils have the choice between Physics,\nChemistry and Biology. Experience has shown that about 30 to 40 per\nschool year decide to take Physics. About half of them vote for\nAstrophysics in the 12th year/grade. From 5th year/grade on, all\npupils study English as their first foreign language.\n\nThe ISS Project\n\nThe pupils are divided for this project into different groups that\nare each responsible for one of the following activities:\n\n• Technology: Installation, commissioning and maintenance of the\nantenna system respectively the radio station as well as all the\nnecessary hardware and software\n\n• Planning and monitoring: Organization of the overall sequence of\nevents, initiation of a school's competition to select the questions\nto the astronauts, organization of rehearsals\n\n• Presentation and documentation: Design of the facilities in\nquestion, elaboration of exhibitions and wall papers, construction of\na model of the ISS, photo, audio and video documentation\n\n• Public Relations (local and trans-regional): Press, TV, radio and\nwebsite.\n\nPupils of all ages should participate in selecting the questions to\nthe astronauts. The examination of questionnaires of other schools\nwhich already made contact with the ISS should secure the creation of\nuncommon and interesting questions that are not asked in every\ninterview.\n\nAt the event in question - depending on the date and time - a large\nnumber, if possible, of the school family should be present in the\nassembly hall, for example, to attend a live broadcast from the radio\nroom.\n\n\nSuccessful Contacts\n\nA direct contact with Slavic Nations Ham Radio Conference, Sochi,\nRussia was successful Thu 2014-06-12 15:40 UTC.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts from All Over\n\n\nSubject: [amsat-bb] NanosatC-BR1\n\nHi\n\nThe first Brazilian cubesat are working well.\nVideo;\nhttp://youtu.be/FZdiZMX9rcI\n\nPreliminary TLE:\n\nNANOSATC-BR1\n1 00362U 00362A 14170.81049769 .00000000 00000-0 10000-4 0 7\n2 00362 97.9897 66.2289 0012982 291.8733 244.3145 14.85013404 03\n\nDoppler for SatPC32:\n\nNANOSATC-BR1,145868.0,,USB,,,,TLM\n\nThank you\n\nPY5LF\nLuciano Fabricio\nCuritiba-PR-BR GG54jm\nhttp://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF\n\n\n[ANS thanks Luciano, PY5LF & the AMSAT-BB for the above information]\n\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\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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\n\n\n",
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