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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-039\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* AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2015 – Call For Speakers\n* Navassa K1N Satellite Operation Supported by AMSAT-NA\n* Successful Contact For ESA Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZØUDF\n   With Two Schools In Italy\n* AMSAT-BR Forms in Brazil\n* AMSAT SKN 2015 BEST FIST WINNERS\n* AESP-14 CubeSat Team Requesting Receiving Assistance\n* AMSAT at 2015 Orlando Hamcation\n* Palm Springs HamFest - March 14\n* NASA Announces University CubeSat Space Mission Candidates\n* 2015 NASA Academy\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-039.01\nANS-039 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 039.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE February 8, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-039.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-UK Colloquium 2015 – Call For Speakers\n\n\nThis is the first call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2015\nwhich will be held from Saturday, July 25 to Sunday, July 26 2015 at\nthe Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, United Kingdom.\n\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2015/\n\nAMSAT-UK invites speakers, to cover topics about micro-satellites,\nCubeSats, Nanosats, space and associated activities, for this event.\n\nThey are also invited to submit papers for subsequent publishing on\nthe AMSAT-UK web site. We normally prefer authors to present talks\nthemselves rather than having someone else give them in the authors’\nabsence. We also welcome “unpresented” papers for the web site.\n\nSubmissions should be sent *ONLY* to G4DPZ, via the following routes:\ne-mail: dave at g4dpz dot me dot uk\nPostal address at http://www.qrz.com/db/G4DPZ\n\nAMSAT-UK also invite anyone with requests for Program Topics to submit\nthem as soon as possible to G4DPZ. Invitations for any papers on\nspecific subjects will be included in the future call. Likewise if\nanyone knows of a good speaker, please send contact and other\ninformation to G4DPZ.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Dave, G4DPZ and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNavassa K1N Satellite Operation Supported by AMSAT-NA\n\n\nAMSAT Vice President Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA reported on his\nwork to enable amateur satellite operation via FO-29 by the K1N Navassa\nIsland DXpedition. To support operation on the linear passband of FO-29,\nDrew said AMSAT provided a Yaesu FT-817 radio and associated equipment, pass\npredictions, operational plan, and training. Operation in the linear\npassband of FO-29 maximizes the number of contacts possible.\n\nThe K1N satellite operator is Gregg, W6IZT although others may also\nparticipate. Gregg will be operating half-duplex with the Yaesu FT-817\n(provided by AMSAT) and an Arrow antenna. Gregg has pass prediction\ninformation for FO-29 and SO-50, for all passes that are 20 degrees or\nhigher at the island (thanks to John K8YSE for preparing those). While the\nfocus will be on FO-29, it is possible they may try SO-50 as well. Gregg\nmentioned to Drew that satellite operations are more likely in the second\nhalf of the expedition as opposed to the first half.\n\nDrew described the satellite operating configuration:\n\n+ The radio is programmed with 5 split-band memory channels\n   for SO-50.\n\n+ The VFOs are programmed for FO-29 operation with a fixed uplink\n   of 145.980, for a downlink at 435.813 to 435.827 depending on\n   Doppler shift.\n\n+ IMPORTANT NOTE - Gregg will be tuning his receive for replies,\n   and may not be listening directly on his own downlink. Calling\n   while he is transmitting will not work since he is half-duplex.\n   (This is much the same way other rovers such as KL7R and UT1FG\n   operate. This particular frequency scheme was chosen to reduce\n   QRM (both given and received). This also allows a quick tune\n   to the beacon for antenna pointing when there are not many callers.\n\n+ Two high quality LMR-240UF jumpers to connect directly to the\n   Arrow antenna via the front and back antenna ports.\n\nIn conclusion, Drew said, \"Gregg has my email and cell phone number. I have\nasked him to alert me if possible, no matter the hour, when they decide to\nget on FO-29, which I will pass along to the amsat-bb list and the AMSAT\ntwitter feed immediately.\"\n\nThe team is still in need of financial help for the expedition. Please\nconsider helping them out at:\nhttp://69.89.25.185/~trexsoft/t-rexsoftware.com/k1n/donate.htm\n\nThe main Navassa DXpedition website can be viewed at:\nhttp://www.navassadx.com\n\nFO-29 Frequencies\n-----------------\nUplink Passband:    146.000 - 145.900 MHz   Analog CW/SSB\nDownlink Passband:  435.800 - 435.900 MHz   Analog CW/SSB\nBeacon:             435.795 MHz\n\nSO-50 Frequencies\n-----------------\nUplink:   145.850 MHz FM 67.0 Hz CTCSS tone for access\nDownlink: 436.795 MHz FM\n\n\n[ANS thanks Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSuccessful Contact For ESA Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZØUDF\nWith Two Schools In Italy\n\n\nSaturday, January 31, 2015 at 08:39 UTC, 09:39 local time, students\nat \"Istituto Salesiano G. Bearzi” in Udine and Intercultura students\nat \"Centro Giovanno XXIII\" in Frascati, Roma, Italy established ARISS\ncontact with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZØUDF onboard the\nInternational Space Station. These were telebridge contacts performed\nby Amateur radio ground stations K6DUE, located in Maryland, USA.\n\nPresentation Istituto Salesiano “G. Bearzi”\nBrief description of the school and the amateur radio school club\n(if there is one): The school is a salesian school with 750 students,\nfrom 6 to 20 years old. We have also a small hostel for college\nstudents.\n\nPresentation of Intercultura\nIntercultura is the Italian representative of AFS Intercultural\nPrograms (New York, an international, no profit, voluntary based\norganization that provides intercultural learning opportunities and\ncultural exchange programs throughout more than 60 different\ncountries in the world, involving every year 13.000 students and an\nequivalent number of families and schools. In Italy, Intercultura is\na no profit organization (Onlus) recognized by the Italian\ngovernment, under the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign  Affairs.\nThe professional staff of Intercultura is made by 40 people who work\nin the headquarter of Colle Val D’Elsa (Siena) or in the PR offices\nbased in Milan and Rome. The 4.000 affiliated volunteers are\norganized in 150 local chapters and offer voluntary work to promote\ninternational school based exchange programs.\n\nMentor Francesco De Paolis IK0WGF proposed to the radio coordinators\nMr. Antonio Baldin IW3QKU and Mr. Emanuele D'Andria IØELE the sharing\nof event and this was accepted. A phone conference call allowed the\nfull sharing of the event between two contact sites involved,\nmoderated by Mr. Peter Kofler, IN3GHZ. The sequence of questions was\nmade alternately by the students at two contact sites involved.\n\nContact was established at 08:39 UTC, 09:39 local time with NA1SS\nvia K6DUE. ESA Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti IZØUDF answered 12\nquestions by students.\n\nSamantha Cristoforetti was really very accurate in giving the\nanswers and full of details. Signals from the ISS were good during\nboth ISS passes, but suffering a few moments of fading.\n\nRegional and Local Televisions and newspapers covered the event.\nAbout 500 students, parents, visitors and media attended the events\nat contact sites.\n\nAfter the contact, Mrs. Rosa Tagliamonte and Mr. Salvatore\nPignataro by ASI (Italian Space Agency) presented Cristoforetti\nmission and Italian contribution to International Space Station. Mr.\nEmanule D'Andria IØELE presented ARISS and explained how a contact\nwith the ISS is performed via Ham Radio.\n\nThe contact established with NA1SS was live on AMSAT Italia channel:\nhttp://www.livestream.com/amsat_italia\n\nThe event was announced on ESA Portal - National News:\nhttp://www.esa.int/ita/ESA_in_your_country/Italy/Un_saluto_dalla_Terr\na_in_tutte_le_lingue_del_mondo._Samantha_Cristoforetti_parla_con_gli_s\ntudenti_di_Intercultura_e_di_Udine\n\nCongratulations to IW3QKU and IØELE Teams!\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-BR Forms in Brazil\n\n\nA new AMSAT group, AMSAT-BR, has been formed in Brazil in order to better\norganize the Brazilian amateur satellite activities, to better represent the\namateur radio community to organizations developing cubesat projects, and to\nattract more amateurs in different regions of the country to join our cause.\nAMSAT-BR has formed as a special interest group under the Liga de Amadores\nBrasileiros de Radio Emissão (LABRE), the national organization with the\nmission to represent the amateur radio community in Brazil. LABRE is\nregistered as a member society of the International Amateur Radio Union\n(IARU).\n\nOrlando Perez Filho, PT2OP, the Executive Director of LABRE sent a letter to\nAMSAT-NA in which he described the primary mission of AMSAT-BR will be:\n\n+ To foster activities related to development, building,\n   operating, and monitoring amateur radio satellites and\n   high altitude balloons.\n\n+ To foster activities using amateur radio satellites and\n   high altitude balloons in STEM education.\n\nMr. Filho noted that collaboration with cubesat projects in Brazil gave\nLABRE the opportunity to learn more about their missions and opened doors to\nshow them that there were some needs for better alignment with the amateur\nradio service objectives and at the same time demonstrate that there are\nbenefits for them to get involved with the amateur radio community. LABRE\nvolunteered to assist some projects with the IARU frequency coordination\napplications leading to cubesats with significant amateur radio involvement:\n\n+ AESP-14: A 1U educational cubesat launched to the ISS in January\n   and deployed on February 5, 2015. The AESP-14 primary mission is\n   to test a cubesat structure, power system, and OBC developed\n   locally by space systems engineering students in Brazil. The\n   project includes an amateur radio experiment in the form of\n   reception contest where pre-defined text strings will be stored\n   on board the spacecraft and will be randomly transmitted. The\n   experiment was conceptualized by PY2DGS, PY2ADN, PY2JF, PY2NI,\n   PY2UEP, and PY2SDR.\n\n+ NCBR1: A 1U scientific cubesat using the ISIS structure and\n   electronics. Amateurs have assisted the project with the reception\n   and monitoring. It is being contemplated a closer collaboration\n   with the amateur radio community for the next project (NCBR2). It\n   is hoped that NCBR2 will include an amateur radio experiment. The\n   main collaborators with the project are PV8DX, PY4ZBZ and PY2SDR.\n\n+ ITASAT-1: A 6U educational cubesat being developed by engineering\n   students at the Aeronautics Technology Institute (ITA). The cubesat\n   will include a short text messaging store-and-forward transponder\n   being developed by amateurs. Amateurs are also working with some\n   high schools to use the satellite in STEM education. The experi-\n   ment is being developed by PY2UEP, and PY2SDR.\n\n+ 14BISat: A 2U educational cubesat being developed by engineering\n   students at Fluminense Federal Technology Institute in Rio de\n   Janeiro. PV8DX has been collaborating with the project with the\n   design and implementation of ground stations that will be\n   deployed to other educational institutes around the country.\n\n+ AESP-16: A 1U educational cubesat being considered for 2016.\n   Amateurs have been offered to include an amateur radio payload (TBD).\n\nAn additional, welcome outcome of the ongoing collaboration is that some\nstudents have already become interested in amateur radio and have obtained\ntheir amateur radio license. Some projects are even requiring that students\nthat will operate the station get their amateur radio license as a\nprerequisite for participating in the project.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-BR and AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT SKN 2015 BEST FIST WINNERS\n\n\nMany thanks to all who participated in AMSAT's Straight Key Night on\nOSCAR 2015, this year's event held in memory of Captain Charles\n(Chuck) Dorian, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired), W3JPT.\n\nActivity was good despite the loss of VO-52.  Our thanks to Jim\nHeck, G3WGV, and AMSAT-UK for keeping AO-73 in transponder mode\nduring AMSAT SKN.  AO-73 proved to be quite popular.\n\nThe following participants each received at least one Best Fist\nnomination from someone they worked:\n\nAA5PK, JA1VVH, JA3PXH, JL1SAM, JM1LRA, JR0EFE, K9CIS, KT0F, N3TE,\nN5AFV, WA6ARA, WB5KBH, XE3ARV\n\nCongratulations to all!\n\nWe hope you will participate in AMSAT SKN on OSCAR 2016, which will\nmark the 25th year that AMSAT has sponsored this fun event.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Ray, W2RS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAESP-14 CubeSat Team Requesting Receiving Assistance\n\n\nOn Thursday, February 5 the Brazilian satellite AESP-14 was deployed from\nthe International Space Station (ISS) but so far no signals have been heard.\nThe AESP-14 telemetry beacon has a power output of 500 mW and uses AX.25 on\n437.600 MHz with 9600 bps GMSK modulation (G3RUH standard). It should have\nstarted transmitting 30 minutes after deployment but as of Thursday night\nnothing had been heard. It may be the battery did not survive several months\nwithout being recharged or the antenna may have failed to deploy.\n\nThe AESP-14 team would like to ask the help of radio amateurs around the\nworld to forward any received telemetry frames back to the team. For this,\nplease save the AX.25 frames in KISS format and forward the file to\[email protected]. The satellite was sent to the ISS as cargo on the SpaceX\nFalcon 9 mission CRS-5. Launch had been scheduled for December 16, 2014 but\nwas postponed three times and it wasn't until January 10, 2015 that the\nlaunch eventually took place. Since arriving at the ISS on January 12\nAESP-14 has been awaiting deployment by the JEM Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD)\nwhich is in the Japanese Kibo module.\n\nThe satellite has an amateur radio experiment developed by the Americana\nAmateur Radio Club (CRAM). The experiment consists of the random\ntransmission of 100 sequences of ASCII characters prefixed with the \"CRAM\"\nword that will used as part of a contest among receiving stations. The first\n10 amateur radio stations that complete receiving the 100 sequences will be\nawarded a commemorative diploma.\nFurther details at\nhttp://wabicafe.com.br/aesp14/cram.php\n\nAESP-14 website\nhttp://www.aer.ita.br/~aesp14\n\n\n[ANS thanks the AESP-14 Team and the Southgate ARC for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT at 2015 Orlando Hamcation\n\n\nThe 2015 Orlando Hamcation - Orlando, FL is scheduled for Friday, \nFebruary 13\nthrough Sunday, February 15 at the Central Florida Fairgrounds, 4603 West\nColonial Drive, Orlando, Florida 32808.\n\nAMSAT will be represented all three days at two adjacent booths in the\nCommercial 1 main entrance building. John Papay, K8YSE will be on hand\noperating the sats via his remote and rover stations along with other \nsatellite\ndemos. The ARISSat-1 working demo satellite will be on display along \nwith the\nFox-1 Engineering model.\n\nThere will be an AMSAT forum held on Saturday from 12:30 till 1:30 \nending with\na prize drawing for those attending. Hamcation just gets bigger and better\nevery year, so please join us for a great weekend.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Dave, AA4KN and the AMSAT Hamcation Team for the above \ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPalm Springs HamFest - March 14\n\n\nThe 2015 Palm Springs Hamfest will once again be held at the\nbeautiful Palm Springs Pavilion, near the Palm Springs Baseball\nStadium, Saturday, March 14 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This year’s\nhamfest will offer a VE testing session before the opening of the\nregular event.\n\nAdmission: Still just $5 - with free parking available.\nWhere else can you get a day’s worth of entertainment for that?\n\nForums include ...\n\n• Keynote by Gordon West\n• Andre Hansen presents on Broadband Hamnet\n• Dennis Kidder (\"Arduino Projects for Amateur Radio\") will talk\nabout Maker Faire\n• Clint Bradford will present “How to Work the Amateur Satellites\nwith your HT”\n• Bob Brehm, Chief Engineer at Palomar Engineers will present on\ncuring RFI, working more DX and keeping your neighbors happy\n\nVisit the event's Web site at ...\n\nhttp://www.palmspringshamfest.com\n\n\n[ANS thanks Clint, K6LCS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNASA Announces University CubeSat Space Mission Candidates\n\n\nNASA has selected more than dozen small research satellites that each could\nfit in the palm of your hand to fly in space on future rocket launches.\n\nThese cube-shaped nanosatellites, called CubeSats, which measure about four\ninches on each side and weigh less than three pounds, are small but pack an\noutsized research punch. They will enable unique technology demonstrations,\neducation research and science missions, and will study topics ranging from\nhow the solar system formed to the demonstration of a new radiation-tolerant\ncomputer system.\n\nThe 14 CubeSats selected are from 12 states and will fly as auxiliary\npayloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2016, 2017 and 2018. They come\nfrom universities across the country, non-profit organizations and NASA\nfield centers.\n\nAs part of the White House Maker Initiative, NASA is seeking to leverage the\ngrowing community of space-enthusiasts to create a nation that contributes\nto NASA’s space exploration goals. In the first step to broaden this\nsuccessful initiative to launch 50 small satellites from all 50 states in\nthe next five years, the agency has made a selection from West Virginia, one\nof the 21 \"rookie states\" that have not previously been selected by the\nCubeSat Launch Initiative.\n\nThe selections are part of the fifth round of the agency's CubeSat Launch\nInitiative. The selected spacecraft are eligible for placement on a launch\nmanifest after final negotiations, depending on the availability of a flight\nopportunity. The organizations sponsoring satellites are:\n\n+ Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona\nAsteroid Origins Satellite is a science laboratory that will be the world’s\nfirst CubeSat centrifuge. It will enable a unique set of science and\ntechnology experiments to be performed on a CubeSat to answer fundamental\nquestions of how the solar system formed and understand the surface dynamics\nof asteroids and comets.\n\n+ California State University, Northridge, California\nThe mission of California State University Northridge Satellite is to test\nan innovative low temperature capable energy storage system in space\ndeveloped by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena that will enable\nfuture missions, especially those in deep space to do more science while\nrequiring less energy, mass and volume.\n\n+ Capitol Technology University, Laurel, Maryland\nThe Coordinated Applied Capitol Technology University Satellite (CACTUS-1)\nis a technological demonstration of a cost-saving communications and\ncommanding innovation. The payload will lower investment in communications\nand ground systems technology by licensing conventional internet satellite\nproviders for low earth orbit use. The CubeSat’s aerogel-based Particle\nCapture and Measurement instrument is the first CubeSat-based orbital debris\ndetector to be flown in low-Earth orbit.\n\n+ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado\nThe Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems – Demonstrator\n(TEMPEST-D) provides risk mitigation for the TEMPEST mission that will\nprovide the first temporal observations of cloud and precipitation processes\non a global scale. These observations are important to understand the\nlinkages in and between Earth’s water and energy balance, as well as to\nimprove our understanding of cloud model microphysical processes that are\nvital to climate change prediction.\n\n+ Cornell University, Ithaca, New York\nKickSat-2 is a CubeSat technology demonstration mission designed to\ndemonstrate the deployment and operation of prototype Sprite “ChipSats”\n(femtosatellites). The Sprite is a tiny spacecraft that includes power,\nsensor and communication systems on a printed circuit board measuring 3.5 by\n3.5 centimeters with a thickness of a few millimeters and a mass of a few\ngrams. ChipSats could enable new kinds of science and exploration missions,\nas well as dramatically lower the cost of access to space.\n\n+ Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana\nA Satellite Demonstration of a Radiation Tolerant System, RadSat, is a\ntechnology demonstration of a new radiation tolerant computer system in a\nlow-Earth orbit satellite mission to demonstrate a technology readiness\nlevel 9 of the technology.\n\n+ NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland\nThe Advanced eLectrical Bus (ALBus) CubeSat is a technology demonstration\nmission of an advanced, digitally controlled electrical power system\ncapability and novel use of shape memory alloy technology for reliable\ndeployable solar array mechanisms. The goals of the mission are to\ndemonstrate efficient battery charging in the orbital environment, 100 Watt\ndistribution to a target electrical load, flexible power system distribution\ninterfaces, adaptation of power system control on orbit and successful\ndeployment of solar arrays and antennas using resettable shape memory alloy\nmechanisms.\n\n+ NASA's Independent Verification &Validation Program, Fairmont, West\nVirginia\nIn partnership with the University of West Virginia, the\nSimulation-to-Flight 1 (STF-1) mission will demonstrate the utility of the\nNASA Operational Simulator technologies across the CubeSat development\ncycle, from concept planning to mission operations. It will demonstrate a\nhighly portable simulation and test platform that allows seamless transition\nof mission development artifacts to flight products.\n\n+ Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio\nThe CubeSat mission to study Solar Particles over the Earth’s Poles (CuSPP)\nmission is space weather mission that will study the sources and\nacceleration mechanisms of solar and interplanetary particles near-Earth\norbit. It will study magnetospheric ion precipitation in the high-latitude\nionosphere.  It will increase the technology readiness level of a\nsupra-thermal ion spectrograph concept so that it may fly with reduced risk\nand cost on future heliophysics missions.\n\n+ University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida (2 CubeSats)\nThe CubeSat Particle Aggregation and Collision Experiment (Cu-PACE) will\nperform a long-duration microgravity experiments in orbit to observe novel\nlow-speed collisions in greater numbers than possible in ground-based,\nparabolic and suborbital flight experiments.\n\n+ SurfSat is a science investigation that will measure plasma-induced\nsurface charging and electrostatic discharge measurements. It will take\nin-situ measurements of the ground current waveforms from chosen common\nspacecraft dielectric material samples, measure the spacecraft and material\npotentials and will use a Langmuir probe system to measure the ambient\nplasma environment.\n\n+ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2 CubeSats)\nThe Miniature Tether Electrodynamics Experiment (MiTEE) will use CubeSat\ncapabilities to deploy a picosatellite body of approximately 8 cm × 8 cm × 2\ncm from a 3U CubeSat to demonstrate and assess an ultra-small satellite\nelectrodynamics tether in the space environment where the fundamental\ndynamics and plasma electrodynamics. The miniature electrodynamics tethers,\nwhich are a few meters long, have the potential to provide propellantless\npropulsion, passive two-axis attitude stabilization and enhanced\ncommunication utility to the next generation of small satellites.\n\nThe Tandem Beacon Experiment (TBEx) will consist of a tandem pair of\nCubeSats, each carrying tri-frequency radio beacons, in near identical, low\ninclination orbits and a cluster of diagnostic sensors on five islands in\nthe Central Pacific sector. The science objectives and goals of TBEx are to\nstudy how the dynamics and processes in the troposphere can act to cause\nvariability in the behavior of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere.\n\n+ University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota\nThe Open Prototype for Educational NanoSats (OPEN) mission aims to reduce\nmission risk and cost for universities, researchers and other spacecraft\ndevelopers through the creation of an open-hardware/open-source software\nframework for CubeSat development. The designs use low-cost commercial\noff-the-shelf parts and easily-to-fabricate printed circuit boards that can\nbe made using the budget of $5,000 in parts for a basic spacecraft.\n\nIn the previous five rounds of the CubeSat Launch Initiative, 114 CubeSats\nfrom 29 states were selected. To date, 36 CubeSats have launched through the\ninitiative as part of the agency's Launch Services Program's Educational\nLaunch of Nanosatellite (ELaNa) Program. This year, four separate ELaNa\nmissions will carry seven CubeSats.\n\nThe full NASA press release can be accessed at:\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-announces-sixth-round-of-cubesat-space-miss\nion-candidates/\n\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2015 NASA Academy\n\n\nThe NASA Academy offers a 10-week summer experience for college students\nwith emphasis on immersive and integrated multidisciplinary exposure and\ntraining. Activities include laboratory research, a group project, lectures,\nmeetings with experts and administrators, visits to NASA centers and\nspace-related industries, and technical presentations. Students learn how\nNASA and its centers operate, gain experience in world-class laboratories,\nand participate in leadership development and team-building activities.\n\nThe sites for the NASA Academy include the following NASA centers:\n\n-- NASA Space Academy at Ames Research Center, Glenn Research Center and\nMarshall Space Flight Center, with emphasis on space exploration.\n-- NASA Aeronautics Academy at Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight\nResearch Center, and Glenn Research Center, for students with career\naspirations in aeronautics.\n-- NASA Propulsion Academy at Marshall Space Flight Center, for those with\ninterest in propulsion careers.\n-- NASA Robotics Academy at Ames Research Center and Marshall Space Flight\nCenter, with emphasis on robotics.\n\nTo be eligible to apply to any of the NASA Academy opportunities, students\nmust be rising juniors or seniors at the undergraduate level or be at the\nearly graduate level in an accredited U.S. college or university.\nApplications are due Feb. 15, 2015.\n\nFor more information and to apply online, visit\nhttps://academy.grc.nasa.gov/application-information/.\n\nNote: Applicants must also create a student profile at\nhttp://intern.nasa.gov.\n\nQuestions about NASA Academy should be directed to\[email protected].\n\n\n[ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message for Feb. 5, 2015 for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT 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\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 13-15 February 2015 - Orlando HAMCATION\nat the Central Florida Fairgrounds, 4603 West Colonial Drive, Orlando,\nFlorida\n\n*Saturday, 14 February 2015 – presentation for the Greater Los Angeles\nMensa Regional Gathering 2015 in Los Angeles CA (Concourse Hotel at\nLos Angeles International Airport)\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 20-21 February 2015 – Yuma Hamfest in Yuma AZ\n(Yuma County Fairgrounds, 32nd Street between Pacific Avenue &\nAvenue 3E, south of I-8 exit 3)\n\n*Saturday, 7 March 2015 – Irving Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in\nIrving TX (west of Dallas)\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 13-14 March 2015 – Green Country Hamfest in\nClaremore OK (northeast of Tulsa)\n\n*Saturday, 14 March 2015 – Science City 2015/Tucson Festival of Books\nin Tucson AZ (on the University of Arizona Main Mall)\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 20-21 March 2015 – Acadiana Hamfest in Rayne LA\n(west of Lafayette)\n\n*Saturday, 21 March 2015 – Weatherford Hamfest in Weatherford TX (west\nof Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex)\n\n*Saturday, 21 March 2015 – Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in\nScottsdale AZ (northeast of Phoenix, near AZ-101/Princess Drive)\n\n*Saturday, 28 March 2015 – Greater Houston Hamfest and 2015 ARRL Texas\nState Convention in Rosenberg TX (southwest of Houston)\n\n*Saturday, 28 March 2015 – Tucson Spring Hamfest in Tucson AZ (22nd\nStreet, east of Columbus Blvd.)\n\n*Friday, 3 April 2015 – presentation for the Associated Radio Amateurs\nof Long Beach in Signal Hill CA (Signal Hill Community Center)\n\n*Friday, 17 April 2015 – presentation for the Oro Valley Amateur Radio\nClub in Tucson AZ\n\n*Friday through Sunday, 1-3 May 2015 – ARRL Nevada State Convention in\nReno NV (Boomtown Casino Hotel)\n\n*Saturday, 2 May 2015 – Cochise Amateur Radio Association Hamfest in\nSierra Vista AZ\n\n*Thursday, 14 May 2015 – presentation for the Escondido Amateur Radio\nSociety in Escondido CA\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 15-17 2015, Dayton Hamvention in\nDayton OH (Hara Arena)\n\n*Saturday, 6 June 2015 – White Mountain Hamfest in Show Low AZ\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 12-13 June 2015 – HAM-COM in Irving TX (west of\nDallas)\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 7-8 August 2015 – Austin Summerfest in Austin TX\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 16-18 2015, AMSAT Symposium in\nDayton OH (Dayton Crown Plaza)\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\n* An ARISS contact with schools in Italy was successful on Saturday, January\n31, 2015. This was a telebridge contact with Istituto Salesiano “G. \nBearzi” in\nUdine and Intercultura Onlus in Milano, relayed through ground station \nK6DUE in\nGreenbelt, Maryland. Contact was established at 08:39 UTC, 09:39 local time\nwith NA1SS.The astronaut was Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF, using the ISS\ncallsign NA1SS. Cristoforetti answered a total of 13 questions from the\nstudents. The contact was covered by NHK TV with 500 spectators in \nattendance.\n(See above article)\n\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\n* A contact with students at W.T. Sampson (DoD school), Guantanamo Bay,\nCuba,is scheduled for Wed 2015-02-11 15:58:00  UTC 34 deg. The contact \nwill be\nvia telebridge via IK1SLD with astronaut  Samantha Cristoforetti IZØUD.\n\n\nWT Sampson Unit School is a K-12 DoDDS (Department of Defense Dependents\nSchools) school located in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  Our school provides \neducation\nopportunities for GTMO’s students from Sure Start through 12th grade.  Our\nstudents are primarily the children of military and civilian families \nstationed\nhere at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.\n\nWe are accredited by the North Central Association, Commission on\nAccreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI).  NCA  CASI is part of the\nunified organization AdvancED whose focus is to help member schools \ncontinually\nimprove student performance and school conditions.  Our mission is to \neducate,\nengage, and empower each student to succeed in a dynamic world.  We \nenvision a\ntechnologically sophisticated learning environment, supported by our \nfamilies\nand community, where all students attain their highest levels of success.\nWhere understanding and appreciating diversity is an integral part of the\nlearning process; thereby, empowering all students to become physically,\nmentally, and emotionally healthy citizens of the global community.\n\nAlthough officially designated as a Unit School, WT Sampson is actually\nlocated on two separate campuses about 2 miles apart.  Currently, there are\napproximately 130 students at the elementary school (SS through 5th \ngrade) and\n90 students (6th through 12th grade) at the secondary campus. Despite our\nsmall size, WT Sampson provides all students with the highest quality of\neducation and a safe environment.  The dedicated and highly qualified \nfaculty\nremains focused on the mission, vision, and philosophy of our school.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nNew Webcast - Amateur Radio Round Table\n\nAll are invited to Amateur Radio Round Table, a new series of\nW5KUB.com weekly webcasts.  The webcast will be Tuesday nights at\n8:00 PM Central Time (0200 UTC Wednesdays) at W5KUB.COM\n\nAmateur Radio Round Table will be an informal discussion of all\naspects of ham radio with the intent of allowing viewers to watch\nthis live webcast or be a guest via Skype or Google Hangout.\n\nTo watch Amateur Radio Round Table:  Go to w5kub.com, click on Live\nEvents and sign in.  If you have a W5KUB account, use your User Name\nand Password.  If you don’t have a W5KUB account, sign in with a\ncall or name without a password.\n\nTo be a guest on Amateur Radio Round Table:  Send an email message\nto [email protected].  Prior to the show, you will be provided with\ninformation needed to join the show.\n\nJoin for fun and interesting ham radio programming. See you on\nthe webcast\n\n[ANS thanks Tom Medlin, W5KUB for the above information]\n\n\nFajr downlink in 70 cm band\n\nThe Iranian satellite Fajr (i.e. 'Dawn') was launched on 2015-02-02\njust before 09:00 UTC from Semnan launch center with a Safir rocket.\nThe 50 kg satellite (40387, 2015-006A), Iran's fourth satellite, has\na cold gas thruster, so it can change its orbit. It carries a camera\nfor earth observations. It should have a telemetry downlink on\n437.538 MHz and a command uplink in the 2 m band.\n\n[ANS thanks Nico, PA0DLO for the above information]\n\n\nCamera to record doomed ATV's disintegration - from inside\n\nOn Monday, February 9, ESA astronaut Samantha Christoforetti will float into\nEurope’s space ferry to install a special infrared camera, set to capture\nunique interior views of the spacecraft’s break-up on reentry.\n\n“The battery-powered camera will be trained on the Automated Transfer\nVehicle’s forward hatch, and will record the shifting temperatures of the\nscene before it,” explains Neil Murray, overseeing the project for ESA.\n\n“Recording at 10 frames per second, it should show us the last 10 seconds or\nso of the ATV. We don’t know exactly what we might see – might there be\ngradual deformations appearing as the spacecraft comes under strain, or will\neverything come apart extremely quickly?\n\n“Our Break-Up Camera, or BUC, flying for the first time on this mission,\nwill complement NASA’s Reentry Break-up Recorder.\n\n“Whatever results we get back will be shared by our teams, and should tell\nus a lot about the eventual reentry of the International Space Station as\nwell as spacecraft reentry in general.”\n\nEvery mission of ESA’s ATV ferry ends in the same way – filled with Space\nStation rubbish then burning up in the atmosphere, aiming at a designated\n‘spacecraft graveyard’ in an empty stretch of the South Pacific.\n\nBut the reentry of this fifth and final ATV is something special. NASA and\nESA are treating it as an opportunity to gather detailed information that\nwill help future spacecraft reentries.\n\nAccordingly, ATV-5 will be steered into a shallow descent compared to the\nstandard deorbit path.\n\nThis ATV’s fiery demise will be tracked with a battery of cameras and\nimagers, on the ground, in the air and even from the Station itself, and\nthis time on the vehicle itself.\n\nESA’s camera will not survive the reentry, expected to occur some 80–70 km\nup, but it is linked to the ‘SatCom’ sphere with a ceramic thermal\nprotection system to endure the searing 1500°C.\n\nOnce SatCom is falling free, it will transmit its stored data to any Iridium\ncommunication satellites in view.\n\nPlunging through the top of the atmosphere at around 7 km/s, it will itself\nbe surrounded by scorching plasma known to block radio signals, but the hope\nis that its omnidirectional antenna will be able to exploit a gap in its\ntrail.\n\nIf not, signalling will continue after the plasma has cleared – somewhere\nbelow 40 km altitude.\n\nJapan’s i-Ball camera managed to gather images of its Station supply ferry\nbreaking up in 2012. Another i-Ball was planned to fly with ATV-5, but was\nlost in the Antares rocket explosion last October.\n\nThe full story with photos can be found on the ESA web:\nhttp://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/Camera_to_rec\nord_doomed_ATV_s_disintegration_from_inside\n\n[ANS thanks the European Space Agency 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\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n",
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