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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-221 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2015-08-09T02:32:25Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-221\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-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due by 15 September\n* July/August 2015 AMSAT Journal Sent to the Print Shop\n* SPROUT Deployable Membrane – Request for Telemetry\n* Frequencies Announced for Nayif-1 CubeSat\n* UK radio ham’s ISS contact in the press\n* Work continues on ESEO FUNcube-4\n* Scout ISS ham radio contact video\n* Last Call for Papers: ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference\n* Satellite Frequency Co-ordination Announcement from IARU Region 1\n* Chinese Amateur Radio Satellites Set to Launch in Early September\n* Do not Digipeat via PCSAT in IARU Region 1\n* Planned DX Activity Via Satellite\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-221.01\nANS-221 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 221.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE August 9, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-221.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due by 15 September\n\n\nBallots were mailed to AMSAT-NA members in good standing by 15 JULY \n2015, and\nmust be returned to the AMSAT-NA office by 15 SEP 2015 in order to be \ncounted.\nThose sent outside North America were sent by air mail. Your completed \nballot\nshould be returned as promptly as possible, and those from outside North\nAmerica preferably by air mail or other expedited means.\n\nThis year there are eight candidates:\n\nBarry Baines, WD4ASW\nJerry Buxton, N0JY\nSteve Coy, K8UD\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nEMike McCardel, KC8YLD\nBob McGwier, N4HY\nBruce Paige, KK5DO\n\nThe four candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be seated as\nvoting Board Members with two year terms. The two candidates receiving the\nnext highest number of votes will be non-voting Alternate Board Members \nwith\nterms of one year. Please vote for no more than four candidates.\n\nPlease take the time to review the candidate statements that accompany the\nballot and determine who you wish to see on the Board. Election of Board\nmembers is both an obligation as well as an opportunity by our \nmembership to\nhelp shape the future direction of AMSAT-NA.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nJuly/August 2015 AMSAT Journal Sent to the Print Shop\n\n\nThe July/August 2015 AMSAT Journal is complete and has been sent to the\nprint shop. The Journal is sent six times a year to all members as one of\nAMSAT's membership benefits.\n\nIn this issue you will find:\n\n+ AMSAT Announcements\n\n+ Apogee View\n   by Barry Baines, WD4ASW\n\n+ AMSAT-NA, AMSAT-DL, and Virginia Tech Announce Potential\n   Phase-3E Opportunity\n\n+ AMSAT 2015 Field Day Results\n   by Bruce Paige, KK5DO\n\n+ A Field Day 2015 Experience\n   by George Carr, WA5KBH and Hector Martinez, CO6CBF/W5CBF\n\n+ AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots in the Mail\n   by Alan Biddle, WA4SCA\n\n+ Engineering Update July/August 2015\n   by Jerry Buxton, N0JY\n\n+ AMSAT at Dayton 2015\n   by Keith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF\n\n+ Orbital Debrief - July/August 2015\n   by Paul Stoetzer, N8HM\n\n+ ARISS Announces New Challenge Coin\n\n+ Israel's Duchifat-1 Cubesat Open for Users\n   by Shamai Opfer, 4Z1WS and David Greenberg, 4X1DG\n\n+ Investigation of the International Arms Export Control Act of 1976\n   by Elizabeth Garbee, KC0OTR\n\n+ A Quick Satellite Rover Trip\n   by Kevin Manzer, N4UFO\n\n+ 2015 AMSAT Symposium at Dayton Announcement\n\n+ AMSAT Help Wanted Ads\n\nThe Journal is always looking for your articles about your station, antenna\ntopics, operating events and photos, technical articles suitable for amateur\nradio in space, software applications, software defined radio. To help you\nget started we have a web page \"How to Write for the AMSAT Journal\" posted\nat: http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=1709. The editors are available to help\nget you from idea into print.\n\nA big round of thanks goes to our contributors for this issue. The editors\ndo a lot of work behind the scenes to get each issue ready. Thanks to\nBernhard, VA6MBJ; Douglas, KA2UPW/5; James, K3JPH; Joe, KB6IGK; Red, KC4LE.\n\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Journal Team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSPROUT Deployable Membrane – Request for Telemetry\n\n\nStudents at Nihon University in Japan are requesting the assistance of radio\namateurs in collecting telemetry from the SPROUT satellite which has \ndeployed\nan inflatable membrane structure.\n\nThe SPROUT JQ1YGZ Team say:\n\nWe’d like to show to everyone about SPROUT, and we’d like to ask receiving\ncooperation to everyone.\n\nSPROUT was launched at May 24, 2014 from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan.\n\nThere are 3 main missions in SPROUT.\n·Deployment demonstration of inflatable membrane structure.\n·Demonstration of attitude determination and control technology for several\n  kilogram class nano-satellite.\n·Upbringing of human resources of a space sector\n\nFor more information\nhttp://sat.aero.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp/sprout-e/\nPlease see this website.\n\nThis time, we made a deployment demonstration of inflatable membrane\nstructure. But it’s necessary to get a deal of data to get information on a\nsatellite, and it takes time to get one of data only my satellite \ncommunication\nground station.\n\nSo when everybody of amsat would do reception cooperation, information on a\nsatellite can be got quickly.\n\nWe’d like to request reception cooperation of everybody of “AMSAT” for\nstudy promotion.\n\nIf you wouldn’t mind, please reception cooperation. Please inform the\nfollowing mail address of your question and a reception report –\[email protected]\n\nBest regards\n\nSPROUT JQ1YGZ Team on Facebook\nhttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008270115808\n\nSPROUT transmits on 437.525 MHz FM 1k2 AFSK AX.25\nhttp://www.dk3wn.info/sat/afu/sat_sprout.shtml\n\nSPROUT SSTV activation\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/05/31/sprout-sstv-digitalker-active/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFrequencies Announced for Nayif-1 CubeSat\n\n\nNayif-1 is an educational single CubeSat project with the goal of \nproviding an\nactual space project for Emirati University students. Additionally it is\nintended to enthuse and educate young people about radio, space physics and\nelectronics.\n\nThe 1U CubeSat is a collaboration between the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space \nCenter\nand the American University of Sharjah both in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nThe spacecraft will only require simple ground station antennas and an SDR\ndongle receiver. This will make it uncomplicated for schools and colleges to\nuse with their students.\n\nIt is anticipated Nayif-1 will be launched into an elliptical, sun\nsynchronous, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) about 400 by 750 km. In such an orbit the\nsatellite passes over the Emirates at least twice a day. This would \nallow the\nmorning passes to be used for educational purposes and the evening \npasses for\nAmateur Radio communications.\n\nThe student team will develop and operate a special ground station for this\nspacecraft. They will also be developing a unique “Dashboard” to display the\nreceived telemetry data and greetings messages in Arabic.\n\nNayif-1 will incorporate a novel autonomous attitude determination and \ncontrol\nsystem. This will be the first flight of this system. Additionally it will\ncarry a UHF to VHF linear transponder (FUNcube-5) that will have up to \n0.5 watt\noutput and which can be used by Radio Amateurs worldwide for SSB and CW\ncommunications.\n\nA launch is planned for late 2015 on a SpaceX Falcoln 9.\n\nIARU coordinated frequencies for NAYIF-1:\n• 145.940 MHz 1200 bps BPSK FUNcube beacon\n• 500 mW inverting SSB/CW linear transponder\n  – 435.045-435.015 MHz Uplink\n  – 145.960-145.990 MHz Downlink\n\nFollow Nayif-1 on Twitter\nhttps://twitter.com/Nayifone\n\nNayif-1\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/satellites/communications/nayif-1/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUK radio ham’s ISS contact in the press\n\n\nAdrian Lane 2E0SDR got some great newspaper publicity for the hobby when he\nmade an amateur radio contact with an astronaut on the International Space\nStation.\n\nThe story was published in the Thursday, August 6, 2015 edition of many UK\nnational daily newspapers including The Sun, The Times, Telegraph, \nIndependent,\nDaily Mail, Daily Express and Mirror. The Thursday edition of the BBC \nRadio 4\nToday show also featured the story at 8:09:46am. To hear it fast forward to\n2:09:46 in this recording:\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0643x5z#play\n\nDuring Thursday evening the story featured on the TV news station CNN.\n\nOn Friday, August 7, Adrian was interviewed about the contact on the BBC TV\nVictoria Derbyshire programme. Watch the interview at\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33816779\n\nThe astronaut Adrian talked to was Kjell Lindgren who holds the amateur \nradio\ncallsign KO5MOS. Kjell was operating the ISS amateur radio station in \nthe ESA\nColumbus module using the callsign NA1SS. There is another ISS amateur radio\nstation in the Russian Service module which uses the callsign RS0ISS.\n\nThe online version of the Daily Mail story features a video interview with\nAdrian 2E0SDR\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3186534/Radio-ham-contacts-\nInternational-Space-Station-GARDEN-SHED.html\n\nCNN Story – Ham radio and the ISS broadcast 1930 GMT Aug 6, 2015\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?t=35&v=XNs_b73Oiac\n\nRead the Telegraph story at\nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11786461/Radio-ham-\ntalks-to-space-station-from-garden-shed.html\n\nRead the Mirror newspaper story at\nhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/amateur-radio-enthusiast-dials-\ninternational-6199955\n\nThe Sun newspaper story is behind a paywall at\nhttp://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6575742/One-small-step-for-a-ham.html\n\nThe Register story: HAM IN SPAAAAAACE\nhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/06/radio_ham_talks_to_iss_astronaut_from_g\narden_shed_in_gloucestershire/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nWork continues on ESEO FUNcube-4\n\n\nAMSAT-UK members have been busy this week working on the FUNcube-4 amateur\nradio payload for the new European Student Earth Orbiter (ESEO) \nsatellite. On\nFriday, August 7, 2015 they tested the transponder and it seems to work \nfine.\nMore testing and characterisation will follow over the next few days.\n\nThis is the third mission within the European Space Agency’s Education\nSatellite Programme. The satellite, which has a mass of 40 kg and measures\n33x33x63 cm, is planned to launch into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO).\n\nThe spacecraft will carry a 1260/145 MHz FM transponder and 145 MHz 1200 bps\nBPSK telemetry beacon to provide a telemetry downlink that can be easily\nreceived by schools and colleges for educational outreach purposes. The data\nwill be displayed in an attractive format and provide stimulation and\nencouragement for students to become interested in all STEM subjects in a\nunique way.\n\nThe target audience is primarily students at both primary and secondary \nlevels\nand the project includes the development of a simple and cheap “ground \nstation”\noperating on VHF frequencies in the Amateur Satellite Service. This \nstation is\nan omni-directional antenna feeding a FUNcube DonglePRO+ SDR receiver which\nwill receive the signals direct from the satellite and transfer the data to\nspecially developed graphical software running on any Windows laptop.\n\n2015 International Space Colloquium Presentations Playlist\nhttps://www.youtube.com/user/AMSATUK/playlists\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nScout ISS ham radio contact video\n\n\nScouts at the 23rd World Scout Jamboree at Bunkyo-ku in Japan had an \namateur\nradio contact with the International Space Station.\n\nThe contact on July 31, 2015 was between 8N23WSJ and NA1SS operated by\nastronaut Kjell Lindgren, KO5MOS from the ISS Columbus module.\n\nWatch Radio scouting with the ISS\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGhQ8OamfTY\n\nARISS 23rd World Scout Jamboree contact\nhttp://www.southgatearc.org/news/2015/august/ariss_event_0308.htm\n\n23rd World Scout Jamboree\nhttp://www.23wsj.jp/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLast Call for Papers: ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference\n\n\nARRL/TAPR are soliciting technical papers for presentation at the 34th \nAnnual\nARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference, to be held October 9-11 in\nChicago, Illinois. Papers will also be published in the Conference \nProceedings.\nYou do not have to attend the conference to have your paper included in the\nProceedings. The submission deadline is August 17, 2015.\n\nE-mail your submission to Maty Weinberg at ARRL Headquarters at\[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>\nPlease to do not send zip files as these will be rejected by our e-mail \nserver.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and the ARRL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Frequency Co-ordination Announcement from IARU Region 1\n\n\nThe following announcement has been released by the IARU International\nSecretariat:\n\nFor some years, IARU has sought, through its group of volunteer satellite\ncoordinators, to assign appropriate frequencies to be used by space \nsatellites\noperating in the amateur bands. These efforts have generally been \nsuccessful,\nallowing satellites to operate without undue interference to each other \nand to\nother services using the bands in question. The IARU role in coordination of\nfrequencies is supported by ITU.\n\nIARU is aware of a few satellites already operating in amateur bands \nwhich are\ncausing difficulties in parts of the world as the frequencies they use \ndo not\nappear to accord to existing band plans. IARU has now become aware of \nplans to\nlaunch a series of satellites where the frequencies proposed appear to \nconflict\nwith existing IARU band plans in some parts of the world. IARU is \ninvestigating\nhow this has arisen, and is discussing the issues with the parties involved.\n\nWe will make a further statement as soon as possible.\n\nhttp://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php/88-news/1461-satellite-frequency-co-ordination\n\n\n[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nChinese Amateur Radio Satellites Set to Launch in Early September\n\n\nChina’s Amateur Satellite Group CAMSAT said this week that nine satellites\ncarrying Amateur Radio payloads have been delivered to the Taiyuan Satellite\nLaunch Center in Central China. CAMSAT CEO Alan Kung, BA1DU, said they’re\nexpected to launch between September 7 and 9. All are part of the CAS-3 \nseries\nof satellites. Four of the microsatellites and two of the CubeSats \nincluded in\nthe launch have been designated as the XW-2 (Hope-2) amateur satellite \nsystem\n(XW-2A through XW-2F), although Kung also refers to them using their initial\nCAS-3A through CAS-3F nomenclature. The other three satellites — a \nCubeSat, a\nnanosatellite, and a picosatellite, carry the designations CAS-3G \nthrough CAS-\n3I, respectively. CAMSAT announced earlier this year that the launch \ndate would\nbe postponed from mid-July until early September.\n\n“Each satellite of the CAS-3 series will work independently, and they \nare made\nby different organizations,” Kung told ARRL.\n\nThe XW-2 series satellites are equipped with substantially identical Amateur\nRadio payloads — a U/V mode linear transponder, a CW telemetry beacon and an\nAX.25 19.2k/9.6k baud GMSK telemetry downlink, CAMSAT said in May. Each \nAmateur\nRadio complement has the same technical characteristics, but will operate on\ndifferent 70 centimeter uplink and 2 meter downlink frequencies. XW-2A \nthrough\nXW-2F have identical quarter-wavelength deployable monopole whip \nantennas made\nof steel tape.\n\nCAMSAT worked with three entities to complete the other three \nsatellites: CAS-\n3G (DCBB), a 2U CubeSat being built by Shenzhen HIT Satellite Ltd of \nChina for\neducational purposes; CAS-3H (LilacSat-2), a Harbin Institute of \nTechnology of\nChina microsatellite for science experiments and Amateur Radio, and \nCAS-3I (NDT-\nPhone Sat), a National University of Defense Technology of China \npicosatellite\nfor carrying out technical experiments. CAS-3G and CAS-3I will downlink \ndigital\ntelemetry on amateur frequencies, while CAS-3H will carry a U/V FM \ntransponder\nand APRS. Details on all satellites are attached (see \"Downloads,\" below).\n\nKung said a Long March-6 rocket will carry the XW-2 and CAS-3 satellites \ninto\norbit along with 11 other satellites.\n\nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/chinese-amateur-radio-satellites-set-to-launch-in-\nearly-september\n\n\n[ANS thanks the ARRL, CAMSAT CEO Alan Kung, BA1DU, and IARU for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDo not Digipeat via PCSAT in IARU Region 1\n\n\nAs has been reported in the RSGB News, the PCSAT spacecraft was launched \nsome\nfourteen years ago and has, due to an on-board power system issue, \nstarted to\ntransmit APRS on 144.390 MHz\n\nAlthough this is the correct frequency for APRS operation in IARU Region \n2, it\nis not compatible with our Region 1 bandplan which has this part of the band\ndesignated for weak signal and particularly Meteor Scatter operation.\n\nThe orbit of this spacecraft means that sometimes it is in full sunlight \nand,\nat other times, it is eclipsed for a major percentage of the orbit. As \nthe on-\nboard batteries have lost their ability to hold a charge, the problem \ncan only\noccur when it is in sunlight.\n\nVarious methods of mitigate this problem are presently under active\nconsideration but in the meantime it is important that no amateur in \nRegion 1\nshould attempt to digipeat through this spacecraft. Additionally those \namateurs\non the east coast of the American continent are also requested not to \nattempt\nto activate the spacecraft when it can be “seen” from Europe.\n\nAt IARU level, further work is being undertaken to reduce the risk from \nfuture\nspacecraft potentially causing similar problems. Such problems could result\nfrom developers not following the globally agreed bandplans for amateur\nsatellite operations. In particular the IARU Satellite Coordinator has been\nrequested to make urgent contact with the team responsible for XW-2(CAS-3)\nmission of nine satellites from China. Some of the proposed frequencies \ndo not\nrespect the internationally agreed Region 1 Bandplan for 2 metres.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPlanned DX Activity Via Satellite\n\n\nHH, HAITI. Doug, KD8CAO, son of K8YSE (OPDX Webmaster), will be active\nas HH8/KD8CAO from Jacmel (FK38rf) between August 15-22nd. He is there\non a \"Medical Mission Trip\" with his XYL. Activity will be mainly on the\nsatellites (SSB/FM), with a possibility of some HF activity (QRP). His\nactivity on the satellite will be on FO29, AO7, AO73 and SO50. As this\nwas being written, Doug was thinking of using/taking his FT-817 (this\ncould change). QSL via KD8CAO and LoTW.\n\nT47, CUBA (LH Op). Members of the Camaguey Contest Crew got special\npermission to operate as T47LH during the ILLW from the Colon Light-\nhouse at Sabinal Key, Cuba. A crew of 5 hams (CO7RR, CO7SF, CO7FR, CO7DS\nand CO7WT) will be active from mid-day August 14th to mid-day August 16th.\nOperations are planned on all HF bands (60m is pending approval) and\nSatellite via SO-50 passes during the ILLW. For more info and details,\nsee the QRZ.com page for T47LH. QSL route is TBD.\n\nV7, MARSHALL ISLANDS. A group of JA operators will be active from Majuro\nIsland (OC-029) between September 24-28th. Operators are YL Mami/JP3AYQ\n(V73YL) and her husband Sanny/JJ3CIG (V73H), Team Leader Takio/JH3QFL\n(V73A), Co-Leader Keizo \"Kay\"/JH3AZC (V7EME) and Hiro/JR3GWZ (V73GW).\nActivity will be on the HF bands, 6 meters, satellite, EME, CW, SSB\nand RTTY. Radios are a FT857 and FT847. Their antennas will be a homebrew\n3 element full size beam (3 bands) and a SpiderBeam antenna (5 band).\nThey will also have a Elecraft 500w amp to use. QSL all operators via\ntheir home callsigns. ADDED NOTES:\n  * YL Mami, JP3AYQ, states (on QRZ.com), that her activity will be holiday\n    style (she like to scuba dive) on the HF bands using CW (be patient),\n    SSB and the Digital mode (RTTY). Suggested frequencies are the IOTA\n    frequencies, such as 14260, 14040, 21260 and 21040 kHz. QSL via JP3AYQ,\n    direct, by the Bureau or LoTW. Log will be uploaded to LoTW and ClubLog.\n    She does have a Blog page at:      http://jp3ayq.269g.net\n  * Sanny, JJ3CIG/KH0YA, states (on QRZ.com), that he plans to operate on\n    the JT65 mode. QSL via his home callsign, direct or by eQSL.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #1225 for the above 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*Saturday, 15 August 2015 – Arctic Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in\nFairbanks AK\n\n*Sunday, 16 August 2015 – demonstration at Chena Hot Springs AK\n\n*Saturday and Sunday, 22-23 August 2015 – Boxboro Hamfest and ARRL\nNew England Convention in Boxborough MA\n\n*Saturday and Sunday,  5-6 September - ARRL Roanoke Division Convention\nShelby, NC Hamfest, AMSAT Forum scheduled for Saturday\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 16-18 2015, AMSAT Symposium in\nDayton OH (Dayton Crown Plaza)\n\n*Saturday, 7 November 2015 – Oro Valley Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in\nMarana AZ\n\n*Saturday, 5 December 2015 – Superstition Superfest 2015 in Mesa AZ\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nSuccessful Contacts\n\nMaroochydore State School, Maroochydore, Queensland,  Australia, telebridge\nvia LU1CGB\nThe ISS callsign scheduled was NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut was Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS\nContact was  successful: Thu 2015-08-06 10:10:26 UTC 59 deg\n\nThe Maroochydore ISS contact was a success with all 10 questions \nanswered in\ndetail by Kjell.  There were good signals right through the entire contact.\nThe principal Stuard Maish just had enough time to thank Kjell before LOS.\n\n\nSpace Jam 9, Rantoul, IL,  telebridge via IK1SLD\nThe ISS callsign was scheduled to be  OR4ISS\nThe astronaut was Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS\nContact was successful: Sat 2015-08-08 16:58:02 UTC 33 deg\n\nSpace Jam 9 just had a successful contact.  All 24 questions got asked \nand we\ndid get 24 answers.  The last 3 or 4 were pretty noisy but he was \nthere.  There\nwas no notice any signal dropouts and the signal seemed pretty steady\nthroughout.\n\nSpace Jam 9 has about 1000 scouts there for the weekend.  The contact \nwas held\noutside so all could see.  Space Jam 9 did their annual balloon launch, they\ntold me it went to 101000 feet and traveled about 40 miles.  They had a \nbeacon\ngoing and a cross band repeater.  The electronics were recovered just fine.\n\nGreetings to all stations from the participants and volunteers of Space \nJam 9\nin Rantoul, Illinois. Though primarily a weekend Scouting and STEM \neducation\nevent, we are open to all interested youth.  Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts \nfrom\n24 states have come together in an educational and fun format to learn more\nabout the life skills that will prepare them for the increasingly complex\ntechnological future.  Training is our theme this year.  While it is well\nknown that Scouting teaches pioneering skills like camping and wilderness\nsurvival, the new pioneers and wilderness are in outer space and we are\nworking hard at 44 technology oriented Merit Badges and activities, plus \nsome\nfun things like the Duct Tape Merit Badge.  Talking to the astronauts on \nthe\nISS is an unforgettable part of the experience at Space Jam and that's \nnext on\nour list.  We will not know for many years whether one of these youths\nbecomes an astronaut themselves but it is certain that they are all part of\ntomorrow's leaders.\n\n\nESA Space Camp, Külsheim, Gemany\nA telebridge contact with students at ESA Space Camp, Külsheim, Gemany, was\nsuccessful  Mon 2015-08-03 10:43:44 UTC  75 deg. The interview was conducted\nvia W6SRJ with astronaut  Kjell Lindgren, KO5MOS, who answered 21 \nquestions for\nstudents.\n\nThe European Space Agency (ESA )Space Camp 2015 was held in the Germany at\na sport and activity centre Aktiv-Welt in  Külsheim, which is situated \non the\nbeautiful landscape of  Baden-Württemberg. The camp will run from Sunday 26\nJuly to Saturday 8 August 2015.\n165 children aged 8 to 17 years old will be participating in this annual \nspace\ncamp from every ESA establishment in Europe where their parents are working.\nThe children will learn in the spirit of international cooperation and team\nwork where the camp theme of “ My planet, beyond Earth”, will be take these\nyoung explorers on a continuing journey around our planet and beyond.  The\nchildren will be participating in a range of physical and cultural \nactivities\nas well as a full space education program.\nApart from the science element, the children will learn how to work as \npart of\na team, to be respectful of different cultures and embrace and \nappreciate the\nvarious talents each child brings to a group. Good training for any ‘first\ncontacts’ that the future may bring! Learning through active \nparticipation will\nbe paramount as with every camp - as well as having FUN!\nBeyond Earth – as last year, the children will continue to ‘reach for the\nstars’ with new and innovative activities involving rocket design and \nlaunches\nas well as making observations of the night sky using telescopes. With \nsuch an\nenvironment as in Külsheim, we hope to explore more of the sky in relatively\nlow light pollution.\nThe children will be expected to communicate activities in a range of ways\nfrom designing and drawing to building models. It is hoped that the \nspirit of\nfun and collaboration with such an international group of young children \nwill\nenable them to learn new things as well as share information which will help\neach other be better acquainted with the space environment their \nfamilies work\nin.\n\nThe audio file can be downloaded from the internet at\nhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/eb1y6ke2lgg0h35/ISS-final.mp3?dl=0\n\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contacts\n\n\nFleurance Astronomy  Festival, France, telebridge via IK1SLD\nThe ISS callsign is presently  scheduled to be RSØISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is TBD\nContact is a  go for: Fri 2015-08-14 19:42:01 UTC 46 deg\n\nFleurance is a small town located in the South-West of France near \nToulouse,\nin the Gers department, with about 7,000 inhabitants. One of the main\nspecialties of this city is the French gastronomy, and especially everything\nmade from duck (e.g. french foie gras, duck magret) and melon.  In terms of\nbeverages, Gers is the home region of Armagnac (french alcohol made from \nwhite\nwine), Floc de Gascogne (made from Armagnac and grape must) and \nPousse-Rapiére\n(made from Armagnac and a kind of Champagne).\n\nSince 1991, the French Astronomy Festival takes place in August in \nFleurance\nwhere more than 10,000 people attend this summer event, the largest \nEuropean\nfestival on astronomy and space topics. More than 50 international \nresearchers\nas well as astronauts are welcomed and give lectures to everyone coming \nto the\nfestival over the week. Since 2006, Astro-jeunes, a kids festival, is\norganized during the same week, and welcomes more than 200 children per \nday to\nunveil them the mysteries of our universe and space conquest history.  A \ndozen\nof children from this festival and the Fleurance high-school \"Hubert \nReeves\"\n(sponsor of the Festival) have prepared this contact both with their \nphysics\nand English teachers.\n\nWatch\nhttp://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html\nfor information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n* Live Broadcast of Space Launch System RS-25 Engine Test Firing\n\nThe Space Launch System, or SLS, Liquid Engines Office is conducting a\nseries of tests for its RS-25 engine. The seven-test series began in January\n2015 and will conclude in September 2015. On Aug. 13, 2015, at 4:30 p.m.\nEDT, a 550-second test will be conducted at Stennis Space Center near Bay\nSt. Louis, Mississippi.\n\nThe seven-test series will provide critical data on the new engine\ncontroller unit and will show how the RS-25 will perform. New ablative\ninsulation and heaters also will be tested during the series.\n\nNASA's SLS will help send humans to deep space destinations like an asteroid\nand Mars. SLS is an advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an\nentirely new capability for science and human exploration beyond Earth's\norbit. The SLS will give the nation a means to reach beyond our current\nlimits and open new doors of discovery from the unique vantage point of\nspace.\n\nThe test will be carried live on NASA TV beginning at 4 p.m. EDT and will be\nstreamed at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html. Please make\nplans to watch and hear the rumble as NASA continues on its Journey to Mars.\n\nTo learn more about the Space Launch System, visit\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/\n\n[ANS thanks NASA Education Express Message -- Aug. 6, 2015 for the above\ninformation]\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\n",
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