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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/XN5AL47MTT2ISP4VTEJR6M52OU7LB2HQ/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "XN5AL47MTT2ISP4VTEJR6M52OU7LB2HQ", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/XN5AL47MTT2ISP4VTEJR6M52OU7LB2HQ/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-317 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2011-11-13T02:31:12Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-317\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The\nRadio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a\nworldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in\ndesigning, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital\nAmateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\nIn this edition:\n* 2011 AMSAT Symposium Wrap Up\n* This Week 50 Years Ago: OSCAR 1 Announcement\n* UKube-1 Final Design Approved\n* Strong Signals Received From Explorer-1 Prime Cubesat\n* ESA Sponsors Students to Attend the European CubeSat Symposium\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n* ARISS Status - 7 November 2011\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-317.01\n2011 AMSAT Symposium Wrap Up\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 317.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 13, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-317.01\n\n2011 Symposium Proceedings in Stock in AMSAT Store\n--------------------------------------------------\nAMSAT Online Store Manager, Bruce Paige, KK5DO has added the Proceedings of the\nAMSAT-NA 29th Space Symposium and AMSAT-NA Annual Meeting to the AMSAT online\nstore in the Publications Department:\n\nhttp://www.amsat-na.com/store/item.php?id=100190\n\nIf you were unable to attend the Symposium, this is your chance to \nget a copy of\nthe Proceedings. Copies are limited and available on a first-come, first-served\nbasis. Cost is $25.00.\n\nSymposium Media Post Processing\n-------------------------------\nGould Smith, WA4SXM is writing an article for the Journal about the 2011\nSymposium. Please email Gould any photos or links to your online image storage\nto include in the article to [email protected].\n\nDan Schultz, N8FGV is requesting help from someone with professional \ngrade sound\nediting software who is willing to invest a few hours in a project of \nimportance\nto AMSAT's historical archives. Please contact Dan if you can help.:\[email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks the 2011 Symposium Committee for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-317.02\nThis Week 50 Years Ago: OSCAR 1 Announcement\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 317.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 13, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-317.02\n\nThe AMSAT News Service is re-running the Project OSCAR Newsletters\nto commemorate the 50th anniversary of OSCAR 1. During the November/\nDecember 2011 time frame you will be able to share the excitement of\nthe launch campaign that started it all 50 years ago.\n\nThe Newsletters were hand-typed back in 1961. Thanks to Don Ferguson,\nKD6IRE for scanning the original documents announcing OSCAR 1.\n\n-----\n\nProject OSCAR Newsletter November 15, 1961 at 1345 PST\n\nFirst News Release,\nU. S. RADIO AMATEURS T0 LAUNCH \"PIGGY-BACK\" SATELLITE\n\nSUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- A hitch-hiking radio transmitter that will speak to\nthousands of amateur radio operators throughout the world is scheduled to be\nlaunched into space orbit next month, announced the American Radio \nRelay League.\n\nWeighing only 10 pounds, the satellite has been designed, built and tested by a\ngroup of California (Peninsula) radio amateurs organized as the Project Oscar\nAssociation of the League.\n\n\"OSCAR\" stands for Orbital Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio. The radio \"ham's\"\ntransmitter beacon will be carried into space aboard a scheduled space vehicle\nand will radiate signals in a world-wide amateur frequency band of 2-meters,\nradio amateur M. C. Towns, Jr. (Saratoga, Calif.) announced today.\nTransportation into space will be provided by an Air Force vehicle to be\nlaunched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.\n\nOnce in orbit, the Air Force vehicle will \"kick away\" the piggy-back radio\namateur satellite, leaving it to follow its own course around the earth. The\nmother satellite will then continue to perform the experiments for which it was\nintended. Radio Amateur Towns, the Oscar Association Chairman, stressed that\nProject Oscar \"is a serious, civilian, non-commercial effort to obtain\ninformation from outer space, and to introduce radio amateurs and lay \nscientists\nto new concepts in outer space communication.\n\n\"This miniature radio transmitter will be tracked and observed by \nradio amateurs\nand all interested observers throughout the world. \"It will serve to instruct\nthe radio amateur in the art of observing and tracking a moving space \nobject. In\naddition, the mass of data gained from world-wide observations will provide\ninformation unobtainable by any other means.\n\n\"There are an estimated 300,000 licensed radio amateurs in the world, and the\nAmerican Radio Relay League hopes a large number of these hobbyists will\nparticipate in the forthcoming experiments.\"\n\nTowns noted that the radio amateur has, in the past, been a pioneer in various\nfields of radio communication, and that hundreds of U. S. radio \namateurs are now\nengaged in space research and other space activity.\n\nThe 10-pound Oscar satellite consists of a low-power beacon transmitter\ncontained in a rectangular metal casing about a foot long. It will send out a\ncontinuous Morse code signal of the letters H-I, four dots followed \nby two dots.\nLater satellites proposed to be built by the Oscar Association may both receive\nand transmit amateur signals.\n\nAs soon as this transmitter is in orbit, notification will be flashed to radio\namateurs throughout the world by the American Radio Relay League, the\ninternational organization of radio amateurs which is sponsoring and \ncooperating\nin the project. \"Radio propagation, Heaviside layer refraction, antenna\nefficiency and other data can be gathered and correlated from thousands of\npoints over the world's surface,\" Towns said.\n\n\"The cause of good will,\" Towns continued, \"will be served in that radio\namateurs, located in virtually every country of the world, would have a common\namateur interest in observing and tracking their own satellite, and in\nexchanging scientific information relative to improved equipment for receiving\nthe satellite signals.\"\n\nThe Oscar transmitter is designed to operate on a frequency of 145 megacycles\nand can be heard by home experimenters having simple receiving equipment, Towns\nsaid. \"Cooperation in the forthcoming tests is invited from any interested\nparty,\" the Oscar Chairman stated, pointing out that support has already been\ncontributed by the Air Force and numerous private concerns interested in\nfurthering communication knowledge, and entirely on a no-cost basis \nof lending a\nhelping hand to the amateurs in their own project.\n\nThe radio amateur satellite idea originated in 1959 with a Los Angeles amateur\noperator, Don Stoner, who suggested that radio amateurs had the technical\nknow-how to build their own satellite if someone only had the vehicle to carry\nit into space. He, along with radio amateur Fred Hicks, of Campbell, \nCalifornia,\nand other radio \"hams\" kept the idea alive and formed the Project Oscar\nAssociation. The idea spread among radio clubs of the Los Angeles and San\nFrancisco area and gathered support from radio amateurs nation-wide, including\nthe radio amateur organization, the American Radio Relay League.\n\nRadio \"ham\" Nicholas K. Marshall, technical director of the Oscar \nprogram, noted\nthat the soon-to-be-launched satellite is but a first step in the overall Oscar\nconcept.\n\n\"Later satellites to be built by the Oscar group will perhaps receive and\ntransmit amateur test signals for specific space experiments,\" he \nsaid. Marshall\nnoted that there are approximately 12,000 radio amateurs in the Soviet Union,\nand that the Oscar Association hopes to receive tracking data from some of them\nalso.\n\n[ANS thanks Don Ferguson, KD6IRE and Project OSCAR for the above\n information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-317.03\nUKube-1 Final Design Approved\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 317.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 13, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-317.03\n\n\nOn November 8 AMSAT-UK posted the news that the UK space Agency and\nAstrium have approved the final design of UKube-1 - the UK's first\nCubeSat mission. The full story can be read at:\nhttp://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/11/08/ukube-1-final-design-approved/\n\nOn November 3-4 a young team of engineers from Clyde Space presented\ntheir final design to a team of experts for the Critical Design Re-\nview (CDR) - the typical 'gateway' for space missions to proceed\ninto the flight build and implementation phase.\n\nThe CDR for Ukube-1 thus marks an important point in the development\nof the mission, establishing the robustness of the design, the level\nof technical risk and the schedule/resourcing for the completion of\nall the tasks to build the flight spacecraft.\n\nAt the CDR, the review panel scrutinized the design in detail to\nensure it was sufficiently mature for flight. Key areas of focus\nincluded the structure and mechanisms, the communications system,\nthe on board software and processing, the attitude control system\nand power generation.\n\nAt the end of the meeting the review board concluded that Ukube-1\nhad successfully passed CDR.\n\nThe next stage is the implementation of the mission that will lead\nto a launch on a Russian Dneper rocket (ex ICBM converted for small\nsatellite launches) towards the end of 2012.\n\nMore on the aims and objectives of Ukube-1 can be found on the UK\nSpace Agency website:\nhttp://www.bis.gov.uk/ukspaceagency/missions/ukube-pilot-programme\n\nThe UK Space Agency's pilot programme to design and launch a CubeSat, a\nminiature cube-shaped satellite that will allow the UK to test cutting-edge new\ntechnologies in space. In March 2011 four payloads were finally selected to fly\non UKube-1. These will be integrated onto the spacecraft, which measures just\n10cm x 10cm x 34cm, by Clyde Space. In addition UKube-1 will fly FunCube, an\neducational payload provided by AMSAT-UK, with the goal of enthusing and\neducation young people about space, electronics, physics and radio.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-317.04\nStrong Signals Received From Explorer-1 Prime Cubesat\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 317.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 13, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-317.04\n\nMontana State University built the Explorer-1 [Prime] to replicate\nthe scientific mission of the Explorer-1 mission which was launched\non Jan. 31, 1958, and detected the existence of a band of energetic\ncharged particles held in place by the Earth's magnetic field. The\nband was named the Van Allen Radiation Belt after the late James\nVan Allen, who directed the design and creation of instruments on\nthe original Explorer-1 satellite.\n\nSatellite: Explorer-1[PRIME] Flight Unit 2\nDownlink Freq: 437.505 MHz\nEIRP: -0.7dBW\nModulation Scheme: Non-Coherent FSK\nProtocol: KISS Custom\nBaud Rate: 1200\nhttp://ssel.montana.edu/e1p/\n\nNader ST2NH added an article to his blog describing how to receive\nthe 437.505 MHz LSB data telemetry from Explorer-1[PRIME].\n\nNader describes how to set up MiXW and the E-1P Telemetry Decoder\nsoftware: http://tinyurl.com/cwvuwov (blogspot.com)\n\nThis page includes the link to download the E1-P software from\nMontana State University.\n\nNader posted his video video showing reception of an E-1P pass at:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7S5CMwFlxeo\n\nST2NH Blog with all of Nader's articles:\nhttp://st2nh-blogger.blogspot.com/\n\nST2NH YouTube channel showing several cubesat decoding passes:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/user/st2nh/\n\nMike Rupprecht's DK3WN SatBlog has an article about his experience\nin receiving and decoding E1-P, see:\nhttp://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=23528\n\n[ANS thanks Nader, ST2NH and Mike, DK3WN for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-317.05\nESA Sponsors Students to Attend the European CubeSat Symposium\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 317.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 13, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-317.05\n\nAs part of the ESA Conference Opportunities for Sponsored Students\n(ECOSS) Programme, the ESA Education Office is pleased to be able\nto offer sponsorship to European students interested in attending\nthe European CubeSat Symposium (30 Jan - 1 Feb 2012, Brussels).\nHighly qualified full-time students from ESA Member or Cooperating\nStates are encouraged to apply for ESA Sponsorship.\n\nStudents selected by ESA's Education Office will be reimbursed their\nconference registration fee and up to a maximum of 300 Euro in tra-\nvel and accommodation expenses. Sponsorship will be in the form of\na single reimbursement after the conference.\n\nBefore applying students must visit the conferences page of the\nESA Education Portal (www.esa.int/education>Conferences) and:\n\n+ Check their eligibility for the programme under the \"Sponsorship\n Conditions\" link.\n+ Familiarize themselves with the content of the \"How to Apply\" link.\n\nTo apply, please visit ESA Education registration system:\nhttp://www.joinspace.org\n\nThe deadline for sponsorship applications is January 4th 2012.\n\nThe deadline for submitting abstracts is postponed to 11 Nov 2011\nfor students only. Student who submitted abstracts before can also\napply for ESA sponsorship.\n\nCheck http://www.vki.ac.be/CubeSatSymposium/ for details.\n\n[ANS thanks Graham Shirville, G3VZV for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-317.06\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 317.06\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 13, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-317.06\n\n+ Symmetricom announced a mass-produced Chip Scale Atomic Clock osc-\n illator which maintans atomic clock accuracy and stability. More\n information at:\n http://www.symmetricom.com/products/quantum-atomic-oscillators/\n\n+ Christophe has produced a handy chart showing the CubeSat UHF down-\n link frequencies.\n http://cubesat.free.fr/IMG//pdf/Cubesat_-_frequence_bande_U.pdf\n\n+ In an effort to help increase interest in satellites, a new award\n has been created for working five (5) different hams in the EM55\n grid. You do not have to be in your home grid to count the stations\n worked. There are several satellite ready hams in EM55: WA4NVM,\n WA4HFN, WB4LHD, WA4OVO, KI4OTG, KD4NOQ, KJ4BIX, AJ4KF, W5KUB,\n N4MGT AA4HV K4FEG. Send your log to WA4NVM or WA4HFN for checking,\n along with your current mailing address. The award is free and\n should any donations be sent, they will be forwarded to AMSAT along\n with your call and name. This award is effective for contacts made\n beginning on 1 June 2011.\n\n+ The Super Sensitive High Definition TV, or SS-HDTV, camera on the\n space station can document new and more detailed footage of the\n dynamic interactions that take place in the area between the Earths'\n atmosphere and the vacuum of space, known as the cosmic shore.\n Night photography now shows more detail than previously possible.\n JAXA and NHK posted a video of a night time ISS pass over Japan:\n http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82vXwLdqNzU&feature=related\n\n[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-317.07\nARISS Status - 7 November 2011\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 317.07\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 13, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-317.07\n\n1. Swiss Students Speak with Astronaut Aboard ISS\n\nOn Monday, October 31, students attending Kantonsschule Zug in Zug, Switzerland\nconnected with Astronaut Mike Fossum, KF5AQG on the ISS via Amateur \nRadio on the\nInternational Space Station (ARISS). An audience of 600 was on hand to witness\nthe contact and watched as 8 students got in 16 questions before the ISS went\nover the horizon. The contact highlighted lessons on gravity, orbits, the ISS\nand its flight path, as well as electromagnetic waves and amateur radio. This\nARISS event was held in celebration of the school's 150th anniversary. Media\ncoverage included two television stations and one radio station.\n\n\n2. Californian Students Radio ISS Astronaut\n\nSan Diego, California students from Sundance Elementary School participated in\nan Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Tuesday,\nNovember 1. Astronaut Mike Fossum, KF5AQG answered questions about the ISS\nmission, space and how space affects the human body. The contact was integrated\ninto lesson plans about radios, radio waves, space and space-related \ntopics. The\nlocal ham radio club gave presentations to the youth. Sign On San \nDiego covered\nthe event in an article:\nhttp://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/nov/04/poway-students-connect-astronaut/\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's\nClub. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project\nFunds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are\navailable from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n", "attachments": [] }