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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/ZMUWUFVWJV6YSYJDOFDUWZTBI3EJCCRY/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5ADdfa92M-YX6Gyuy_YK8sAC3oAJAOJUstjG1E3Cqys7g@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "ZMUWUFVWJV6YSYJDOFDUWZTBI3EJCCRY", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/ZMUWUFVWJV6YSYJDOFDUWZTBI3EJCCRY/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "k0jm.mark (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Mark Johns, K0JM", "subject": "[AMSAT-BB] ANS-225 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Aug. 13", "date": "2023-08-13T00:30:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-225\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* AM1SAT Satellite Contest, September 2023\n* Registration Open for 41st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual\nGeneral Meeting\n* International AMSAT Conferences Taking Place\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution\n* SpaceX Crew 8 Mission to Include Three U.S. Radio Amateurs\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information\nservice of AMSAT, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes\nnews related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities\nof a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active\ninterest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog\nand digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in\nSpace as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at]\namsat.org\n\nYou can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service\nBulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see:\nhttps://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/\n\nANS-225 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nTo: All RADIO AMATEURS\nFrom: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n712 H Street NE, Suite 1653\nWashington, DC 20002\n\nDATE 2023 Aug 13\n\n\nAM1SAT Satellite Contest, September 2023\n\nAMSAT-EA will be on the air on all available satellites with the callsigns\nAM1SAT and AM2023SAT from September 4th to 17th, 2023 to celebrate the\nfourth edition of the AM1SAT trophy contest as part of the URE activities\nwithin the IberRadio 2023 event, the largest one in the world of amateur\nradio in Spain and Portugal (http://www.iberradio.es), and which will open\nits doors during the weekend of 16-17 in Avila, a city near Madrid, capital\nof Spain.\n\nThe AMSAT-EA operators will activate the aforementioned callsigns from the\ndifferent states and autonomous cities of Spain during the said period of\ntime and with the objective in this edition to promote contacts with the\nmaximum number of them.\n\nAs part of this activity and to encourage participation, SILVER and GOLD\ndiplomas will be available for the different modalities of satellites\naccording to their footprint and orbital height, LEO, MEO (IO-117\nsatellite) and GEO (QO-100 satellite), as well as a trophy for the station\nthat works the greatest number of states in the total number of available\nsatellites and another trophy for the one that contacts the greatest number\nof states on the satellite with the largest footprint and coverage (in this\ncase, IO-117). These trophies will be physically sent at no cost to the\nwinners.\n\nThe third edition of the AM1SAT satellite contest, in 2021, finished with\n1327 QSOs including GEO and LEO contacts, with 57 different\nradio-countries, using 20 satellites and with the participation of 419\ndifferent competitors (callsigns).\n\nFull rules can be found here:\nhttps://www.amsat-ea.org/app/download/13570625/AM1SAT+CONTEST+2023+-+RULES.pdf\n\n[ANS thanks Félix Páez, EA4GQS, AMSAT-EA President, for the above\ninformation]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n The 2023 AMSAT President's Club coins are here now!\n To commemorate the 40th anniversary of its launch\n on June 16, 1983, this year's coin features\n an image of AMSAT-OSCAR 10.\n Join the AMSAT President's Club today and help\n Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nRegistration Open for 41st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General\nMeeting\n\nThe 41st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting will be\nheld on Friday through Saturday, October 20-21, 2023 at the Sheraton DFW\nAirport Hotel in Irving, Texas. Highlights of all scheduled events include:\n\n - AMSAT Board of Directors Meeting, October 19-20\n - 41st AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting, October 20-21\n - Friday Night Social and Auction, October 20\n - AMSAT Banquet and Reception, October 21\n - AMSAT Member Breakfast, October 22\n\nPrices for the Symposium, the Banquet and the Member Breakfast remain the\nsame as last year:\n\n - Friday and Saturday Symposium and General Meeting $75\n - Saturday Evening Banquet $55\n - Sunday Morning Member Breakfast $15\n\nEVENT REGISTRATION\nYou can register online for individual events or all events at:\nhttps://launch.amsat.org/event-5363188.\n\nHOTEL ROOM RESERVATIONS\nThe Sheraton DFW Airport is located adjacent to the Dallas/Fort Worth\nInternational Airport and provides complimentary, scheduled shuttle to and\nfrom the airport. Complimentary parking is available for those who drive to\nthe Symposium. The hotel address and phone number is:\n\nSheraton DFW Airport Hotel\n4440 W John Carpenter Fwy.\nIrving, TX 75063\n972-929-8400\n\nRooms are available for check-in on Wednesday, October 18 and check out\nSunday, October 22.\n\n - Standard room with single King bed is **SOLD OUT** ACT FAST! GET YOUR\nRESERVATIONS NOW!\n - Standard room with two Queen beds is $137.00*\n\n* Rate does not include state and local taxes of 15%\n\nFor Phone Hotel Reservations:\nCall 972-929-8400. Ask for rate RADIO AMATEUR SATELLITE.\n\nFor Online Hotel Reservations click on this link:\nhttps://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1689956666782&key=GRP&app=resvlink\n\nPlease send your Symposium questions or comments to info [at] amsat [dot]\ncom.\n\nWe, at AMSAT, are excited to be able to host our 41st annual Symposium this\nyear. We hope that you can join us in celebrating Amateur Radio in Space.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information.]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows,\n and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through\n AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards\n Keeping Amateur Radio in Space.\n https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nInternational AMSAT Conferences Taking Place\n\n+ AMSAT-UK is pleased to announce that the 2023 Colloquium will take place\nalongside the RSGB Convention at Kents Hill Park Conference Centre, Milton\nKeynes on the weekend of 14/15th October 2023.\n\nFull details of the Colloquium will be made available nearer the time on\nthe AMSAT-UK website at https://amsat-uk.org As in previous years, the\nAMSAT-UK Colloquium will run as a separate stream within the RSGB\nConvention and will include presentations on a variety of satellite and\nspace related topics.\n\nEntrance to the RSGB Convention is managed by the RSGB and you will be\nrequired to purchase Day Tickets for the Saturday and/or Sunday to attend\nthe AMSAT-UK Colloquium. These can be booked via the RSGB website at\nhttps://rsgb.org/main/rsgb-2023-convention/ Early bird discounts are being\noffered by the RSGB via their website.\n\n+ AMSAT-DL was founded in 1973, so this year we can look back on 50 years\nof space exploration. We have taken this as an opportunity to put this\nyear’s symposium in a special setting. Ticket sales are now available at\nhttps://shop.amsat-dl.org/. The festive conference and symposium will be\nheld Friday, September 15 to Sunday, September 17, 2023.\n\nWith a view to the 50-year history of AMSAT-Germany and its mission of\npromoting amateur radio via satellites, the celebratory conference “From\nOSCAR 10 to OSCAR 100: 50 years of AMSAT-DL in service to science, research\nand education” will take place at the Bochum Observatory radome.\nAccomodations are limited, and the booking of the overnight stays is only\npossible via the AMSAT-DL store. See\nhttps://amsat-dl.org/en/ticket-sales-festive-conference-50-years-amsat-dl/\nfor more information.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-DL for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition?\n Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff\n from our Zazzle store!\n 25% of the purchase price of each product goes\n towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space\n https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for August 11\n\nTwo Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps\nin the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical\nmodel of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly\nupdates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. Elements in\nthe TLE bulletin files are updated daily. TLE bulletin files are updated to\nadd or remove satellites as necessary Thursday evenings around 2300 UTC, or\nmore frequently if new high interest satellites are launched. More\ninformation may be found at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/\n\nThe following satellite has decayed from orbit and has been removed from\nthis week's AMSAT-NA TLE distribution:\n\nATHENOXAT-1 NORAD Cat ID 41168 decayed from orbit on 8 August 2023\n\n[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager for the\nabove information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSpaceX Crew 8 Mission to Include Three U.S. Radio Amateurs\n\nFour crew members now are assigned to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8\nmission for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station.\nNASA made the announcement on August 4.\n\nNASA astronauts Commander Matthew Dominick, KC0TOR; Pilot Michael Barratt,\nKD5MIJ; and Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU; along with Roscosmos\ncosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin, will join Expedition 70\nand 71 crew members aboard the station in early 2024 to conduct a\nwide-ranging set of operational and research activities.\n\nThis will be the first spaceflight for Dominick, who became a NASA\nastronaut in 2017. He is from Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and earned a\nbachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of San\nDiego, California, and a master’s in systems engineering from the Naval\nPostgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is an active-duty U.S. Navy\nastronaut. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent\nRiver, Maryland, and then served as a test pilot specializing in testing\nlanding on and catapult launches from U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.\n\nThis will be Barratt’s third trip to the space station. In 2009, Barratt\nserved as a flight engineer for Expeditions 19 and 20 as the station\ntransitioned its standard crew complement from three to six, and performed\ntwo spacewalks. He flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 2011 on\nSTS-133, which delivered the Permanent Multipurpose Module and fourth\nExpress Logistics Carrier. He has spent a total of 212 days in space. Born\nin Vancouver, Washington, he Considers Camas, Washington, to be his\nhometown. Barratt earned a bachelor’s in zoology from the University of\nWashington, Seattle, and a doctor of medicine from Northwestern University\nin Chicago, Illinois. He completed residencies in internal medicine at\nNorthwestern and aerospace medicine along with a master’s degree at Wright\nState University in Dayton, Ohio. After nine years as a NASA flight surgeon\nand project physician, Barratt joined the astronaut corps in 2000.\n\nThis also will be Epps’ first trip to the space station. She is from\nSyracuse, New York, and earned a bachelor’s in physics from LeMoyne College\nin Syracuse, New York, and a master’s in science and a doctorate in\naerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior\nto joining NASA, she worked at Ford Motor Company and the Central\nIntelligence Agency. She was selected as an astronaut in July 2009, and has\nserved on the Generic Joint Operation Panel working on space station crew\nefficiency, as a crew support astronaut for two expeditions, and as lead\ncapsule communicator in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space\nCenter in Houston. Epps previously was assigned to NASA’s Boeing\nStarliner-1 mission. NASA reassigned Epps to allow Boeing time to complete\ndevelopment of Starliner while also continuing plans for astronauts to gain\nspaceflight experience for future mission needs.\n\nGrebenkin, who graduated from Irkutsk High Military Aviation School,\nIrkutsk, Russia, majoring in engineering, maintenance, and repair of\naircraft radio navigation systems, also is flying on his first mission. He\ngraduated from Moscow Technical University of Communications and\nInformatics with a degree in radio communications, broadcasting, and\ntelevision.\n\nThis is the eighth rotational mission to the space station under NASA’s\nCommercial Crew Program, which works with the American aerospace industry\nto provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from\nthe orbital outpost on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from\nAmerican soil.\n\n[ANS thanks NASA and ARISS for the above information]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nARISS NEWS\n\nAmateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between\namateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with\nastronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The\ndownlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide.\n\nNo contacts are currently scheduled due to summer school holidays.\n\nThe crossband repeater continues to be active (145.990 MHz up {PL 67} &\n437.800 MHz down). If any crewmember is so inclined, all they have to do is\npick up the microphone, raise the volume up, and talk on the crossband\nrepeater. So give a listen, you just never know.\n\nThe packet system is also active (145.825 MHz up & down).\n\nAs always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios\nare turned off as part of the safety protocol.\n\nNote, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own\norbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed\ntime.\n\nThe latest information on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html\n\nThe latest list of frequencies in use can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors\nfor the above information]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nLyle, WB7VUF will be in CN73 –and possibly CN83- 12th-13th Aug. Email or DM\nfor skeds.\n\nPhillipe, EA4NF will be QRV as KE4NF from EL94 10th-13th Aug; then EL95\n21st-22nd Aug. Pass details as they become available.\n\nNina, DL2GRC, and family will do a 2 weeks Iceland holiday. Operations can\nbe expected between August 18th to 30th. Please keep in mind, it will be a\nfamily holiday and no DX-pedition. Look out for TF/DL4BEN, TF/DL8SCU and\nTF/DL2GRC.\n\n[ANS thanks Ian Parsons, K5ZM, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n\nAMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through\namateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests,\nconventions, maker faires, and other events.\n\n+ Huntsville Hamfest\nAugust 19 & 20, 2023\nVon Braun Center South Hall\n700 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL 35801\nMore information at: https://hamfest.org/\n\n+ Northeast HamXposition and ARRL New England Division Convention\nAugust 25-27, 2023\nBest Western Royal Plaza Hotel\nMarlboro, MA\nMore information at: https://hamxposition.org/\n\n+ 41st AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting\nOctober 20-21, 2023\nSheraton DFW Airport Hotel\n4440 W John Carpenter Fwy, Irving, TX 75063\nMore information at: https://launch.amsat.org/event-5363188\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Events page for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Crew members who will soon fly aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission will\nenter quarantine Friday in one of the major milestones before they head to\nthe launch site in Florida to start their mission to the International\nSpace Station. The process of flight crew health stabilization is a routine\npart of final preparations for all missions to the space station. Spending\nthe final two weeks before liftoff in quarantine will help ensure Crew-7\nmembers are healthy, as well as protect the astronauts already on the space\nstation. Commander Jasmin Moghbeli, KI5WSL; Danish ESA pilot Andreas\nMogensen, KG5GCZ; JAXA mission specialist Satoshi Furukawa, KE5DAW; and\ncosmonaut Konstantin Borisov are now scheduled to launch to the\nInternational Space Station on August 25. (ANS thanks NASA for the above\ninformation)\n\n+ Two Russian Cosmonauts conducted a spacewalk on August 9 Wednesday to to\nattach three debris shields to the Rassvet module on the International\nSpace Station. Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin also tested\nthe sturdiness of a work platform that will be affixed to the end of the\nEuropean robotic arm attached to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.\nNASA livestreamed the seven hour spacewalk on YouTube, its website and on\nthe NASA app. As always, ARISS amateur radio operations were suspended\nduring the EVA. (ANS thanks Space Daily for the above information)\n\n+ Russia reignited its moon exploration program on August 10, sending a\nlander toward Earth's nearest neighbor. The Luna-25 mission lifted off at\n23:10 GMT after being delayed for nearly two years. The launch picked up\nwhere the former Soviet Union left off in 1976, when Luna-24 successfully\ndelivered about 6.2 ounces (170 grams) of moon samples to Earth. But that\nwas then. Luna-25 is the first domestically produced moon probe in modern\nRussian history. If all goes according to plan, Luna-25 will spend the next\nfive days journeying to the moon, then circle the natural satellite for\nanother five to seven days. The spacecraft will then set down in the moon's\nsouth polar region, near Boguslawsky Crater. Once down safe and sound,\nLuna-25 will work on the lunar surface for at least one Earth year. (ANS\nthanks Space.com for the above information)\n\n+ Also in the race to land on the moon, India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander\nhas returned its first images from the moon after entering orbit around our\nnearest neighbor. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released\nthe images on Sunday, August 6, showing that the spacecraft had reached its\ndestination ahead of a lunar landing attempt expected on Aug. 23. If it's\nsuccessful, India will join the United States, the former Soviet Union and\nChina as the only nations to perform a soft lunar landing. (ANS thanks\nSpace.com for the above information)\n\n+ Virgin Galactic conducted its second-ever commercial mission on August\n10, setting a number of spaceflight records in the process. The company\nlaunched its \"Galactic 02\" flight, sending six people to suborbital space\nand back. Four of them were women, setting a new mark for most women on a\nsingle spaceflight, according to Virgin Galactic. They included the first\nmother-daughter duo (one of whom became the youngest-ever spaceflyer), as\nwell as the first former Olympian, to reach space. (ANS thanks Space.com\nfor the above information)\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nJoin AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org/\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:\n\n* Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).\n* Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate.\n* Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status\nshall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary\nyears in this status.\n* Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.\n\nContact info [at] amsat.org for additional membership information.\n\n73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\nThis week's ANS Editor, Mark Johns, KØJM\nk0jm [at] amsat.org\n\n\n", "attachments": [ { "email": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/ZMUWUFVWJV6YSYJDOFDUWZTBI3EJCCRY/?format=api", "counter": 2, "name": "attachment.html", "content_type": "text/html", "encoding": "utf-8", "size": 23122, "download": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/ZMUWUFVWJV6YSYJDOFDUWZTBI3EJCCRY/attachment/2/attachment.html" } ] }