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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-284 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-284\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* Fox-1A Launched at 0549 PDT on October 8, 2015\n* AMSAT-NA VP-Engineering on NASA TV\n* AMSAT's Fox-1A Receives AO-85 Designation\n* Fox-1A Launch Commemorative Issue of the AMSAT Journal - Free\n   Download\n* Lapan ORARI (LAPAN-A2) Receives OSCAR Number IO-86\n* ISS CubeSats Deployed Monday, October 5\n* LQSat Launched on Monday, October 5\n* AMSAT at Pacificon 2015\n* AO-85 (Fox-1A) FM Voice Transponder Activated\n* AO-85 Update\n* New OSCAR Status Page\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-284.01\nANS-284 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 284.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE October 11, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-284.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFox-1A Launched at 0549 PDT on October 8, 2015\n\n\nLaunch and Deployment was Successful!\n\nPE0SAT, ON4HF, and R2ANF heard signals on the first pass!\n\nVideo of liftoff\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drTsIV7nR3w&feature=youtu.be\n\nKeplerian elements:\nGRACE2\n1 99992U          15281.53437500  .00015007  00000-0  15580-2 0 00009\n2 99992 064.7657 291.6734 0216442 282.3705 182.7702 14.73904028000019\n\nAMSAT’s Fox-1A launched as part of the GRACE (Government Rideshare\nAdvanced Concepts Experiment) auxillary payload on the NROL-55\nmission October 8, 2015 from Vandenburg AFB on an Atlas V vehicle. The \nlaunch\noccurred at 5:49 AM PDT, with the NASA TV webcast starting at 5:29 AM \nPDT. NRO\nhas released this factsheet about the mission:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/GRACE_CubeSat_\nFactSheet.pdf\n\nGeneral information on Fox-1A is available in the downloadable\nhttp://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FoxOperatingGuide_\nMay2015_Hi.pdf\n\nFoxTelem software for decoding and submitting telemetry has been made\navailable for download at\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=4532\n\nKeplerian Elements: We will provide the Keplerian elements (aka Keps or \nTLEs)\nto enable you to track Fox-1a as soon after launch as we get them (and are\ncleared to release them). The information will be placed on\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt .\n\nINITIAL COMMISSIONING PERIOD: Initially the transponder will not be\non and will not respond to uplinks. Please do not attempt to uplink while\nwe check out the satellite and commission it. We will publicize when we have\nopened the transponder to general use. You should expect the checkout \nphase to\nlast for a minimum of several days and possibly for several weeks.\n\nWhat To Listen For: During the initial checkout period and when the\nsatellite is in range, every two minutes you will generally hear about 5\nseconds of data followed by a few seconds of a voice ID (and possibly a \nsecond\ndata packet). You may occasionally hear ‘data’ mode which Chris, G0KLA, has\nfamously described as sounding like an old-fashioned telephone modem. If you\nshould happen to hear what appear to be QSOs, please resist the temptation\nto join in before the commissioning period is over.\n\nPlease Send Telemetry Reports and Data: We would love to have you\ncollect and upload as much data as you can, and to give any other kind of\nreport on the amsat-bb mailing list (which some of the Fox team will \nmonitor).\nYou can also report hearing or not hearing it on\nhttp://www.amsat.org/status/\n\nYou can upload data using the FoxTelem telemetry program that we recently\nreleased. (Check the “upload to server” box in the properties/preference \npage).\nMore data will help us do the checkout faster! Remember if you hear the\n“telephone modem” sound, you must switch FoxTelem to high-speed mode \nmanually.\nSimilarly FoxTelem must be in low-speed mode at other times.\n\nWe are planning a special award to the person who submits the first\ndata from the satellite (by which we mean the earliest downlinked mission\nelapsed time), so get your rigs ready!\n\nAs part of the preparations for the launch and activation of\nthis new satellite, AMSAT is making our “Getting Started With The\nAmateur Satellites” book available for a limited time as a download with any\npaid new or renewal membership purchased via the AMSAT Store. This offer is\nonly available with purchases completed online, and for only a limited\ntime. A perennial favorite, Getting Started is updated every year with the\nlatest amateur satellite information, and is the premier primer of satellite\noperation. The 132 page book is presented in PDF format, in full color, and\ncovers all aspects of making your first contacts on a ham radio satellite.\n\nPlease take advantage of this offer today by visiting the AMSAT store and\nselecting any membership option. While there, check out our other items,\nincluding the M2 LEOpack antenna system, AMSAT shirts, hats, and other \nswag.\nThank you, and see you soon on Fox-1A!\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-NA VP-Engineering on NASA TV\n\n\nRadio amateurs Jerry Buxton, N0JY and Courtney Duncan, N5BF were on\nthe panel at a NASA prelaunch briefing on Wednesday, October 7.\n\nParticipants in the news briefing discussed several of the specific\nCubeSats aboard the National Reconnaissance Office’s NRO-L55 mission. \nFour of\nthe CubeSats are NASA-sponsored and nine are NRO-sponsored, one of which\nwas developed with NASA funding. The mission is scheduled to launch Oct. \n8 from\nCalifornia’s Vandenburg Air Force Base.\n\nThe panel comprised:\n• Richard Welle, director, Microsatellite Systems department at The \nAerospace\nCorporation\n• Tim Olson, principal investigator for BisonSat, Salish Kootenai College,\nPablo, Montana\n• Morgan Johnson, team lead for the ARC CubeSat, University of Alaska,\nFairbanks\n• Jerry Buxton, N0JY Vice President, Engineering, for AMSAT Fox-1\n• Courtney Duncan, N5BF, principal investigator for LMRST-Sat, NASA’s Jet\nPropulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California\n\nVideo\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=b6duPV3BwcY\n\nJerry described the Fox-1A mission and science, and answered questions.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAO-85 OSCAR Number Assigned for Fox-1A\n\n\nWilliam (Bill) Tynan, W3XO, AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number Administrator has \nissued the\nfollowing release:\n\nI have been informed of the successful launch today, October 8, 2015\nof the AMSAT-NA-built Fox-1A CubeSat. I am also informed that the satellite\nhas been heard by several amateurs in various countries.\n\nThis successful launch comes after years of diligent and dedicated\nwork on the part of AMSAT-NA volunteers including Tony Monteiro, AA2TX, who\nbecame a silent key in March, 2014.  It was Tony who spearheaded and \nguided the\nwork on all AMSAT-NA CubeSats until his untimely passing. Thus, it is only\nfitting that this spacecraft be dedicated to his memory.\n\nFollowing Tony’s death, the work of completing and preparing for launch\nfell to Jerry Buxton, N0JY, who took over Tony’s post of AMSAT-NA’s Vice\nPresident for Engineering and saw to Fox-1A’s successful completion and its\npreparation for launch.\n\nAll of those who had a part in designing, constructing and testing Fox-1A\nand its various subsystems are to be congratulated for jobs well done.\n\nSince Fox-1A was properly coordinated through IARU as an Amateur Radio\nsatellite, has been successfully launched and its signals have been\nreceived; I, under the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA President, do\nhereby issue to Fox-1A the designation AMSAT-OSCAR-85, or AO-85.\n\nMay AO-85 serve the radio amateurs of world for many years to come.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Bill, W3XO, and AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFox-1A Launch Commemorative Issue of the AMSAT Journal - Free Download\n\n\nCongratulations to AMSAT's Fox-1A team on their successful launch, orbital\ndeployment, and activation of the Fox-1A satellite. (Now to be known as \nAO-85.)\n\nAMSAT has produced a free, commemorative issue of the AMSAT Journal\nhighlighting the Fox-1A launch success. This full color PDF issue can be\ndownloaded from our current top news story, \"Fox-1A launch 5:49 AM PDT on\nOctober 8, 2015\" at http://www.amsat.org. A direct link to this news item is\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?p=4591\n\nIf you aren't already a member of AMSAT this issue of our magazine will give\nyou an inside look at the best ham radio club in the world. You'll read \nand see\nthe dedicated efforts of the Fox-1A team that got us to October 8. Please\nconsider joining AMSAT to support our series of launches coming in 2016 and\nbeyond.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLapan ORARI (LAPAN-A2) Receives OSCAR Number IO-86\n\n\nWilliam (Bill) Tynan, W3XO, AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number Administrator has\nissued the following release:\n\nAMSAT-NA has received information from YE0EEE of the successful launch,\nSeptember 28, 2015 of an Indonesian Amateur Radio satellite, Lapan ORARI\n(LAPAN-A2).\n\nAccording to the information I have, this satellite meets all of the\nrequirements to receive an OSCAR number, including IARU coordination.\nAccordingly, by the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA President, I \nhereby\nconfer on this spacecraft the designation Indonesia OSCAR- 86. or IO-86.\n\nDirgan, YE0EEE, and all who had a part in the design, construction, test \nand\nlaunch of IO-86 are to be congratulated. May this Amateur Radio spacecraft\nhave a long and useful life serving the amateurs of the world.\n\nThe following response was received from Dirgantara, YE0EEE from AMSAT-ID:\nMany thanks for good news. I, the AMSAT-ID Team, and LAPAN are all very \nhappy\nabout the new Oscar number. By today, I will have informed all the ORARI\nmembers.\n\nLink to AMSAT-UK article on LAPAN-A2 launch\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2015/09/28/lapan-a2-fm-and-aprs-satellite-launched/\n\n\n[ANS thanks Bill, W3XO, and AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nISS CubeSats Deployed Monday, October 5\n\n\nTwo Danish CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads were successfully \ndeployed\nfrom the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, October 5 at 1405 UT.\nOriginally launched to the ISS on August 19, 2015, the two CubeSats, \nAAUSat-5\nand GomX-3, were deployed from the ISS Japanese Kibo module airlock \nusing the\nKibo robotic arm.\n\nAfter deployment the CubeSats stated transmitting signals to Earth that \ncan be\npicked up by anyone with common amateur radio equipment. The frequencies to\nlisten on are:\n• AAUSat-5 – 437.425 MHz with 30 WPM CW beacon every 3 minutes and 9600 bps\nGMSK packet every 30 seconds\n• GomX-3 – 437.250 MHz with 1200-9600 bps GMSK data using CSP protocol\n\nAAUsat-5 is a 1-Unit CubeSat built by students at Aalborg University. The\nprimary mission is to test an improved receiver for detecting Automatic\nIdentification System (AIS) signals emitted by ships. Down on the \nground, these\nsignals are short-range, operating mainly on a ship-to-shore and \nship-to-ship\nbasis, leaving large spans of the world’s oceans uncovered. But signals also\ntravel up to orbital altitude, opening up the prospect of worldwide \nmonitoring.\n\nGomX-3 is a 3-Unit CubeSat which aims to demonstrate new radio technology. A\nreconfigurable software-defined radio receiver will intercept L-band \nspot beams\nfrom telecom satellites in geostationary orbit, to provide independent\nmeasurements of their signal strength and quality. This receiver can also be\nre-purposed to receive any other L-band signal, such as navigation satellite\nsignals or radar beams.\n\nA receiver will pick up Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B)\nsignals automatically broadcast by civilian aircraft, to build up an \noverview\nof regional air traffic. Additionally there is a high data rate X-band\ntransmitter developed by Syrlinks. The CNES X-band ground station in \nKourou,\nSouth America, will be used to demonstrate the link.\n\nThe GomX-3 amateur radio payload uses a NanoCom AX100 UHF transceiver and\nANT430 antenna.\n\nMineo Wakita JE9PEL in Japan reported receiving the GomX-3 beacon in Japan\nfrom 1505-1510 UT on October 5 and Luciano Fabricio PY5LF reported hearing\nGomX-3 in Brazil at 1605 UT. Jan van Gills PE0SAT in the Netherlands \nreceived\nAAUSat-5 at 1800 UT.\n\nThe two spacecraft may have a lifetime of around 7 months before they \nburn up\nin the Earth’s atmosphere.\n\nGomX-3 telemetry beacon\nhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/x4mipoz9gmqhlib/GOMX3_Beacon.pdf\n\nAAUSat-5 telemetry beacon\nhttp://www.space.aau.dk/aausat5/index.php?n=Main.HamInfo\n\nESA article CubeSats set for Monday Release (with video)\nhttp://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/ESA_CubeSats_set\n_for_Monday_release\n\nESA invites radio amateurs to listen for AAUSat-5 CubeSat\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2015/09/24/esa-listen-for-aausat-5/\n\n\n[ANS thanks ESA and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLQSat Launched Monday, October 5\n\n\nLQSat was launched into a 656 km sun synchronous orbit at 0413 UT on \nWednesday,\nOctober 7 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) in Inner \nMongolia on\na Chang Zheng 2D (CZ-2D) rocket.\n\nThe satellite was developed by researchers and students at the Changchun\nInstitute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP) and carries an \namateur\nradio payload.\n\nLQSat is technology demonstrator measuring 40x40x60 cm with a mass of 50 kg\nand carries a 2 m resolution camera as the main payload.\n\nThe IARU coordinated downlink frequencies are\n• 437.650 MHz at 0.5 watts (27 dBm) with either 25 WPM CW or 4800 bps \nMSK CSP\n   packet data\n• 2404 MHz at 1 watt (30 dBm) using 1 Mbps QPSK\n\nLaunch report\nhttp://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/10/china-launches-jilin-1-mission-long-\nmarch-2d/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT at Pacificon 2015\n\n\nAMSAT will participate at Pacificon on October 17, 2015 in San Ramon,\nCalifornia. The ARRL Pacific Division's Conference, Pacificon 2015 will \nbe held\nin the Marriott, 2600 Bishop Drive in San Ramon. The host for Pacificon is\nthe Mount Diablo Amateur Radio Club (MDARC).\n\nAlan, WA6DNR will be representing AMSAT with a table and Michael, WA6ARA \nwill\nbe giving a forum presentation titled, “Satellites - Amateur Radio's \nFuture.”\nMicheal's forum presentation will be at 1100 PDT, October 17 in the San \nRamon\nMarriott's Pleasanton Room. Say Hi Hi to both!\n\nIf you're on the west coast and cannot make it to Dayton for the AMSAT \nSpace\nSymposium, Pacificon is always a fun alternative with swap meet, forums,\ndinner, events, and Gordo West.\n\nFurther details on Pacificon  are at:\nhttps://sites.google.com/a/mdarc.org/pacificon2015/home\n\n\n[ANS thanks Alan Bowker, WA6DNR for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAO-85 (Fox-1A) FM Voice Transponder Activated\n\n\nThe 435 to 145 MHz FM voice transponder on AO-85 was activated during \nFriday,\nOctober 9 allowing many contacts to be made. Among those active on the\nsatellite was 9-year-old Hope KM4IPF. Hope is the daughter of Michelle \nN8ZQZ\nand James WX4TV, other radio amateurs in the family are Hope’s elder sister\nFaith WA4BBC and brother Zechariah, WX4TVJ. Her younger sister is \nstudying for\nher license.\n\nIn this video Hope KM4IPF describes her first AO-85 (Fox-1A) contact\nhttps://vimeo.com/141916942\n\nFox-1A Real-time track and Orbital Predictions (click on Draw Footprint to\nshow coverage area)\nhttp://www.n2yo.com/?s=40967\n\nRead the Fox Operating Guide to find out how to set up your handheld \nradio to\nwork the satellite\nhttp://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FoxOperatingGuide_\nMay2015_Hi.pdf\n\nNote: If your rig has selectable FM filters use the wider filter for 5 kHz\ndeviation 25 kHz channel spacing.\n\nSee\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2015/10/09/fox-1a-fm-transponder-activated/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAO-85 Update\n\n\nAO-85 is still being tested. Please note that while AO-85 is in Transponder\nMode right now, we have not officially commissioned her and testing is \nstill\nunderway. Part of the testing involves observations in Transponder and Data\nModes.  We may switch out of Transponder Mode at any time without notice,\nuntil we are done testing.\n\nIf AO-85 is in Safe Mode or Data Mode when it passes and you were expecting\nTransponder Mode, don't be surprised or angry!\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President for Engineering Jerry, N0JY for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNew OSCAR Status Page\n\n\nThanks to the efforts of Joe KM1P and Pete 2E0SQL, and with the permission\nof David, KD5QGR, we have set up a copy of the OSCAR satellite status \npage at\nhttp://www.amsat.org/status\n\nThis page will be maintained by multiple volunteers, including myself, and\nwe will be able to add and delete satellites as required, as well as keep\ninformation links current. It will take a few days to populate the database,\nbut please begin using this page as soon as possible. In the near future the\nold page will point to this one for a while, until people get used to the\nnew address.\n\nThere are still some satellites to add and delete, so this will be a work in\nprogress for a bit. First and foremost we will delete the reentered sats,\nand add Fox-1A for next Thursday!\n\n\n[ANS thanks Drew, KO4MA 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*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 16-18 2015, AMSAT Symposium in\nDayton OH (Dayton Crown Plaza)\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 16-18 2015, ARRL Pacific Division\nConvention (Pacificon), San Ramon, California\n\n*Saturday, 7 November 2015 – Oro Valley Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in \nMarana AZ\n\n*Saturday and Sunday, 7-8 November 2015 – Stone Mountain Hamfest and ARRL\nGeorgia Section Convention in Lawrenceville GA\n\n*Monday, 16 November 2015 – Tri-City Amateur Radio Association meeting in\nGoodyear 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\nOctober 6, 2015\n\n*   A telebridge contact via LU1CGB with students at Corpus Christi Catholic\nSchool, Chambersburg, PA, USA  was successful Tue 2015-10-06 16:29:32 UTC 33\ndeg. Students received answers to 18 questions from astronaut Kjell \nLindgren,\nKO5MOS.\n\nListen to a recording of the contact:\nhttp://www.ariss.org/news.html\n\nSchool Information\nCorpus Christi Catholic School is a K - 8 Roman Catholic Elementary School,\nlocated in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. With an enrollment of 215 \nstudents and\n17 full-time and 3 part-time faculty members, Corpus Christi School is\ncommitted to the pursuit of excellence in Catholic education. The school\nstrives to be on the cutting edge of technology with Smartboards in every\nclassroom, two computer labs, iPads, and Chromebooks.  Students in the \nprimary\ngrades participate in weekly swim lessons at the local YMCA. Intermediate\ngrades place a strong emphasis on STEM related concepts and careers. Grades\nfour through eight have background knowledge of NASA starting with \nGemini and\ncontinuing onto Mars.  In 2013, three teachers were selected to be on the\nReduced Gravity Flight through NASA Explorer Schools.  This experience\nincreased the entire students’ awareness of space flight and experiments \nbeing\nconducted in microgravity on the International Space Station. Middle school\nstudents are able to expand their curriculum by traveling to major \ncities such\nas Pittsburgh, Washington DC, and Williamsburg, VA.  Scores on standardized\ntests are above the national average.  School pride runs deep with the\nstudents, faculty, staff and parents.\n\n*   A direct contact via 9M2RPN with students at Sekolah Kebangsaan \nTaman Tun\nDr Ismail (1), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was successful Fri 2015-10-09 \n08:00:04\nUTC 47 deg. The scheduled astronaut was Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS.\n\nVideo Link of Contact\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCMo_BkXOaI\n\nSchool Information\nOur first ARISS contact was made in 2007 when, Malaysia's first Astronaut\nShiekh Muzapher went on board the ISS. We made 5 direct contacts when, \nsome 80\nschool children talked to him and asked questions.  Since then it has \nbecome a\nhighly sought after yearly event which is tied up with the Prime Minister's\nSpace Challenge Trophy.  This year we will be making our 8th yearly \ncontact.\nSince the schools do not have ground stations, they make use of Satellite\nGround Station at the National Planetarium established in 1995 under the \ncall\nsign of 9M2RPN. The schools are the nurseries to produce future \nastronauts and\nspace scientists.  The forthcoming contact in October 2015 provides the \nhands\non experience and the seeding operation for tomorrow's space scientists.\n\n\nUpcoming Contacts\n\n*    A telebridge contact via IK1SLD with students at Bay View Elementary\nSchool in Burlington, Washington, USA is scheduled for Wed 2015-10-14 \n19:41:44\nUTC 59 deg.\n\nSchool Information\nBay View School in Burlington, Washington has been serving kindergarten\nthrough eighth grade students in the Burlington-Edison School District \nfor 22\nyears. Named after the small community of Bayview, which was later \nincorporated\nby the town of Burlington, it serves mainly in-district neighborhood \nstudents.\nThis year 562 students are enrolled. The town of Burlington is 66 miles \nnorth\nof Seattle, Washington. Located at the intersection of two major highways,\nBurlington serves as a retail and commercial hub for the region. Industry is\nmainly agricultural, retail, and commercial.\n\nOver the past three years, Bay View has committed to becoming a school of\ninquiry. Through inquiry and collaboration, Bay View’s purpose is to nurture\ncompassionate, creative, knowledgeable growth-minded world citizens, who \npursue\ndreams and positively impact the future. Bay View continually inquires to\nunderstand one essential question. What do we need to understand, commit \nto and\nimplement to prepare students to be career, college, and/or world ready \nfor the\n21st century? This journey has led them to begin creating concept-based \nunits\nof inquiry at each grade level. Multi-disciplinary and \nintra-disciplinary units\nsupport school-wide connections through inquiry. The opportunity to ask\nquestions of astronauts on the ISS was pursued as an experience that could\nspark students’ interest in space, engineering, technology, mathematics, and\nsupport a school-wide inquiry.\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\nAMSAT Highlighted in This Week at NASA\n\nFox, amateur radio, and AMSAT are briefing featured this week in the short\nweekly news update “This Week at NASA.”\n\nSee:\nhttps://youtu.be/tWOiU2oJMSA\n\n[ANS thanks Frank, KA3HDO for the above information]\n\n\nMagazine Archive\n\nFree (hams like free!) access to electronics and radio magazines from the\npast. Something to read while waiting for that next AO-85 pass ...\nSee\nhttp://americanradiohistory.com/\nHover mouse over Broadcast & Consumer for a menu\nHover mouse over Consumer Electronics then Popular Electronics & Similar\n\nThe old issues download as PDF files. Gotta try it on my tablet to see if it\nworks in the little room down the hall ...\n\n[ANS thanks JoAnne, K9JKM for the above information]\n\n\nAMSAT Symposium / VUCC/WAS QSL Card Checking\n\nBruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director Contests and Awards reports that if you\nhave any cards you would like checked for VUCC/WAS, I will be at the \nSymposium.\nI will give preference to satellite contacts first before I check other\nbands/modes. If you are going to have cards checked, I prefer the list \nbe in\nGrid Square order using an Excel spreadsheet or Word doc with the second\ncolumn being the call sign worked. Place all your cards in the same grid\nsquare order as the list with any cards that contain multiple grids at \nthe end\nof the stack. If you have lists (from Yuri, etc), I can go through them as\nwell.\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce, KK5DO for the above information]\n\n\nNASA to Announce Selections for Small Satellite Launch Contract\n\nOctober 07, 2015\nMEDIA ADVISORY M15-150\nNASA to Announce Selections for Small Satellite Launch ContractNASA will \nhost\na news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the agency’s \nKennedy\nSpace Center in Florida to announce the outcome of the Venture Class Launch\nService (VCLS) competition. The news conference will air live on NASA\nTelevision and the agency’s website.\nThe participants are:\n• Garrett Skrobot, Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission \nlead for the Launch Services Program (LSP) at Kennedy\n• Eric Ianson, associate director of NASA’s Earth Sciences Division in \nthe Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington\n• Mark Wiese, flight projects office chief, NASA Launch Services \nProgram, Kennedy Space Center\n• Representatives from the selected launch service providers\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]\n\n\nSee you in Dayton! - Joe, K6WAO\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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