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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/B6ASYH4VVNZW74QBAP5QCNVSRPGK4VIP/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "B6ASYH4VVNZW74QBAP5QCNVSRPGK4VIP", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/NNIZEOSMD6HZJSGLXWRWM5W7TUV4EX4G/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "wao (a) vfr.net", "mailman_id": "9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Joe Spier", "subject": "[ans] ANS-089", "date": "2014-03-29T23:49:27Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/AU2XFVGMZNPAYXGUN4XUM62SVXELUTFG/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DGMBEVPR2IXHLQFFGKMR24VS76TFWEAO/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-089\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* FUNcube-1 / AO-73 Transponder Test – March 29\n* Eighth Annual AMSAT/TAPR Banquet Speaker Announced\n* AMSAT Awards Announced\n* Radar outage prompts delay of Falcon 9 launch\n* Lithuanian President’s greetings message sent from space\n* PRN codes for KickSat Sprites released\n* New frequency for Ukrainian PolyITAN-1 CubeSat\n* Upcoming AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts from All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-089.01\nANS-089 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 089.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 30, 2014\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-089.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFUNcube-1 / AO-73 Transponder Test – March 29\n\n\nResults of last weekend’s tests: the transponder was maintained ON\nfor two orbits, and we did not see any noticeable fall in battery\ntemperature.\n\nWe are therefore proposing to repeat the test on Saturday, March 29,\nbut leave the transponder on for a longer period. We will switch it\non during the first pass over the UK (approx 10:30 UT) and switch it\noff during one of the evening passes over UK, the first of which is\nat approx 20:00 UT.\n\nWe are particularly interested to receive TLM when the satellite is\ncoming out of eclipse (i.e. when it should be at its coldest\ntemperature). So reception from suitably located stations would be\nvery welcome.\n\nFUNcube website\nhttp://www.funcube.org.uk/\n\nFUNcube Yahoo Group\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/funcube/yahoo-group/\n\nFUNcube Forum\nhttp://forum.funcube.org.uk/\n\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nEighth Annual AMSAT/TAPR Banquet Speaker Announced\n\n\nThe eighth annual AMSAT/TAPR Banquet will be held on Friday night,\nMay 16. This dinner is always a highlight of the AMSAT (Radio\nAmateur Satellite Corp.) and TAPR (Tucson Amateur Packet Radio)\nactivities during the Dayton Hamvention.\n\nThis year's speaker will be Dr. Tom Clark, K3IO, 'Sixty Years a\nSlave (to Amateur Radio)'.\n\nTom received his Ph.D. in Astro-Geophysics from the University of\nColorado, served as Chief of the Astronomy Branch at NASA Marshall\nSpace Flight Center, was a Senior Scientist at NASA Goddard Space\nFlight Center, has been active in both AMSAT and TAPR, and holds an\nExtra Class license. Along with Bob McGwier, N4HY he developed the\nfirst amateur DSP hardware, including a number of modems. He\ndeveloped the uplink receivers and the spacecraft LAN architecture\nused on all the Microsats (Oscars 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27 and 31).\nTom was inducted into the initial class of CQ Magazine's Amateur\nRadio Hall of Fame in 2001. Professionally, he is a Fellow of the\nAmerican Geophysical Society and the International Association of\nGeodesy. In 2005 he was the first non-Russian to be awarded the\nSpecial Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for his\ncontributions to the international Very Long Baseline Interferometry\nnetwork.\n\nTickets ($30 each) must be purchased online by May 13th on the AMSAT\nwebsite at www.amsat.org through the AMSAT Store tab.\nTickets will not be sold at the Hamvention or at the door.\nTickets purchased online may be collected at the AMSAT booth\n(433-435, 444-446).\nThe Banquet will take place at the Kohler Presidential Banquet\nCenter, 4572 Presidential Way, Kettering, OH 45429 (just south of\nDayton). The cash bar will open at 1830 EDT, with the dinner\ncommencing around 1900 EDT.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Steve Belter, N9IP for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Awards Announced\n\n\nHere is our latest induction into some of the AMSAT awards community.\n\n\nThe following have entered into the Satellite Communicators Club for \nmaking their first satellite QSO.\nAlan Ehrenberg, N9EDV\nBenjamin Gaston, KV4RH\nScott Medbury, KD5FBA\nDoug Birky, KB8M\nRichard Manderski, W2SKI\nEric Stapleton, VA7TU\n\n\nThe following have earned the AMSAT Communications Achievement Award.\nRichard Manderski, W2SKI, #562\n\n\nThe following have earned the South Africa Satellite Communications \nAchievement Award.\nRichard Manderski, W2SKI, #US190\n\n\nTo see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or\nhttp://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html\n\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nRadar outage prompts delay of Falcon 9 launch\n\n\nSpaceX's launch of a cargo resupply mission to the International\nSpace Station has been delayed from Sunday after a critical U.S. Air\nForce rocket tracking radar was knocked offline, officials said late\nWednesday.\n\nThe radar is part of the Air Force-run Eastern Range, a network of\ntracking, communications and safety assets stretching from Florida\ninto the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nSources said Air Force officials are trying to repair the radar\nafter a fire damaged it. The radar is located near Cape Canaveral,\nbut an Air Force spokesperson did not respond to multiple inquiries\non the nature of the problem and how long it would take to fix.\n\nThe radar outage already forced United Launch Alliance to delay the\nlaunch of an Atlas 5 rocket with a classified National Reconnaissance\nOffice payload to no earlier than April 10. Liftoff of the Atlas 5,\nwhich was already rolled out to the launch pad, was scheduled for\nTuesday.\n\nEngineers will return the Atlas 5 rocket to its nearby integration\nbuilding Thursday to wait for another launch attempt.\n\nA new target launch date for SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was not\navailable late Wednesday, but a company spokesperson confirmed the\nAir Force would be unable to support a launch attempt Sunday night.\n\nEngineers had analyzed differences between the Atlas 5 and Falcon 9\nrocket, including the configurations of the launch pads and the speed\nat which the launchers take off, to see if the boosters could fly\nwithout the damaged radar, a source said.\n\nThe SpaceX cargo resupply flight to the space station must be\nscheduled around other visiting vehicles. A Russian Progress cargo\nspacecraft is set to launch and dock to the space station April 9, so\nany delay of more than a few days will likely cause the SpaceX launch\nto slip to mid-April, at the earliest.\n\nThe Falcon 9 launch was previously delayed from March 16 to review\ncontamination on thermal blankets inside the Dragon spacecraft's\nunpressurized cargo bay. SpaceX says the review showed the blankets\nwere acceptable to fly without changes.\n\nThe Dragon spacecraft will deliver 2.4 tons of equipment to the\nspace station.\n\nMost of the payloads are packed inside the Dragon's pressurized\ncabin, including 1,576 pounds of science and research equipment,\n1,049 pounds of crew supplies, 449 pounds of vehicle hardware, and\n271 pounds of spacewalk tools.\n\nThe space station crew will unload the gear inside the Dragon\nspacecraft's internal module.\n\nTwo larger payload packages inside the Dragon's unpressurized\nsection will be removed and stowed on the space station using the\noutpost's Canadian robotic arm and Dextre robot.\n\nThe optical communications and high-definition video systems carried\ninside the Dragon's external trunk are the first large unpressurized\nNASA experiments assigned for delivery to the space station by SpaceX.\n\nThe Dragon spacecraft is expected to remain attached to the space\nstation for about one month.\n\nThe cargo delivery mission is SpaceX's third operational resupply\nflight under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA covering 12 missions\nthrough 2016.\n\n\n(ANS thanks Stephan Clark, Spaceflightnow.com for the above article)\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLithuanian President’s greetings message sent from space\n\n\nA greetings message from the President of the Republic of Lithuania\nDalia Grybauskaite, has been transmitted by the amateur radio\nsatellite LituanicaSAT-1. She is believed to be the first President\nof any nation to have a greetings message sent from space since\nPresident Eisenhower in 1958.\n\nIn 2013 the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia\nGrybauskaite. visited the Science Communication and Information\nCenter (SCIC) at Vilnius University. There she saw the amateur radio\nCubeSat LituanicaSAT-1. Using a handheld radio and the call sign LY5N\nshe transmitted through the satellite’s FM voice transponder.\n\nHer words “Greetings to all Lithuanians around the world” were\nrecorded on a memory chip in the satellite and the message was\nsuccessfully transmitted from space on March 22, 2014 at 04:17:38 UT.\n\nLituanicaSAT-1 was launched to the International Space Station (ISS)\non January 9, 2014 and was deployed with other amateur radio\nsatellites on February 28.\n\nThe tiny satellite is just 10x10x10 cm with a mass of 1.090 kg yet\nit has a VGA camera and a 145/435 MHz FM voice transponder, designed\nand built by Lithuanian radio amateurs.\n\nThe prototype of the FM repeater has been operating in the home of\nits designer Žilvinas Batisa LY3H in Elektre.nai, Lithuania. Further\ninformation at http://ly3h.epalete.com/?p=303\n\nLituanicaSAT-1 CubeSat\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/02/27/lituanicasat-1-cubesat/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPRN codes for KickSat Sprites released\n\n\nZac Manchester KD2BHC has posted another update on the KickSat\nCubeSat which will carry 104 tiny Sprite satellites into a 325×315 km\n51.5 degree inclination orbit. The launch will be broadcast live on\nNASA TV, which will also be streaming on Ustream.\n\nUPDATE: The launch has been postponed, see\nhttp://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/009/140327delay/\n\nFor latest date check\nhttp://spaceflightnow.com/tracking/\n\nThe primary launch date for the SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS 3 mission from\nthe Kennedy Space Center scheduled for March 31 at 0250 GMT has been\ncancelled, no new launch date has been set.\n\nZac says “Since a laptop can only decode one or two Sprite signals\nat a time, I’ve also been busy getting our radio upload page set up\nso that you can record a pass without having to decode it in real-\ntime, upload the .wav file, and have all 104 Sprite signals decoded\non our server with the results emailed back to you. This will also\nhelp our team collect as much data as possible from around the world.\nThe page will be live before launch.”\n\nAll of the 104 Sprite satellites transmit on the same frequency.\nEach Sprite has a unique pair of Pseudo-Random Number (PRN) codes\nthat it encodes its transmissions with, allowing a receiver to tell\nthe Sprites apart (this is known as CDMA). A list of all Sprite PRN\ncodes codes is available at\n\nhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArAGbHISj5okdEhBbkZiWGxBS\njNmcEs4ZkgwMmNsUEE&usp=sharing\n\n\nKickSat Google Group\nhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum\n\nKickSat Sprite Ground Station by Andy Thomas G0SFJ\nhttp://kicksat.wordpress.com/support/kicksat-ground-station/\n\nBritish Interplanetary Society: Sprite Technical Summary\nhttp://www.bis-space.com/2013/03/09/9301/kicksat-technical-summary\n\nKickSat Amateur Radio Information\nhttps://github.com/zacinaction/kicksat/wiki/Radio-Info\n\nSetting up a ground station\nhttps://github.com/zacinaction/kicksat/wiki/Setting-Up-A-Ground-\nStation\n\nWatch a video of the planned deployment at\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/03/03/mass-launch-of-437-mhz-satellites/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNew frequency for Ukrainian PolyITAN-1 CubeSat\n\n\nThe IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel have announced a new\nfrequency for the Ukrainian amateur radio CubeSat PolyITAN-1, planned\nto launch from Yasny in Russia.\n\nIARU say the new frequency of 437.675 MHz was needed to avoid\ninterference occurring with another spacecraft on the same launch.\n\nPolyITAN-1 was built by students at the Kiev National University\n“KPI” in cooperation with the Ukrainian ham radio community.\n\nThe mission is to launch Ukrainian educational satellite build by\nKPI students and space exploration enthusiasts. Specific mission\ntargets are:\n• Develop, build, test, launch and operate a Ukrainian small\nsatellite platform based on the CubeSat standard.\n• Conduct mission experiments with following payloads:\n. o Sun sensor\n. o Attitude position and orientation system including system\nsoftware\n. o Test on-board GLONASS/GPS navigation subsystem\n• Build ground segment infrastructure for satellite communication\n• Develop and test onboard and ground telecommunication software,\nimplement telecommunication protocols\n• Establish cooperation between educational institute, space\nagency(s) and various government authorities, Ham radio community\n\nPolyITAN-1 is a 1U CubeSat which will have a 1200 bps AFSK AX25 600\nmW downlink on 437.675 MHz. It will also have a CW beacon (EM0UKPI).\n\nArchitecture Design of PolyITAN-1\nhttp://congress.cimne.com/eucass2013/admin/files/fileabstract/a272.pdf\n\nPolyITAN-1 in Google English http://tinyurl.com/PolyITAN-1\nOriginal text http://amsat.at.ua/\n\nUY2RA Blog Post http://tinyurl.com/UY2RA-Blog-Post\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUpcoming AMSAT 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\nSaturday, 5 April 2014 – The Greater Baltimore Hamboree and\nComputerfest 2014, including the Maryland Emergency Preparedness Expo\n2014, at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium MD. AMSAT will\nhave a booth at this hamfest, and other AMSAT-related events may be\nplanned.\n\nSaturday, 5 April 2014 – Amateur Radio Club of Parker County‘s\nWeatherford Hamfest at the Central Christian Church in Weatherford TX\n(west of Fort Worth). AMSAT will have a table at this event, and\nthere may be satellite demonstrations during the hamfest.\n\nMonday, 28 April 2014 – presentation at Franklin County Amateur\nRadio Club meeting in Greenfield MA by Barry Baines WD4ASW (AMSAT\nPresident)\n\nSaturday, 3 May 2014 – Cochise Amateur Radio Association‘s Larry\nWarren Hamfest in Sierra Vista AZ (southeast of Tucson) – AMSAT will\nhave a table at this hamfest, and satellite demonstrations are\nplanned.\n\nSaturday, 7 June 2014 – Kachina Amateur Radio Club‘s White Mountain\nHamfest in Show Low AZ (eastern Arizona, south of US-60/AZ-77/AZ-260)\n– AMSAT will have a table at this hamfest, and satellite\ndemonstrations are planned.\n\nFriday and Saturday, 13-14 June 2014 – Ham-Com in Plano TX (north of\nDallas)\n\nThursday through Sunday, 17-20 July 2014 – ARRL Centennial\nConvention in Hartford CT. AMSAT will host a day-long Satellite\nWorkshop on Thursday, and have a booth at the convention along with\nan AMSAT Forum and demonstrations throughout the convention.\n\nSaturday and Sunday, 30-31 August 2014 – Shelby Hamfest in Shelby NC\n(west of Gastonia and Charlotte) – Barry Baines WD4ASW (AMSAT\nPresident) will host an AMSAT Forum on Saturday of this weekend\n\nFriday through Sunday, 12-14 September 2014 – ARRL Southwestern\nDivision Convention 2014 in San Diego CA (north of the city center,\nnear Montgomery Field airport & I-805/CA-163 interchange) – AMSAT\nwill have a booth at this convention, there will be on-air\ndemonstrations using satellites throughout the convention, and a\npresentation on amateur satellites and AMSAT\n\nAMSAT maintains and updated list of known upcoming events at\nhttp://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=218\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nRecent Contacts:\n\nA telebridge contact via W6SRJ with students at Melbourne Grammar\nSchool – Grimwade House, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia was\nsuccessful Tue 2014-03-25 08:43:15 UTC 79 deg.\nAstronaut Koichi Wakata, KC5ZTA answered 20 questions for students.\n\nMelbourne Grammar School – Grimwade House is a co-educational\nPrimary School with 650 students aged from 5 to 12 years old.\nGrimwade House bases its education on the Australian Curriculum. One\nof the Major Learning Areas outlined in the Australian Curriculum is\nScience. Grimwade House is fortunate to have a purpose built Science\nroom and a teacher who is dedicated to and passionate about the\nteaching of Science. All students from Prep to Year 4 have one lesson\nof Science per week and Year 5 and Year 6 students have a double\nlesson of Science each fortnight.\n\nLesson topics:\n - Students investigate features of the Earth’s interior\n - Students investigate the relative distances of the planets\nin our solar system\n - Students investigate constellations seen in the night skies\nin the Southern Hemisphere\n - Students investigate shadows and their relationship to light\nsources in Space\n - Students investigate propulsion\n - Students investigate insulation and other elements\nastronauts need to consider when exploring our place in Space.\n\n\nNext planned event(s): Events will resume in April\n\nThere are no ARISS planned ARISS contacts due to crew schedules and\nresupply mission schedules.\n\nARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering\nthe participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA,\nCNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from\nparticipating countries.\n\nARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the\nexcitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-\nboard the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and\ncommunities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS\ncan energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and\nlearning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on\nthe website\nhttp://www.ariss.org/\n(graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada).\n\n\n[ ANS thanks ARISS for the above update]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts from all over\n\n\nChichijima Island Satellite Operation Planned\n\nMakoto, JI5RPT, will once again be active as JD1BLY from Chichijima\nIsland (AS-031), Ogasawara, between April 27th and May 5th. Activity\nwill be on 40-6 meters, including the satellites, using CW, SSB and\nthe Digital modes (NO 6m EME). QSL via his home callsign JI5RPT.\nHis log search will be available on his Web site at:\n http://www.ji5rpt.com/jd1\nHe will also use Twitter to inform his real-time activities at:\n http://twitter.com/jd1bly\n\n[ANS thanks Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1155]\n\n\nRegistration for SA AMSAT Symposium Now Open\n\nRegistration for the SA AMSAT space symposium is now open. The sym-\nposium will be held on Saturday 24 May 2014 at the Innovation Hub\nin Pretoria. You get discounts for booking early and if you are an\nSARL or SA AMSAT member. Get all details on www.amsatsa.org.za\n\n[ANS thanks the SARL NEWS SUNDAY 23 MARCH 2014]\n\n\nNew ISS Position weblink\n\nISS link where you can find live public data of the ISS yaw, pitch\nand roll angles:\n\nhttp://spacestationlive.nasa.gov/displays/adcoDisplay2.html\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS and Gaston, ON4WF for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\n\n/EX\n\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", "attachments": [] }