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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/COQYDZJKHN6BILG2IT35FTYGPCTFDSKH/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "COQYDZJKHN6BILG2IT35FTYGPCTFDSKH", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/COQYDZJKHN6BILG2IT35FTYGPCTFDSKH/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "morsesat (a) optonline.net", "mailman_id": "72f51eafcada419487d1a984af73dff5", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/72f51eafcada419487d1a984af73dff5/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Dee", "subject": "[ans] ANS-265 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2008-09-21T13:40:10Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-265\n\n**************************************************************\n*** 2008 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting ***\n*** October 24-26 in Atlanta, Georgia ***\n**** Please see the AMSAT-NA Website for INFO ****\n**************************************************************\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North\nAmerica, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the\nactivities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an\nactive interest in designing, building, launching and communicating\nthrough analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\n\nIn this edition:\n* South African SumbandilaSat Launch Likely By Year-End 2008\n* Richard Garriott W5KWQ ISS Operations Will Include SSTV\n* Increased Solar Illumination Allows AO-16 Operations to Continue\n* Flight 4 of Falcon 1\n* Welcome Aboard AMSAT-Indonesia\n* ARISS Status - 21 August 2008\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-265.01\nSouth African SumbandilaSat Launch Likely By Year-End 2008\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 265.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 21, 2008\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-265.01\n\nSouth African SumbandilaSat Launch Likely By Year-End 2008\n\nITAR-TASS published a news item stating that the first South African\nsatellite Sumbandila \"is likely to be launched into orbit along with\na Russian spacecraft Meteor-M at the end of 2008, said the head of\nthe Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), Anatoly Perminov.\n\n\"We are currently working toward adapting this cluster of satellite\nlaunch with the spacecraft Meteor-M, which will be launched this year.\"\nPerminov added that \"in the near future to meet with experts from South\nAfrica, perhaps even with the head of the South African Space Agency,\nto discuss the matter.\" According to Roscosmos, the South African side\nis ready to launch its first spacecraft to the new Russian launch\nvehicle Soyuz-2 \".\n\nITAR-TASS said that in return for launch services Russia will have\nthe opportunity to place on the territory of South Africa a tracking\nstation to receive f telemetry from upper stages of launch vehicles.\n\n[Editor Note:] AMSAT South Africa has designed and built a control\nsystem to facilitate the following operations:\n\n+ V/U voice transponder with an uplink in the 2 meter band and a\n downlink in the 70cm band.\n+ A parrot repeater (voice digipeater)\n+ A voice beacon\n\n[ANS thanks ITAR-TASS for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-265.02\nRichard Garriott W5KWQ ISS Operations Will Include SSTV\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 265.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 21, 2008\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-265.02\n\nRichard Garriott W5KWQ ISS Operations Will Include SSTV\n\nSeptember 18, 2008\nSilver Spring, Maryland\n\nRichard Garriott, W5KWQ, to communicate with Students and Ham Radio\nOperators World-wide through the Amateur Radio Station on-board the\nInternational Space Station (ISS)\n\nThrough multiple agreements with NASA, the Russian Space Agency, RSC\nEnergia, Space Adventures Ltd, and ARISS (Amateur Radio on the Inter-\nnational Space Station), Richard Garriott will fly to ISS and will\ncommunicate with students, ham radio operators, friends, and family\nworld-wide using the ARISS amateur radio station on-board the ISS.\n\nRichard Garriott, with the amateur radio callsign, W5KWQ is the sixth\nprivate citizen to be flown by the Russian space agency to the ISS. A\nlegendary video game programmer and designer, Garriott will be travel-\ning to orbit this October and will speak with hundreds of students\nwhile thousands more listen in during a series of ten-minute ham radio\ncontacts. His on-orbit stay on Soyuz and ISS is planned for October 12\nthrough 22, 2008.\n\nThe locales for the worldwide student contacts include eight Challenger\nLearning Centers in the U.S., the Austin Liberal Arts and Sciences\nAcademy in Austin, Texas, the Pinehurst School in Ashland, Oregon,\nthe Budbrooke School in the U.K., and the National Space Challenge in\nKuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Garriott also plans to have random chats with\nscouts world-wide as part of the amateur radio \"Jamboree on the Air\"\nwhich is planned for October 18 and 19.\n\n\"An important aspect of Richard Garriott's mission is to encourage\nstudents' interest in science and technology through the amateur radio\ncontacts,\" said Rosalie White, ARISS International Secretary-Treasurer\nand ARISS Program Manager for ARRL (American Radio Relay League).\n\"ARISS team members from all over the world volunteer their time every\nday so that students receive opportunities that we hope will cause them\nto study harder and learn more about any educational subject.\"\n\nThe connection from the ISS to individual student locations will be\nestablished through an amateur radio station set up directly at the\nschool or through the ARISS network of worldwide amateur radio ground\nstations utilized to link Garriott directly with students. The amateur\nradio system works similar to the way mission control centers in the\nUnited States and Russia talk to their space explorers.\n\nTo date, the ARISS international working group volunteer team has\nconducted over 360 school contacts with crew members using ham radio\non the ISS. The team has also set up radio contacts for family members\nof space explorers via ham radio. And have enabled countless contacts\nbetween the ISS crew members and hams on the ground. All previous\nSpace Adventures private citizens who have flown to ISS have used the\nARISS equipment to talk to school students, ham radio operators and\nfriends and family.\n\nAs part of Richard Garriott's science investigations, he will be\ntaking highdefinition photographs of many parts of the Earth and\ncomparing them to photos taken on previous space missions. In con-\njunction with his Earth science investigation, Mr. Garriott is flying\nspecial amateur radio electronics that will enable him to send and\nreceive low resolution images from space, comparable to cell phone\nimages. Through this ham radio system, called Slow-Scan Television\n(SSTV), Garriott will beam down images of the Earth to schools and ham\nradio operators on the ground so that they can actively participate\nin his mission.\n\nFrank Bauer, KA3HDO, ARISS International Chairman and AMSAT Vice\nPresident for Human Spaceflight Programs, states: \"The ARISS team\nis quite excited about Richard's flight. He is very interested in\nbringing the wonders of space to those of us on Earth and he sees\namateur radio as a great mechanism to make that happen. Through\nhis school and scout voice contacts, his SSTV image downlinks and\nhis communications with the world-wide amateur radio community, we\nsee his mission as being \"action packed\" from an amateur radio\nperspective.\"\n\nBauer continues, \"What is extra special is that Richard Garriott's\nflight coincides almost 25 years from when his father, Owen Garriott,\nmade history as the first ham radio operator to communicate with\nradio amateurs from space on the STS-9 Space Shuttle mission.\" Owen\nGarriott's call sign is W5LFL. Richard also hopes to link up with\nhis father via amateur radio during his flight.\n\nCurrently, Mr. Garriott is finishing his final spaceflight preparations\nat the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) located in Star City,\nRussia. His launch date is scheduled for October 12, 2008, with ISS\ndocking planned for October 14 and undocking planned for October 22.\nMr. Garriott was trained thoroughly to be a member of the Soyuz TMA-13/\n17S crew.\n\nSince its first flight with Owen Garriott, in November 1983, Ham Radio\nhas flown on more than two-dozen space shuttle missions, on the Mir\nSpace Station and on the ISS. ARISS is the first and longest continuous\noperating educational outreach program to fly on the ISS. ARISS is an\ninternationally-based working group, sponsored by the national amateur\nradio organizations and the international AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite\nCorporation) organizations from each country as well as the ISS space\nagency partners. In the United States, ARISS is sponsored by the Ameri-\ncan Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation-\nNorth America (AMSAT-NA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-\nistration (NASA). NASA's education office provides support to ARISS\nand guidance in the development of ARISS educational objectives.\n\nThe primary purpose of ARISS is to allow students engaged in a science\nand technology curriculum to speak with an astronaut orbiting the\nEarth on the International Space Station. Using amateur radio,\nstudents ask questions about life in space or other space-related\ntopics. Students fully participate in the ARISS contact by helping\nset up an amateur radio ground station at the school and then using\nthat station to talk directly with the on-board crew member. Prep-\naration for the experience motivates the children to learn about\nradio waves, space technology, science, geography and the space\nenvironment. In many cases, the students help write press releases\nand give presentations on the contact to their fellow students and\nto the local community. Through this hands-on experience, students\nare engaged and educated in the Science, Technology, Engineering and\nMathematics (STEM) fields, and are inspired to pursue STEM-related\ncareers.\n\nFor more information about amateur radio on the ISS and Richard\nGarriott's flight, go to:\n\nhttp://www.ariss.org\nhttp://richardinspace.com\nhttp://spaceadventures.com\nhttp://www.arrl.org\nhttp://www.amsat.org\nhttp://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/reference/radio/index.html\nhttp://dln.nasa.gov/dln/content/catalog/details/?cid=634\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/ARISS.html\n\nScout Jamboree on the Air:\nhttp://www.scout.org/jota\n\nFrank H. Bauer, KA3HDO\nAMSAT-NA V.P. for Human Spaceflight Programs\nARISS International Chairman\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-265.03\nIncreased Solar Illumination Allows AO-16 Operations to Continue\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 265.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 21, 2008\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-258.03\n\nIncreased Solar Illumination Allows AO-16 Operations to Continue\n\nAO-16 Command Station, Mark N8MH commanded AO-16 ON and restored it to\nvoice mode on September 15. Mark commented, \"At the time of my message\nwe are up to 30 hours of continuous uptime, which is a 'good thing.'\nOur predictions regarding sustained activities seem to be right on the\nmark. Recording your observations about AO-16 at http://oscar.dcarr.org/\nhas been, and will continue to be, very helpful to us.\"\n\nIt is possible that the transmitter will turn OFF; this requires some\ncommanding to get it running again, which means a pass over the Eastern\nUS coast is required for a change in status. The command team is hoping\nthat the bird will remain ON more often than OFF for the next several\nweeks.\n\nIllumination projects (and subsequent temperature predictions) suggest\nthat AO-16 might be able to sustain operations until early November. So,\nif you want some AO-16 contacts, you had better get them before then.\nAfter November 2008, it may be a long, long, time before the orbit pro-\nvides favorable temperatures for the bird to remain operational for\nmore than a few seconds or minutes at a time.\n\nCurrent operational mode for AO-16\n\nMode FM Voice Repeater ( Downlink is DSB)\nUplink : 145.9200 MHz FM\nDownlink 437.0260 MHz SSB\n\n[ANS thanks Mark, N8MH for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-265.04\nFlight 4 of Falcon 1\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 265.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 21, 2008\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-265.04\n\nFlight 4 of Falcon 1\n\nAs mentioned in my update last month, we do expect to conduct a launch\ncountdown in late September - as scheduled.\n\nHaving said that, it is still possible that we encounter an issue that \nneeds to be investigated, which would delay launch until the next \navailable window in late October. If preparations go smoothly, we will \nconduct a static fire on Saturday and launch sometime between Tuesday \nand Thursday (California time).\n\nThe SpaceX team worked hard to make this launch window, but we also took \nthe time to review data from Flight 3 in detail. In addition to us \nreviewing the data, we had several outside experts check the data and \nconclusions. No flight critical problems were found apart from the \nthrust transient issue.\n\nFlight 5 production is well underway with an expected January completion \ndate, Flight 6 parts are on order and Flight 7 production will begin \nearly next year. We are now in steady state production of Falcon 1 at a \nrate of one vehicle every four months, which we will probably step up to \none vehicle every two to three months in 2010.\n\n--Elon--\n\n[ANS thanks Lee, KU4OS for the above information]\n\nEX/\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-265.05\nWelcome Aboard AMSAT-Indonesia\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 265.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 21, 2008\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-265.05\n\nWelcome Aboard AMSAT-Indonesia\n\nHakim Satar YB0AN, contacted AMSAT-NA President Rick Hambly W2GPS\nthis week with the announcement that AMSAT-Indonesia has formed.\nRick replied, \"Congratulations on the new AMSAT. I have added you\nto the AMSAT Web site and included various AMSAT-NA mail groups\non this reply so everyone will receive the good news.\"\n\nTwo web links are available:\nhttp://www.amsat-id.net\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/links/Asia.php\n\n[ANS thanks Hakim Satar YB0AN, President AMSAT-Indonesia for\n the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-265.06\nARISS Status - 21 September 2008\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 265.06\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 21, 2008\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-265.06\n\nARISS Status Report for the Week of September 15, 2008\n\n1. Upcoming School Contact - Status\n\nThe ARISS team continues working to schedule the next contact. Contact\napprovals for the week have been delayed due to the closure of Johnson\nSpace Center, which was closed for Hurricane Ike.\n\n2. Boy Scouts Contact Successful\n\nOn Saturday, September 13, Prairielands Council Scouts attending the\nSpace Jamboree at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois partici-\npated in an ARISS contact with Greg Chamitoff, KD5PKZ. Telebridge station\nWH6PN in Hawaii assisted with the contact. Thirteen Scouts were able\nto ask 17 questions of the astronaut during the pass. Scout leaders\nreplayed the question and answer session later in the day for all 3,000\nScouts attending the Jamboree. The audio was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT\nserver and Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) Reflector 9010.\nThe News-Gazette printed a press release for the event:\nhttp://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2008/09/12/scouts_at_jamboree_set_to_\ntalk_with_space_station_astronauts\n\n3. ARISS at Launchfest\n\nOn Saturday, September 13, the public was invited to Goddard Space\nFlight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland to attend Launchfest. There were\nplenty of exhibits and demonstrations of space related activities\nincluding model rocket launches and space robots. The event also\ncelebrated NASA's 50th anniversary. ARISS members supported Launchfest\nand distributed ARISS lithographs.\n\n4. Garriott Prepares for Ham Radio Activities\n\nSpaceflight participant Richard Garriott, W5KWQ, is scheduled to launch\non October 12 with the Expedition 18 crew. He plans to take part in\nseveral ARISS activities while onboard the ISS. His activities include\nspeaking with children at Challenger Learning Centers throughout the\nU.S. He mentioned his radio training in his recent blog. See:\nhttp://www.richardinspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.welcome&theyear=&the\nmonth=&view=77#77\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\nPresident's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors\nto AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits.\nApplication forms are available from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nDee Interdonato, NB2F\nnb2f at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }