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    "subject": "[ANS] ANS-197 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for July 16",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-197\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* AMSAT Board of Directors Voting Has Begun\n* Youth on the Air Camp 2023 To Be On Satellites\n* HABGab and StratoScience Balloon Launch\n* Space Shuttle Remembered\n* Historical Space Tour Before Orlando Hamcation\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution\n* ARISS-USA Seeks for Director of Education\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-197 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 July 16\n\n\nAMSAT Board of Directors Voting Has Begun\n\nAMSAT members may access the 2023 Board of Directors election information\nand balloting now. Candidate statements can be reviewed by voting members\nvia AMSAT’s Wild Apricot membership portal. An email with a link to the\nelectronic ballot was sent to all AMSAT members when the voting opened on\nJuly 15th.\n\nThe nomination period for the 2023 Board of Directors Election ended on\nJune 15, 2023. The following candidates have been duly nominated:\n\n    Barry Baines, WD4ASW\n    Jerry Buxton, N0JY\n    Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA\n    Zach Metzinger, N0ZGO\n    Frank Karnauskas, N1UW\n\nAs four seats on the Board of Directors are up for election this year, four\nof these candidates will be seated on the Board, along with one alternate\nwhen the voting period concludes on September 15th.\n\nTo view the candidate statements members may go to https://launch.amsat.org/\nand log in using their usual member credentials. Those who need assistance\nwith the login should see the document at https://bit.ly/44LOXPV\n\n[ANS thanks Jeff Davis, KE9V, AMSAT Secretary, for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n   The 2023 AMSAT President's Club coins are here now!\nTo commemorate the 40th anniversary of its launch\non June 16, 1983, this year's coin features\nan image of AMSAT-OSCAR 10.\nJoin the AMSAT President's Club today and help\nKeep Amateur Radio in Space!\nhttps://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nYouth on the Air Camp 2023 To Be On Satellites\n\nYouth on the Air (YOTA), the camp for young amateur radio operators in\nNorth, Central and South America, will operate special event station\nVE3YOTA while camp is in session from July 16-21, 2023. The camp will also\nhave a contact with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station,\nand complete a Parks on the Air (POTA) activation. The camp's opening and\nclosing ceremonies will also be streamed on YouTube.\n\nCampers will be operating special event station VE3YOTA from the camp at\nCarleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and the Diefenbunker Cold\nWar Museum in Carp, Ontario, Canada. Additionally, campers will activate a\ntwo-for-one POTA location.\n\nActivation of the VE3YOTA callsign will begin on Sunday, July 16 and\nconclude at 2 p.m. on Friday, July 21. Youth will operate the station as\nthey finish projects, between sessions, and during free time.\n\nIn addition, dedicated HF station operating times will be: Monday, July 17\nthrough Wednesday, July 19 from 2300Z to 0230Z (7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. EDT).\nDedicated satellite station operating time will be: Wednesday, July 19 from\n1400Z to 1700Z (10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT).\n\nFifteen QRP stations will activate a two-for-one POTA location, Central\nExperimental Farm National Historic Site (VE-5095) and Rideau Canal\nNational Historic Site (VE-4882) on 40m, 20m, 15m, and 10m.  Weather\npermitting, the activation will be on the air on Tuesday, July 18 from\n1900Z to 2100Z (3 p.m. to 5 p.m. EDT) and Thursday, July 20 from 1300Z to\n1600Z (9 a.m. to noon EDT).\n\nThe opening and closing ceremonies and the International Space Station\ncontact will be streamed live on the Youth on the Air YouTube channel. The\nopening ceremony is Sunday, July 16 from 2100Z to 2315Z, and will feature\nkeynote speaker Phil McBride, VA3QR, the president of Radio Amateurs of\nCanada.  The ARISS contact is currently scheduled to take place on Tuesday,\nJuly 18 at 1842Z (2:42 p.m. EDT).  The closing ceremony is Friday, July 21\nfrom 1500Z to 1600Z (11 a.m. to noon EDT). The channel will also feature a\ndaily highlight video spotlighting the activities of the previous day.\n\nFor details about the camp, visit https://youthontheair.org/\n\nFor additional information, please contact Camp Director Neil Rapp, WB9VPG\nat [email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks Frank Karnauskas, N1UW, and YOTA 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\nHABGab and StratoScience Balloon Launch\n\nHABGab 2023 is a special event for the ham radio community in New England\ntaking place in the Summer of 2023. Attached to a 2000g weather balloon\nwill be suspended three payloads:\n\n+ One will contain a crossband UHF/VHF repeater, built from two linked\nBaofeng BF-F8HP HTs. This repeater will act as a 2-3 hr. one-time event for\nhams around New England. Anyone with a ham radio license is invited to try\ncalling into the repeater during the flight.\n\n+ To make it even more exciting, the second payload will transmit live\nvideo of the flight from two cameras. The camera feed and repeater audio\nwill be streamed live on YouTube from New England Sci-Tech.\n\n+ The third payload will contain a number of science and engineering\nexperiments from middle school students at New England Sci-Tech and\nFranklin’s BFCCPS school as part of a new program called StratoScience Lab.\n\nEach weekend starting in July will be a new potential opportunity for\nflight, however, much depends on good weather and wind patterns. Current\nlaunch date set for Sunday, July 16. Please check\nhttps://nescitech.org/clubs/newbs/habgab-launch/ regularly as the launch\ndate approaches to get an up to date countdown. High altitude balloon\nflights can be frequently scrubbed many times before finally launching.\n\nDuring the flight, the balloon’s real-time position will be available\nonline at https://amateur.sondehub.org under the callsign W1U. The\nrepeater’s frequencies are currently set to:\nUplink (your transmit): 146.55 MHz\nDownlink (your receive): 446.05 MHz\nWhen calling in, listen for the W1U station operator then try to making a\ncontact! Please have your four character Maidenhead grid location for the\ncontact exchange. If your contact is confirmed, you will receive a special\nevent QSL card for HABGab 2023!\n\nThe HABGab and StratoScience payloads will have several ham radio trackers\naboard, which provide live position and altitude data to ground stations.\nThese ground stations post this data to the internet in real time. This\nmeans you can view the position of the payload at any time during the\nflight by visiting this website, https://amateur.sondehub.org/, navigating\nto Massachusetts, and looking for these callsigns:\nW1U – Main payload (transmitted by repurposed RS-41 radiosonde)\nW1U-15 – Main payload (transmitted by custom-built APRS transmitter)\nW0MXX-15 – Autorotation device. A small, unpowered helicopter that will\nseparate from main payload at 81,000 feet and descend to the ground using\nautorotation. Tracker is a LightAPRS module.\nKC1SFR-11 – Glider that will separate from main payload at 80,000 feet and\nglide back to the ground. It will also deploy a parachute at roughly 3,000\nfeet.\n\nAlso onboard will be a U4B Pico tracker being tested by KC1OAV in\npreparation for a circumnavigation flight to happen at a later date. This\ncan be tracked separately at http://qrp-labs.com/tracking.html under the\nname NESciTech1.\n\nHABGab 2023 has been made possible thanks to a grant from the Amateur Radio\nRelay League (ARRL).\n\n[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, and New England Sci-Tech for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSpace Shuttle Remembered\n\nSaturday, July 8 marked the 12th anniversary of the last Space Shuttle\nmission. Ham astronauts operated amateur radio in space on a number of\nshuttle missions, providing many with their first opportunity to contact an\nastronaut in space -- an opportunity still actively pursued today through\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS).\n\nOver three decades, the five NASA space shuttles were launched on 135\nflights to orbit. The shuttles collectively traveled more than 537 million\nmiles and spent more than three and half years in orbit.\n\n* 355 people flew aboard the shuttles, including Sally Ride, the first\nAmerican woman to fly to space. Her first mission was aboard the Challenger\nin 1983.\n\n* Missions averaged about 10 days, with the shortest at 2 days, 6 hours and\nthe longest 17 days, 15 hours.\n\n* Mission objective included building the International Space Station,\ncarrying large satellites to space and maintaining equipment like the\nHubble Space Telescope. Ten missions remain classified, with little to no\ninformation publicly available.\n\nUltimately, the fatalities on Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003\nhelped bring about the end of the Shuttle program. The investigation in the\nloss of Columbia concluded that safety improvements would be costly. The\nprogram was shut down after construction on the ISS was complete.\n\n[ANS thanks Axios Space for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHistorical Space Tour Before Orlando Hamcation\n\nSadly, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center, a few years ago, stopped\noffering historical tours of Cape Canaveral and the sites of the Mercury\nlaunches and early uncrewed missions.\n\nHowever, Bruce Perens, K6BP, has arranged for a Canaveral tour on Thursday,\nFeb. 8, 2024 (the day before the Orlando Hamcation) at 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.\nOnly 9 people can be accomodated, U.S. Citizens only, and there will be a\n_required_ ID process before the tour. Cost will be about $60 each, and\nlunch or snacks will be offered between the sites.\n\nWe will go to:\n* LC-26, LC-5, and LC-6: the (adjacent) launch sites for much early space\nexploration including the first crewed flights of Alan Shepard and Gus\nGrissom. Besides walking around the pads and seeing a number of historical\nspace exhibits there, you will be able to access the firing room and the\nSpace Force Missile Museum.\n\n* Hangar C, where there are many restored historical space vehicles and\nmissiles, and the Canaveral lighthouse.\n\nWe will NOT have access to the Mercury Memorial, LC-14 (restored uncrewed\nflights firing room), and LC-34 (mostly-torn-down site of the Apollo 1\nfire), which were (at times) on the old Rise to Space tour.\n\nActivity on the base can force us to cancel or can change or curtail the\nitinerary.\n\nReserve your spot now via email to [email protected]\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce Perens, K6BP, 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 July 14\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 been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE\ndistribution:\n\nUmKA 1 (RS40S) NORAD Cat ID 57172 IARU coordinated frequencies 437.625 MHz,\n435.825 MHz and 2402.400 MHz (Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO for\nidentification).\n\n[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, and the AMSAT Orbital Elements page for\nthe above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nARISS-USA Seeks for Director of Education\n\nARISS-USA, a 501(c)(3) educational and scientific non-profit organization,\nis seeking an experienced educator with extensive leadership experience to\nserve as our Director of Education. This is a part-time, remote position in\nthe USA which includes a one-year probationary period.\n\nARISS provides and operates Amateur Radio systems on International Space\nStation (ISS) and elsewhere to inspire, educate, and engage youth and\ncommunities in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics\n(STEAM) and to support ISS backup communications. For more detailed\ninformation on ARISS, see the About ARISS-USA section, below, or visit the\nARISS web sites: www.ariss.org and www.ariss-usa.org.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n+ ARISS Education Senior Leadership: As the Director of Education, work\nwith the ARISS team to develop strategies and a vision to maintain and\nexpand the educational outcomes of youth that participate in the ARISS\nexperience.\n\n+ Education Engagement Volunteer Team (EEVT) Leadership: Serve as the\nleader of the ARISS education engagement volunteer team, fostering passion\nwithin the team, recruiting new team members, and ensuring each radio\ncontact opportunity meets ARISS’ objectives of inspiring, engaging, and\neducating youth in STEAM/STEM and encouraging youth to pursue careers in\nthese fields.\n\n+ Host Organization Contact Competitive Selection: Coordinate the\nsemi-annual request for proposal (RFP) process to solicit and select host\norganizations (e.g., schools and informal education organizations) for\nARISS astronaut radio contacts. Staff the proposal selection team, maintain\nRFP selection rubric and RFP process, conduct host organization information\nsessions, serve as the selection official, and coordinate with the ARISS\nexecutive team on endorsement of final selections and on ensuring host\norganizations and external media are promptly and accurately informed of\nthe results.\n\n+ ARISS Education Ambassadors (AEA): Recruit, train and guide AEAs,\nselected from the EEVT ranks. AEAs track their appointed ARISS contact host\norganizations to gather details and insight into how these contact teams\nare following their educational objectives as outlined in their proposals.\nAEAs also gather data to document ARISS contact educational outcomes,\nincluding photos, parent permission slips, student engagement descriptions,\nmetrics and post-survey compliance.\n\n+ Diversity and Inclusion: Develop team strategies that explicitly target\nimprovements in ARISS’ engagement with diverse and underrepresented youth\nand provide opportunities for these youth that motivate them to pursue\nSTEAM careers.\n\n+ ARISS Lesson Plans: Create or coordinate the development of lesson plans\nand educational kits that support the educational outcomes of ARISS host\norganizations. Compile external lessons that can serve ARISS host\norganizations, including lessons developed by our NASA and ISS National Lab\nsponsors. Maintain dedicated areas on the ARISS web site for posting these\nlessons for distribution.\n\n+ National Science Standards Alignment: Ensure ARISS education\ninitiatives—including the contact experience, lesson plans, and educational\nkits—align with National Science Standards.\n\n+ Metric Collection: Work with the education volunteer team to ensure\ncontact metrics and post-contact surveys are submitted. Conduct\npost-contact surveys and track survey performance over the course of the\nprogram. Present metrics and survey results to ARISS executive team and\nprepare materials and present results of educational outcomes to sponsors,\nstakeholders and prospective new partners.\n\n+ Networking: Participate in meetings, conferences, workshops and other\nopportunities to convey the educational breadth and depth of the ARISS\nExperience to space agencies, educators, sponsors, stakeholders, education\ndepartments, and federal and state governments.\n\n+ International Coordination: Work with ARISS educators in other countries\nto develop best practices and to convey the activities and methods employed\nby the ARISS-USA educator team.\n\nRequired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities\n\n+ Demonstrated leadership in a formal or informal education setting.\n\n+ 3+ years of teaching experience in a formal or informal education\nenvironment\n\n+ Graduation from an accredited college or university with a degree in\neducation, education administration or a related field.\n\n+ Proficient in the use of virtual technology, including Zoom, and ability\nto learn other virtual tools, such as Google Meet, Teams, Webex, Dropbox,\nGoogle docs and Office 365 products.\n\n+ Enthusiasm in providing education experiences in the STEAM field.\n\n+ Enthusiasm learning about amateur radio and wireless technologies and to\nenthusiastically convey these to educators and youth.\n\n+ Must be a U.S. citizen.\n\nPreferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities\n\n+ Basic understanding of amateur radio; possessing an amateur radio license\npreferred; obtaining an amateur radio license required post-hire. License\ntraining will be provided upon hiring.\n\n+ Educator that has previously conducted an ARISS contact.\n\n+ Experience and/or ability to work and lead a virtual, distributed,\nnationwide team.\n\n+ Experience in coordinating experiences, lessons learned and best\npractices with ARISS international colleagues.\n\n+ Experience in coordinating with partners, stakeholders and sponsors.\n\n+ Experience interfacing with space agencies or space organizations.\n\nLocation\n\nRemote, within the USA.\n\nAnticipated Salary\n\nPart time, 20-hour per week salary range is $23,000-$34,500 per year,\ndepending upon experience.\n\nHours worked per week and during the day are flexible, as long as the\ncandidate supports meeting engagements, meets deliverable times, and works\nan average of about 20 hours per week.\n\nOther Position Information\n\nCandidates accepted into this position will be required to first serve a\none-year probationary period. All candidates must be U.S. citizens.\n\nTo Apply\n\nIf you are interested in making a difference as an ARISS-USA team member,\nplease send your resume or CV to [email protected]. Include a cover\nletter explaining your interest in the position and why you are the optimal\ncandidate for this position.\n\nAll position applications are due no later than midnight (Eastern Daylight\nTime) July 31, 2023\n\n[ANS thanks 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\nUPCOMING:\nYOTA 2023, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, telebridge via IK1SLD.\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS and the scheduled\ncrewmember is Steve Bowen, KI5BKB. The ARISS mentor is VE3TBD. Contact is\ngo for: Tue 2023-07-18 18:42:54 UTC, 76 degrees maximum elevation.\nWatch for Livestream at:\nYOTA will be using https://youtube.com/live/A5bXZUGifYY?feature=share\nIK1SLD will start about 15 minutes before AOS at http://www.ariotti.com/\n\nCamp William B. Snyder, Haymarket, VA, telebridge via IK1SLD. The ISS\ncallsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS and the scheduled crewmember\nis Sultan Al Neyadi, KI5VTV. The ARISS mentor is AJ9N. Contact is go for:\nFri 2023-07-21 17:54:29 UTC, 54 degrees maximum elevation.\nWatch for Livestream at:\nThe Camp will using: https://www.facebook.com/NCACSTEM/\nIK1SLD will start about 15 minutes before AOS at http://www.ariotti.com/\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\nBruce, VE7PTN, is planning to operate from the CO50/CO60 gridline during\nJuly 20 to 22. FM / linear LEO, and Greencube MEO. Posible POTA activation\non July 22 from VE-0711. New area for me so not sure what I will find when\nI get there. Will post more information closer to the date.\n\nBI1NJI will be QRV as BI1NJI/3 from ON83, 24 through 27 July, FM and\nIO-117. Twitter @YankaiP and has said that details will follow.\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+ Small Satellite Conference\nAugust 5-10, 2023\nUtah State University, Logan, UT\nMore information at: https://smallsat.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\n\nAMSAT Ambassador Clint Bradford, K6LCS, says,\n“Think a 75-minute presentation on “working the easy satellites” would be\nappropriate for your club or event? Let me know by emailing me at\nk6lcsclint (at) gmail (dot) com or calling me at 909-999-SATS (7287)!”\n\nClint has NEVER given the exact same show twice: EACH of the 150+\npresentations so far has been customized/tailored to their audiences.\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Events page for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Condolences to the family and friends of well-known satellite enthusiast,\nrover, and POTA operator Sara R. \"Bean\" Lefebvre, KC1MEB, who became a\nSilent Key on July 7 at age 40 after a battle with Auto-Brewery Syndrome.\n(ANS thanks Ant Lefebvre, NU1U, for the above information)\n\n+ Volunteer amateur satellite enthusiasts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are\nneeded to help talk Amateur Radio in space to a mostly non-ham audience of\nall ages at the 2023 edition of an event called \"Moon Day\" at the Frontiers\nof Flight Museum, Love Field, Dallas, TX on Saturday, July 22. The event is\n10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with Setup at 8 a.m. Mostly indoor, but we will have a\nnumber of satellite passes to work, cubesat simulators to show off, The FOX\nEngineering model, and other cool things to show off. If you can\nhelp/participate, contact Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, via email, [email protected]\nimmediately. For more information see https://www.flightmuseum.com/moon-day/\n(ANS thanks Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, for the above information)\n\n+ AMSAT-DL was founded in 1973, so with a view to the 50-year history of\nAMSAT-Germany and its mission of promoting amateur radio via satellites, a\ncelebratory conference “From OSCAR 10 to OSCAR 100: 50 years of AMSAT-DL in\nservice to science, research and education” is planned for September 15-17,\n2023, at the Bochum Observatory, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. For more\ninformation, see https://bit.ly/44rhPNE (ANS thanks AMSAT-DL for the above\ninformation)\n\n+ NASA has marked the first anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope’s\nscientific debut this week with the release of a new image, demonstrating\nthe telescope’s ability to re-envision the universe. The dramatic, somewhat\nhallucinatory image captures the dynamism of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud\ncomplex, the closest star-forming region to Earth, where planetary systems\nlike our own could be in the initial stages of forming:\nhttp://bit.ly/3PX0ZSb  “The telescope is working better than we could have\npossibly hoped for,” said NASA astrophysicist Jane Rigby, who earlier this\nmonth became the senior project scientist for the JWST. (ANS thanks The\nWashington Post for the above information)\n\n+ The Mars Sample Return mission — a joint project between NASA and the\nEuropean Space Agency — is currently under a major review. The cost of the\nmission may have increased from $4 billion or $5 billion to $8 billion or\n$9 billion, according to one estimate. NASA confirmed that one estimate in\nthe review of the program was in that cost range, but added, \"all scenarios\nare highly speculative.\" If the sample return mission does come with a\nhigher price tag, it could impact NASA's entire planetary science\nportfolio, as other missions are also experiencing technical delays and\nschedule problems. (ANS thanks Axios Space for the above information)\n\n+ Chinese private rocket firm Landspace achieved a global first late\nTuesday, July 11 by reaching orbit with a methane-fueled rocket. Zhuque-2\nbeats a range of other methalox rockets, including SpaceX’s Starship, the\nULA Vulcan, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, Rocket Lab’s Neutron and Terran R from\nRelativity Space, in reaching orbit. These other launch vehicles will be\nmuch larger and feature much greater payload capacity. A methane-liquid\noxygen propellant mix offers advantages in performance and reduces issues\nof soot formation and coking for purposes of reusability. (ANS thanks\nSpaceNews for the above information)\n\n+ India’s second attempt to land on the Moon, Chandrayaan-3, launched on\nJuly 14. The mission is a replacement for Chandrayaan-2, which crashed\nwhile descending to the lunar surface in September 2019. Chandrayaan-3 is\nscheduled for an August 23 or August 24 arrival. The lander and rover are\nscheduled to operate for one lunar day, which is about 14 Earth days. 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