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    "subject": "[ANS] ANS-056 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Feb. 25",
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    "content": "*ANS-056 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins*\nFebruary 25, 2024 by Frank Karnauskas <https://www.amsat.org/author/n1uw/>\n\nIn this edition:\n\n   - Bob Twiggs Keynote Address at 2024 AMSAT Space Symposium Now Available\n   - Updated Hamfest Handouts Now Online\n   - UK’s SaxaVord Spaceport to Launch Amateur Radio Satellites\n   - AO-73 Goes on Hiatus\n   - Bochum Space Conference 2024\n   - Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for February 23, 2024\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\n*Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at]\namsat [dot] 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-056 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 2024 FEB 25\nBob Twiggs Keynote Address at 2024 AMSAT Space Symposium Now Available\n\nFor those who missed Bob Twiggs, KE6QMD, keynote address at the 2023 AMSAT\nSpace Symposium, now is your chance to catch up on this delightful and\ninformative presentation. You can view Bob’s 36-minute presentation at\nhttps://youtu.be/uDPJ4SHAF74?si=c9f3xM8G1KFUjZPw. Sorry, there are no\nadvanced mathematical formulas or complex orbital mechanics to be found\nhere. Bob is a consummate story teller who brings warmth and humanity to\nthe pioneering days of amateur satellites. If you weren’t in Dallas for the\nlive event, this is the next best thing to being there.\n\nRobert J. Twiggs is a professor of Astronautics and Space Science at\nMorehead State University. He is responsible, along with Jordi Puig-Suari\nof California Polytechnic State University, for co-inventing the CubeSat\nreference design for miniaturized satellites which became an Industry\nStandard for design and deployment of the satellites.\n\nTwiggs earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics\nEngineering from the University of Idaho in 1961 and a Master of Science in\nElectrical Engineering with a concentration in microwave devices from\nStanford University in 1964.\n\nFrom 1985 to 1994, Twiggs was the director of the Weber State University\nCenter for Aerospace Technology. He served as a consulting professor in the\nStanford University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1994 to\n2008. At Stanford, he established the Space Systems Development Laboratory.\nBob Twiggs became a professor at Morehead State University in 2009 in an\neffort to push the PocketQube standard leveraging the university’s large\naperture space tracking system, and to help develop a space economy in the\nstate of Kentucky.\n\nIn 2019, Twiggs designed and proposed another smaller, simpler satellite\nform factor called ThinSat which could enable high school students to\ndesign and build satellites.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT and Wikipedia for the above information and David\nBeaujean, N8EPF, for his excellent work in editing the video presentation\nfor our enjoyment.]\n------------------------------\nUpdated Hamfest Handouts Now Online\n\nRealizing that the hamfest season runs from January 1st through December\n31st every year, AMSAT needed to update its venerable tri-fold handout.\nWhile AMSAT finalizes its plans for reinvigorating its Ambassador program,\nit wanted to make immediately available a fresh set of handouts for use at\nhamfests, maker-faires, and so on.\n\nSome of the considerations to be factored into an updated program are the\nincreased costs of printing and shipping small quantities of handouts here\nand there. Conversely, the cost of printing and shipping literature has to\nbe balanced against the inevitable “waste” factor of literature simply\ntossed into, at best, a nearby recycling bin by passer-by’s who feel\nobligated to take a handout offered to them as they walk by a display.\nConsiderable thought is being given to this situation.\n\nFor a few recent hamfests, a few AMSAT Ambassadors have been testing the\nconcept of displaying a poster with a QR code that interested parties can\nscan to download literature. Although it is too soon to say this approach\nis a smashing success, AMSAT Ambassadors testing the concept feel positive\nabout the reaction of hamfest participants visiting their displays. In\ntests, a QR code on a small poster can be successfully decoded at up to 20\nfeet away.\n\nYou can view or download the QR code poster at AMSAT Hamfest QR Code\n<https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Scan-Here-QR-Poster-Hamfest_85x11_240123.pdf>\n.\n\nThe QR code used brings the ham to a “landing” site of the AMSAT website.\nThe landing site offers the person\n\n   - A link to join AMSAT online,\n   - A two-page summary brochure as to why they should join AMSAT,\n   - A comprehensive brochure describing AMSAT activities, and\n   - A link to the AMSAT Store to buy a downloadable copy of “Getting\n   Started with Amateur Satellites.”\n\nYou can view the landing page at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/getting-started-with-amsat/. This page has been\nspecially formatted for use on smart phones. You can click on each of the\nimages to view or download each of the documents or links. Since this is a\ntest period for this approach, these pages are not cataloged on the web\nsite. After we receive feedback from AMSAT membership and especially AMSAT\nAmbassadors, access to these documents and the QR code poster will be open\nto general membership.\n\nThe AMSAT Ambassador team looks forward to your feedback on how to improve\nAMSAT’s presence at local and regional hamfests, maker-faires and other\nevents that can boost interest in amateur satellites and AMSAT membership.\nPlease send your comments and/or questions to [email protected]. If you are\ninterested in becoming an AMSAT Ambassador, please send an email with a\nshort resume to [email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information.]\n------------------------------\nUK’s SaxaVord Spaceport to Launch Amateur Radio Satellites\n\nTwo more amateur radio satellites, MARIA-G (HADES-F) and UNNE-1 (HADES-E),\nare planned to launch from the UK’s SaxaVord Spaceport later in 2024.\nPreviously announced amateur radio payloads on the launch are:\nERMINAZ-1U and -1V from AMSAT-DL\nGENESIS-MA and -ME from AMSAT-EA\nQUBIK 5, SIDLOC-PQ-1 and -PQ-2 from Libre Space Foundation\n\n*MARIA-G*\nA 1.5u Pocketqube. MARIA-G will offer radio amateurs around the world the\nopportunity to relay FM voice and AX.25 / APRS 300 / 1200 bps\ncommunications. The satellite will also transmit telemetry with its status\nand voice and CW messages. This all will be achieved by implementing a SDR\nbased FM and FSK repeater. The FM / FSK repeater will be available all time\nand opened by squelch level without the need of a PL tone/CTCSS.\n\nMain mission for MARIA-G is to be a FM repeater but it will also include a\nsimple guess game being implemented by students at Maria Guerrero High\nSchool in Collado Villalba – Madrid (Spain). The satellite will send a clue\neach week in CW so radio amateurs will have to solve the mystery by having\nall the clues.\n\nA small experiment, developed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft research\norganization (Germany) will also fly on the satellite to make proof of\nconcept transmissions of a TS-UNB waveform from a low Earth orbit. It will\ntransmit a TS-UNB message according to the ETSI standard ETSI-TS-103-357.\nIt is intended solely as a research and development project with no\ncommercial intent, all its data public and open. ITU modulation\nclassification would be 100K W2DWW but the bandwidth will be narrowed. The\noperation of this experiment will be managed by AMSAT-EA.\n\n*UNNE-1*\nA 1.5u Pocketqube. UNNE-1 will offer radio amateurs around the world the\nopportunity to relay FM voice and AX.25 / APRS 300 / 1200 bps\ncommunications. The satellite will also transmit telemetry with its status\nand voice and CW messages.\n\nThis all will be achieved by implementing a SDR based FM and FSK repeater.\nThe FM / FSK repeater will be available all time and opened by squelch\nlevel without the need of a PL tone/CTCSS.\n\nA small guessing-game is being implemented by students of Universidad de\nNebrija (Spain). The satellite will send a clue each week in its telemetry\nso radio-amateurs will have to solve the mystery by having all the clues.\nGame will be detailed in AMSAT-EA and Universidad de Nebrija websites.\n\nThe main mission for the satellite is acting as a FM voice repeater\nalthough due to its SDR nature it can repeat data too. This satellite is\nbased on the hardware of HADES-D (SO-121) that’s currently being used to\namateurs worldwide. The guess game implemented by the University is a small\nchallenge for the radio-amateurs and its mission is to make the reception\nof signals from the satellite fun for youngsters, expecting them to be\nfuture radio amateurs.\n\nProposing a UHF downlink, VHF Uplink for FM voice, FSK data up to 1200 bps,\nAPRS up to 1200 bps and FSK telemetry and experimental data up to 1600 bps\nand CW.\n\nThese two satellites are part of the Erminaz mission, a joint effort by\nAMSAT-DL, AMSAT-EA and Libre Space Foundation. Planning a DLR/ESA launch\nfrom the UK SaxaVord Spaceport in Summer 2024 into 500/600 km polar orbit.\n\nFor more information see:\nIARU satellite frequency coordination pages\nhttps://iaru.amsat-uk.org/index.php\nAMSAT-DL ERMINAZ https://amsat-dl.org/en/erminaz/\nAMSAT-EA projects https://www.amsat-ea.org/proyectos/\nLibre Space Foundation projects https://libre.space/projects/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information.]\n------------------------------\n\n\n\n*The 2024 AMSAT President’s Club coins are here now!Help Support GOLF and\nFox Plus*\n\n\n\n*Join the AMSAT President’s Club today and helpKeep Amateur Radio in\nSpace!https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-clu\n<https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/>*b/\n<https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/>\n------------------------------\nAO-73 Goes on Hiatus\n\nA messages from the FC1 operations team reads,\n\n“After a good period of transponder activity FUNcube batteries need a short\nrest. We plan to switch the transponder OFF between March 3rd to 15th\nsubject to operational conditions. The satellite will be placed Safe mode\nand will still provide low power telemetry\n\n[ANS thanks David Johnson, G4DPZ for the above information.]\n------------------------------\nM2 LEO-Pack Antenna\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<https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/>\n------------------------------\nBochum Space Conference 2024\n\nFrom September 20-22, 2024, AMSAT-DL is organizing a symposium, flea market\nand general meeting in the radome of the Bochum Observatory. The radome\nwill once again be dedicated to satellite and space research.\n\nAMSAT Deutschland e.V. and the Bochum Observatory are taking the positive\nexperience of the anniversary conference in 2023 as an opportunity to\ninform AMSAT members and other space enthusiasts about current and future\nprospects for national and international space projects with a varied\nprogram. As the radome is also the location of ESA’s education office in\nGermany (esero Germany), they want to make the symposium even more\nattractive in future and at the same time focus even more on current\nEuropean space travel.\nThe planning so far envisages the following schedule:\n\nFriday, September 20, 2024\nCome-together in the afternoon including short guided tours in the radome.\n\nSaturday, September 21, 2024\nFrom 9:00 a.m. AMSAT symposium with lecture program. Amateur radio flea\nmarket in the radome.\n\nSunday, September 22, 2024\nFrom 10:00 a.m. General meeting\n\nFurther information on the AMSAT-DL space conference in Bochum will follow\nin the course of 2024. The conference program is expected to be available\non our website beginning in July. Speakers with interesting topics wanted,\nplease get in touch!\n\nFor further information see\nhttps://amsat-dl.org/en/bochum-space-conference-2024/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-DL for the above information.]\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* <https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear>\n------------------------------\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for February 23, 2024\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 satellites have been removed from this week’s AMSAT-NA TLE\ndistribution:\n\nCAPE-3 NORAD Cat ID 47309 Decayed from orbit on or about 17 February 2024\nGRIFEX NORAD Cat ID 40379 Decayed from orbit on or about 22 February 2024\n\n[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager for the\nabove information.]\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\n*Completed Contacts*\n\nGirl Scout Troop 1089, Sacramento, CA, direct via N6NA.\nThe ISS callsign was NA1SS.\nThe crewmember was Loral O’Hara, KI5TOM.\nThe ARISS mentor is AA4KN.\nContact was successful on Thursday February 22, 2024.\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 reported to be active on the ARISS status page\n(145.825 MHz up & down) but the AMSAT satellite status page shows no recent\ncontacts as of the time of this writing.\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------------------------------\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nNo operations listed at this time.\n\n[ANS thanks Ian Parsons, K5ZM, AMSAT Rover Page Manager, for the above\ninformation.]\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\nCubeSat Developers Workshop 2024\nApril 23–25, 2024\nCal Poly, San Luis Obispo\nhttps://www.cubesatdw.org/\n\nDayton Hamvention 2024\nMay 17, 2024 – May 19, 2024\nGreene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center\n120 Fairground Road, Xenia, OH 45385\nhttps://hamvention.org\n\n38th Annual Small Satellite Conference\nLogan, UT, USA\nAugust 3-8, 2024\nhttps://smallsat.org/\n------------------------------\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ The European Space Agency Academy’s CubeSat Summer School is open for\napplications. Taking place over four weeks from 5 to 30 August 2024 at\nESEC-Galaxia (Transinne, Belgium), applications are now open for university\nstudents with engineering, physics and business management backgrounds.\nDuring the Summer School, ESA and external experts will deliver an\nextensive mix of lectures and hands-on activities. The entire project\nlifecycle of a satellite mission will be covered, from design to\nverification, launch and operations, including typical milestone reviews\nand new methodologies. Students will be introduced to legal, cybersecurity,\nand economic aspects of space projects. The Summer School will even\nintroduce space entrepreneurship skills, offering support in devising\nmethods of turning a CubeSat into a viable and profitable business\nopportunity. More information at\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS-056-ESA-Summer-School. [ANS thanks the European\nSpace Agency for the above information.]\n\n+ NASA is developing a plan to deorbit the International Space Station\n(ISS) at the end of its lifetime, currently scheduled for 2030. Since the\n356-foot-wide laboratory is too big to completely vaporize if left to\nnaturally burn in Earth’s atmosphere, the space agency intends to send a US\nspacecraft to help deorbit the station and direct its reentry over the\nunpopulated South Pacific. The goal is to give the ISS an extra “space tug”\nto help it move more than it could with its own thrust, and guide the final\nburns for ISS to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere. The space tug is expected to\ncost $1 billion, agency officials had said earlier this year. Earlier this\nyear, Russia agreed to stay onboard ISS through 2028, rather than its\nprevious timeline of 2024, after which it may focus on building its own\nstation in low-Earth orbit. Other partner countries have agreed to continue\ntheir presence through 2030, but it is not clear precisely how they will\ncontribute to retiring the ISS. More information at\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS-056-ISS-Tug. [ANS thanks the SpaceRef.com for the\nabove information.]\n\n+ Martians Wanted: NASA has opened the call for a simulated yearlong Mars\nmission. If you’re looking for an extended vacation next year, NASA is\nseeking applicants to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars\nsurface mission to help inform the agency’s plans for human exploration of\nthe Red Planet. The second of three planned ground-based missions called\nCHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) is scheduled to\nkick off in spring 2025. Each CHAPEA mission involves a four-person\nvolunteer crew living and working inside a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed\nhabitat based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The habitat,\ncalled the Mars Dune Alpha, simulates the challenges of a mission on Mars,\nincluding resource limitations, equipment failures, communication delays,\nand other environmental stressors. Crew tasks include simulated spacewalks,\nrobotic operations, habitat maintenance, exercise, and crop growth. More\ninformation at: http://tinyurl.com/ANS-056-Mars-Mission. [ANS thanks the\nNASA for the above information.]\n------------------------------\n\n*Join AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org <https://launch.amsat.org/>*/\n<https://launch.amsat.org/>\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:\n\n   - Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).\n   - Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\n   one-half the standard yearly rate.\n   - Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status\n   shall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary\n   years in this status.\n   - Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.\n\nContact info [at] amsat.org for additional membership information.\n\n73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\nThis week’s ANS Editor, Frank Karnauskas, N1UW\nn1uw [at] amsat [dot] org\n\n\n",
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