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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-242 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2015-08-30T06:54:40Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-242\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* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due by 15 September\n* 2015 AMSAT Symposium Dayton Hotel Reservation Correction\n* AMSAT-NA Office Closed until September 9th\n* New Distance Record Set on FO-29 by KG5CI and F4CQA\n* Bring the Space Station Into Your Classroom With NASA's STEM on Station\n   Website\n* IARU Reiterates Commitment to Coordinate Satellites Only Within \nInternational\n   Band Plans\n* CPUT planning successor to Africa’s first nanosatellite\n* ASU Chosen to Lead Lunar CubeSat Mission\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-242.01\nANS-242 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 242.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE August 30, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-242.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due by 15 September\n\n\nBallots were mailed to AMSAT-NA members in good standing by 15 JULY \n2015, and\nmust be returned to the AMSAT-NA office by 15 SEP 2015 in order to be \ncounted.\nThose sent outside North America were sent by air mail. Your completed \nballot\nshould be returned as promptly as possible, and those from outside North\nAmerica preferably by air mail or other expedited means.\n\nThis year there are eight candidates:\n\nBarry Baines, WD4ASW\nJerry Buxton, N0JY\nSteve Coy, K8UD\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nEMike McCardel, KC8YLD\nBob McGwier, N4HY\nBruce Paige, KK5DO\n\nThe four candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be seated as\nvoting Board Members with two year terms. The two candidates receiving the\nnext highest number of votes will be non-voting Alternate Board Members \nwith\nterms of one year. Please vote for no more than four candidates.\n\nPlease take the time to review the candidate statements that accompany the\nballot and determine who you wish to see on the Board. Election of Board\nmembers is both an obligation as well as an opportunity by our \nmembership to\nhelp shape the future direction of AMSAT-NA.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2015 AMSAT Symposium Dayton Hotel Reservation Correction\n\n\nThe 2015 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held Friday through Sunday, Oct 16,\n17, 18, 2015 in Dayton, Ohio.\n\nThis year we will be at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 33 East 5th Street, in\ndowntown Dayton, a 3.5 star Hotel which has been recently renovated.\n\nHere is the corrected and latest hotel reservation information provided by\nCrowne Plaza:\n\n+ Reservations toll-free phone number:  1-800-689-5586\n+ Group rate reservation code:          \"AMSAT\"\n+ Deadline for discounted reservations: September 17, 2015\n                                         by 3:00 PM US eastern time\n\nThe Symposium Committee announced that arrangements are made for a tour of\nthe Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton for\nMonday, October 19. You may wish to extend your hotel reservation until\nMonday if you would like to participate on this tour.\n\nYou must call the 800 number for Crowne Plaza to make your hotel\nreservations. Registration for the Space Symposium and events can be done\non-line via the AMSAT Store:\nhttp://store.amsat.org/catalog/\n\nThe latest 2015 AMSAT Space Symposium information is posted on the web at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=3667 -or- click on the \"Events\" tab at the top\nof the page at\nhttp://www.amsat.org\n\n\n[ANS thanks the 2015 AMSAT Symposium Posse for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-NA Office Closed until September 9th\n\n\nThe AMSAT Office in Kensington, MD will be closed until Wednesday,\nSeptember 9th.  Enjoy the last of summer!\n\n\n[ANS thanks Martha at AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNew Distance Record Set on FO-29 by KG5CI and F4CQA\n\n\nDave, KG5CCI reported that at 1732UTC on August 27th, 2015, a QSO was made\nbetween himself, KG5CCI, and F4CQA on via the FO-29 satellite.\n\nDave explained, \"This was not a scheduled contact, I simply answered\nChristophe's CQ call. I knew it was a good contact at the time, but as I was\nportable up on Arkansas' Shinnall Mountain, I did not have the resources\navailable to calculate distances. After returning to my office I began to\nlog the contacts I had made, and noticed the estimated distance between EM34\nand JN17 was in excess of 7500km. About the same time I came to this\nrealization, my email chirped with a message from Christophe, who had came\nto the same conclusion.\"\n\nAfter some quick exchanges, and verifying 10 digit locators, Dave and\nChristophe have\nsettled on an official distance of 7599.959km between Dave's grid of\nEM34ST11TL and Christophe's grid of JN17EA22OT. The\nhttp://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html website was used for distance\ncalculations.\n\nDave concluded, \"To the best of our knowledge, referencing data found on\nAmsat-UK's website\n(at http://amsat-uk.org/2015/05/06/uk-texas-extreme-dx-contact/) this breaks\nthe previous distance records of 7537.799km between W5CBF and G4DOL, and the\n7538.685km contact between K4FEG and DK1TB.\n\nDave had a camera setup to record the pass as well, and you can view a raw\nclip of the contact here:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/orY0Re0IY30\n\nIf anyone has any questions about the contact, Dave will be happy to answer\nthem. Special thanks and a solid *GOOD-DX* to Christophe for the contact.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Dave, KG5CCI for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nBring the Space Station Into Your Classroom With NASA's STEM on Station\nWebsite\n\n\nNASA is celebrating NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail\nKornienko and their yearlong mission to the International Space Station with\nthe launch of the new STEM on Station website!\n\nThe website features lesson plans, videos and up-to-the-minute education\nnews. Follow along with Scott and Mikhail to find out what we hope to learn\nfrom their extended mission. Get to know the International Space Station,\nand learn how work there benefits life on Earth as well as prepares us for\nour future journey to Mars.\n\nThe STEM on Station website also features Learning Launchers. These \"Teacher\nToolkits\" focus on research and activities related to the space station.\nEach month, a new Learning Launcher will feature One-Year Mission research\nor another topic related to the space station. Use lesson plans, videos and\nrelated resources to bring the International Space Station into your\nclassroom. Since more topics will be featured, check back often to see\nwhat's coming next.\n\nWe are working \"Off the Earth, For the Earth . and in the Classroom\"!\n\nTo check out the new website, visit\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/education/STEMstation.\n\n\n[ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message -- Aug. 27, 2015]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIARU Reiterates Commitment to Coordinate Satellites Only Within \nInternational\nBand Plans\n\n\nIn apparent reference to efforts by China's Amateur Satellite Group\n(CAMSAT) to coordinate operating frequencies for nine satellites set\nto launch in early September, the International Amateur Radio Union\n(IARU) has made it clear that it will not coordinate frequencies\nthat do not conform with accepted band plans for all three IARU\nregions. The IARU has informed CAMSAT CEO Alan Kung, BA1DU, that it\nwas only able to coordinate uplink and downlink frequencies for two\nof the nine spacecraft (CAS-3/XW-2D and E), but it has not made that\nletter public. CAMSAT has said it plans to launch the nine\nsatellites, all carrying Amateur Radio payloads, on September 7 or\n8.\n\n\"The IARU Satellite Adviser, Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV, and\nhis advisory panel are mandated to coordinate frequencies within the\nIARU band plans for amateur satellites,\" said a public statement\nreleased on August 20 by IARU Secretary Rod Stafford, W6ROD.\n\"Coordinated frequencies must comply with band plans that are common\nto all three IARU regions. Satellites coordinated outside these\nplans could cause interference to terrestrial amateur operations in\nother regions.\"\n\nThe IARU statement suggested that the popularity and high occupancy\nof 2 meters \"led to a request by satellite builders for coordination\noutside the spectrum reserved for satellites in the IARU band plans\n(145.800-146.000 MHz), as not enough channels are available to\nsatisfy their requirements.\"\n\nThe IARU said that, in theory, satellites could be programmed only\nto operate while orbiting above their countries of origin, but\n\"because satellite orbits make it difficult to pinpoint operations,\nspillover to other regions may occur during parts of the orbit.\nAccordingly, IARU will not coordinate frequencies for satellites\nwhich are planned to operate outside the internationally aligned\nIARU band plans for amateur satellites.\"\n\nThe IARU statement noted that its frequency coordination service\naims to \"maximize spectrum utilization and avoid possible\ninterference to other satellites and ground stations.\" The IARU\nrecommended that satellite groups \"work on a sharing plan or use\nother parts of the Amateur Service spectrum designated for satellite\noperation,\" and it suggested resurrecting 10 meters - once popular\nas a satellite band, but largely unused today - as one possibility\nfor uplink channels.\n\n\"The band segment 29,300-29,510 MHz has been used for\nAmateur-Satellite downlinks for more than 40 years, beginning with\nAustralis-OSCAR 5 in 1970 and AMSAT-OSCAR 6, AMSAT's first\ncommunication satellite, in 1972,\" the IARU statement noted. Just\none amateur satellite actively uses a 29 MHz downlink - AMSAT-OSCAR\n7, launched in 1974. Conceding that 29 MHz downlink frequencies\n\"would not be practical for today's very small satellites\" due to\nantenna size considerations, the IARU said the band could be used\nfor uplinks, even with small receiving antennas, because Earth\nstations can run sufficient transmit power to overcome the\ndisadvantage. \"The IARU Satellite Adviser and his panel believe that\nthe 10 meter band offers a good alternative to 2 meter uplinks,\" the\nIARU said.\n\nAMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, said his organization's\nAdvanced Satellite Communications and Exploration of New Technology\n(ASCENT) initiative is exploring alternatives to address the\nproliferation of CubeSats and the resulting pressure on 2 meters and\n70 centimeters. He pointed out that the 200 kHz IARU allocation on 2\nmeters \"is not very wide\" given the number of satellites being\nlaunched, but the use of 10 meters is impractical in this era of\nCubeSats.\n\n\"It is incumbent upon the Amateur-Satellite community to develop new\nways of 'keeping Amateur Radio in space' that take advantage of\nother bands and provide enhanced services through appropriate\ntechnologies, given the need to find suitable bandwidth for an\nincreasing number of satellites,\" Baines told ARRL. He said using\ndigital technology could provide multi-channel capability, and\ndesign work is already under way. Transitioning to \"underutilized\namateur spectrum on bands such as 5 GHz and 10 GHz is also a\npossibility, Baines added, although he was quick to point out that\nAMSAT does not intend to abandon use of 2 meters and 70 centimeters\nfor its own satellite projects.\n\nThe IARU said that when a large group of satellite sharing the same\nband is launched, \"they will soon drift apart which enhances the\nopportunity to share the same frequencies. For example, during the\ninitial phase, just after launch, a time-sharing system could be\nused to monitor the payloads before initializing transponders and\nother systems.\"\n\n\"Currently the IARU team also coordinates frequencies for satellites\nbuilt by universities and educational groups in an effort to\nmaximize spectrum utilization and mitigate any possible interference\nto Amateur Radio operations,\" the IARU statement concluded. \"The\nIARU is committed to work with these groups and with the ITU to find\nother spectrum for these satellites.\"\n\n\n[ANS thanks the ARRL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCPUT planning successor to Africa’s first nanosatellite\n\n\nFollowing on the successes of ZACube-1, a.k.a. TshepisoSat, ZACube-2 is the\nsecond instalment in the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) \nF’SATI\nmission series.\n\nThe satellite will serve as technology demonstrator for essential subsystems\nand form the basis on which an innovative Software Defined Radio (SDR) \nplatform\nwill be developed as primary payload. The SDR is highly flexible to \naddress a\nwide range of communication needs and will be a test bed to validate vessel\ndetection. Additionally, the satellite will feature a medium resolution \nimager\nas secondary payload to demonstrate the feasibility of future remote sensing\napplications such as ocean colour monitoring and large fire tracking.\n\nThis paper details the conceptual design and highlights the choices made\naround the proposed development\n\nhttp://www.amsatsa.org.za/ZACube-2%20%20The%20successor%20to%20Africa%E2%80%99s\n%20first%20nanosatellite.pdf\n\nRead the recent article by Hans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV in EngineerIT\nmagazine at\nhttp://www.ee.co.za/article/cput-planning-successor-africas-first-nanosatellite\n.html\n\nSouthern African Amateur Radio Satellite Association (SA AMSAT)\nhttp://www.amsatsa.org.za/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nASU Chosen to Lead Lunar CubeSat Mission\n\n\nA spacecraft the size of a shoebox with Arizona origins will soon be \norbiting\nour nearest neighbor to create a map of water-ice on the moon.\n\nThe NASA-selected CubeSat will be designed, built and operated at Arizona\nState University and is one piece of the agency's larger mission to fully\ncharacterize the water content at the lunar South Pole in preparation for\nexploration, resource utilization and improved understanding of the moon's\ngeologic history.\n\nThe spacecraft, called the Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper, or \"LunaH-Map\" for\nshort, will produce the most detailed map to date of the moon's water \ndeposits,\nunveiling new details about the depth and distribution of the ice that \nhas been\ntentatively identified from previous missions. Confirming and mapping those\ndeposits in detail will help NASA understand how much water might be \navailable\nand will help inform NASA's strategy for sending humans farther into the \nsolar\nsystem.\n\nThe ability to search for useful assets, such as hydrogen, can potentially\nenable astronauts to manufacture fuel and other provisions needed to \nsustain a\ncrew for a journey to Mars, reducing the amount of fuel and weight that NASA\nwould need to transport from Earth.\n\nThis is the third major space project for which NASA has selected ASU in the\npast year, and it is the first planetary science spacecraft mission that \nwill\nbe led by ASU. It represents a major achievement for planetary geologist \nCraig\nHardgrove, the School of Earth and Space Exploration postdoctoral research\nassociate who proposed the mission and will be overseeing it as principal\ninvestigator.\n\n\"All of our previous NASA mission involvement has consisted of us having\ninstruments on other people's missions. This is ASU's first interplanetary\nmission - this is our mission, our chance to trail blaze,\" said Jim Bell,\nprofessor in ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration and mission deputy\nprincipal investigator.\n\n\"It's a privilege to be leading this fantastic team, and I want to make sure\nwe do it right and deliver on our promise to NASA,\" Hardgrove said.\n\nCubeSats are part of a growing movement that is revolutionizing space\nexploration because of their small size and low cost of construction and\noperation, effectively opening the door to early-career scientists, \nproviding\nthem an opportunity to operate missions of their own.\n\n\"How much good science can we do with these small missions? We don't \nknow the\nanswer, but we will be one of the first groups to try to answer the \nquestion,\"\nBell said.\nAlthough this is one of NASA's first forays into deep-space science\nexperiments with CubeSats, the technology isn't new to NASA and \nuniversities,\nwhich have recognized their value and have been building them for years.\n\n\"CubeSats are a model for a new way to gain access to space, but they \nare also\na model for how to teach students how to design, build, operate and\ntroubleshoot a real space mission,\" said Bell, who also directs ASU's \nNewSpace\nInitiative. \"Students want to know how a spacecraft works, but not just \nfrom a\nPowerPoint presentation. This is their opportunity to build something. Break\nit. Fix it. Test it again. Launch it. Operate it. And that is the beauty of\nCubeSats; they provide students with the experience of going through the\ncomplete mission process.\"\n\nLunaH-Map will be designed, built and tested on ASU's Tempe campus, in\npartnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several other partners\nsupplying space-qualified hardware and services. LunaH-Map leverages \ntechnology\nfrom at least six small commercial space companies with expert knowledge and\nexperience in building spacecraft hardware: Radiation Monitoring Devices,\nBusek, KinetX, NASA's Ames Research Center, Catholic University of \nAmerica, and\nPlanetary Resources.\n\nOverseeing all aspects of the spacecraft engineering is the mission's chief\nengineer and co-investigator, Jekan Thanga, an assistant professor in ASU's\nSchool of Earth and Space Exploration. Much of the design and development of\nLunaH-Map will be done in his Space and Terrestrial Robotic Exploration\n(SpaceTREx) Laboratory and clean rooms in ASU's state-of-the-art\nInterdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 4, which with their glass\nwindows offer an opportunity for visitors to watch the spacecraft being \nbuilt,\ntested and operated.\n\nIn total, there will be 15 to 20 ASU professionals, including students,\nworking on all aspects of the design, development, testing and delivery \nof the\nspacecraft.\n\n\"Within the United States there only about seven institutions that are doing\ninterplanetary CubeSat missions,\" Thanga said. \"ASU brings together \nscientists\nand engineers to work on radical new concepts together, from the start. This\ninnovative collaboration strategy leads to greater science return, and more\ncreativity and capability.\"\n\nOther co-investigators from ASU include Professor Mark Robinson and \nAssociate\nResearch Professor Paul Scowen from the School of Earth and Space \nExploration.\n\nLunaH-Map, along with a number of other deep-space CubeSats, is a \ncandidate to\nfly to lunar orbit on Exploration Mission-1, the first flight of NASA's \nSpace\nLaunch System (SLS), which will be the most powerful rocket ever built \nand will\nenable astronauts in the Orion spacecraft to travel deeper into the solar\nsystem. NASA will provide several CubeSat missions spots on the maiden SLS\nmission.\n\nLunaH-Map is a 6U (\"6 unit\") CubeSat. One \"unit\" is a cube measuring 4.7\ninches on a side; LunaH-Map strings six of these CubeSat building blocks\ntogether and weighs as much as a small child (about 30 pounds).\nBut just because it is small, doesn't mean it is less sophisticated - in \nthis\ncase, as with our smartphones, size doesn't compromise capabilities. LunaH-\nMap's design allows for all the necessary sensors and instruments to be\nsecurely packaged inside. A jack-in-the-box-like deployer releases the\nspacecraft and panels pop out like little wings.\n\nOnce it arrives at the moon, the tiny spacecraft will embark on a 60-day\nscience mission, consisting of 141 science orbits, using a suite of science\ninstruments.\n\nIts main instrument is a neutron detector designed to sense the presence of\nhydrogen by measuring the energies of neutrons that have interacted with and\nsubsequently leaked back out of the material in the top meter of the lunar\nsurface.\n\n\"We know from previous missions there is an increased abundance of \nhydrogen at\nthe lunar poles. But we don't know how much or exactly where,\" Hardgrove \nsaid.\n\"NASA has funded three different CubeSats to learn more: Lunar IceCube, \nLunar\nFLASHLIGHT and LunaH-Map. They all look for water in different ways and \nprovide\ndifferent types of information.\"\n\nAs LunaH-Map flies over the lunar South Pole at a very low altitude, it \ncounts\nthe energies of neutrons that have leaked out of the lunar surface. The \nenergy\ndistribution of the neutrons that hit the detectors tells us about the \namount\nof hydrogen that's buried in the top meter of lunar soil.\n\nLunaH-Map will map the hydrogen content of the entire South Pole of the \nmoon,\nincluding within permanently shadowed regions at high resolution. LunaH-Map\nwill measure the bulk hydrogen content, up to a meter beneath the lunar\nsurface, while the instruments on both Lunar IceCube and FLASHLIGHT will \ntell\nus about the very top few microns. LunaH-Map will create the \nhighest-resolution\nmaps of regional near-surface (top-meter) water-ice distribution across the\nentire South Pole of the moon.\n\n\"Science is a human endeavor, and part of that is knowing each other and\ntrusting each other. And when it comes to a NASA mission and taxpayer \ndollars\nto do exploration, you got to have the credentials. You have to be \ntrusted, you\nneed to have proven yourself, you need to show that you can make it \nhappen and\nyou won't fail. And we've got a history now where that's the case,\" said \nLinda\nElkins-Tanton, director of ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration.\n\nhttp://www.moondaily.com/reports/ASU_chosen_to_lead_lunar_CubeSat_mission_\n999.html\n\n\n[ANS thanks SpaceDaily.com 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*Saturday and Sunday,  5-6 September - ARRL Roanoke Division Convention\nShelby, NC Hamfest, AMSAT Forum scheduled for Saturday\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 16-18 2015, AMSAT Symposium in\nDayton OH (Dayton Crown Plaza)\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*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\nThe direct ARISS contact with Kantonschule am Burggraben, Switzerland on\nAugust 24, 12:24 UTC, via HB9SG was successful.\n\nContact was established at 12:24 UTC, only 50 seconds later than expected.\n18 questions were answered.\n\nThe downlink signal was loud and clear. Only during the first 4 questions\nthere was a bit QRM due to the antenna location in the middle of the city.\n\nThe audience was about 300 persons in the contact room and about 1000 \nstudents\nand 230 others via the live-stream on the Internet.\n\nTV stations, 3 radio stations \"Radio SRF3\" and nationwide newspapers covered\nthe event.\n\nTV links:\nhttp://www.tvo-online.ch/?playlist=news (TV-Ostschweiz) „Erde an ISS“\nhttp://www.teletop.ch/programm/heute-auf-tele-top/art/heute-auf-tele-top-\n001691193/ (Tele Top)\n(look at minute 16.07)\n\nRadio links:\nhttp://www.srf.ch/wissen/technik/aus-der-aula-ins-all-eine-kanti-in-st-gallen-\nfunkt-mit-der-iss (SRF3 - Nationales Radio)\n\nPictures can be found on\nhttp://cloud.syso.ch/photo/#!Albums .\n\n\nMaconaquah  School Corporation, Bunker Hill, IN, direct via WD9GIU\nThe ISS callsign was NA1SS\nThe astronaut was Kimiya Yui  KG5BPH\nMaconaquah had a very successful contact.  All 20 questions were asked and\nthere was one extra.  They might have been able to have a few more but they\nsigned off about 1 minute before LOS.  It was an outstanding contact.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contacts\n\nSochi, Russia, direct via TBD\nThe ISS callsign  is presently scheduled to be RSØISS\nThe scheduled cosmonaut is Mikhail  Kornienko RN3BF\nContact is a go for 2015-08-29 11:15 UTC\n\nUlvila  Upper Secondary School, Finland, direct via OH1F\nThe ISS callsign is  presently scheduled to be OR4ISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Kjell Lindgren  KO5MOS\nContact is a go for: Tue 2015-09-01 11:44:03 UTC\n\nKazakhstan, direct via TBD\nThe ISS callsign is presently  scheduled to be RSØISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Aidyn Aimbetov\nContact  is a go for 2015-09-08 07:10  UTC\n\n\n\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\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\n-- \n-73\nk6wao\nJoe Spier\[email protected]\n\n",
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