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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/GYHHCDUIJFULOMA2YF3DQQAGD45Z6AQG/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "GYHHCDUIJFULOMA2YF3DQQAGD45Z6AQG", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/GYHHCDUIJFULOMA2YF3DQQAGD45Z6AQG/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[ans] ANS-176 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2017-06-25T03:17:40Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-176\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-\nmation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite\nCorporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space\nincluding reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur\nRadio operators who share an active interest in designing, building,\nlaunching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio\nsatellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur\nRadio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\nans-editor at amsat.org.\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* India Launches 40th PSLV With 31 Satellites On-board\n* ARISS SSTV Commemorative Activity\n* LilacSat-1 Designated LilacSat-OSCAR 90\n* Amateurs Recover I-Inspire-2 Satellite\n* SARL/AMSAT SA SDR Workshop To Be Held In August\n* New Zealand’s KiwiSAT Update\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-176.01\nANS-155 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 176.01\n From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE June 25, 2017\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-176.01\n\nIndia Launches 40th PSLV With 31 Satellites On-board\n\nAn Indian mapping satellite and 30 other payloads vaulted into space Friday\naboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, arriving in an on-the-mark \norbit more\nthan 300 miles above Earth.\n\nLaunching on its 40th flight, the PSLV rocketed away from the Satish Dhawan\nSpace Center, a facility nestled on Sriharikota Island on India’s east \ncoast, at\n0359 GMT Friday (11:59 p.m. EDT Thursday). The 144-foot-tall (44-meter) \nlauncher\nthundered into a mostly sunny sky over the launch base, where liftoff \noccurred\nat 9:29 a.m. local time\n\nThe 1,570-pound (712-kilogram) Cartosat 2E satellite was the primary \npassenger\non Friday’s launch, joining a fleet of Earth-imaging platforms built to feed\nobservations of cities, crops, natural disasters and other targets to Indian\ncivil and military authorities.\n\nCartosat 2E radioed ground controllers moments after separation from the \nPSLV’s\nfourth stage, and engineers confirmed it unfurled its solar panels as \nplanned.\n\nThe PSLV launch team confirmed the upper stage released another Indian \nsatellite\n— NIUSAT — a few seconds after Cartosat 2E. Designed for agricultural\nmonitoring, NIUSAT is suitcase-sized satellite weighing about 33 pounds (15\nkilograms) developed by students at Noorul Islam University in India’s Tamil\nNadu state.\n\nFifteen other satellites launched Friday also include amateur frequency\ndownlinks:\n\nMax Valier Satellite 145.860 MHz\nVenta 1 437.325 MHz\nPegasus 436.670 MHz\nNUDTSat 436.270 MHz\nVZLUSAT 1 437.240 MHz\nDragSail-CubeSat 437.300 MHz, 2403 MHz, and 2405-2445 MHz\nUCLSat 435.975 MHz\nInflateSail 436.060 MHz\nURSA MAIOR 435.950 MHz\nLithuanicaSAT 2 437.265 MHz\nSUCHAI 1 437.225 MHz\nAalto 1 437.220 MHz and 2402.00 MHz\nRobusta 1B 437.325 MHz\nD-Sat 437.505 MHz\nskCUBE 437.100 MHz and 2401 MHz\n\n[ANS thanks SpaceFlightNow and the IARU for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS SSTV Commemorative Activity\n\nSpecial Slow Scan Television (SSTV) transmissions are expected to be \nmade from\nthe International Space Station on 145.800 MHz FM around the weekend of \nJuly 15.\n\nIn commemoration of their 20th anniversary, the ARISS team is planning to\ntransmit a set of 12 SSTV images that capture the accomplishments of \nARISS over\nthat time.\n\nThe ARISS SSTV Blog says:\n\nWhile still to be scheduled, we anticipate the SSTV operation to occur \naround\nthe weekend of July 15. We are planning for at least a 2 day operation, \nbut are\nworking for a potential longer operation. Note that all of this \ntentative and\nmay change based on crew scheduling and ISS operations.\n\nStarting with our first meeting in November 1996, our joint operations \non Mir,\nbecoming the first operational payload on ISS in November 2000 to our 1103rd\nschool contact (so far), ARISS’ accomplishments have been tremendous. We \nhave\ntouched the lives of many and inspired and educated countless students \nto pursue\nscience, technology, engineering and math careers.\n\nPlease stay tuned as more details on our SSTV event will be communicated \nin the\ncoming weeks. Please spread the word. And think about how you can get \nstudents\nin your area involved in capturing these images. We would love to hear your\nstories on how that goes.\n\n[ANS thanks Frank, KA3HDO, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLilacSat-1 Designated LilacSat-OSCAR 90\n\nOSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO, has announced that,\npursuant to a request submitted to the AMSAT Board of Directors, the\nLilacSat-1 satellite has been assigned the designation LilacSat-OSCAR\n90, or LO-90.\n\nLilacSat-OSCAR 90 was designed and constructed by the Harbin Institute\nof Technology in Harbin, China as part of the QB50 project to study\nthe lower thermosphere. It was carried aboard an Orbital-ATK Cygnus\ncargo ship, which was launched to the International Space Station on\nApril 18, 2017, and deployed from the ISS on May 25, 2017.\n\nLO-90 carries a voice transponder with a 145 MHz FM uplink and a 435\nMHz digital voice downlink using the Codec2 open source voice codec as\nwell as a camera open for activation by amateur radio operators\nworldwide.\n\nMore information about the satellite can be found\nhttp://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?page_id=594. A guide for receiving the\ndownlink prepared by Adam Whitney, K0FFY, can be found at\nhttp://adamwhitney.net/working-lilacsat-1/.\n\nSince the launch of the first amateur radio satellite, OSCAR 1 in\n1961, it has been traditional for amateur radio satellites to carry\nthe name OSCAR, for “Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio”.\nAMSAT, which administers the numbering of OSCAR satellites at the\nrequest of the Project OSCAR organization, encourages all\nbuilders/owners of amateur radio satellites that meet the requirements\nlisted at http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=2478 to apply for an OSCAR\ndesignation.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Paul, N8HM, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAmateurs Recover I-Inspire-2 Satellite\n\nI-Inspire-2 is a 20 x 10 x 10cm CubeSat built by the University of Sydney in\ncollaboration with the Australian National University and the University \nof New\nSouth Wales (Sydney)\n\nWIA News reports:\n\nOn board the tiny spacecraft is an experiment, part of the QB50 project,\ndesigned to “explore the lower thermosphere, for re-entry research and \nin-orbit\ndemonstration of technologies and miniaturised sensors”, as reported in \nearlier\neditions of the WIA broadcast.\n\nIts operational frequency was coordinated by IARU to be in the satellite \nsegment\nof the 70cm amateur band.\n\nIt was placed in orbit from the International Space Station in late May. The\ndeployment was successful; however there were no signs of life when the \nground\nstations started looking for it. The engineering group quickly tested \nvarious\nscenarios on the engineering model only to come to the conclusion that, \ndue to\nthe extended delay in the deployment, the satellite’s battery was likely \nto be\ndepleted and the satellite was trapped in an endless loop, trying to \ndeploy its\nantenna.\n\nThe engineering group suggested that the satellite is still listening albeit\nwith its antennas in the stowed position. This meant that the satellite \ncommand\nreceiver might have difficulty receiving any signals from ground control\nstations. A set of commands were devised which, if received, would \ninstruct the\nsatellite to wait until the battery is charged before attempting to \ndeploy its\nantenna. Both UNSW and ANU ground stations transmitted the recovery \ncommand to\nthe satellite; however after a week or so of no success it was decided \nthat more\ntransmitter power was required to overcome the lack of receiver sensitivity\ncaused by the still stowed antenna. A request for assistance was passed \nto EME\noperators around the world and many responses were received.\n\nThe greatest hope for a successful recovery was thought to be PI 9 CAM using\nhigh power and a 25 m dish, normally used for radio astronomy but also \nEME. They\nwere scheduled to transmit on the weekend of June 10-11.\n\nOn Sunday June 11, during the morning pass, Rob VK1KW reported a strong \nsignal\nevery 30 seconds on I-Inspire-2’s frequency. Dimitris VK1SV who is part \nof the\nANU team, verified reception from home around midnight. The following \nmorning\nDimitris drove to the ANU ground station and was able to send commands \nto the\nsatellite for the first time since it was deployed. Many other radio \namateurs\naround the world also reported reception of the beacon. The satellite \nhad come\nback to life!\n\nThis is a wonderful example of successful collaboration between radio \namateurs\nand the academic community. If a frequency outside the radio amateur \nband had\nbeen used, it is doubtful that the satellite would have been brought back to\nlife.\n\nThe crew of I-Inspire-2 wishes to thank all radio amateurs involved and is\nlooking forward to a successful collection of data for the scientific\nexperiment!\n\n[ANS thanks WIA News and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSARL/AMSAT SA SDR Workshop To Be Held In August\n\nThe date for the joint SARL/AMSAT SA workshop about enhancing the SDR \nexperience\nhas been set for Saturday 12 August 2017 at the National Amateur Radio \nCentre.\nThe workshop will focus on getting more fun from a VHF SDR dongle. The \nsecond\npart of the workshop will focus on how to kick start the South African Radio\nLeague monitoring of the increase in the RF noise floor level project \nusing the\nSDR waterfall. Both a HF and VHF dongle will be available as well as a \nmemory\nstick with the required SDR and some fun software.\n\nMore details will be published soon. If you are interested in attending the\nworkshops, please send an e-mail with your details to \[email protected] and\nyou will be added to a mailing list to keep you up to date with details \nof the\nworkshops in Gauteng and the Western Cape.\n\nYou are listening to a news bulletin of the South African Radio League. Take\nyour hand-held to work this week.\n\n[ANS thanks SARL weekly news in English 2017-6-24 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNew Zealand’s KiwiSAT Update\n\nYes, we’re going into space and you can be part of it!\n\nAMSAT_ZL has reached a staging point in the development of their satellite\nproject, KiwiSAT. We’re ready to go, ready to get up there!\n\nThe KiwiSAT Team has produced a fine unit ready to launch. Then came a \nset-back.\nOur critically important Leader of the KiwiSAT Engineering Team, Fred \nKennedy\nZL1BYP, was struck down and driven to endure many months of medical \nprocedures.\nThis has have left him unable to continue his important work. It’s time for\nrenewal.\n\nOver time the support team has aged, drifting from their positions of \nyouth and\nability. Much has been achieved but all to no avail if KiwiSAT sits on a \nshelf.\nCan you help?\n\nAMSAT-ZL is looking both to its members and to the general New Zealand \namateur\nradio population for a coordinator to join the team and lead the project \nthrough\nthis final stage. We’re making history. We’re going into space!\n\nWe need a volunteer “Orbit Insertion Team” consisting of a Launch \nCo-ordinator\nand as many assistants as he/she requires to undertake the task of \nsecuring a\nlaunch for KiwiSAT. This new team will also take over Fred Kennedy’s \nleadership\nresponsibilities. In parallel, the established\nKiwiSAT engineering team will continue their involvement, giving support \nalong\nthe way.\n\nMuch of the new team’s work will be organisational rather than hands-on\nengineering. Involved is arranging final environmental testing of KiwiSAT,\nidentifying and negotiating a launch, attending the launch and attending to\nfunding for this final phase. Basic planning is complete, we need action.\nOther tasks will undoubtedly be crop up however it is envisaged that the \ncurrent\nteam will ensure the preparation of KiwiSAT to full flight status is \ncompleted.\n\nOffers need to be received by 30 June 2017. The AMSAT-ZL Committee will then\nappoint a team and leader. Offers can be advised to the AMSAT-ZL \nSecretary, 894\nPonga Road, RD 4, Auckland 2584 or by Email to [email protected] or to \nmyself\[email protected]. Email either of us for more details.\n\nFinancial assistance is available to enable the successful applicant to \nmeet for\na briefing with Fred in Auckland, July this year.\n\nThank you,\nTerry, ZL3QL\nPresident AMSAT-ZL\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate and NZART for the above information]\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }