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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/ICAENNZNWVKGK3S2WNSOAIDI2N642355/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5A=7RKnzzK3rOmmqC3RBe-Y84mExQwqWAG5WG7UMOkEhQ@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "ICAENNZNWVKGK3S2WNSOAIDI2N642355", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/ICAENNZNWVKGK3S2WNSOAIDI2N642355/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "k0jm.mark (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Mark Johns, K0JM", "subject": "[ans] ANS-327 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Nov. 22", "date": "2020-11-22T00:00:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-327\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-\nmation service of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS\npublishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on\nthe activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who\nshare an active interest in designing, building, launching and commun-\nicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.\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:\[email protected]\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:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* SpaceX Dragon Capsule Ferries Four Radio Amateurs to the ISS\n* September/October Issue Of The AMSAT Journal Is Now Available\n* New Launch Date for EASAT-2 and Hades Satellites\n* Arecibo Observatory Faces Demolition After Cable Failures\n* DX Portable Operation Planned From Thailand Grid NK99\n* Human Error Blamed For Vega Launch Failure\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for November 19\n* Moscow Aviation Institute Plans SSTV Event from ISS\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-327.01\nANS-327 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 327.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE 2020 November 22\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-327.01\n\n\nSpaceX Dragon Capsule Ferries Four Radio Amateurs to the ISS\n\nA SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying four radio amateurs autonomously\ndocked on November 17 at 0401 UTC with the International Space Station\n(ISS). A SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher carrying the precious payload went\ninto space on Sunday, November 15, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.\nThey comprise the ISS Expedition 64/65 crew.\n\n\"Well, the ISS is loaded with hams now,\" Amateur Radio on the Inter-\nnational Space Station (ARISS) US Delegate for ARRL Rosalie White,\nK1STO, said on Tuesday. \"These four arrived very early this morning\nEastern Time: NASA astronauts Victor Glover, KI5BKC; Mike Hopkins,\nKF5LJG, and Shannon Walker, KD5DXB, as well as Japan Aerospace Explora-\ntion Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, KD5TVP.\" This marks\nGlover's first time in space. The others all are ISS veterans.\n\nEarlier this year, NASA ISS Ham Project Coordinator Kenneth Ransom,\nN5VHO, held amateur radio licensing study sessions for Glover, who\npassed the Technician-class exam on August 20.\n\nThe four will remain on station until next spring. They joined Expedi-\ntion 64 Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-\nSverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, on the ISS.\n\nWhite said all but Noguchi likely will take part in ARISS contacts with\nschools. White said the first school contact is tentatively scheduled\nfor December 4 with Tecumseh High School in Oklahoma, home of the\nTecumseh High School Amateur Radio Club, K5THS. She said the students\nhave earned their ham licenses, and the club has built an antenna and\nis learning about satellites and circuits. Members of the South Cana-\ndian Amateur Radio Society of Norman, Oklahoma, are providing support\nand mentoring assistance.\n\nThe Sunday launch from Kennedy Space Center marked only the second\ncrewed-flight for the SpaceX Crew Dragon, which became the first commer-\ncial vehicle to put humans into orbit when astronauts Doug Hurley and\nBob Behnken, KE5GGX, launched in May, and NASA gave SpaceX the go for\nfuture such launches.\n\n\"The return of human spaceflight to the United States with one of the\nsafest, most advanced systems ever built is a turning point for Amer-\nica's future space exploration,\" SpaceX claimed, \"and it lays the\ngroundwork for missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond.\"\n\n(ANS thanks ARRL for the above information)\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the AMSAT office\n is closed until further notice. For details, please visit\n https://www.amsat.org/amsat-office-closed-until-further-notice/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nSeptember/October Issue Of The AMSAT Journal Is Now Available\n\nThe September/October 2020 issue of The AMSAT Journal is now available\nto members on AMSAT’s Member Portal (https://launch.amsat.org/)\n\nThe AMSAT Journal is a bi-monthly magazine for amateur radio in space\nenthusiasts, published by the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n(AMSAT). Each issue is your source for hardware and software projects,\ntechnical tips, STEM initiatives, operational activities, and news\nfrom around the world.\n\nInside the Current Issue:\n- Apogee View - Robert Bankston, KE4AL\n- Engineering Update – Jerry Buxton, N0JY\n- Educational Relations Update - Alan Johnston, KU2Y\n- A Guide to the AMSAT CubeSatSim - Alan Johnston, KU2Y; Pat Kilroy,\n N8PK; Jim McLaughlin, KI6ZUM; David White, WD6DRI\n- User Services Update – Robert Bankston, KE4AL\n- For Beginners — Amateur Radio Satellite Primer VII – Keith Baker,\n KB1SF/VA3KSF\n- A 3D-Printed Parasitic Lindenblad Antenna for 70 cm - Times Two! -\n Curt Laumann, K7ZOO; Zach Metzinger, N0ZGO\n- In Search of the Ultimate DX - Scott Tilley, VE7TIL\n\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, AMSAT Executive VP, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nNew Launch Date for EASAT-2 and Hades Satellites\n\nAMSAT-EA President Felix Paez, EA4GQS, has announced the scheduled\nlaunch date for AMSAT-EA satellites EASAT-2 and HADES. Flying with\nSpaceX, the two nanosats are scheduled for launch on January 14, 2021.\nThey have been already delivered and integrated on the Alba Orbital\ndeployer.\n\nThe satellites have been configured to act as FM voice and FSK data\nrepeaters and not as linear transponders as was the initial plan. In\nany case, they are believed to be the smallest satellites ever given\nsuch a function, as their size is only 7.5 x 5 x 5 cm.\n\nHades also flies a SSTV camera that will take and send pictures each 15\nminutes. The camera module design is based on the one used in the PSAT2\nsatellite, adapted for AMSAT-EA by the Brno University of Technology.\n\nHades – FM voice repeater, callsign AM6SAT\nuplink 145.925 MHz (no tone), downlink 436.888 MHz\nEASAT-2 – FM voice repeater, callsign AM5SAT\nuplink 145.875 MHz (no tone), downlink 436.666 MHz\nBoth satellites have also digitized FM voice beacons and FSK data re-\npeaters.\n\nThese are the first satellites built by AMSAT-EA, with the project\nleaders being all Spanish radio amateurs and almost all the engineering\nmade by radio amateurs with help of students of two universities. While\nAMSAT-EA doesn't have the flight heritage of other AMSAT organizations,\nthis is an important step for the organization as it moves to improve\nskills in order to build better satellites for the radio amateur satel-\nlite service in the future.\n\nMore information and photos of these and other upcoming AMSAT-EA pro-\njects is available at https://bit.ly/3lNjTJq\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-EA for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nArecibo Observatory Faces Demolition After Cable Failures\n\nAfter withstanding hurricanes and earthquakes, playing central roles\nin movies like “GoldenEye” and “Contact,” Puerto Rico’s famed Arecibo\nObservatory, once the largest radio telescope in the world, will be\ndemolished because of cable failures that left its huge detector plat-\nform too unstable to attempt repairs.\n\n“After reviewing the engineering assessment, we have found no path for-\nward that would allow us to do so safely,” said Sean Jones, assistant\ndirector for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate at the\nNational Science Foundation.\n\n“We know that a delay in decision making leaves the entire facility at\nrisk of an uncontrolled collapse, unnecessarily jeopardizing people and\nalso the additional facilities.”\n\nOperated by the NSF through the University of Central Florida, the\niconic observatory is made up of a fixed 1,000-foot-wide dish antenna\nbuilt into a bowl-like depression that reflects radio waves or radar\nbeams to a 900-ton instrument platform suspended 450 feet above by\ncables stretching from three support towers.\n\nFor 57 years, the observatory has played a leading role observing deep\nspace targets, bodies in the solar system and, using powerful lasers,\nthe composition and behavior of Earth’s upper atmosphere.\n\nBut the beginning of the end came on Aug. 10 when an auxiliary cable\ninstalled in the 1990s pulled free of its socket on one support tower\nand crashed onto the dish below, ripping a 100-foot-long gash.\n\nEngineers were developing repair plans when one of the main 3-inch-wide\ncables attached to the same tower unexpectedly snapped on Nov. 6,\ncausing the instrument platform to tilt and putting additional stress\non the remaining cables.\n\nAn analysis showed the cable failed in calm weather at about 60 percent\nof of its minimum breaking strength. Inspections of other cables showed\nfresh wire breaks and slippage in several auxiliary cable sockets that\nwere added to the structure in the 1990s.\n\nAn engineering firm hired by the University of Central Florida to\nassess the structure concluded it would be unsafe to proceed with\nrepairs. Even stress tests to determine the strength of the remaining\ncables could trigger a catastrophic collapse.\n\nInstead, engineers recommended a controlled demolition, bringing down\nthe suspended instrument platform in a way that will prevent damage to\nother structures at the periphery of the dish by making sure the towers\nthemselves don’t collapse and by ensuring no cables whip into those\nstructures.\n\n“The telescope is at serious risk of an unexpected, uncontrolled col-\nlapse,” said Ralph Gaume, director of NSF’s Division of Astronomical\nSciences. “According to engineering assessment, even attempted stabil-\nization, or testing the table could result in accelerating the catas-\ntrophic failure.\n\n“Engineers cannot tell us the safety margin of the structure, but they\nhave advised NSF that the structure will collapse in the near future\non its own.”\n\nPlans for bringing down the instrument platform have not yet been fin-\nalized and it’s not yet known whether explosives will be used in a\ncontrolled demolition or whether it might be possible to somehow lower\nthe platform to the dish below.\n\nHowever it plays out, the 1,000-foot-wide telescope will essentially\nbe destroyed. While the laser facility and visitor’s center will hope-\nfully be preserved, the radio telescope itself will be no more.\n\n[ANS thanks SpaceflightNow 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\nDX Portable Operation Planned From Thailand Grid NK99\n\nThe Thailand’s Amateur Radio Satellite group (AMSAT-HS) has requested\npermission to establish a temporary station (DX portable) with the\nnorthern office of the NBTC, Thailand’s regulator, in Chiang Mai and\nMae Hong Son (grid NK99) provinces in the north of Thailand during the\nperiod from November 26-28, 2020 to communicate via All LEO and MEO\namateur radio satellites (including QO-100 NB) that pass over Thailand\nusing the callsign HS0AJ/P of the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand\nunder the Royal Patronage of His Majesty the King.\n\nHence we would like to notify all radio amateurs who would interested\nin contacting stations in Thailand on its northern border of this ac-\ntivity. Even if the angle is as low as 0 degrees please try to contact\nus. We hope to meet you on all satellites frequency then.\n\nOperator by: E21EJC KoB and HS1JAN NaN\n\n[ANS thanks Tanan Rangseeprom, HS1JAN, for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHuman Error Blamed For Vega Launch Failure\n\nArianespace executives said Nov. 17 that the failure of a Vega launch\nthe previous day was caused when the rocket’s upper stage tumbled out\nof control due to incorrectly installed cables in a control system.\n\nIn a call with reporters, Roland Lagier, chief technical officer of\nArianespace, said the first three stages of the Vega rocket performed\nnormally after liftoff from Kourou, French Guiana, at 8:52 p.m. Eastern\nNov. 16. The Avum upper stage then separated and ignited its engine.\n\nHowever, “straightaway after ignition” of the upper stage, he said, the\nvehicle started to tumble out of control. “This loss of control was\npermanent, inducing significant tumbling behavior, and then the trajec-\ntory started to deviate rapidly from the nominal one, leading to the\nloss of the mission.”\n\nAnalysis of the telemetry from the mission, along with data from the\nproduction of the vehicle, led them to conclude that cables to two\nthrust vector control actuators were inverted. Commands intended to go\nto one actuator went instead to the other, triggering the loss of con-\ntrol.\n\n“This was clearly a production and quality issue, a series of human\nerrors, and not a design one,” Lagier said.\n\nThe failure caused the loss of two spacecraft, the SEOSAT-Ingenio Earth\nobservation satellite for Spain and the TARANIS satellite for France to\nstudy electromagnetic phenomena in the upper atmosphere. [No amateur\nsatellites were involved -- Ed.]\n\n[ANS thanks SpaceNews 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 November 19\n\nThe following satellites have been and added to this week's AMSAT-NA\nTLE Distribution:\n\nSALSAT - NORAD Cat ID 46495.\nBobcat-1 - NORAD Cat ID 46921.\nSPOC - NORAD Cat ID 46922.\nThanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO, for verfying the NORAD Cat ID's for\nthe above satellites.\n\nThe following satellite has decayed from orbit and has been removed\nfrom this week's AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution:\n\nBHUTAN 1 - NORAD Cat ID 43591 (Decayed on November 18, 2020 per Space-\nTrack)\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the\nabove information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMoscow Aviation Institute Plans SSTV Event from ISS\n\nRodolfo Parisio, IW2BSF, reports that a Slow-Scan Television (SSTV)\ntransmission event from the International Space Station is currently\nscheduled to begin on Tuesday, Dec. 1 starting at 12:30 UTC, ending at\n18:25 UTC, and again on Wednesday, Dec. 2 starting at 11:50 UTC and\nending at 18:25 UTC.\n\nListen for SSTV signals to be downlinked at 145.800 MHz +/- Doppler\nshift. The mode of transmission is expected to be PD 120. These times\nwill allow for one pass over the Eastern USA near the end of the sched-\nuled times. Received images of reasonable quality can be posted at the\nARISS SSTV Gallery at https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/\n\nFuture updates on this event will be posted @ARISS_status on Twitter.\n\n[ANS thanks Rodolfo Parisio, IW2BSF, 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\nA school contact has been scheduled with Amur State University, Blago-\nveshchensk, Russia, direct via a ground station to be determined. This\ncontact will be heard over Russian and other parts of Europe on 145.800\nMHz on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 08:45 UTC The ISS callsign is presently\nscheduled to be RSØISS and the scheduled cosmonaut is Sergey Ryzhikov.\n\nWelcome aboard to SpaceX-Crew 1 now on orbit! Victor Glover, KI5BKC,\nMike Hopkins, KF5LJG, Soichi Noguchi, KD5TVP, and Shannon Walker,\nKD5DXB, have joined Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ, and the two cosmonauts,\nSergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team men-\ntors for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur\n radio package, including two-way communication capability, to\n be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit.\n\n Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nUpcoming Roves:\nQuick Hits:\n\nWatch Twitter, there are lots pop-up roves happening lately, and I\ncan’t keep this page updated with all of them.\n\nFM26/27/28, @N5BO With 6 days off coming up I’m trying to finalize some\nplans, but as of now I’m looking to head out late next week for the\nFM26/27/28 area, with a couple grid stops on the way up. I’m also\nlooking at a possible detour on the way back home through the EM97\narea. More to come…\n\nKH67, 7Q7RU, AO-7, RS-44, QO-100, 11/11 thru 11/21.\n\nMajor Roves:\n\nAD0HJ’s #CoronaReliefThanksgivingMegaRoveBlowout: Not seeing any major\nroves scheduled for the dates 11/21 – 11/27 so he will be heading south\nto green up some Kansas style grids starting Saturday evening. More\ndetails to come over the next few days: EN00,10: EM18/19 : EM08/DM99 :\nDM97/EM07 : DM96/EM06 : EM17/EM18 : EM29/EM39. A list of passes here:\nhttps://twitter.com/AD0HJ/status/1328883186139590656\n\nPlease submit any additions or corrections to Ke0pbr (at) gmail.com\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager, for the\nabove information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n\nClint Bradford K6LCS has booked his “Work the FM Voice Satellites With\nMinimal Equipment” presentation for the clubs.\n\nTBD – Antelope Valley (CA) ARC\n\nTBD – A private presentation for a Boy Scout troop in Danville, Penn.\n\nThese will be Zoom presentations. Everyone is asked to update their\ncopies of the Zoom application – by directly visiting Zoom.us.\n\nClint is conducting “working the easy satellites” sessions via Zoom on\nNovember 19, 2020 at 7pm Pacific. If you are interested in attending,\nplease send him a private email for exact times and Zoom meeting\nnumber!\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events page manager, for the\nabove information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Happy 7th birthday to AO-73, FUNcube-1, which was launched on Novem-\n ber 21,2013. Congratulations to AMSAT-UK on the ongoing success of\n this project. (ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information)\n\n+ South Dublin Radio Club has uploaded its latest video to the club's\n YouTube channel. The video was created for Science Week in collabor-\n ation with Dublin Maker & Science Foundation Ireland and is called\n \"Signals from Outerspace! Make your own antenna to get images from\n Weather Satellites.\" It is designed as a beginner's radio project and\n instructs viewers on how to construct a very simple V-dipole for 137\n MHz, demonstrating how it can be utilised along with a basic SDR and\n computer in order to decode images from NOAA Weather satellites. It's\n available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8doUGhNKzdY\n (ANS thanks Southgate ARC for the above information)\n\n+ Sean Kutzko, KX9X, is creating a series of YouTube videos for the DX\n Engineering channel beginning with \"How and Why to Get Started in Op-\n erating Amateur Radio Satellites.\" Later episodes build on the con-\n cepts in the first. See the first episode at:\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp7h4ikthDQ\n (ANS thanks Sean Kutzko, KX9X, for the above information)\n\n+ APSS-1, a 1U CubeSat mission with deployable solar panels, built by\n The University of Auckland (New Zealand), Faculty of Engineering, was\n launched on November 20. The satellite is intended for monitoring of\n ionosphere activity and transmission of processed data to ground\n stations using a 9k6 GMSK AX 25 downlink on 435.100 MHz. APSS-1 will\n start transmitting 45 minutes after deployment, and will only beacon\n every 5 minutes initially.\n (ANS thanks Mark Jessop, VK5QI, for the above information)\n\n+ The Rocket Lab flight that took APSS-1 to orbit (see immediately\n above) was notable because Rocket Lab says the first stage of its\n Electron launcher splashed down under parachute in the Pacific Ocean\n off New Zealand after firing into space with 30 small satellites, be-\n coming only the second private company to return an orbital-class\n booster to Earth intact. The privately-developed Electron rocket has\n flown 16 times, including Thursday’s mission, but this was the first\n time an Electron rocket flew with parachutes to attempt a full series\n of descent maneuvers.\n (ANS thanks SpaceflightNow for the above information)\n\n+ NASA \"Scan\" on Facebook has published a note about ARISS and its 20\n years. Look for their post dated on November 16 at:\n https://www.facebook.com/NASASCaN and add a comment to let them know\n that we amateur radio ops are here and that it was great they had\n dedicated a post to ARISS and to all hams!\n (ANS thanks Fernando Casanova, EC1AME, for the above information)\n\n+ Talks from the DEF CON event are available on YouTube, they include\n a number of amateur radio talks from the conference's Ham Radio Vil*\n lage. Among the amateur radio talks is \"Talking to Satellites\" by\n Eric Escobar, KJ6OHH. See the playlist at: https://bit.ly/3fpuwzO\n (ANS thanks Southgate ARC for the above information)\n\n+ Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL) has updated TLEs for Neutron-1.\n HSFL appreciates the amateur community who have been listening for\n Neutron-1’s beacon, and wish to be notified of amateurs still listen-\n ing for the beacon at [email protected]. The new TLEs and other\n bulletins may be found at https://www.hsfl.hawaii.edu/\n (ANS thanks HSFL and JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM, for the above information)\n\n+ Open Research Institute has announced AmbaSat Inspired Sensors as a\n formal ORI project. To read the proposal document, visit:\n https://bit.ly/2KrpcQZ The first work session expected December 2020\n to May 2021 centered at Villanova University. The Principal Investi-\n gator is Dr. Alan Johnston.\n (ANS thanks Michelle Thompson, W5NYV, AMSAT Board Member, for the\n above information)\n\n+ Dave Johnson, G4DPZ, gave an online satellite talk to the Mid Ulster\n Amateur Radio Club on Nov. 10. The video is now available for every-\n one to watch on YouTube. The talk covered the many amateur satellites\n in Low Earth Orbit that operate in the 145 MHz and 435 MHz satellite\n bands as well as the QO-100 geostationary satellite which uses the\n 2.4 GHz and 10 GHz bands. Also covered were the new Inter-Operable\n Radio System which has recently been installed in the ISS Columbus\n module and Gateway Amateur Radio Exploration (AREx). Watch it at:\n https://bit.ly/3pNKSXJ\n (ANS thanks AMSAT-UK 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 and Remember to help keep amateur radio in space,\nThis week's ANS Editor, Mark D. Johns, K0JM\n\nk0jm at amsat dot org\n", "attachments": [] }