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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/IUUFEZWSKFMMBOMKX6DBL77PZ6A4AZWF/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "IUUFEZWSKFMMBOMKX6DBL77PZ6A4AZWF", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/IUUFEZWSKFMMBOMKX6DBL77PZ6A4AZWF/", "sender": { "address": "kd4iz (a) frawg.org", "mailman_id": "1fdf0f044fe749019e5f691eda02fd28", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/1fdf0f044fe749019e5f691eda02fd28/emails/" }, "sender_name": "[email protected]", "subject": "[Ans] AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletin ANS-348", "date": "2020-12-13T00:40:05Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-348\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* AMSAT-BB has migrated email server\n* Launch Window for AMSAT’s RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E Opens December 19th\n* Robots Dominate Space News This Week\n* SpaceX's Starship SN8 soars on test launch with explosive landing\n* The Great Conjunction is Coming on December 21, 2020\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for December ##, 2020\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n* Tips for the New Operator - Mobile Apps 2\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-348.01\nANS-320 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 348.01\nFrom AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE 2020 December 13\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-348.01\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\nAMSAT-BB has migrated email server software\n\nAMSAT’s IT team has been working to upgrade the Mailman software that\nsupports mailing lists (aka reflectors, listserv, BB, etc). This upgrade\nbecame necessary for several reasons, one of which was the release of a\nnew major revision of the Mailman software itself. The new version of\nMailman has many improvements, including: an updated web UI, management\nof all list memberships with a single account, and a web UI for\nsearching and browsing archives.\n\nThe upgrade requires existing mail list users to sign up for a “new”\naccount, which will be used to manage their existing list subscriptions\nand preferences. This will also require everyone to validate their\npreferences, aliases (if any), etc. Most existing preferences from the\nprevious version of Mailman did not migrate. Please see the procedures\nbelow. Please contact [email protected] with any questions or\nconcerns regarding this upgrade.\n\nProcedures to to sign up for the new Mailman service were sent to all\nAMSAT-BB subscribers. Please read the PDF attached to the email.\nMatt, KM4EXS adds this reminder in a follow up email: Please use the\n\"Sign Up\" option, using the email address that you use for your\nsubscriptions. That process will link the \"new\" account to all your\nexisting subscriptions. You can then set your digest preferences as\nyou like.\n\n[ANS thanks Matt Alberti / KM4EXS / AMSAT-IT Volunteer for the above \ninformation]\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\nLaunch Window for AMSAT’s RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E Opens December 19th\nDecember 2, 2020 \n\nVirgin Orbit has announced that the launch window for their LauncherOne\nLaunch Demo 2 mission opens on December 19th. This launch will carry\nAMSAT’s RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E to orbit.\n\nRadFxSat-2, like RadFxSat / Fox-1B, now AMSAT-OSCAR 91, is a partnership\nopportunity between Vanderbilt University and AMSAT and will carry a\nsimilar radiation effects experiment, studying new FinFET technology.\nRadFxSat-2 is the fifth and final Fox-1 satellite built by AMSAT. The\nRadFxSat-2 spacecraft bus is built on the Fox-1 series but features a\nlinear transponder “upgrade” to replace the standard FM transponder in\nFox-1A through D. In addition, the uplink and downlink bands are re-\nversed from the previous Fox satellites in a Mode V/u (J) configuration\nusing a 2 meter uplink and 70 cm downlink. The downlink features a\n1200 bps BPSK telemetry channel to carry the Vanderbilt science data in\naddition to a 30 kHz wide transponder for amateur radio use. Telemetry\nand experiment data can be decoded using FoxTelem version 1.09 or later.\n\nFoxTelem is available at:\nhttps://www.amsat.org/foxtelem-software-for-windows-mac-linux/.\n\nParticipation in telemetry collection by as many stations in as many\nparts of the world as possible is essential as AMSAT Engineering looks\nfor successful startup and indications of the general health and\nfunction of the satellite as it begins to acclimate to space. AMSAT\nwill send a commemorative 3D printed QSL card to the first station\ncapturing telemetry from RadFxSat-2.\nUplink LSB \t145.860 MHz\tthrough 145.890 MHz\nDownlink USB 435.760 MHz through 435.790 MHz\n1.2kbps BPSK telemetry 435.750 MHz\nLaunches on ELaNa XX – Virgin Orbit LauncherOne Launch Demo 2.\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, Contributing Editor ANS News Service for the\nabove information]\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\nRobots Dominate Space News This Week\n\n+Two groundbreaking robotic sample return missions dominated much of the\nspace news this week. A capsule holding grains of rock and dust sampled\nfrom asteroid Ryugu hit the Earth’s atmosphere at 11.6 km/s and safely\nparachuted into the Australian outback. Hayabusa2 launched on Dec. 3,\n2014, took four years to reach Ryugu, then did a bunch of science (in-\ncluding shooting it with a tantalum bullet and dropping numerous de-\nployables on the body—here’s a detailed PDF about the mission), before\nreturning with ~100 mg of samples, having covered a total of 5.24 bil-\nlion kilometers. The mission isn’t over for Hayabusa2 though—it’s now\nheaded toward asteroid 1998KY26 for humanity’s first rendezvous with a\nfast rotating asteroid in 2031 and a flyby of 2001CC21 along the way.\n\n+After 19 hours of drilling and scooping samples, Chang’e 5’s ascent\nvehicle spring-launched and then blasted off, returning to lunar orbit\ncarrying ~2 kg of regolith. It successfully rendezvoused with the re-\nturn vehicle, transferred the sample, and the return vehicle has em-\nbarked on its multi-day return trip. These will be the first lunar\nsamples returned since the 70s and the first sample return mission for\nChina. The rendezvous of the ascent vehicle and the return segment used\nmicrowave radar that was accurate down to 0.1° and able to lock on to a\ncircle with a 3.33 cm radius.\n\n+The cost to train deep neural networks is decreasing at 50x Moore’s Law,\nleading many to believe that machine learning, while very much in its\ninfancy, will see many more space applications in the near future. Cut-\nting edge applications, such as making autonomous decisions because\nthroughput or speed-of-light delay prevent humans from doing so, have\nalready been demonstrated, and more are on the horizon.\n[ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above information]\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\nSpaceX's Starship SN8 prototype soars on epic test launch, with\nexplosive landing\n\nSpaceX's Starship spaceflight system just took a big step on its path\nto Mars. The latest Starship prototype, a shiny silver vehicle known as\nSN8, launched on an epic high-altitude test flight today (Dec. 9),\ntaking off at 5:45 p.m. EST (2245 GMT) from SpaceX's facility near the\nSouth Texas village of Boca Chica.\n\nThe goal was to soar about 7.8 miles (12.5 kilometers) into the sky,\nperform some complex aerial maneuvers — including a \"belly flop\" like\nthe one the final Starship will perform when coming back to Earth on\noperational flights — and then land safely near the launch stand.\nThe 165-foot-tall (50 meters) SN8 appeared to notch all of these big\nmilestones, except for the final one: The vehicle hit its landing mark\nbut came in too fast, exploding in a dramatic fireball 6 minutes and\n42 seconds after liftoff. Additional information and video available\nat: https://bit.ly/3n7KLV1\n\n[ANS thanks Mike Wall of Space.com for the above information]\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\nThe Great Conjunction is Coming on December 21, 2020\n\nIn their closest encounter since 1623, Jupiter and Saturn appear as a \nsingle star in the evening sky next month.\n\nAll through the summer and into the fall, the two gas giants of the\nsolar system, Jupiter and Saturn, have been calling attention to\nthemselves in the southern evening sky.\nJupiter of course, always appears brilliant and is usually one of the\nbrightest nighttime objects, but in recent months it has stood out even\nmore than usual because of the presence of bright Saturn trailing just\noff to its left (east).\n\nAppearing about one-twelfth as bright, Saturn has, in a way, served as\nJupiter's \"lieutenant\" in this year of 2020. This will be the first time\nsince 1623 that this event will be seen. Additional information is at:\nhttps://bit.ly/3m4ot5j\n\n[ANS thanks Joe Rao of Space.com for the above information]\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+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for December 11, 2020\n\nNone. Please refer to the TLE/Keplerian Element Resources at:\nhttps://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the \nabove information]\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\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+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\nARISS NEWS for the week of 9 December, 2020\n\nARISS has posted a special anniversary message and a video celebrating\nour 20th Anniversary on the ARISS Web Page:\n<http://www.ariss.org>.\n\nAn ARISS Slow Scan TV (SSTV) event is scheduled from the International\nSpace Station (ISS) for late December. This will be a special SSTV event\nto celebrate the 20th anniversary of ARISS. The event is scheduled to\nbegin on December 24 and continue through December 31. Dates are subject\nto change due to ISS operational adjustments.\n\nThe latest information on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html\nThe latest list of frequencies in use can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html\nUpcoming Contacts:\n\nOregon Charter Academy, Mill City, OR, telebridge via VK4KHZ (Shannon\nWalker KD5DXB) Tue 2020-12-15 19:00:49 UTC 32 deg\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\nThe following schools have now been postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19:\n\nPostponed: No new schools\nCancelled: RO-SAT One, Piatra-Neamț, Romania, direct via YRØISS\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\nAll dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date\nand time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS\nThe complete schedule page has been updated as of 2020-12-08 16:00 UTC.\nHere you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and\nquestions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and\ninstructions for any contact that may be streamed live.\nhttps://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf\nhttps://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N and David Jordan AA4KN, of the ARISS\noperation team mentor group for the above information]\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+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nUpcoming Roves:\n\nNote from KE0PBR ****Watch Twitter, there are lots pop-up roves hap-\npening lately, and I can’t keep this page updated with all of them.****\n\n@N4DCW will be working passes from EM87 Dec 10-13. Click link to check\nfor details: https://bit.ly/36V2SYM\n\n@KL7TN: DM67/68: If my plans still hold up, Dec 12-13 for DM67/68 is on\nmy radar.\n\n@AD7DB: DM22 : Dec 17-20 Maybe DM13,23,32 Holiday Style on FM sats.\n\nNo Major Roves are listed.\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\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n<No update listed this week>\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT.org for the above information]\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\nHappy birthday to OSCAR 1 -- Age 59!\n+ The first amateur satellite, simply named OSCAR (Orbiting Satellite \n Carrying Amateur Radio), was launched on December 12, 1961, barely \n four years after the launch of the world's first satellite of any \n kind, Sputnik I. The satellite had to be built in a very specific \n shape and weight, so it could be used in place of one of the weights \n necessary for balancing the payload in the rocket stage. OSCAR 1 was \n the first satellite to be ejected as a secondary payload (the primary \n payload was Discoverer 36) and to subsequently enter a separate orbit. \n Its orbit decayed quickly, yet despite orbiting for only 22 days, \n OSCAR 1 was an immediate success. More than 570 amateur radio opera-\n tors in 28 countries forwarded observations to Project OSCAR (prede-\n cessor organization to AMSAT).\n \n(ANS thanks The Year in Space for the above information)\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n+ SpaceX won $885.5 million in broadband subsidies the FCC awarded pro-\n viders Dec. 7 under its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase 1\n auction. SpaceX’s share of the funding is one of the largest among\n the 180 winning bidders. The FCC will distribute the $9.2 billion in\n RDOF funding over the next 10 years to help the winning providers\n bring broadband service to some 5.2 million unserved homes and busi-\n nesses in rural parts of the United States.\n \n (ANS thanks SpaceNews.com for the above information)\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n+ SpaceX launched its upgraded Cargo Dragon spacecraft on Dec. 6. Based\n on Crew Dragon (basically stripped of seats, life support equipment,\n abort motors, and navigation interfaces), this was their 21st commer-\n cial ISS resupply mission. This version of Cargo Dragon is certified\n for five flights compared to its predecessor’s three, and it conducts\n automated docking instead of Canadarm-captured berthing.\n \n (ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above information)\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n+ There may still be time to participate in the last part of the 2020\n Open Source CubeSat Workshop. The workshop provides a forum for Cube-\n Sat developers and CubeSat mission operators to meet and join forces\n on open source projects. The focus of this year’s workshop is on\n sharing of ideas and open collaboration, even when confined at home.\n The target audience is academia, research institutes, companies, and\n individuals. The event takes place 12 and 13 December, 13:00 - 17:00\n UTC each day: https://events.libre.space/event/4/\n \n (ANS thanks Libre Space Community for the above information)\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n+ Surprisingly clear videos of the Arecibo Observatory collapse are now\n available, one from a drone that was actively inspecting a cable dur-\n ing the event and the other from a camera in the control room. A de-\n tailed frame-by-frame analysis is available at:\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59WQIRvezzI\n \n (ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above information)\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n+ GEOMAGNETIC STORM December 10, 2020\n A coronal mass ejection (CME) occurred heading for Earth early in \n the week., and geomagnetic storms were forecast to occur when it \n arrived on December 9th and 10th. NOAA forecasters downgraded their\n possible G3 warning. Unfortunately for Skywatchers, auroras that were\n could originally thought possible as far south as Illinois and \n Oregon were not seen farther south than the northern tier. On the \n other hand satellite surface charging issues and HF propagation have\n remained unaffected without the blackouts typical of these dis-\n turbances. An interesting discussion of the reasons for this \"non-\n event\" is on Dr. Tamitha Skov's YouTube/Patreon channel at: \n https://bit.ly/38113ce\n \n (ANS thanks Spaceweather.com and Dr. Skov for the above information)\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n+ Next Rocket Lab launch delayed due to weather\n Due to weather over the range this week at LC-1 RocketLab are now tar-\n geting no earlier than Monday, 14 December UTC for #TheOwlsNightBegins \n mission. Terry ads in a follow up note: \"There is a solar eclipse on\n Monday that may affect the mission so the launch is delayed until \n Tuesday.\"\n See: https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1337329320876904450\n \n Target lift-off: UTC | 09:00 - 10:59\n\n (ANS thanks Terry Osborne, ZL2BAC for the above information)\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n+ Samples of asteroid Ryugu arrive in Japan after successful Hayabusa2\n capsule landing on Dec. 5\n Japanese scientists are thrilled to finally have asteroid samples \n arrive Monday (Dec. 7) after a long flight from Australia — and a \n much longer journey through the solar system.\n An aerial shot of the Hayabusa2 return capsule and parachute after \n its landing on a bush in the Woomera Prohibited Area, Australia. \n Those rocks originate on a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu; the \n Hayabusa2 spacecraft snagged them in 2019 before a yearlong journey \n to deliver them to Earth in a small sample-return capsule. The \n capsule landed on Dec. 5 in the Woomera Prohibited Area in South \n Australia, creating a stunning fireball in the pre-dawn skies. \n Japanese scientists on site successfully tracked down the capsule \n and collected the precious cosmic delivery to begin the final leg of\n its journey. See additional information and photos at:\n https://bit.ly/379wPnV\n\n (ANS thanks Meghan Bartels and Space.com for the above information)\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, Jack Spitznagel, KD4IZ\n\nkd4iz at amsat dot org\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }