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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-073 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-073\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* ARISS Celebrates School Contact #1000!\n* AMSAT/TAPR Banquet at the Dayton Hamvention\n* Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D Waiting for delivery to Spaceflight Industries\n* The CBS \"This Morning\" show reportsa on STMSat-1\n* Supporting Disaster Communications from Space\n* Proposal Window for Scheduled US Contacts is Open\n* Application Window Open for ARISS Europe Region\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-073.01\nANS-073 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 073.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nMarch 13, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-073.01\n\n\nARISS Celebrates School Contact #1000!\n\nMarch 10, 2016: Today the Amateur Radio on the International Space\nStation team (ARISS team) proudly celebrated its 1000th school radio\ncontact!\n\nThe very first ARISS contact took place in 2000, and Astronaut Tim\nKopra, amateur call sign KE5UDN, on the International Space Station\n(ISS) did the honors for today’s 1000th link-up to the University of\nNorth Dakota. Kopra spoke in real time to excited scholars in Grand\nForks at the event organized by the North Dakota Space Grant\nConsortium (NDSGC). An additional program milestone—this was the\nfirst amateur radio contact with the ISS that has been hosted in\nNorth Dakota.\n\nDuring the 10-minute ARISS contact Astronaut Kopra answered\nquestions formulated by 20 different pupils in kindergarten all the\nway up to graduate school. A member of the winning 10th grade team\nfrom the Space Grant’s high altitude balloon competition last fall\nwas awarded one of the slots to interview Kopra.\n\nAn ARISS event is more than the amateur radio contact, and in this\ncase the NDSGC team that included college student volunteers made\nmultiple visits to pupils in the second through fifth grades at\nEmerado Elementary (Emerado, ND); Highland Elementary (Crookston,\nMN); Century Elementary (Grafton, ND); Century Elementary (Grand\nForks, ND); and Discover Elementary (Grand Forks, ND). The university\nteams led the young students in hands-on activities and learning\nabout aerospace, priming the youth for the interview with Kopra. The\nstudents, many from smaller rural communities, built and launched\nrockets, crafted and tested parachutes similar to those on NASA’s\nOrion capsule, and designed and tested neutral buoyant objects.\n\nStudents in today’s audience for the 1000th contact numbered 500. TV\nand newspaper reporters captured the action; the university media\nteam filmed it, and live-streaming was handled by John Spasojevich,\namateur radio call sign AG9D.\n\nOne student asked Tim, “What advice would you give to students, such\nas myself, who wish to work for NASA one day?” Tim advised: “Study\nvery hard and work hard in school because if you do well in school\nyou'll learn a lot and it's like money in the bank for you and your\nfuture career.” A UND staff member said, “Experiential learning has\nproven to be the most effective method of knowledge retention, so\nthis [ARISS] experience would grant them [students] the skills\nnecessary to be successful individuals in their future careers. The\nproblem-solving, creativity, and perseverance required by radio\ncommunications are cross-disciplinary skills that students can\nutilize as they enter STEM fields and careers, enhancing the NASA-\nrelevant workforce of North Dakota.”\n\nFrank Bauer, International Chairman for ARISS congratulated the\nARISS team on this noteworthy accomplishment:\n“With the outstanding support of NASA and the International Space\nAgencies participating in ISS, the ISS on-orbit crew members\nencompassing all 48 expeditions and the hundreds of ARISS volunteers\nworld-wide, the ARISS team has reached a tremendous milestone: 1000\nARISS contacts between schools on the ground and the ISS crews on-\norbit. Since our first contact in December 2000 to today’s contact in\nNorth Dakota, hundreds of thousands of students have participated in\nhands-on STEM learning that ARISS affords and many millions from the\ngeneral public have witnessed Human Spaceflight in action through an\nARISS contact. My congratulations to the ARISS international team and\nour ARISS stakeholders and sponsors on this phenomenal\naccomplishment!”\n\nThe NASA ISS Program Office produced several videos to celebrate the\nachievement of ARISS contact #1000, and the first three are online at:\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTOiiBd2dCo&feature=em-uploademail\n\nARISS: 1,000 Calls and Counting\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwtLkTpgNMM&feature=em-uploademail\n\nARISS: Talking to Astronauts\nhttps://youtu.be/Z-yHD9lVbH8\n\nARISS telebridge station W6SRJ operators Tim Bosma, W6MU, and Don\nDalby, KE6UAY, in Santa Rosa, California, skillfully supported the\nNorth Dakota ham radio linkup as the ISS passed overhead, relaying\nastronaut Tim Kopra’s radio signal to the students. Charlie Sufana,\nAJ9N, the ARISS Mentor from the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n(AMSAT) and the lead operator for ARISS Contact #1, guided the UND\nDakota Student Amateur Radio Association and the FORX Amateur Radio\nClub in all aspects of the ARISS contact.\n\nCongratulations go to the entire ARISS team on its #1000 successful\namateur radio contact with ISS astronauts and cosmonauts!\n\nAbout ARISS:\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a\ncooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the\nspace agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In\nthe United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite\nCorporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the\nCenter for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and the\nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary\ngoal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology,\nengineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled\ncontacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and\nstudents in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of\nexperienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with\nlarge audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during\nthese radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities\nlearn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio.\n\nFor more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and\nwww.arrl.org.\n\nJoin us on Facebook: Amateur Radio on the ISS (ARISS)\nFollow us on Twitter: ARISS_status\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT/TAPR Banquet at the Dayton Hamvention\n\nThe tenth annual joint AMSAT/TAPR Banquet will be held on Friday\nevening, May 20th.  This dinner is one of the main AMSAT activities\nduring the Hamvention. Tickets ($35 each) may be purchased from the\nAMSAT store at www.amsat.org. The banquet ticket purchase deadline\nis Tuesday, May 17th.\n\nThe Banquet will take place at the Kohler Presidential Banquet\nCenter, 4572 Presidential Way, Kettering, OH 45429 (just south of\nDayton). Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for a cash bar with the buffet\ndinner served at 7:00 p.m.\n\nAMSAT and TAPR alternate the task of providing a speaker for the\nbanquet. It is AMSAT¹s responsibility this year.\n\nMichelle Thompson, W5NYV, will present \"It¹s just software, right?\"\nShe will survey the AMSAT Ground Terminal:  Who, what, when, where,\nwhy, and how we¹re designing open source radio solutions for the next\ngeneration of AMSAT payloads.\n\nMichelle is AMSAT¹s Team Leader for the design and execution of the\nAMSAT Ground Terminal.  The goal is to create a ³5 and Dime² (5 and\n10 GHz) digital SDR transceiver that will support both voice and data\nmodes, for both general QSOs and emergency communication, for the\nPhase 4B satellite and for future AMSAT projects.  This is an effort\nto design an inexpensive ground terminal for amateurs that would cost\ntens of thousands of dollars commercially, for as much under $1,000\nas we can get it.\n\nA true renaissance woman, in addition to being an engineer and a\nlicensed amateur radio operator, Michelle has worked for Qualcomm,\nattends Burning Man, and is a longtime DEFCON participant.  She is\nalso the lead for Organ Donor (an AI pipe organ). Her Phase 4B Weekly\nGround Engineering Reports are fascinating reading.\n\nSeating is limited to the number of meals we reserve with the Kohler\ncaterers based on the number of tickets sold by the deadline.  Tickets\npurchased online may be collected at the Books, Shirts & Memberships\ncorner of the AMSAT booth (445-446).\n\n[ANS thanks Steve N9IP and the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFox-1Cliff and Fox-1D Waiting for delivery to Spaceflight Industries\n\nFox-1Cliff and Fox-1D successfully finished environmental testing on\nFebruary 8 and are now ready and waiting for delivery to Spaceflight\nIndustries for integration into their Sherpa payload dispenser which\nwill be making its maiden flight.  Launch is on target to occur in\nin the first half of 2016 on a SpaceX Falcon 9.\n\nThe CubeSats will be kept in a clean condition sealed in anti-static\nbags, opened occasionally to charge the batteries so that they are\nfully topped off for delivery.\n\nLaunched into a sun synchronous orbit, Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D will\nboth carry an FM repeater as Fox-1A (AO-85) has, as well as a camera\nexperiment built by students at Virginia Tech which will take images\nof Earth for downlink in the high speed Data Mode.  Fox-1Cliff will\nalso contain a radiation experiment from Vanderbilt University ISDE\nlike that in AO-85, and Fox-1D will host the University of Iowa HERCI\n(High Energy Radiation CubeSat Instrument) experiment to map the Van\nAllen radiation belts.\n\nWith Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D completed, the Fox Engineering Team is\nfocusing on RadFxSat/Fox-1B which is currently set to launch in\nJanuary, 2017.\n\n[ANS thanks Jerry N0JY for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nThe CBS \"This Morning\" show reports on STMSat-1\n\nThe CBS This Morning show reports on an amateur radio SSTV satellite\nbuilt by elementary students which is to be deployed in space in the\ncoming days\n\nAstronauts on the International Space Station have conducted\nhundreds of experiments and launched many satellites, but now they\nare set to deploy a satellite that elementary age students at a\nschool in Virginia built. Their satellite hitched a ride on a NASA\nrocket late last year, and it will be released into space in the next\nfew days. Mark Albert reports.\n\nWatch the CBS report at\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS073-STMSat-on-CBS\n\nFor the latest deployment date check the STMSat-1 Twitter account\nhttps://twitter.com/STMSAT11\n\nDeployment Update\nIn a tweet from STMSAT-1 on Saturday:\n\"Looks like I will be a houseguest just a bit longer. With 4\nlaunches in the next 20 days. astronauts are quite busy! Try again. 3\nweeks.\"\n\n[ANS thanks CBS and Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSupporting Disaster Communications from Space\n\nConventional lines of communication can be impacted after a\ndisaster. This we know. Phone lines can go down, cell service can be\noverrun with calls, texts, and emails and it can be difficult for\nsurvivors as well as first responders to get in touch. This isn’t a\nfar-fetched scenario or intellectual exercise. It’s a reality we’ve\nseen happen over and over during disasters small and large.\n\nEnter Amateur Radio—or what those involved in the hobby refer to as\n\"ham radio.\"\n\nAmateur radio enthusiasts—or “hams” as they’re often called—often\nstep in during emergencies to help bridge communication gaps between\nfirst responders to keep people safe when smartphones, cell towers,\nand internet technologies we rely on every day go down. Volunteer\nhams also serve as a valuable source of information during the\ninitial states of an emergency.  Often, hams provide this public\nservice in association with volunteer groups like Community Emergency\nResponse Teams, who are always ready to spring into action quickly\nand effectively.1\n\nWe owe it to these volunteers to do everything we can to support\ntheir work to help communities bounce back when disaster strikes.\nThat’s why we’ve partnered with the American Radio Relay League and\nresearchers from Virginia Tech’s Ted and Karyn Hume Center for\nNational Security and Technology in Blacksburg, Virginia—one of the\nleaders in amateur radio technology—to develop a new communications\nsatellite that will help amateur radio operators transmit radio\nsignals across the United States 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.\nAfter all, disasters can happen any place and any time.\n\nWith this new satellite, scheduled to launch in 2017, Hams involved\nin supporting disaster communications will have a more reliable\nconnection and a new level of capability in their communications.2\nRight now, radio signals used by amateurs must often be bounced off\nthe ionosphere to accommodate communication over long distances.\nUnfortunately, this type of radio propagation isn’t reliable because\nsignal reach and quality can be impacted or even halted by space\nweather events like solar flares and geomagnetic storms.2 This\nsatellite is unique because it will provide another layer of support\nfor emergency services­ by providing a dedicated communications hub\nfor hams orbiting above the U.S. in geosynchronous orbit every day.\nIt will help emergency managers deployed to disasters support long-\nterm communications for first responders on the ground—and become\nanother invaluable tool at their disposal.2\n\nAmateur radio operators have come to the rescue on more than one\noccasion—like during Hurricane Sandy—when landlines and cell phones\nwere left out of commission throughout New York and New Jersey.\n\nHams also made a difference in 2013, when Colorado was hit with\nhistoric flooding. As floodwaters ravaged areas across the state,\nthey threatened a wastewater plant that served over 80,000 people.\nVolunteers from the Amateur Radio Emergency Service—the American\nRadio Relay League’s disaster communications arm—leapt into action,\ncreating a network to monitor the situation and collect data. As a\nresult, they were able to take remote control of the facility and\nhelped prevent any wastewater from spilling out with the floods.3\n\nThis new partnership with hams will help make our communities more\nresilient, and we look forward to a successful launch.\n\nFEMA Editor’s Note: Jessica Stapf contributed research to this post.\n\nSources:\n\nAmateur Radio Relay League Page: Amateur Radio Emergency Communication\nhttp://www.arrl.org/amateur-radio-emergency-communication\n\nVirginia Tech Press Release: \"First amateur radio in geosynchronous\norbit will aid disaster communications.\"\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS073-VTGeo\n\nCase Study: Amateur Radio Volunteers Protect Community Water Supply\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS073-CaseStudy\n\n[ANS thanks Rafael Lemaitre and FEMA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nProposal Window for Scheduled US Contacts is Open\n\nMessage to US Educators\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station\nContact Opportunity\n\nCall for Proposals\nProposal Window February 15 – April 15, 2016\n\nThe Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program\nis seeking formal and informal education institutions and\norganizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur\nRadio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates\nthat the contact would be held between January 1, 2017 and June 30,\n2017. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact\ndates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is\nlooking for organizations that will draw large numbers of\nparticipants and integrate the contact into a well-developed\neducation plan.\n\nThe deadline to submit a proposal is April 15, 2016. Proposal\ninformation and documents can be found at\nwww.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.\n\nThe Opportunity\nCrew members aboard the International Space Station will participate\nin scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are\napproximately 10 minutes in length and allow students and educators\nto interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer\nsession.\n\nAn ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via\nAmateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space\nstation and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford\neducation audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from\nastronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn\nabout space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an\nopportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless\ntechnology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human\nspaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the\nISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate\nchanges in contact dates and times.\n\nAmateur Radio organizations around the world, NASA, and space\nagencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe sponsor this educational\nopportunity by providing the equipment and operational support to\nenable direct communication between crew on the ISS and students\naround the world via Amateur Radio. In the US, the program is managed\nby AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) and ARRL (American\nRadio Relay League) in partnership with NASA.\n\nMore Information\nInterested parties can find more information about the program at\nwww.ariss.org and www.arrl.org/ARISS.\n\nFor proposal information and more details such as expectations,\nproposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of\nInformation Sessions go to\nhttp://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.\n\nPlease direct any questions to [email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nApplication Window Open for ARISS Europe Region\n\nSchools and Youth organizations in the ARISS-Europe Region (Europe,\nAfrica and Middle East) interested in setting up an ARISS radio\ncontact with an astronaut onboard the International Space Station are\ninvited to submit  an application and an educational project.  The\napplication submission window will be open February 1 to April 30,\n2016, for space conversations that will tentatively be scheduled in\nthe period extending from February to June 2017.\n\nPlease see http://www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts for details and\nan application.\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Slovanské Gymnázium Olomouc,\nOlomouc, Moravia, Czech Republic and Astronaut Timothy Peake KG5BVI\nusing Callsign OR4ISS. The contact began 2016-03-08 08:22 UTC and\nlasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via OK2KYJ.\nARISS Mentor was Armand SP3QFE. This was the 998th ARISS contact.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Atlanta Science Festival,\nAtlanta, Georgia and Astronaut Tim Kopra  KE5UDN using Callsign\nNA1SS. The contact began 2016-03-08 16:11 UTC and lasted about nine\nand a half minutes. Contact was telebridge] via K6DUE.\nARISS Mentor was John K4SQC. This was the 999th ARISS contact.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between North Dakota Space Grant\nConsortium (NDSGC), Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA and Astronaut Tim\nKopra KE5UDN using Callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2016-03-10\n19:07:08 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was\ntelebridge via W6SRJ.\nARISS Mentor was Charlie AJ9N. This was the 1000th ARISS contact.\n\nEditor's Note:\nLast week the Mentors for the successful ARISS contacts were\nmisreported. AA8EM assumes full responsibility for the error. Below\nare the correct mentors for contacts #995, #996 and #997.\n\nThe mentor for contact #995 on 2/29/2016 between Tim Kopra KE5UDN\nand Gesamtschule Leverkusen Schlebusch, Leverkusen, Germany, was\nPeter IN3GHZ.\n\nThe Mentor for contact #996 on 3/1/2016 between Tim Kopra KE5UDN and\nNational Urban Alliance for Effective Education (NUA), Syosset, New\nYork, was Dave AA4KN.\n\nThe mentor for contact #997 on 3/5/2016 between Timothy Peake KG5BVI\nand Powys Secondary Schools, Mid Wales, UK was Ciaran MØXTD.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nBooker T. Washington Senior High, Miami, Florida, direct via  W4SVI\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled  astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI\nContact is a go for: Mon 2016-03-14 15:48:48 UTC\n\nWalter Jackson Elementary, Decatur, Alabama,  direct via N8DEU\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe  scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN\nContact is a go for: Thu 2016-03-17 14:46:07 UTC\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Patrick Stoodard WD9EWK will be part of the booth for the\n  University of Arizona's radio club (K7UAZ) for this weekend's\n  ScienceCity science fair, on the University of Arizona campus in\n  Tucson AZ. This is a two-day event, on Saturday and Sunday (12 and\n  13 March 2016). The event will be open from 9.30am to 5.30pm (1630\n  to 0030 UTC) each day. More information about the ScienceCity event\n  is available at:\n  http://sciencecity.arizona.edu/\n\n  [ANS thanks Patrick WD6EWK for the above information]\n\n+ Space Station 360: Zarya\n  Explore the Space Station’s first module with your mobile phone or\n  virtual-reality headset.\n\n  http://tinyurl.com/ANS073-SpaceStationTour\n\n  [ANS thanks the European Space Agency 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,\nEMike McCardel, AA8EM (Former KC8YLD)\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n",
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