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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/LEK2AJGDRMCTKSAJRLFRNGG3ZEL3PM3I/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5DYafi6r6squkAxUU+TRzvhr2tBj5psyBR+xPyNpimGLA@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "LEK2AJGDRMCTKSAJRLFRNGG3ZEL3PM3I", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/LEK2AJGDRMCTKSAJRLFRNGG3ZEL3PM3I/?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-049 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Feb 18", "date": "2024-02-18T00:00:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-049\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* SpaceX Delays Crew-8 Astronaut Launch to Make Way for Private Moon Mission\n* Upcoming Rideshare Launch to Include Amateur Payloads\n* Bill Introduced to Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on Amateur\nRadio\n* Small Launch Companies Seek Niches to Compete With SpaceX Rideshare\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for February 16\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information\nservice of AMSAT, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes\nnews related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities\nof a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active\ninterest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog\nand digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in\nSpace as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\n*Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at]\namsat.org <http://amsat.org>*\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:\nhttps://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/\n\nANS-049 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nTo: All RADIO AMATEURS\nFrom: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n712 H Street NE, Suite 1653\nWashington, DC 20002\n\nDATE 2024 Feb 18\nSpaceX Delays Crew-8 Astronaut Launch to Make Way for Private Moon Mission\n\nNASA’s next astronaut launch will delay nearly a week to let a moon mission\nleave Earth first.\n\nNASA’s Crew-8 astronauts, who will launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon, will fly\nto space no earlier than Feb. 28. The delay from Feb. 22 will make room for\nthe expected launch of Intuitive Machines’ moon lander from the same launch\npad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\n\nOdysseus, a robotic lunar lander built by the Houston-based company\nIntuitive Machines, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s\nKennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida early in the morning on Thursday,\nFeb. 15.\n\nIf all goes according to plan, Odysseus (designated IM-1) will touch down\nnear the moon’s south pole on Feb. 22, becoming the first-ever private\nspacecraft to ace a lunar landing. Success would also be a big deal for the\nUnited States, which hasn’t been to the lunar surface since NASA’s Apollo\n17 mission more than half a century ago.\n\n“NASA and SpaceX will continue to assess Crew-8 readiness and may adjust\nthe Crew-8 launch date following a successful IM-1 launch,” agency\nofficials wrote in a statement on Feb. 13, while announcing the delay. The\nastronaut mission will serve as relief for Crew-7, which flew to space on\nAug. 26 for an International Space Station mission expected to last six or\nseven months.\n\n*SpaceX Crew-8 crew. From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander\nGrebenkin, NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, KD5MIJ, NASA astronaut Matthew\nDominick, KCØTOR, and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU.*\n\nCrew-8 includes NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, KCØTOR (commander),\nMichael Barratt, KD5MIJ (pilot), and Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU (mission\nspecialist), along with Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist\nAlexander Grebenkin.\n\nBoth the ISS crew and the IM-1 launch are using a pad SpaceX leases at\nNASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The moon mission has a fairly narrow launch\nwindow as the IM-1 lander needs specific landing conditions to land at the\nlunar south pole, which is part of why the launch date for Crew-8 may be\nadjusted.\n\nCrew-8, as the name implies, is the eighth crewed operational mission by\nSpaceX that sends commercial crews to the ISS on NASA’s behalf. Starliner,\nthe second vendor, may fly its first test crew in mid-April 2024.\n\n[ANS thanks Space.com for the above information.]\n------------------------------\n\n*The 2024 AMSAT President’s Club coins are here now!*\n*Help Support GOLF and Fox Plus*\n\n*Join the AMSAT President’s Club today and help*\n*Keep Amateur Radio in Space!*\n*https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n<https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/>*\n------------------------------\nUpcoming Rideshare Launch to Include Amateur Payloads\n\nThe SpaceX F9 Transporter-10 Rideshare mission has been scheduled for\nlaunch on 1 March 2024. In addition to a half dozen commercial payloads,\ntwo amateur satellites are on the launch manifest: SONATE-2 from Germany\nand CroCube from Croatia.\n\n*SONATE-2*\n\nSONATE-2 is a 6U+ CubeSat designed and built by the University of Wuerzburg\nin Germany. As for many university satellites, the mission objectives of\nthe SONATE-2 satellite can be divided into three different parts:\n– The operation of an amateur radio payload\n– The development and operation of the satellite for the education of\nstudents.\n– The operation of a novel payload as a technology demonstration in space.\n\nThe amateur payload of SONATE-2 consists of a VHF transceiver that was\nalready built for the predecessor mission SONATE over the course of several\nstudent theses. For SONATE-2 additional student theses extended the\ntransceiver functionalities. It will provide regular SSTV downlinks with\nimages from the optical sensors included in the AI payload as well as an\nAPRS digipeater and CW beacon.\n\nOn the education side, the mission will serve as a foundation for different\naspects of the university aerospace and computer science engineering\nprogram. In the context of practical courses, theses or as student\nassistants, students can participate in the development of all subsystems\nof the space and ground segment, including the amateur radio payload and\nthe technology demonstration payload. In the context of mandatory lectures\nand exercises on space operations every student will also be included in\nthe operations of the satellite. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) offers a\nSchool Lab for high school students at the location of our external ground\nstation in Neustrelitz, Germany.\n\nBesides experiments on space and satellites, the School Lab includes\namateur radio contacts to the ISS under the supervision of licensed local\nradio amateurs, which they wish to extend to other satellites like in this\ncooperation with the SONATE-2 mission.\n\nIn addition to the amateur and educational mission parts, the SONATE-2\nmission also has a research objective for the demonstration of novel\nartificial intelligence technology in the space environments. While the AI\npayload is mainly operated using a separate up/downlink in the space\noperation service in S-band, the satellite bus and the amateur payloads are\noperated in the amateur service. Housekeeping telemetry in the amateur\nservice also contains status information of the non-amateur payload.\n\nProposing CW, SSTV using Martin M1 and APRS downlinks on VHF and a 9k6\nG3RUH AX25 telemetry downlink on UHF. Planning a launch into a 550 km\nSun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO). More info at https://go.uniwue.de/hk.\nDownlinks on 437.025 MHz, 145.825 MHz, 145.840 MHz and 145.880 MHz have\nbeen coordinated by the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU).\n\n*CroCube*\n\nCroCube is a 1U CubeSat mission to support the Croatian, but also worldwide\namateur radio community with many HAM services and activities. The\nmission’s goal is also to facilitate the technological development of\nCroatia, create an advanced society focused on prosperity and innovation,\nand increase participation in the global space sector. Also, drive Croatia\ninto the space era, increase interest in astronomy and space projects, and\ndevelop STEM and tech entrepreneurship, create a platform for founding a\nspace center in Croatia, increase investments and employment in robotics,\ntechnology and ICT and finally reduce unemployment and prevent brain drain.\n\nThe CroCube satellite is designed for HAM radio activities. The main\npurpose is to provide services for radio amateurs in Croatia and worldwide,\nand also for students of technical universities to get hands-on experience\nwith satellite communication and get radioamateur licences. One of the\nproject goals is to popularize HAM activities across the common population,\nstudents and children in Croatia.\n\nCroCube will provide these HAM services:\n– AX.25 telemetry\n– CW beacon – Digipeater\n– Anniversary/special occasions AX.25 & CW messages for community engagement\n– Experimental SSDV transmissions\n– SATNOGS integration, decoder, dashboard\n\nProposing a UHF downlink using 9k6 G3RUH GFSK with AX25 telemetry. Planning\nan Exolaunch deployment into a 510 km SSO. More info at\nhttps://drustvo-evo.hr . A downlink on 436.775 MHz has been coordinated by\nIARU.\n\n[ANS thanks Libre Space, Jan van Gils, PE0SAT, and IARU for the above\ninformation]\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<https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/>\n------------------------------\nBill Introduced to Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on Amateur Radio\n\nU.S. Senators Roger Wicker (MS) and Richard Blumenthal (CT) introduced\nS.3690 on January 30, 2024, the Senate companion bill to H.R.4006,\nintroduced last June. Both bills reflect the Congressional campaign efforts\nby ARRL to eliminate homeowner association land use restrictions that\nprohibit, restrict, or impair the ability of an Amateur Radio Operator to\ninstall and operate amateur station antennas on residential properties they\nown.\n\nAmateur Radio Operators repeatedly are relied upon to provide essential\ncommunications when disaster strikes, but their ability to do so is being\nimpaired by the exponential growth of residential private land use\nrestrictions that hinder their ability to establish stations in their homes\nwith which to train and provide emergency communications when called upon.\n\nIn announcing the introduction of S.3690, Senator Wicker said: “Because\ncommunication during natural disasters is often hindered, we should be\nmaking every attempt to give folks more options. Reliable access can make\nthe difference between life and death in an emergency. Our legislation\nremoves roadblocks for amateur radio operators looking to help their\nfriends, families, and neighbors.”\n\nIn a similar announcement, Senator Blumenthal stated: “Our measure will\nhelp clarify the rules so ham radio enthusiasts can successfully continue\ntheir communications.\n\nIn the face of emergency or crisis, they help provide vital, life-saving\ninformation that allow listeners to properly and safely respond, but\nprohibitive home association rules and confusing approval processes for\ninstalling antennas have been an unnecessary impediment. The Amateur Radio\nEmergency Preparedness Act resolves these bottlenecks and ensures that\nradio operators can function successfully.”\n\nARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, and Director John Robert Stratton,\nN5AUS, Chair of the ARRL’s Government Affairs Committee, both extended on\nbehalf of ARRL, its Members, and the Amateur Radio community their thanks\nand appreciation for the leadership of Senator Wicker and Senator\nBlumenthal in their continuing efforts to support and protect the rights of\nall Amateur Radio Operators.\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL News for the above information]\n------------------------------\nSmall Launch Companies Seek Niches to Compete With SpaceX Rideshare\n\nSmall launch vehicle developers are working to carve out niches in a market\nfor smallsat launches that is increasingly dominated by SpaceX’s\nTransporter rideshare missions.\n\nThe Transporter missions, which fill a Falcon 9 often with more than 100\nsmallsats, offer per-kilogram prices significantly below dedicated small\nlaunch vehicles. SpaceX has seen high demand for those missions and\nannounced plans last year for a related line of missions called Bandwagon\nthat will go to mid-inclination orbits.\n\n“The Transporter program was created a few years ago with, in my opinion,\nthe sole purpose of trying to kill new entrants like us,” said Sandy\nTirtey, director of global commercial launch services at Rocket Lab, during\na panel at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View, Calif. on Feb. 7. “Yet,\nwe are still flying because we offer something unique.”\n\nThat uniqueness, he argued, is the ability to fly missions to specific\norbits not served by Transporter rideshare missions. An example is Rocket\nLab’s next Electron launch, which will place into orbit the ADRAS-J\ninspector satellite for Astroscale. That mission requires a specific,\nprecise orbit so that ADRAS-J can rendezvous with a derelict Japanese upper\nstage.\n\n*A Rocket Lab Electron launched four smallsats for NorthStar Earth and\nSpace Jan. 31. Credit: Rocket Lab*\n\n“Electron is really the only vehicle capable of delivering such a complex\nmission on an expedited timeline,” Peter Beck, chief executive of Rocket\nLab, said in a Feb. 7 statement about the launch, scheduled for Feb. 19\n(New Zealand time). Rocket Lab said the specific launch time will be\ndetermined just a day before launch, with a near-instantaneous launch\nwindow.\n\n“Most of the missions that we fly are enabled by the fact that we offer\ndedicated services,” Tirtey said, citing the upcoming ADRAS-J launch.\n“There is no way you could do this on a rideshare.”\n\nOther panelists said they are targeting customers with specific\nrequirements or needs that make them less price-sensitive than those who\nopt for the less expensive Transporter launches. That includes dedicated\norbits and high reliability, said Pablo Gallego, senior vice president of\nsales and customers at Spanish launch company PLD Space. “We are offering a\npremium service for the ones that are willing to pay.”\n\nThat argument, though, is in danger of being undercut by the combination of\nrideshare launches and orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs), which can take\nsatellites to their desired orbit after being deployed from a Transporter\nor similar launch. Several companies are offering such vehicles and using\nthem on Transporter launches.\n\nWhile that combination may still be less expensive than dedicated launches,\nit still doesn’t offer sufficient flexibility, launch providers argued. “We\nare excited to partner with a lot of OTV providers in providing that\nservice to our customers, but it comes down to performance and how quickly\nyou can get there,” said Robert Sproles, chief technology officer of launch\nservices company Exolaunch. “If it takes you multiple months on orbit to\nget to that final destination, there’s a strong argument to be made to\ngoing dedicated.”\n\nTirtey said that maneuvers that require plane changes can take months to\ncomplete, adding that current OTV providers have yet to demonstrate the\nability to perform such complex maneuvers. “It could be useful, but you\ncan’t expect a revolution because of physics.”\n\nHowever, on another panel at the conference Feb. 6, industry officials said\nthey see challenges for small launch vehicles coming from SpaceX’s\nStarship, which promises much greater performance at significantly lower\nprices. “If you’re a smallsat company, your business model should be\nlooking forward to the model of the Starship rideshare,” a scaled-up\nversion of Falcon 9 rideshare, said Abhishek Tripathi, director of mission\noperations at the University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab\nand who previously worked at SpaceX.\n\nHe said that the introduction of Starship could change how spacecraft are\ndesigned, allowing the use of heavier but cheaper materials and components.\n“You can throw mass and power and volume at your problem and thereby scale\nup your satellite bus and still be cheap.”\n\n[ANS thanks SpaceNews for the above information]\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\n\n*25% of the purchase price of each product goes*\n*towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space*\n*https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear <https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear>*\n------------------------------\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for February 16\n\nTwo Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps\nin the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical\nmodel of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly\nupdates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. TLE bulletin\nfiles are updated daily in the first hour of the UTC day. New bulletin\nfiles will be posted immediately after reliable elements become available\nfor new amateur satellites. More information may be found at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/.\n\n - Lume-1 NORAD Cat ID 43908 Decayed from orbit on or about 13 February\n 2024\n - FEES NORAD Cat ID 48082 Decayed from orbit on or about 12 February 2024\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Orbital Elements page for the above information]\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\n*COMPLETED CONTACTS*\nSchool TBD, Naro-Fominsk, Russia, direct via UB3AYC\nThe ISS callsign was RSØISS\nThe crewmember was Nikolay Chub\nThe ARISS mentor was RV3DR\nContact was successful for Thu 2024-02-15 08:22 UTC\nCongratulations to the Naro-Fominsk students, Nikolay, and mentor RV3DR!\n\nB. Russell High School, Rome, Italy, direct via IKØUSO\nThe ISS callsign was OR4ISS\nThe crewmember was Jasmin Moghbeli KI5WSL\nThe ARISS mentor was IKØUSO\nContact was successful: Thu 2024-02-15 11:32:10 UTC 54 deg\nCongratulations to the B. Russell High School students, Jasmin, and mentor\nIKØUSO!\nWatch for Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0YEgMvzbn8\n\nImmanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia, direct via\nR2FDB\nThe ISS callsign was to be RSØISS\nThe crewmember was Konstantin Borisov\nThe ARISS mentor was RV3DR\nContact was successful for: Fri 2024-02-16 09:10 UTC\nCongratulations to the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University students,\nKonstantin, and mentor RV3DR!\n\n*SCHEDULED CONTACTS*\nGirl Scout Troop 1089, Sacramento, CA, direct via N6NA\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled crewmember is Loral O’Hara KI5TOM\nThe ARISS mentor is AA4KN\nContact is go for: Thu 2024-02-22 18:26:02 UTC 89 deg\n\nThe crossband repeater continues to be *active* (145.990 MHz up {PL 67} &\n437.800 MHz down). If any crewmember is so inclined, all they have to do is\npick up the microphone, raise the volume up, and talk on the crossband\nrepeater. So give a listen, you just never know.\n\nThe packet system is also *active* (145.825 MHz up & down).\n\nAs always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios\nare turned off as part of the safety protocol.\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\nThe latest information on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html\n\nThe latest list of frequencies in use can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors\nfor the above information]\n------------------------------\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nJonathan Eernisse, N4AKV has been QRV from FM05/FM06 and FM15/FM16 this\nweek. Both LEO and IO-117. Details available on hams.at\n\nA growing number of satellite rovers are currently engaged in sharing their\ngrid square activations on https://hams.at. By visiting the website, you\ngain easy access to comprehensive information about the operators\nresponsible for activating specific grid squares. Additionally, you have\nthe ability to assess the match score between yourself and a particular\nrover for a given pass, while also being able to identify the upcoming\nsatellite passes that are accessible from your location.\n\n[ANS thanks Ian Parsons, K5ZM, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n------------------------------\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n\nAMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through\namateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests,\nconventions, maker faires, and other events.\n\n+ 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Positive Impact of Amateur Radio on\nHuman Spaceflight\nThursday February 22nd through Saturday February 24th, 2024\nCenter for Space Education: Astronauts Memorial Foundation\nKennedy Space Center, M6-306 405 State Road, FL 32899\nhttps://www.ariss.org/overview.html\n\n+ Dayton Hamvention 2024\nFriday May 17th through Sunday May 19th, 2024\nGreene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center\n120 Fairground Road\nXenia, OH 45385\nhttps://hamvention.org\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Events page for the above information]\n------------------------------\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ The JAMSAT Annual General Meeting and Symposium 2024 will be held in\nSagano, Kyoto on 23-24 March 2024. To join the Symposium by ZOOM, please\nsend e-mail to Ueda-san, [email protected], with your Callsign and Name by\n16 March. He will send you invitation email including Zoom URL. If you are\nadept at reading Japanese (or have a good translation program) the latest\nedition of the JAMSAT Newsletter is packed with excellent articles,\nincluding a full report of satellite operations by the JAMSAT VK9QO\nDXpedition to Cocos (Keeling) Island, amateur transmissions from the moon\nby the SLIM LEV-1/LEV-2 landers, and a how-to on restoring a Yaesu G-5500\nrotator. Visit the JAMSAT website at https://www.jamsat.or.jp/ to learn\nmore. (ANS thanks Mikio Mouri, JA3GEP, JAMSAT Newsletter Editor, for the\nabove information.)\n\n+ An unspecified defect in early model Starlink satellites has prompted\nSpaceX to preemptively deorbit the units before they potentially fail and\nbecome hazards in low Earth orbit. The company has already initiated the\ndisposal of 406 units from the nearly 6,000 satellites launched to date.\nAmong these, 17 are currently non-maneuverable but are expected to\nnaturally decay and eventually burn up in Earth’s atmosphere in the coming\nyears. However, the decision to deorbit a large batch of approximately 100\nsatellites within a brief amount of time is certainly out of the ordinary.\n(ANS thanks Gismodo for the above information.)\n\n+ The European Space Agency’s Cluster mission, which has spent 24 years\nrevealing the secrets of Earth’s magnetic environment, is coming to an end.\nThe first of the four satellites in the Cluster quartet, named ‘Salsa’,\nwill reenter Earth’s atmosphere in September 2024. This month, spacecraft\noperators carried out a series of manoeuvres to ensure this reentry will\ntake place over a sparsely populated region in the South Pacific. The end\nof the Cluster mission offers a rare chance to study the safe atmospheric\nreentry of four identical satellites under different conditions. (ANS\nthanks The European Space Agency for the above information.)\n\n+ Copernicus, the Earth observation component of the European Union’s Space\nprogramme, has confirmed that January 2024 was the warmest January on\nrecord. Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate Change\nService (C3S) said: “2024 starts with another record-breaking month – not\nonly is it the warmest January on record but we have also just experienced\na 12-month period [with a mean global average temperature] more than 1.5°C\nabove the pre-industrial reference period. Rapid reductions in greenhouse\ngas emissions are the only way to stop global temperatures increasing.”\n(ANS thanks https://climate.copernicus.eu for the above information.)\n\n+ Voyager 1, humanity’s most distant scientific outpost, is currently\ncareening away from Earth at 17 kilometers every second and unable to\ntransmit useful scientific or engineering data back to us across nearly a\nlight-day of space. The problem with the 46-year-old spacecraft cropped up\nback in November, when Voyager started sending gibberish back to Earth.\nFlight controllers have determined that the problem lies within the one\nremaining flight data system (FDS) computer on board, most likely thanks to\na single bit of corrupted memory. The team has tried rebooting the FDS, to\nno avail. With most of the engineers who originally built the spacecraft\nlong gone now, the team is treading very carefully. (ANS thanks Hackaday\nfor the above information.)\n------------------------------\n\nJoin AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org/\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:\n\n* Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).\n* Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate.\n* Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status\nshall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary\nyears in this status.\n* Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.\n\nContact info [at] amsat.org for additional membership information.\n\n73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\nThis week’s ANS Editor, Mark Johns, KØJM\nk0jm [at] amsat.org\nCategories AMSAT News <https://www.amsat.org/category/amsat-news/>, AMSAT\nNews Service <https://www.amsat.org/category/amsat-news-service/>, ANS\n<https://www.amsat.org/category/ans/>\nANS-042 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n<https://www.amsat.org/ans-042-amsat-news-service-weekly-bulletins/>\n\n\n", "attachments": [ { "email": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/LEK2AJGDRMCTKSAJRLFRNGG3ZEL3PM3I/?format=api", "counter": 2, "name": "attachment.html", "content_type": "text/html", "encoding": "utf-8", "size": 38546, "download": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/LEK2AJGDRMCTKSAJRLFRNGG3ZEL3PM3I/attachment/2/attachment.html" } ] }