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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/OGPQY2RNFJSOFBGZHKH5J2J6QCO7DLVX/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5BTa4ktmhOmBp=k1V4z915Zb4LUDD_U1SErPBum+_5PHQ@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "OGPQY2RNFJSOFBGZHKH5J2J6QCO7DLVX", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/OGPQY2RNFJSOFBGZHKH5J2J6QCO7DLVX/?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-213 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Aug. 1", "date": "2021-08-01T00:00:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-213\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\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:\nhttps://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* AMSAT Announces Strategic Satellite Objectives and Organization Goals\n* F4DXV and VE1CWJ Set Numerous Satellite Distance Records\n* Call For Papers For The 39Th AMSAT Space Symposium\n* AM1SAT International Award\n* Russian Lab Module Tilts Space Station With Errant Thruster Firings\n* The Young Ham of the Year for 2021 is a Satellite Operator\n* FO-29 & FO-99 Operation Schedules For August 2021\n* More Slow-Scan TV Transmissions from RS0ISS Scheduled\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nANS-213 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 2021 Aug 01\n\n\nAMSAT Announces Strategic Satellite Objectives and Organization Goals\n\nThe AMSAT Board of Directors has adopted a set of strategic satellite\nobjectives and organization goals. The document, adopted in early June and\npublished in the the May/June 2021 edition of The AMSAT Journal. The plan\nestablishes a long-term, multi-faceted vision that includes big dreams, a\ncontinued presence in space, and a development path for the scientists,\nengineers, and operators of tomorrow.\n\nAMSAT President, Robert Bankston, KE4AL, commented, \"Anything this\nambitious will undoubtedly challenge our limited human and fiscal\nresources. We must parallel our new plan with new ways to manage and fund\nprojects. AMSAT has a pool of very talented volunteers, but there will be\ntimes when we require skills beyond our current capabilities. Recruitment,\npartnerships, collaborative efforts, and even outsourcing are options that\nwill help us fill in the gaps.\"\n\nHighly Elliptical Orbit (HEO)\n\n1. Upward to HEO. Develop and deploy a series of spacecraft capable of\nproviding wide-area and continuous coverage from highly elliptical and\ngeostationary transfer orbits. Greater Orbit, Larger Footprint\n\n2. GOLF. Develop and deploy a series of increasingly capable spacecraft\nthrough a program to learn skills and systems for which we do not yet have\nthe necessary low-risk experience, including active attitude control,\ndeployable/steerable solar panels, radiation tolerance for commercial off\nthe shelf (COTS) components in higher orbits and propulsion.\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station\n\n3. AREx-A. Partner with ARISS and ARISS-USA to advance Amateur Radio's\npresence aboard NASA's International Space Station, Deep Space Gateway and\nArtemis missions and provide opportunities to engage with astronauts in\nlunar and deep space operations.\n\nLow Earth Orbit (LEO)\n\n4. LEO. Support a stream of LEO satellites developed in cooperation with\nthe educational community and other Amateur Radio satellite groups.\n4.1 FM Operations. Develop, deploy and support a series of 1U spacecraft to\nsupport continued FM amateur satellite operations in low Earth orbit.\n4.2 Partnerships. Develop a plug-and-play communications solution for\neducational and other Amateur Radio CubeSat programs, providing a VHF/UHF\ntelemetry beacon, command receiver, and linear transponder or FM repeater\ncommunications module.\n\nAMSAT STEM Initiatives\n\n5. AMSAT Education. Support science,\ntechnology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) initiatives and training\nprograms for satellite and ground system designers and operators.\n5.1 CubeSat Simulator. Continue development of AMSAT’s CubeSat Simulator\nProgram.\n5.2 High Altitude Ballooning. Develop program to support and sponsor the\nuse of amateur radio in high-altitude balloon (HAB) launches.\n5.3 Youth Initiative. Develop an educational out reach program that\nencourages youth to pursue STEM interests in space science and\ncommunication technology.\n\nMore details of the strategic satellite objectives and organization goals\nmay be found at https://www.amsat.org/apogeeview/\n\n[ANS thanks The AMSAT Journal for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n Join the 2021 President's Club!\n Score your 2\" 4-Color Accent Commemorative Coin.\n This gold finished coin comes with\nFull Color Certificate and Embroidered \"Remove Before Flight\" Key Tag\n Donate today at\n https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n You won't want to miss it!\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n\nF4DXV and VE1CWJ Set Numerous Satellite Distance Records\n\nJérôme LeCuyer, F4DXV, and John Langille, VE1CWJ, have spent the last\ncouple of months using their favorable geographic locations to set a number\nof satellite distance records.\n\nOn May 5, 2021 at 13:04 UTC, F4DXV and VE1CWJ set the initial record on\nJO-97 of 4,889 km. F4DXV was operating in JN04it22nt and VE1CWJ was\noperating in FN85ii89sk.\n\nOn May 15, 2021 at 08:30 UTC, F4DXV and VE1CWJ broke the 5,000 km mark for\nthe first time on a satellite from the September 2015 Long March 6 launch\nwhen they covered a distance of 5,005 km between FN85ii22lf and JN15jo26rq\non XW-2F. F4DXV was operating from the summit of a mountain and the QSO was\ncompleted with an elevation of -1.5 degrees.\n\nOn June 26, 2021 at 11:03 UTC, the pair set a record of 4,907 km on FO-99\nwhile F4DXV was operating in JN04jr35pe and VE1CWJ was operating in\nFN85fo5ik.\n\nOne month later, on July 26, 2021, F4DXV returned to the summit of the\nmountain in JN15jo26rq and the pair set a number of additional records\nwithin one half-hour, again breaking the 5,000 km threshold for the first\ntime on several additional satellites from the September 2015 Long March 6\nlaunch. They set the record at 5,008 km on LilacSat-2 at 08:08 UTC, XW-2D\nat 08:15 UTC, XW-2B at 08:21 UTC, and XW-2C at 08:33 UTC.\n\nA list of known satellite distance records is located at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/satellite-distance-records/. Please email n8hm at\namsat.org if you wish to claim a new record, longer distance QSO not yet\ndocumented, or records for any other satellite/transponder not yet listed.\nPlease note that if a satellite carries multiple transponders or supports\nmultiple frequency bands, records on each transponder/band may be claimed,\nsuch as Mode A and B on AO-7 or Mode U/S, L/S, U/K, etc, on AO-40. This\nincludes the ISS and records may be claimed for the packet digipeater and\ncrossband repeater, but does not include different operating modes on the\nsame transponder (such as CW or SSB on AO-7 Mode B).\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, AMSAT Executive Vice President, for the\nabove information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nCall For Papers For The 39Th AMSAT Space Symposium\n\nThis is a call for papers for the 39th AMSAT Space Symposium to be held on\nthe weekend of October 29-31, 2021 at the Crowne Plaza AiRE hotel in\nBloomington, Minnesota.\n\nProposals for symposium presentations are invited on any topic of interest\nto the amateur satellite community. We request a tentative title of your\npresentation as soon as possible, with final copy submitted by October 18\nfor inclusion in the symposium proceedings. Abstracts and papers should be\nsent to Dan Schultz, N8FGV at [email protected]\n\n[ANS thanks Dan Schultz N8FGV, Symposium Program Chair, for the above\ninformation]\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\n\nAM1SAT International Award\n\nFrom September 13-19 AM1SAT will be active on the amateur radio satellites\nfrom a number of locations in Spain, diplomas will be available for\ncontacting the stations\n\nA translation of the URE post reads:\n\nAMSAT-EA will celebrate in September, coinciding with the IberRadio Fair\norganized by URE in Ávila and which is the largest meeting point for radio\namateurs in Spain and Portugal, the third edition of its International\nCompetition and AM1SAT Award.\n\nTo do this, AMSAT-EA operators will be in the air on all available\nsatellites with the callsign AM1SAT between the 13th and 19th of that\nmonth, activating a minimum of 14 different locations.\n\nAs part of this activity and to encourage participation, the SILVER and\nGOLD classifications will be available, as well as a trophy for the one\nwho achieves the greatest number of grids and for the one who manages to\nwork the greatest number of different satellites.\n\nIn the last edition of the contest held in 2019, 727 QSOs were made,\nawarding 10 gold and 28 silver diplomas. The trophies for the best grid and\nsatellite 'hunter' were awarded to F4DXV and EA3CAZ.\n\nThe rules in English for this year's contest can be found at\nhttps://www.amsat-ea.org/app/download/12828633/AMSAT+EA+-+AM1SAT+2021+-+English.pdf\n\nOrignal source, Union La Unión De Radioaficionados Españoles:\nhttps://tinyurl.com/IARU-Spain\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARC for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nRussian Lab Module Tilts Space Station With Errant Thruster Firings\n\nA heavyweight Russian laboratory module that experienced a variety of\nproblems after launch last week docked at the International Space Station\nThursday, but in a moment of unexpected drama, inadvertent thruster firings\nbriefly knocked the sprawling complex out of its normal orientation.\n\nSpace station program manager Joel Montalbano said the station was\nmaintaining its orientation, or “attitude,” using massive NASA-supplied\ngyroscopes when the thruster firings suddenly began at 12:34 p.m. EDT,\nabout three hours after the 44,000-pound Nauka multi-purpose laboratory\nglided in for docking.\n\nThe gyros were unable to counteract the unwanted push from Nauka’s jets and\nthe space station, stretching the length of a football field with a mass of\nmore than 930,000 pounds, began tilting away from its normal orientation.\n\nAttitude control was quickly handed off to more effective rocket motors in\nthe Russian Zvezda module, where Nauka was attached. A few minutes later,\nthrusters in a Progress cargo ship docked on the other side of Zvezda\nkicked in with additional muscle.\n\nThe space station ended up tilted up about 45 degrees from its earlier\norientation, moving at one point at roughly half a degree per second. But\nin a little more than an hour, the station was back in its normal\norientation, apparently none the worse for wear.\n\n“We haven’t noticed any damage to the ISS,” Montalbano said in an afternoon\nteleconference. “One of the things we do after a dynamic event like this is\ngo ahead and sit down with our structural loads team and review all the\ndata, go pull all the telemetry and do an assessment. And so that’ll be the\nnext step.”\n\nA “spacecraft emergency” was declared at the outset, but that was standard\nprocedure in such cases, giving the lab complex priority over other\nspacecraft using NASA’s satellite communications network. Montalbano said\nthe station’s seven crew members were never in any danger.\n\n“There was no immediate danger at any time to the crew,” he said.\n“Obviously, when you have a loss of attitude control, that’s something you\nwant to address right away. But the crew was never in any, like, immediate\nemergency or anything like that.”\n\nIt’s not yet known what might have caused the Nauka module’s thrusters to\nsuddenly begin firing as cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov were in\nthe process of “integrating” the new spacecraft with the station’s computer\nsystems.\n\nUp to 11 spacewalks will be needed to outfit the laboratory and to make\nmultiple power and data connections with the space station. The first two\nexcursions are planned for September. Amateurs should note that the ISS\namateur radio operations, ARISS, are shut down whenever there are docking\noperations or EVAs (spacewalks) taking place.\n\n[ANS thanks SpaceFlightNow for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nAMSAT's GOLF Program is about getting back to higher orbits, and it all\nbegins with GOLF-TEE – a technology demonstrator for deployable solar\npanels, propulsion, and attitude control, now manifested for launch on\nNASA's ELaNa 46 mission. Come along for the ride. The journey will be\nworth it!\n\n https://tinyurl.com/ANS-GOLF\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nThe Young Ham of the Year for 2021 is a Satellite Operator\n\nFaith Hannah Lea, KD3Z, of Palm Coast, Florida, has been selected as the\n2021 Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the\nYear.\n\nFaith Hannah is the daughter of James, WX4TV, and Michelle, N8ZQZ, Lea. Her\nbrother and two sisters are also hams.\n\nShe credited her parents with being the biggest influences in her entry\ninto amateur radio. She said her journey began at the age of 10 in December\n2014.\n\n“I started studying for my Technician license with my brother (Zechariah\nWX4TVJ),” she recalled. “And we both went in and got it. And two weeks\nlater, I had earned my General ... Then, two months later, I earned my\nExtra.\n\n“So that allowed me to really get into the stuff that I liked, which was\nworking HF.”\nJust 18 months after being licensed, Faith Hannah was invited to join the\n2016 Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX team operating PJ6 from the Dutch island\nof Saba.\n\n“And that’s when I realized especially that DXing is amazing because I\nabsolutely love those huge pileups and getting to talk to all of those\ndifferent people,” she explained.\n\nAmong her PJ6 achievements was a satellite contact that broke the SO-50\ndistance world record. She wrote an article about the event which was\npublished in the March/April 2017 issue of The AMSAT Journal.\n\nIn August 2018, Faith Hannah took part in the week-long “Youngsters on the\nAir” program in Johannesburg, South Africa where she participated in\nkit-building and antenna building projects, satellite operations and a\nhigh-altitude balloon launch.\n\nShe wrote an article about her experiences in South Africa that was\npublished in CQ magazine.\n\nOn the way to South Africa, Faith Hannah and her father, James, WX4TV, had\na 22-hour layover in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. They were invited by\nthe Emirates Amateur Radio Society to visit and operate A62A and A60YOZ.\n\nIn December 2018, Faith Hannah and her younger sister, Hope, ND2L, and her\nfather organized a 36-hour mini-DXpedition to the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf\nof Mexico, off the southwest coast of Florida, where they activated N4T.\n\nThe girls logged 1,970 HF contacts and 100 satellite contacts.\n\nFaith Hannah’s account of the N4T operation was published by CQ magazine,\nand she and Hope shared the April 2019 cover.\n\nThese and other ham radio experiences energized her desire to actively\nparticipate in contesting with her family and she has been a regular\nparticipant in ARRL Field Day, ARRL International DX contests, CQ WW SSB,\nand several state QSO parties.\n\nShe has participated in several special event operations as well, including\nNational Parks on the Air (NPOTA) activations, the first SpaceX Falcon\nHeavy launch, the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse in Florida, a 13 Colonies station\n(K2G) in Georgia, and Jamboree on the Air and Boy Scout Radio merit badge\nweekends.\n\nShe has been active in several clubs in Virginia and Florida over her brief\ntime as an amateur radio operator, finding mentors and friends in each of\nthem. She has served as a net control operator for Volusia, Florida ARES\n(Amateur Radio Emergency Service) during Hurricanes Matthew, Irma and\nDorian.\n\nFaith Hannah completed high school through home schooling. But before doing\nso, she enrolled in Daytona State College where she earned an Associate of\nArts degree at the age of 15. Presently, she is enrolled in Stetson\nUniversity in Deland, Florida, where she is recognized as a member of the\njunior class. She maintains a 4.0 GPA as she works toward earning two\ndifferent degrees – a Bachelor of Science in molecular and cellular biology\nand a Bachelor of Business Administration. Faith Hannah said she is\nexploring two career tracks – medicine or the law, or possibly both.\n\nIn 2020, she earned a $25,000 scholarship from the Foundation for Amateur\nRadio. And in 2021, a $16,000 scholarship in the “Voice of Democracy” essay\ncontest sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars – finishing first in\nFlorida and second in the national competition.\n\nAs for amateur radio now and in the future, Faith Hannah says there’s\nalways time for that.\n\n“I know this sounds weird but it doesn’t really take all of my time to do\nmy school, to have fun and to do ham radio,” she explained. “It all just\nfits in perfectly because a lot of times if I’m getting on the radio and\nit’s not a contest, I’ll just do it in the evening when gray line is there\nbecause that’s usually when I’m free and it’s a great time to make contacts.\n\n“If it’s a weekend, we might take a radio and go out to a park or something\nand get on the air. And once it starts dying down, we’ll just hang around\nthe park for a couple of hours.”\n\nThe YHOTY award is traditionally presented during the Huntsville Hamfest in\nAugust at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville Alabama. However, because of\nthe spike in the Delta variant of Covid-19, Amateur Radio Newsline will not\nstage a public presentation at the hamfest this year. Faith Hannah will\nreceive a certificate of recognition and other gifts during an online\npresentation.\n\nThe Young Ham of the Year Award was inaugurated by William Pasternak,\nWA6ITF, in 1986. Upon his passing in 2015, Bill’s name was added to the\naward as a memorial to his commitment to recognizing the accomplishments of\nyoung people to the Amateur Radio Service.\n\nAmateur Radio Newsline, CQ magazine, and Yaesu USA are primary sponsors of\nthe award, along with Heil Sound Ltd. and Radiowavz Antenna Company.\n\n[ANS thanks Amateur Radio Newsline for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFO-29 & FO-99 Operation Schedules For August 2021\n\nFuji-OSCAR 29 is switched on for selected weekend orbits over Japan and\nremains available for use until the low voltage protection circuit turns\nthe satellite off once again during eclipse.\n\nFO-29 transponder ON times for Aug. 2021 (UTC)\n 1st 11:48-\n 7th 01:14- 11:33- 13:16-\n 8th 00:19- 10:35- 12:22-\n14th 00:04- 10:20- 12:07- 23:09-\n15th 11:12- 12:56-\n17th 00:48- 02:35- 11:06- 12:52-\n21st 00:38- 02:25- 10:56- 23:45-\n22nd 09:59- 11:45-\n27th 23:30-\n28th 09:45- 11:30- 22:35-\n29th 00:18- 10:35-\n\nSource: https://www.jarl.org/Japanese/3_Fuji/fuji3-202107.htm\n\nThe August schedule for FO-99 is available at\nhttps://www.jamsat.or.jp/?p=1580\n\n[ANS thanks JAMSAT and Hideo Kambayashi, JH3XCU, 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\nMore Slow-Scan TV Transmissions from RS0ISS Scheduled\n\nRussian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) will\ntransmit slow-scan television (SSTV) images from the station Friday and\nSaturday, August 6 - 7. They will use SSTV mode PD-120 on 145.800 MHz FM.\n\nThe transmissions are part of the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment\n(MAI-75) and will be sent via RS0ISS, the ham station in the Russian Zvezda\n(Service) module using a Kenwood TM-D710 transceiver.\n\nThe announced schedule is August 6, 1050 - 1910 UTC; August 7, 0950 - 1555\nUTC. Dates and times are subject to change. For stations in the ISS\nfootprint, the RS0ISS signal should be easy to copy on a handheld\ntransceiver and a quarter-wave whip. Use 5 kHz channel spacing, if\navailable, to correct for Doppler shift, beginning 5 - 10 kHz above the\nreceive frequency and tuning downward as the ISS approaches and move away\nonce again.\n\nFree ISS software is available to download. Pass predictions are available\nfrom AMSAT. Representative images from prior ISS SSTV events are available\nin the ARISS SSTV Gallery.\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS and ARRL 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\nNotre Dame Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School, Kyoto, Japan, direct via\n8N3ND\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG\nContact is go for: Tue 2021-08-03 11:10:15 UTC 77 deg\n\nNext mode change is expected to take place in late August 2021.\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\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\nEA4NF: Linear & FM satellites August 1-14, 2021. IL27, IL28, IL38\n\nND0C & @kylee_ke0wpa and I will be “up north” for the next few days and\nwill operate from EN36, 46, and 47. This is a “holiday-style” rove with no\nspecific scheduled passes at this point. Most likely pop-up with short\nnotice. FM and linears.\n\nFN65/66: Indeed, VY2HF will be in FN65 from Thursday (7/22 – 7/29) evening\nthis week until the following Thursday morning. As I’ll be in Fredericton\nproper, if there is interest I can position myself on the FN65/FN66 grid\nline with little trouble. Daytimes will be best, RS44 preferred, FM doable\nalso. And on Thursday the 29th I will be driving into FN76/77 for several\nmore days…\n\nEN56, 57, 67: N8MR will be in EN57, EN67 and EN56 from Aug 7 thru Aug 14.\nUsing an Icom 9700, Arrow antenna and SatPC32 to control uplink and\ndownlink for Doppler.\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\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\nAMSAT Ambassador Clint Bradford, K6LCS, has online Zoom presentations\nscheduled in coming weeks with amateur groups in\n\nNew Jersey\nCentral New Hampshire\nNorth Carolina\nConejo Valley CA\nSonoma County CA\nMassachusetts\nAntelope Valley CA\n\nContact Clint to arrange other events:\nClint Bradford K6LCS, AMSAT Ambassador; ARRL instructor\nhttp://www.work-sat.com\nEmail: clintbradford AT mac DOT com\n(909) 999-SATS (7287) - voicemail/message\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Congratulations to two new satellite operators who have earned the AMSAT\nRover Award. Tor-Atle Sandal, LA9XGA, received award #58 and Randy Kohlwey,\nWI7P, received award #59. More information on the AMSAT Rover Award can be\nfound at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-rover-award/ (Thanks to AMSAT Director\nof Contests and Awards Bruce Paige, KK5DO)\n\n+ A solar wind stream hit Earth during the early hours of July 28th. First\ncontact rattled Earth's magnetic field and sparked rare blue auroras over\nCanada. Blue is a sign of bright moonlight hitting the top of the auroras.\nThe process is called \"resonant scattering.\" Details and photo at\nhttps://bit.ly/3zUnCLX (ANS thanks Spaceweather and Southgate ARC for the\nabove information)\n\n+ Boeing and NASA are getting ready to make another attempt at launching\nits Starliner astronaut taxi to the International Space Station. The\nuncrewed CST-100 Starliner space capsule is now scheduled to launch to the\nspace station on Tuesday, Aug. 3, at 1720z, lifting off from Space Launch\nComplex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a United\nLaunch Alliance Atlas V rocket. If that launch date holds, the capsule will\narrive at the International Space Station on Wednesday, Aug. 4. Amateurs\nshould note that the ISS amateur radio operations, ARISS, are shut down\nwhenever there are docking operations or EVAs (spacewalks) taking place.\n(ANS thanks Space.com for the above information)\n\n+ Another step towards space exploration from UK soil has been unlocked,\nwith the passing of the spaceflight regulations, Transport Secretary Grant\nShapps announced 29 July 2021. The legislation provides the framework to\nregulate the UK space industry and enable launches to take place from\nBritish soil for the very first time. (ANS thanks SpaceDaily for the above\ninformation)\n\n+ NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch its Europa Clipper\nmission to a potentially habitable moon of Jupiter, a choice that appeared\ninevitable once NASA was no longer required to use the Space Launch System.\nNASA announced July 23 that it awarded a launch services contract to SpaceX\nfor the October 2024 launch of Europa Clipper on a Falcon Heavy rocket. The\ncontract is valued at $178 million. (ANS thanks SpaceNews for the above\ninformation)\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the\nPresident's Club. 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