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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/OMUBI2J2DKG4T22JTH5EME2NUB2L6BPT/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "OMUBI2J2DKG4T22JTH5EME2NUB2L6BPT", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/OMUBI2J2DKG4T22JTH5EME2NUB2L6BPT/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[ans] ANS-260 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2012-09-16T02:55:23Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-260\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The\nRadio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a\nworldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in\ndesigning, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital\nAmateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\nIn this edition:\n* Cubesats Deployed From Vandenberg Atlas V Launch\n* 2012 AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting Comes to Orlando\n* 2012 Symposium Banquet Speaker - Astronaut Dr. Samuel T. Durrance\n* 2012 AMSAT Symposium Schedule\n* AMSAT-NA Board of Directions Election Results\n* DynaCube CubeSat Under Development in South Africa\n* Japan's PROITERES Launched - Signals Received\n* AMSAT Store Grand Reopening\n* Five CubeSats to be Deployed From ISS on September 27\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n* ARISS Status - 10 September 2012\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-260.01\nANS-260 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 260.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 16, 2012\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-260.01\n\n\nCubesats Deployed From Vandenberg Atlas V Launch\n\nThe Atlas V NROL-36 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Cali-\nfornia, originally planned for August, successfully launched on 13 September at\n2139 UTC.\n\nThis launch carried a satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. Also\naboard this flight at four cubesats as part of ELaNa IV mission and seven\ncubesats for government missions.\n\nSeveral hours after launch Justin Foley, KI6EPH, announced via the #Cubesat IRC\nChannel that all eight P-PODS had successfully deployed.\n\nThe ELaNa Cubesats aboard are:\n+ CINEMA (Cubesat for Ion, Neutral, Electron, Magnetic fields)\n o Downlinks for engineering telemetry and command are in the\n 2400-2450 MHz range; Science telemetry is in 2200-2300 MHz\n range.\n\n+ CSSWE (Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment)\n o Downlink 437.345 MHz, 9k6 with AX25\n\n+ CP5 (PolySat)\n o Downlink 437.405 MHz at 1 watt, AFSK on LSB AX.25 over NRZI at\n 1200 baud, every 2 minutes, begins 3.5 hours after first turn-on.\n\n+ CXBN (Cosmic X-Ray Background Nanosatellite)\n o Downlink 437.525 MHz, GFSK, AX.25\n\nThe US Government Satellites aboard are:\n+ Aeneas\n o First cubesat to deploy 2.4 GHz Dish Antenna. WIFI transmitter\n will transmit on 2425.0 MHz with 1 watt of output power.\n o Downlink 437.600 MHz AX25 1200 bps beacon every 10 seconds and\n spread spectrum two-way link elsewhere in the 70cm band.\n+ ORSES (ORS Enabler Satellite)\n+ Horus\n+ Re\n+ Aerocube 4A, 4B, 4C\n o Testing deployable solar panels.\n o Technology demonstration of \"parachute-like\" devices to deorbit\n satellites.\n o Testing closed-loop attitude control system based around a\n three-axis gyroscope.\n\nPlease refer to the prior bulletin for mission summaries and satel-\nlite team web pages: http://amsat.org/pipermail/ans/2012/000637.html\n\nA detailed article of the launch can be found on-line at:\nhttp://www.americaspace.org/?p=23568\n\n[ANS thanks NASA, the CubeSat Teams noted above, AMSAT-UK, Gunter's\n Space Page and nasaspaceflightnow.com for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2012 AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting Comes to Orlando\n\nAMSAT announces the 2012 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held on\nFriday, October 26th through Sunday, October 28th. The Symposium\nweekend will feature:\n\n+ Space Symposium with Amateur Satellite Presentations\n+ Operating Techniques, News, & Plans from the Amateur Satellite World\n+ Board of Directors Meeting open to AMSAT members\n+ Meet Board Members and Officers\n+ Annual General Membership Meeting\n+ Annual Banquet-Keynote Speaker and Door Prizes\n\nSee the AMSAT Web Store to complete your on-line registration:\nhttp://store.amsat.org/catalog/index.php?cPath=27\n\nDownloadable paper registration forms in MS-Word format and\nPDF format are available on the 2012 Symposium page:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2012/index.php\n\nPrices for the Symposium are:\n+ Symposium Registration including Proceedings\n o Through September 23, 2012: $ 45.00\n o Starting September 24, 2012: $ 50.00\n o At the Door: $ 55.00\n\n+ Saturday Evening Banquet $ 45.00\n\n+ Sunday Morning Area Coordinators' Breakfast $ 15.00\n\n+ Monday (Oct 29) bus trip to KSC and entrance ticket $ 100.00\n\nThe Symposium Hotel is the Holiday Inn at Orlando-International\nAirport is located one mile from the Orlando International Airport\n(MCO). The AMSAT discount rate is $99 + taxes per night. The reser-\nvation block code used when calling the hotel directly is AMT.\n\nThe hotel telephone number is 407-851-6400. The Symposium Committee\nrecommends you make reservations by calling the hotel directly rather\nthan through the Web. Cutoff date for reservations is Oct 6, 2012.\nThe direct link to the hotel web page is:\nhttp://www.holidayinn.com/hotels/us/en/orlando/mcoap/hoteldetail\n\nThe hotel offers free Internet connection and free airport shuttle.\nWhen you arrive at the Orlando Airport call 407-709-5310 to request\nthe shuttle.\n\nThe Orlando International Airport (MCO) is the closest to the Sympos-\nium and is served by most major air carriers. The hotel address is:\n5750 T.G. Lee Blvd - Orlando, FL 32822. A map link is included on\nthe hotel web page.\n\n[ANS thanks the 2012 Symposium Committee for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2012 Symposium Banquet Speaker - Astronaut Dr. Samuel T. Durrance\n\nThe featured speaker for the AMSAT 2012 Saturday Evening Banquet on\nOctober 27 will be Dr. Samuel T. Durrance, NASA Astronaut/Payload\nSpecialist and Professor of Physics and Space Sciences at the Flor-\nida Institute of Technology.\n\nBiography\n---------\nSamuel T. Durrance was born in Tallahassee, Florida, but considers\nTampa, Florida his hometown.\n\nHe received a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science de-\ngree in physics (with honors), at California State University, Los\nAngeles, 1972 and 1974, respectively, and a doctorate in astro-geo-\nphysics at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1980.\n\nDr. Durrance has been involved in space exploration, scientific re-\nsearch and education for over 30 years. He has logged over 615 hours\nin space as a payload specialist and member of the crew of Space\nShuttle Columbia for the STS-35/Astro-1 and Space Shuttle Endeavour\nfor the STS-67/Astro-2 missions.\n\nHe played several key roles in the design, construction, integration,\nand operation of the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope and NASA's Astro\nObservatory. He conducted research and directed graduate students at\nthe Johns Hopkins University for 16 years.\n\nHe has designed and built spectrometers, detectors, and imaging sys-\ntems, and made numerous spacecraft and ground-based astronomical ob-\nservations. He conceived and directed a program to develop adaptive-\noptics instrumentation for ground based astronomy.\n\nHe led the team that designed and built the Adaptive Optics Corona-\ngraph, which led to the discovery of the first cool brown dwarf,\nGliese 229 b, orbiting a nearby star. He also co-discovered a tell-\ntale signature of planet formation in the dust disk surrounding the\nstar beta Pictoris.\n\nStarting in 2001, Durrance was the executive director of the Florida\nSpace Research Institute (FSRI) created by the State of Florida in\n2000. FSRI was located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in support of\nthe State's Space Life Sciences Laboratory. Durrance guided FSRI\nfrom its start up phase to a successful research and education or-\nganization.\n\nSince 2006, he has been a professor of physics and space sciences\nat the Florida Institute of Technology. At Florida Tech he is devel-\noping an interdisciplinary research program and undergraduate degree\nprogram in astrobiology. His long-term goal at Florida Tech is to\ncreate a climate where students and faculty can regularly participate\nin space-based research programs. His research interests include the\norigin and evolution of the solar system, the search for planets\naround other stars, planetary astronomy, atmospheric physics, nuc-\nlear physics, adaptive optics, spacecraft operations, and the origin\nof life.\n\nHe has published over 70 technical papers on planetary astronomy,\nadaptive optics, atmospheric physics, nuclear physics, and spacecraft\noperations.\n\n[ANS thanks the 2012 Symposium Committee for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2012 AMSAT Symposium Schedule\n\nTo help you plan your trip to Orlando the 2012 Symposium Committee\nhas posted a high-level schedule of the weekend's events.\n\nPreliminary 2012 Symposium Schedule\n\nThursday 25 October 2012\n------------------------\nAMSAT Board of Directors Meeting 8am - 9pm\n\nFriday 26 October 2012\n-----------------------\nAMSAT Board of Directors Meeting 8am - Noon\nTrips to SkyCraft 9am - Noon\nAMSAT Symposium 1pm - 5pm\n\nSaturday 27 October 2012\n------------------------\nSymposium 8am - 3pm\nAMSAT General Meeting 3:30pm\nAMSAT Banquet 6:30pm - 10pm\n\nSunday 28 October 2012\n----------------------\n7:30am AMSAT Area Coordinator's Breakfast\nLocal trip of Interest TBD\n\nMonday 29 October 2012\n----------------------\nSpecial trip to Kennedy Space Center 8am-6pm\nThe trip will include a round trip bus from the hotel and entrance\nto the Space Center. The cost will be about $100. This is a wonderful\nexperience for those that haven't been and for those that have been\nmultiple times. We need to get an idea of how many will participate\nto select the correct bus. Contact Martha if interested\n\nWatch the AMSAT Symposium Web Pages for the latest information:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2012/index.php\n\n[ANS thanks the 2012 Symposium Committee for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directions Election Results\n\nAs a result of the 2012 board of directors election, Tom Clark, K3IO, Lou\nMcFadin, W5DID, and Gould Smith, WA4SXM, will serve on the board for two\nyears. The first alternate is Mark Hammond, N8MH and the second alternate is\nPatrick Stoddard, WD9EWK. The final results of the voting with 700 ballots\ncast are as follows;\n\nTom Clark, K3IO..............................514\nLou McFadin, W5DID......................449\nGould Smith, WA4SXM...................393\nMark Hammond, N9MH...................309\nPatrick Stoddard, WD9EWK.............213\nSteve Coy, K8UD..............................162\n\n[ANS thanks Alan, WA4SCA, and Martha for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDynaCube CubeSat Under Development in South Africa\n\nA news item on the South African Radio League reports on their Sept-\nember 9 amateur radio newscast that 20 interns at the Denel Dynamics\nEngineering Academy of Learning are designing and building the Dyna-\nCube CubeSat as part of their internship training. The interns are\nstudents who have completed their engineering degree, masters or PhD.\n\nDuring the first year they spend half their time in the Academy and\nthe other half in their designated departments. \"The programme is\naimed at exposing interns to a complete product development cycle\",\nsaid Grant Wilson who leads the Academy. \"Designing and building a\nCubeSat and developing a ground station to manage the satellite is\nan ideal project to achieve this.\"\n\nThe 20 strong Intern Project Team was split into three separate teams,\neach responsible for certain aspects of the project. Team Ground Zero\nis responsible for the ground station and radio frequency (RF) link\ncomponents. Team Virtuoso is responsible for the cube structure and\non-board computer; and Team Frodo is responsible for the payload,\nAttitude Control and Determination System (ADCS), and the launch.\n\nMore information about DynaCube on the SA AMSAT web at:\nhttp://www.amasatsa.org.za\n\n[ANS thanks SARL and SA AMSAT for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nJapan's PROITERES Launched - Signals Received\n\nThe PROITERES satellite, built by a team of students and faculty\nmembers of Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT) was successfully\nlaunched aboard India's PSLV C21 rocket on September 9.\n\nThe purpose of the mission is to demonstrate powered flight using\na Pulsed Plasma Thruster (PPT) engine. Its amateur radio callsign\nis JL3YZK.\n\nPROITERES stands for PRoject of OIT Electric-Rocket-Engine Onboard\nSmall Space Ship and will transmit on 437.485 MHz FM/AFSK. The space-\ncraft carries a camera and the two CPU's run the Linux operating\nsystem. Amateur radio operators around the world reported copying\nthe downlink signal shortly after launch.\n\n[ANS thanks Mineo Wakita, JE9PEL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Store Grand Reopening\n\nThe AMSAT Store is fully open for business after being updated. All\nthe usual AMSAT software, hardware, and clothing are available, as\nis the registration for the AMSAT 2012 Symposium and activities:\nhttp://store.amsat.org/catalog/index.php?cPath=27\n\nPlease stop by, even if you are just looking:\nhttp://store.amsat.org/catalog/\n\nYou can also find a link to the AMSAT Store from the main web page\nat: http://www.amsat.org. It is the bottom button on the list on the\nleft side of the main page.\n\nIf you don't find what you are looking for here, contact Martha at\nthe main office:\n\n+ E-mail at martha at amsat.org\n+ From the US call toll free at (888) 322-6728\n+ From all other locations call (301) 589-6062\n+ Fax (301) 608-3410\n+ Regular mail: AMSAT, 850 Sligo Ave. Suite 600, Silver Spring, MD\n 20910\n\n[ANS thanks Alan Biddle, WA4SCA for tha above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFive CubeSats to be Deployed From ISS on September 27\n\nFive cubesats launched on July 21 and now aboard the ISS have been\nintegrated with the J-SSOD small satellite deployer on the the Jap-\nanese Experiment Module, also known as Kibo. They will be deployed\nwith the Kibo robotic arm planned September 27, 2012. Deployment of\nthese satellites was delayed last week due to crew EVA activities.\n\nThe five CubeSats on this mission include:\n\n+ Raiko\n http://www.astro.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/RAIKO/ (Japanese)\n 2U cubesat, photography, Ku-band beacon\n\n+ We Wish\n http://www.meisei.co.jp/news/2011/0617_622.html\n Infrared camera for environmental studies\n\n+ FITSat 1\n http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml\n High-speed data test, high power LED visual tracking\n CW Beacon 437.250 MHz,\n FM Data 437.445 MHz,\n High speed data 5840.00 MHz.\n\n+ F-1 Vietnam Student CubeSat\n On-board camera for earth observation mission\n VX-3R1, 437.485 MHz FM downlink:\n o Solar cell power only, operates in sunlight only\n o Output power: max 0.3W, half-wave dipole antenna\n o Morse code beacon (10 chars) using PWM CW every 30 seconds\n\n VX-3R2, 145.980 MHz FM downlink:\n o Rechargeable battery, operates in dark and sunlight\n o Output power: max 1.0W, half-wave dipole antenna\n o AFSK 1200bps, half duplex, one AX.25 packet every 30 seconds\n\n+ TechEdSat\n http://ncasst.org/techedsat.html\n http://www.uk.amsat.org/5018\n Downlink on 437.465 MHz\n\n[ANS thanks the CubeSat teams, and Mineo Wakita JE9PEL for the\n above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ California amateurs may be interested in observing the flyover on\n the morning of September 20, 2012, of space shuttle Endeavour. It\n is scheduled to perform a low-level flyover of northern California,\n passing near NASA's Ames Research Center and various landmarks in\n multiple cities, including San Francisco and Sacramento en route\n to its permanent home at the California Science Center in Los An-\n geles. Endeavour is mounted atop NASA's modified 747 Shuttle Car-\n rier Aircraft (SCA). Additional details are posted at:\n http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=38476\n\n+ Keith Cowing from SpaceRef.com interviewed Flight Engineer Astro-\n naut Suni Williams on the International Space Station:\n http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T_D_o9UxpTE\n\n+ Science minded hams might want to investigate CosmoQuest, home to\n several citizen science projects. You will find the opportunity to\n join Vesta Mappers - Explore the surface of Vesta, one of the larg-\n est asteroids in our Solar System. Or join Moon Mappers - to ident-\n ify craters and other interesting phenomena in actual images of the\n moon. The Ice Investigators project will have you looking for aster-\n oids and transient space objects to help to direct the New Horizons\n spacecraft. Visit http://cosmoquest.org/ for more information.\n\n+ This article discusses how CubeSats have captured the attention of\n space agencies and universities world-wide due to the significant\n amount of science that can now be packed aboard. Read up at:\n http://thespacereview.com/article/2155/1\n\n+ The next Hudson Valley Satcom net date is Thursday, September 27,\n 8 PM EDT (UTC-4 UTC) on the 146.97 MHz MBARC Repeater (PL 100). An\n echolink connection is available on the N2EYH-L node. More informa-\n tion at: http://www.hvsatcom.org. (Stu, WA2BSS)\n\n[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS Status - 10 September 2012\n\n\n1. German Students Delighted with ARISS Contact\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact was held\nbetween on-orbit astronaut Sunita Williams, KD5PLB and students at \nthe Gymnasium\nMichelstadt in Michelstadt, Germany on Friday, September 7. Williams \nwas able to\nanswer 14 questions posed by the students during the ISS pass. Over 1600\nstudents, teachers, and VIP's were in attendance, as well as representatives\nfrom radio, television and newspapers. Positive feedback was received from the\nschool, including the following: \"Older colleagues compared the feeling to\nwatching the moon landing in TV. Our Kids were electrified and already now we\ncan see an increased interest in sciences and extracurricular \nactivities. We are\nplanning to continue this topic and have further projects in this \nfield.\" Video\nhas been posted. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmL6wSPWzE\n\n\n2. Girls' School Speaks with ISS Astronaut\n\nOn Sunday, September 9, Tara Anglican School in North Parramatta, New South\nWales, Australia spoke with Astronaut Sunita Williams, KD5PLB via an Amateur\nRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact. The radio connection\nwas provided by telebridge station ON4ISS in Belgium. The contact was\nintegrated into the school's science and space curriculum. Tara Anglican, a\ngirls K-12 school, was selected by Oxford University as the \nAustralian school to\nparticipate in the Global Jet Watch Program which links astronomers at Oxford\nUniversity with students from four high schools around the world in Australia,\nChile, South Africa and India in order to carry out cutting edge research.\nOxford University installed a research grade 20 inch RC Optical telescope,\ntogether with custom designed instrumentation and an observatory with a 4.5\nmetre dome on Tara's grounds for use by the students. The school also formed a\npartnership with the Astronomical Society of New South Wales (ASNSW) through\nwhich students are mentored in complex astronomy projects by \nexperienced amateur\nastronomers.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\n\n/EX\n\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n", "attachments": [] }