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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/VV2TUFF6C65QO46CHMPCRD6RY2UJEFFN/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5BMo7YNCuqbz5OT8xoB_zeyK9-RCAe6oMWNT+AfJGStDQ@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "VV2TUFF6C65QO46CHMPCRD6RY2UJEFFN", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/VV2TUFF6C65QO46CHMPCRD6RY2UJEFFN/?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-101 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for April 11", "date": "2021-04-11T00:00:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-101\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* ARISS-USA Now a Non-profit Organization\n* Contests On QO-100 Allowed In Time For Yuri Gagarin Contest\n* Fun While It Lasted, Falcon 9 Telemetry Now Encrypted\n* AMSAT SA Call For Papers\n* NASA Invites Public to Take Flight With Ingenuity Mars Helicopter\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for April 8, 2021\n* Busy month of crew rotations on tap at International Space Station\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nANS-101 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 101.01\nTo: All RADIO AMATEURS\nFrom: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n712 H Street NE Suite 1653\nWashington, DC 20002\n\nDATE 2021 April 11\n\n\nARISS-USA Now a Non-profit Organization\n\nARISS-USA, a Maryland not-for-profit corporation, is now recognized by the\nUnited States Internal Revenue Service as a Section 501(c)(3) charitable,\nscientific, and educational organization. ARISS-USA is the US segment of\nthe ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) international\nworking group. With this IRS determination, donations to ARISS-USA become\ntax-deductible in the US, retroactive to the ARISS-USA incorporation on May\n21, 2020. This change in status allows ARISS-USA to solicit donations and\ngrants.\n\nAs a new entity, ARISS-USA will continue to promote student involvement\nwith the astronauts on the International Space Station via amateur radio.\nWorking with educational organizations, ARISS provides exciting\nopportunities to inspire, engage and educate our next generation of space\nexplorers through STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math)\nactivities and content. ARISS-USA Executive Director, Frank Bauer,\ncommented, “The educational scope and reach of what ARISS accomplishes has\ngrown significantly since our beginnings in 1996. We are actively working\nto extend student’s reach even further. This, through the pursuit of\npotential student opportunities on human spaceflight missions beyond low\nEarth orbit, as part of our Amateur Radio Exploration (AREx) Program.\nFirst AREx destination: the Moon!”\n\nARISS-USA continues its collaborative work with ARISS International and US\nsponsors, partners, and interest groups. The ARISS-USA TEAM remains deeply\nindebted to its partners ARRL and AMSAT, who enabled the birth of ARISS,\nand to its steadfast sponsors, NASA Space Communication and Navigation\n(SCaN) and the ISS National Lab (INL).\n\nGifts from those wishing to support ARISS-USA goals are tax-deductible to\nthe extent allowed by law and can be made by going to the ARISS website:\nwww.ariss.org The ARISS-USA team thanks its sustaining donors for their\ncontinuing support!\n\n(ANS thanks Dave Jordan, AA4KN, of ARISS PR 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\nContests On QO-100 Allowed In Time For Yuri Gagarin Contest\n\nAMSAT-DL announced, on April 4, the opening of the QO-100 NB satellite\ntransponder to general contest operation in the upper mixed-mode range.\n\nQO-100 is a Qatari satellite, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on\nNovember 15, 2018. It operates at 26° East longitude along a geostationary\norbit, which means that the satellite's footprint covers Europe, Africa,\nand Asia, but excludes North America and most of South America.\n\nThis weekend (April 10-11) will see the Yuri Gagarin contest. The contest\narea on the QO-100 geostationary satellite NB transponder for both CW and\nSSB is:\n\nUplink area 2400.370 – 2400.490 MHz\nDownlink area 10489.870 – 10489.990 MHz\n\nOf course, the usual QO-100 NB transponder guidelines also apply here.\nTherefore, the bandwidth should still be limited to 2.7 kHz and the\ntransmitting power should be reduced to the necessary level, i.e. only as\nmuch power as necessary should be used.\n\nRead the AMSAT-DL announcement at\nhttps://amsat-dl.org/en/contests-on-qo-100-allowed/\n\nThe Yuri Gagarin International DX Contest 2021 is dedicated to the memory\nof Yuri Gagarin, who realized the first human flight to space, on April 12,\n1961.\n\nIt runs from 2100 GMT on April 10 until 2100 GMT on April 11, 2021, and the\ncategories include:\n• SAT Single operator – Satellite QSOs\n• SAT-GS Single operator – Geostationary Satellite QSOs\n\nContest rules are at http://gc.qst.ru/en/section/32\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\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\nFun While It Lasted, Falcon 9 Telemetry Now Encrypted\n\nA few weeks back Hackaday reported that Reddit users [derekcz] and [Xerbot]\nhad managed to receive the 2232.5 MHz telemetry downlink from a Falcon 9\nupper stage and pull out some interesting plain-text strings. With further\nsoftware fiddling, the vehicle’s video streams were decoded, resulting in\nsome absolutely breathtaking shots of the rocket and its payload from low\nEarth orbit.\n\nUnfortunately, it looks like those heady days are now over, as [derekcz]\nreports the downlink from the latest Falcon 9 mission was nothing but\nunintelligible noise. Since the hardware and software haven’t changed on\nhis side, the only logical conclusion is that SpaceX wasn’t too happy about\nradio amateurs listening in on their rocket and decided to employ some form\nof encryption.\n\n[ANS thanks Hackaday.com for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAMSAT SA Call For Papers\n\nAMSAT SA has announced the date for the 2021 Space Symposium. In view of\nthe continuing uncertainty about the Covid - 19 pandemic the conference\nwill be a virtual event on the BlueJeans platform. The date is Saturday 10\nJuly 2021 starting at 08:00 UTC. The theme of the symposium is \"Unlocking\nAmateur Space Technology.\" The symposium will focus on amateur satellites,\nweak signal communication, space weather and allied sciences.\n\nSARL has issued a first call for paper proposals. Prospective authors are\ninvited to submit proposals in the form of a brief description of the\nsubject to be covered in their paper by no later than 15 May 2021. Submit\nproposals in word format to [email protected]. Authors will be advised\non 20 May of the acceptance of their paper. The final paper will be\nrequired by 30 June 2021.\n\n[ANS thanks SARL and JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM 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. Come along for the ride. The\njourney will be worth it!\n\n https://tinyurl.com/ANS-GOLF\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nNASA Invites Public to Take Flight With Ingenuity Mars Helicopter\n\nNASA is targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 11, for Ingenuity Mars\nHelicopter's first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet.\nTo mark a month of Ingenuity flights, the agency will host several events\nto bring people along for the ride.\n\nA livestream confirming Ingenuity's first flight is targeted to begin\naround 3:30 a.m. EDT (07:30z) Monday, April 12, on NASA Television, the\nNASA app, and the agency's website, and will livestream on multiple agency\nsocial media platforms, including the JPL YouTube, and Facebook channels.\n\nIngenuity arrived at Mars' Jezero Crater Feb. 18, attached to the belly of\nNASA's Perseverance rover. The helicopter is a technology demonstration\nwith a planned test flight duration of up to 31 days (30 Mars days, or\nsols). The rover will provide support during flight operations, taking\nimages, collecting environmental data, and hosting the base station that\nenables the helicopter to communicate with mission controllers on Earth.\n\nThe flight date may shift as engineers work on the deployments, preflight\nchecks, and vehicle positioning of both Perseverance and Ingenuity. Timing\nfor events will be updated as needed, and the latest schedule will be\navailable on the helicopter's Watch Online webpage:\nhttps://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Watch-Online\n\n[ANS thanks NASA 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\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for April 8, 2021\n\nThe following satellites have been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE\nDistribution:\n\nGuaraniSat-1 - NORAD Cat ID 47931 (per Celestrak)\nKSU-CubeSat - NORAD Cat ID 47954 (per Nico Janssen, PA0DLO)\nDIY-1 - NORAD Cat ID 47963. (per Nico Janssen, PA0DLO)\nSMOG - NORAD Cat ID 47964. (per Nico Janssen, PA0DLO)\n\n\nThe following satellites have been removed from this week's AMSAT-NA TLE\nDistribution:\n\nTISAT - NORAD Cat ID 36799\nJUGNU - NORAD Cat ID 37839\nAO-71 - NORAD Cat ID 37854\nHORYU-2 - NORAD Cat ID 38340\nBEESAT-3 - NORAD Cat ID 39135\nBEESAT-2 - NORAD Cat ID 39136\nTRITON-1 - NORAD Cat ID 39427\nDUCHIFAT-1 - NORAD Cat ID 40021\nNANOSATCBR1 - NORAD Cat ID 40024\nANTELSAT - NORAD Cat ID 40034\nVELOX-1 - NORAD Cat ID 40057\nDAURIA DX 1 - NORAD Cat ID 40071\nCHUBUSAT-1 - NORAD Cat ID 40300\nQSAT-EOS - NORAD Cat ID 40301\nGRIFEX - NORAD Cat ID 40379\nDEORBITSAIL - NORAD Cat ID 40719\nNUDT-PHONESAT - NORAD Cat ID 40900\nLQSat - NORAD Cat ID 40958\nOUFTI-1 - NORAD Cat ID 41458\nSwayam - NORAD Cat ID 41607\nAlSat 1N - NORAD Cat ID 41789\nScatSat - NORAD Cat ID 41790\nPegasus-1 - NORAD Cat ID 41846\nUCLSat - NORAD Cat ID 42765\nLituanicaSAT 2- NORAD Cat ID 42768\n\nThe above objects are inactive and have been removed. If you think a\nsatellite is still active contact Ray Hoad, WA5QGD on AMSAT-BB.\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nBusy month of crew rotations on tap at International Space Station\n\nSeven astronauts and cosmonauts are gearing up for launches April 9 and\nApril 22 to the International Space Station, replacing seven outgoing crew\nmembers set to land in Kazakhstan and off the coast of Florida on April 17\nand April 28.\n\nThe back-to-back crew rotations will make for a busy month on the orbiting\nresearch complex, and multiple instances when ARISS operation will be\nsuspended during crew operations. Preparations for the arrival of the fresh\ncrew members are already underway on the space station.\n\nThe first step was relocation of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship to a new\ndocking port on the space station April 5. NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins,\nKF5LJG, commander of the Crew Dragon “Resilience” spaceship, was joined by\ncrewmates Victor Glover, KI5BKC, Soichi Noguchi, KD5TVP, and Shannon\nWalker, KD5DXB, for the fully automated 45-minute relocation maneuver.\n\nThe Dragon astronauts, who launched Nov. 15 as part of SpaceX’s “Crew-1”\nmission, were aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft and suited up\nfor re-entry, just in case the capsule had trouble linking up with the new\ndocking port and needed to return to Earth.\n\nNext was the launch of a Russian Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft with commander Oleg\nNovitskiy, cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei,\nKG5GNP. The Soyuz crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan\non Friday, April 9 at 3:42 a.m. EDT (0742 GMT).\n\nThe crew on the space station will temporarily swell to 10 people until the\noutgoing Soyuz MS-17 crew departs the research lab one week later.\n\nUndocking of the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft with commander Sergey Ryzhikov,\nflight engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins,\nKG5FYJ, is scheduled for 9:33 p.m. EDT on April 16 (0133z on April 17). The\nSoyuz capsule is scheduled to parachute to a landing on the steppes of\nKazakhstan at 12:56 a.m. EDT (0456 GMT) on April 17. Ryzhikov,\nKud-Sverchkov, and Rubins launched Oct. 14 from Baikonur. Their return to\nEarth on April 17 will wrap up a 185-day mission.\n\nWith the Soyuz crew rotation complete, SpaceX and NASA will be cleared to\nlaunch the second operational Crew Dragon mission to the space station on\nApril 22.\n\nNASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, KE5HOD, pilot Megan McArthur, Japanese\nastronaut Akihiko Hoshide, KE5DNI, and French-born European Space Agency\nastronaut Thomas Pesquet, KG5FYG, will fly on the Crew-2 mission.\n\nAssuming the Crew-2 mission takes off April 22, Kimbrough and his crewmates\nwill reach the space station for an automated docking at 5:29 a.m. EDT\n(0929 GMT) on April 23.\n\nTheir arrival will start a five-day handover with the Crew-1 astronauts,\nwhen the space station will briefly host 11 crew members.\n\nThe Crew-1 astronauts are scheduled to board their Crew Dragon Resilience\nspacecraft and undock from the space station April 28 at 5 a.m. EDT (0900\nGMT). The Crew Dragon capsule will fire its Draco thrusters to target a\nparachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida at 12:35 p.m. EDT\n(1635 GMT) the same day.\n\n[ANS thanks Stephen Clark of Spacefilight Now 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\nRecent ARISS contacts:\n\nThe School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences, Southern\nHemisphere Space Studies Program 2021, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia,\nconducted a telebridge via IK1SLD on Tuesday, April 6. Shannon Walker,\nKD5DXB, was the astronaut. The contact was successful.\n\nGagarin From Space performed an amateur radio session with NILAK DOSAAF Llc\nin Kaluga, Kaluga Regional schools, Kaluga, Russia, direct contact via RK3X\non April 6. Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov participated. The contact was\nsuccessful.\n\nGagarin From Space conducted a radio amateur session with students of the\nSt. Petersburg school, St. Petersburg, Russia, direct via R1AIT on April 7.\nThe contact was successful.\n\nUpcoming contacts: TBD\n\nThe latest information on the operation mode of the ARISS modules can be\nfound at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.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\nWY7AA: April 17th – May 2 EM86 vacation style FM and SSB. I will have a day\ntrip to EM85, but I will plan that and advertise when I get there.\n\nMajor Roves:\n\nCM93 Possibility: N6DNM Very long shot, but might want to put it on your\ncalendar for May 15th, if you can figure out where it is and for #SOTA\nfolks, that would be W6/SC-336, Santa Rosa Island, activated only once\nbefore.\n\nPlease submit any additions or corrections to Ke0pbr (at) gmail.com\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n\nAMSAT Ambassador Clint Bradford, K6LCS, reports these upcoming\npresentations scheduled for …\n\n04/26 - Livonia, Michigan\n05/18 - Puget Sound\n05/26 - South New Jersey\n06/01 - University of Arizona\n06/09 - San Jose\n06/15 - East Massachusetts\n10/21 - Conejo Valley CA\n\n… and dates for Roseland NJ, Austin TX, Maine, and NH to be firmed up!\n\nThink a lively, entertaining, AND educational 75-minute presentation to\nYOUR club or organization on “Working the Easy Sateliites” would be\nappropriate for your club? Send me a message or call!\n\nClint Bradford K6LCS\nAMSAT Ambassador, ARRL instructor\nhttp://www.work-sat.com\nk6lcs AT work-sat DOT info\n(909) 999-SATS (7287)\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+ LightCube, an educational mission by Arizona State University, Tempe, to\nallow a CubeSat in low-Earth orbit (LEO) to be easily operable by members\nof the general public, has been approved by NASA as one of the 12th CubeSat\nLaunch Initiative (CSLI) projects for 2022-2025. The LightCube CubeSat will\nprovide a platform that increases the number of individuals who can\nparticipate in space activities. Specifically, anyone with appropriate\namateur radio licensing within their jurisdiction and commercial radio\nequipment available for purchase for less than fifty dollars will be able\nto telecommand LightCube. The LightCube CubeSat will respond with a flash\nvisible to the naked eye of the commander. In the process of operating\nLightCube, the user will inevitably learn important science, technology,\nengineering, and math (STEM) concepts in areas such as telecommunications,\nspacecraft design, atmospheric and climate science, and orbital mechanics.\n(ANS thanks NASA, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM, Harry Bloomberg, W3YJ, and Rick\nLindquist, WW1ME, for the above information.)\n\n+ Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU and an AMSAT Ambassador published an article in\nthe Institution of Engineers Mauritius (IEM) Journal, March 2021, to\npromoted HAM radio satellite operation worldwide, as the paper was\ncirculated in all affiliated Engineers association globally but the focus\nwas on the regional operation. The link to obtain the document is\nhttps://bit.ly/3uHFFCv or go to https://www.iemauritius.com and register\nto download the March 21 edition of the Journal. (ANS thanks Jean Marc\nMomple, 3B8DU, for the above information.)\n\n+ GOES-T, NOAA’s latest generation geosynchronous satellite, recently\ncompleted vibration, vacuum, and acoustic testing ahead of its December\nlaunch. GOES-T packs upgraded traditional weather observation instruments\n(see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WQAwQ0SGkc for a video intro),\nincluding the 16 channel ABI imager (up from 5 channels on the previous\ngeneration) with 0.5km - 2km resolution (4x the previous gen). This\ngeneration also includes a Geostationary Lightning Mapper, the first\nlightning mapping system flown in geostationary orbit, which should\nincrease lead time for severe storm warnings and decrease false positives.\nSee https://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/glm.html for an overview of the\nsystem. (ANS thanks the Orbital Index for the above information.)\n\n+ SpaceX launched 60 more of the company's Starlink Internet communications\nsatellites into orbit from Florida on Wednesday, April 7. A Falcon 9 rocket\ncarrying the spacecraft lifted off as planned at 12:34 p.m. EDT (16:34z).\nSpaceX recovered the first-stage booster for the rocket by landing it on a\nbarge in the Atlantic Ocean. The satellites deployed to their intended\norbit a little more than an hour after launch. (ANS thanks Space Daily for\nthe above information.)\n\n+ A rather fascinating disassembly and analysis of the digital clock from a\nSoyuz spacecraft can be found at\nhttp://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyuz.html The\nmid-1980s vintage clock was judged to be 8 to 10 years behind U.S. space\ntechnology of the time, with more that 100 integrated circuits on ten\ncircuit boards. (ANS thanks the Orbital Index for the above information.)\n\n+ Open Research Institute has posted several new YouTube videos updating\ntheir work. See https://www.openresearch.institute/ for links. (ANS thanks\nAMSAT Board Member Michelle Thompson, W5NYV, for the above information.)\n\n+ AO-91 remains operational in COR or \"repeater mode.\" Reminder: Please\nuse only in sunlight and do not use while in eclipse (which \"generally\"\nmeans, if it's dark at your local QTH do not use!). Remember that the\ncurrent status of most operational satellites can be found at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/status/ (ANS thanks AMSAT Board and Fox Command Team\nMember Mark Hammond, N8MH, for the above information.)\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 donors to\nAMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits.\nApplication forms are available from the AMSAT Store.\n\nPrimary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled\nin at least half time status shall be eligible for the student rate for a\nmaximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact info [at]\namsat.org for additional student membership information.\n\n73 and Remember to help keep amateur radio in space,\nThis week's ANS Editor, Mark Johns, K0JM\nk0jm at amsat dot org\n\n\n", "attachments": [ { "email": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/VV2TUFF6C65QO46CHMPCRD6RY2UJEFFN/?format=api", "counter": 2, "name": "attachment.html", "content_type": "text/html", "encoding": "utf-8", "size": 25419, "download": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/VV2TUFF6C65QO46CHMPCRD6RY2UJEFFN/attachment/2/attachment.html" } ] }