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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/VZYL7TMWR2XOVO2GPYI67BHQEECD4H46/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "VZYL7TMWR2XOVO2GPYI67BHQEECD4H46", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/VZYL7TMWR2XOVO2GPYI67BHQEECD4H46/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[ans] ANS-099 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2012-04-08T00:55:42Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-099\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\n\n**********************************************************************\n* Volunteers are needed to help at the AMSAT booth at Dayton. Gould *\n* WA4SXM, is looking for volunteers to help man the AMSAT booth dur- *\n* ing the 2012 Hamvention. People are needed all 3 days for 2 hour *\n* shifts. Please send the days and times you are available to help *\n* as well as how many shifts you are willing to work via e-mail to *\n* wa4sxm at amsat.org. *\n* Monitor http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/hamvention/2012/Dayton.php *\n* for the latest AMSAT at Dayton news and developments *\n**********************************************************************\n\n\nIn this edition:\n* Fox-1 Project Educational Goals Align With NASA ELaNa Requirements\n* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations\n* EPFL Announces Nanosat Ion Drive - To The Moon on 100 mL of Fuel\n* European ATV-3 Edoardo Amaldi Arrives at ISS & Performs Reboost\n* California Students Contact ISS Astronaut\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-099.01\nANS-099 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 099.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nApril 8, 2012\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-099.01\n\n\nFox-1 Project Educational Goals Align With NASA ELaNa Requirements\n\nProject ELaNa, NASA's \"Educational Launch of NanoSat\" managed by the\nLaunch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center, announced on\nFebruary 10 that the AMSAT Fox-1 cubesat has been selected to join\nthe program. AMSAT will work with NASA in a collaborative agreement\nwhere NASA will cover the integration and launch costs of satellites\ndeemed to have merit in support of their strategic and educational\ngoals.\n\nIn an article published in the AMSAT Journal, AMSAT Vice-President\nof Engineering, Tony Monteiro, AA2TX noted that meeting NASA's edu-\ncational goals for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)\nwas the cornerstone in the successful acceptance of Fox-1 into the\nELaNa project.\n\nFox-1 continues AMSAT's long record of success as an all-volunteer\norganization providing access to space communications for students\nin a curriculum setting as well the private citizen.\n\nThe Fox-1 communication package provides a learning and techologi-\ncal stepping-stone using commonly available amateur radio equipment.\nStudents gain first-hand experience in setting up and operating equip-\nment, orbital prediction, communication to distant places, and growth\nin overall space literacy. In the classroom, Fox-1 will allow schools,\nteachers, and students to actively participate in space technology\nwith a unique experimental hands-on learning approach that includes\ncommunicating through a satellite in orbit.\n\nAll of the Fox-1 experiment and telemetry data will be collected and\nstored on our internet server and made publicly available for use in\nthe classroom and shared with the CubeSat community.\n\nIn addition to mentoring university student cubesat mission teams,\nAMSAT satellites have also hosted university experiments aboard our\nspacecraft. In addition to the communications package, Fox-1 will\nhost an experimental payload developed as a capstone project at Penn\nState University. The Penn State project will have impact on future\nCubeSat systems as the students design, construct, and orbit an atti-\ntude experiment based on a 3-axis micro-electro-mechanical gyroscope.\n\nFox-1 Project Reviews\n---------------------\nThe Fox-1 Team participated in a Merit Review and Feasibility Review\nwith a panel including education and industry experts at the Doctorate\nlevel, a developer of 29 satellites, and directors of research.\n\nThe results of the Fox-1 Merit Review found:\n\n+ AMSAT \"nailed\" the NASA education requirements of the NASA Educa-\n tion Strategic Coordination Framework and the NASA Education Imple-\n mentation Framework. In fact, AMSAT has a history of space education\n that pre-dates most university programs.\n\n+ The Fox-1 program will be accessible to an entire classroom or\n school with only the teacher or outside volunteer requiring an\n amateur radio license.\n\n+ The archive of telemetry data collected during actual space flight\n will prove valuable in future educational projects that have yet\n to be imagined.\n\nThe results of the Fox-1 Feasibility Review found:\n\n+ While AMSAT relies on an all-volunteer development team the tre-\n mendous depth and experience of the Fox-1 team far exceeds the\n capability of a typical CubeSat team. AMSAT has developed its\n satellites this way for 40 years and has never missed a launch.\n\n+ AMSAT does not rely on critical technology for flight and leverages\n our experience from prior successful missions:\n\n o Fox-1 is designed to operate in sunlight without batteries\n once the battery system fails. This applies lessons learned\n from AO-51 and ARISSat-1 operations.\n\n o In case of IHU failure Fox-1 will continue to operate its FM\n repeater in a basic, 'zombie sat' mode, so that the repeater\n remains on-the-air.\n\n o Fox-1 is designed as the immediate replacement for AO-51. Its U/V\n (Mode B) transponder will make it even easier to work with modest\n equipment.\n\n o From the ground user's perspective, the same FM amateur radio\n equipment used for AO-51 may be used for Fox-1.\n\nAMSAT's Fox-1 project timeline is based on \ntargeting a launch in the second half\nof 2013. NASA will determine on which flight each of the Project ELaNa CubeSats\nfly. They have updated their CubeSat Launch Initiative web page including\nAMSAT's participation at:\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/home/CubeSats_initiative.html\n\n[ANS thanks the Fox-1 Team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations\n\nIt is time to submit nominations for the upcoming open seats on the\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors. A valid nomination requires either one\ncurrent Member Society, or five current individual members in good\nstanding, to nominate an AMSAT-NA member for the position.\n\nThree directors and two alternate directors have terms expiring this\nyear. The director seats open for election are held by Tom Clark,\nK3IO; Lou McFadin, W5DID; and Gould Smith, WA4SXM. The alternate dir-\nector seats open for election are held by Mark Hammond, N8MH and\nPatrick Stoddard, WD9EWK.\n\nThe three nominees receiving the highest number of votes will be\nseated as regular board members with two year terms. The two nom-\ninees receiving the next highest number of votes will be seated as\nalternate directors for one year.\n\nWritten nominations, consisting of names, calls and individual signa-\ntures, should be mailed to: AMSAT-NA, 850 Sligo Ave #600, Silver\nSpring, MD, 20910. They must be received no later than June 15th. No\nother action is required.\n\nNominations may also be made by electronic means including e-mail,\nFAX, or electronic image of a petition. Electronic petitions should\nbe sent to [email protected] or faxed to 301-608-3410, and also must\nbe received by June 15th. If using any electronic submission, there\nis a second, verifying step:\n\n ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WITHOUT THIS SECOND, WRITTEN VERIFICATION\n ARE NOT VALID UNDER THE EXISTING AMSAT-NA BYLAWS. A verifying\n traditional written petition MUST be received at the AMSAT-NA\n office at the above address within 7 days following the close\n of nominations.\n\n[ANS Thanks AMSAT Secretary Alan Biddle, WA4SCA for the above\n information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nEPFL Announces Nanosat Ion Drive - To The Moon on 100 mL of Fuel\n\nAn article posted on space-travel.com reported the EPFL University\nin Switzerland announced the first prototype of a new, ultra-compact\nmotor that will allow small satellites to journey beyond Earth's\norbit. (See: http://tinyurl.com/EPFL-IonMotor)\n\nEPFL said the MicroThrust ion motor will be capable of reaching the\nMoon using just a tenth of a liter of fuel. The complete thruster\nweighs just a few hundred grams and is specifically designed to pro-\npel small (1-100 kg) satellites, which it enables to change orbit\naround the Earth and even voyage to more distant destinations -\nfunctions typically possible only for large, expensive spacecraft.\n\nInstead of a combustible fuel, the new mini motor runs on an \"ionic\"\nliquid, in this case the chemical compound EMI-BF4, which is used\nas a solvent and an electrolyte. It is composed of electrically\ncharged molecules (like ordinary table salt) called ions, except that\nthis compound is liquid at room temperature. The ions are extracted\nfrom the liquid and then ejected by means of an electric field to\ngenerate thrust. This is the principle behind the ionic motor: fuel\nis not burned, it is expelled.\n\nAfter six months of acceleration, the microsatellite's speed increases\nfrom 24,000 km/h, its launch speed, to 42,000 km/h. The acceleration\nis only about a tenth of a millimeter per square second, which trans-\nlates into 0-100 km/h in 77 hours. But in space, where there is no\nfriction to impede motion, gentle but steady acceleration is the way\nto go.\n\n\"We calculated that in order to reach lunar orbit, a 1-kg nanosatel-\nlite with our motor would travel for about six months and consume 100\nmilliliters of fuel,\" explains Muriel Richard, a scientist in EPFL's\nSwiss Space Center.\n\nA video about the MicroThrust has been posted at:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YJlSI_l5g4M\n\n[ANS thanks Space-Travel.com for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nEuropean ATV-3 Edoardo Amaldi Arrives at ISS & Performs Reboost\n\nAfter a successful launch on March 23, the heaviest cargo ship ever\nhas arrived and docked to the International Space Station. The 20-ton\nEuropean ATV-3 cargo ship, named \"Edoardo Amaldi\" after the Italian\nphysicist and spaceflight pioneer, made a \"smooth and gentle\" docking\non March 28. It delivered 7 tons of food, drinking water, clothing,\noxygen, spare parts and fuel for the 6-member ISS crew.\n\nA video of the docking with ISS can be viewed at:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PorM-1F4jdo\n\nOn Saturday, March 31 the ATV reboosted the space station's orbit to\n389.8 km. The ATV's thrusters ran for 351 seconds, increasing ISS vel-\nocity by 1.0 m/s and boosting average altitude by 1.73 km. This is a\nstandard test performed as soon as possible after docking.\n\nThe successful test burn means that ATV is ready for a series of\nlarger planned reboosts (the first expected on 5 April) and to con-\nduct debris avoidance manoeuvres when necessary.\n\nRead more on-line at:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ISS-ATVBoost1 (space-travel.com)\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ISS-ATVBoost2 (space-travel.com)\n\nAn article posted on spaceflightnow.com on April 2 reports that the\nhuge cargo freighters, weighing more than 20 tons fully loaded, will\nstop flying in 2014 when the fifth resupply craft delivers equipment\nto the International Space Station. ESA member states decided to dis-\ncontinue the program after briefly considering redesigning the throw\naway cargo craft to return hardware in a hardened re-entry capsule.\nRead the full article on-line at:\nhttp://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1204/02atvfuture/\n\nThe ESA published a new video on their youtube channel showing ESA\nastronaut André Kuipers and cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko opening the hatch\nto the ATV and begin unloading the cargo. See:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AORrisDldqM\n\n[ANS thanks Space-Travel.com and SpaceFlightNow.com for the above\n information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCalifornia Students Contact ISS Astronaut\n\nThe amateur radio club at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis\nObispo, California arranged for an Amateur Radio on the International Space\nStation (ARISS) contact for elementary school students, 4H-club members and\nScouts on Tuesday, March 27. The connection was \nmade by telebridge station AH6NM\nin Hawaii. Approximately 150 students were in attendance. Local news station\nKSBY and the Cal Poly newspaper Mustang Daily covered the event; NASA-TV\nreplayed the contact audio on March 28. The ARISS \nevent complemented the science\nfair held to get students interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and\nMathematics (STEM). To view the article, see:\nhttp://mustangdaily.net/radio-club-makes-contact-with-international-space-\nstation/\n\nand the news clip:\nhttp://www.ksby.com/videos/cal-poly-connects-with-outer-space/\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Education and Technology Program Director Mark Spencer, WA8SME\n will try to activate W1AW on AO-27 on April 10 for the 1830Z\n pass. Fastest QSL is via his callbook address.\n\n+ The 50 MHz and Up Group has issued the first call for papers for\n the 2012 Microwave Update Conference to be held October 18-21 in\n Santa Clara, California. For more information on submitting papers\n as well as all other aspects of the conference please go to:\n http://www.microwaveupdate.org\n\n+ The International Space Station Benefits for Humanity brochure\n is a collection of in-depth descriptions about benefits from\n research on the space station. The benefits outlined serve as\n examples of the space station's potential as a ground breaking\n scientific research facility. This collection was developed\n collaboratively by the members of the Canadian Space Agency,\n European Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,\n NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency. To view the brochure,\n visit http://tinyurl.com/NASA-Brochure (nasa.gov)\n\n+ A NASA Educator's Guide about Rockets is available on-line at:\n http://tinyurl.com/NASAForEducators (nasa.gov)\n\n+ Bob, WB4APR noted a need for an Australian Amateur Astronomer and\n HAM operator in Canberra on 4-6 June 2012. Assistance is needed to\n support a science team of students from the USA to observe the last\n transit of Venus this century in Canberra. We want a local Austra-\n lian Ham to be there to see if we can use ham radio and the speed\n of light to share observations with our sister team in Japan (and\n any other observation sites). Interested individuals for this his-\n toric event, contact [email protected]\n\n+ Tom Medlin, W5KUB, known for his live webcasts from the Dayton\n Hamvention and Huntsville Hamfest will also broadcast from the\n Memphis FreeFest on Saturday, April 14 between 0900-1500 CDT\n (UTC-5). Tom says, \"This is a small hamfest but we will have a\n few prize drawings during the broadcast. All you need to enter\n the drawing is to be in our chatroom when the drawings are ann-\n ounced.\" The internet video feed and the chatroom can be found\n at: http://w5kub.com. This page streams previously recorded video\n from Dayton when live broadcasts are not airing.\n\n+ The next Hudson Valley Satcom net date is Thursday, April 12 at\n 8:00 PM EDT (UTC -4) on the 146.970 MHz repeater, and also on\n the N2EYH-L Echolink node. More info: http://www.hvsatcom.org/\n (via Stu, WA2BSS)\n\n [ANS thanks everyone for the above information]\n\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\n", "attachments": [] }