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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/XTBW63M6QAJAL4ACDVZUKC5CEV3EIOJI/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5CoQadz_wX71+LFaJ1z_Y8Dw6nqVar0W_+eVRo_t7wPkw@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "XTBW63M6QAJAL4ACDVZUKC5CEV3EIOJI", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/XTBW63M6QAJAL4ACDVZUKC5CEV3EIOJI/?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-045 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Feb 14", "date": "2021-02-14T00:00:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-045\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* What Is Keeping The NA1SS Amateur Station Off The Air?\n* AMSAT OSCAR-109 Update\n* Virtual HamCation Is this Weekend - Don't miss AMSAT!\n* AMSAT 2021 President’s Club Welcomes New Members\n* Happy New Year on Mars!\n* Satellite Operating Awards Available\n* AMICALSAT Award Certificates Deadline Approaching\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for February 12, 2021\n* NASA Awards Contract to Launch Initial Elements for Lunar Outpost\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nANS-045 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 045.01\nTo: All RADIO AMATEURS\nFrom: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n712 H Street NE Suite 1653\nWashington, DC 20002\n\nDATE 2021 Feb 14\n\n\nWhat Is Keeping The NA1SS Amateur Station Off The Air?\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) and its partners\nare troubleshooting what is keeping the NA1SS amateur station off the air.\n\nARISS became aware of the problem after an attempted contact with a school\nin Wyoming, between ON4ISS on Earth and astronaut Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG at\nNA1SS, had to abort when no downlink signal was heard. ARISS has determined\nthat the problem is not with the radio equipment on board the ISS Columbus\nmodule.\n\nARISS-International Chair Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, explained that during a 27\nJanuary spacewalk to install exterior cabling on the ISS Columbus module,\nthe coax feed line installed 11 years ago was replaced with another built\nby the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus. It included two additional\nRF connectors to support the Bartolomeo payload-hosting platform installed\nlast spring on Columbus.\n\n\"On 26 January, prior to the EVA [extravehicular activity], our Columbus\nnext-generation radio system was shut off and the ISS-internal coaxial\ncable to the antenna was disconnected from the ARISS radio as a safety\nprecaution for the EVA,\" Bauer said. “During the spacewalk, an external\nfour-connector coax feed line replaced one with two RF connections. This\nchange was made to allow ESA to connect ARISS and three additional\ncustomers to Bartolomeo, as compared to ARISS and one additional RF\ncustomer,\" Bauer explained.\n\nWith the spacewalk completed, the ISS crew restarted the ISS amateur radio\nstation on 28 January, but no voice repeater or automatic packet repeater\nsystem (APRS) downlink reports were heard and no downlink signal was heard\nduring an attempted scheduled school contact either. Bauer said that\nbecause the exterior cable is not an ARISS cable, ARISS is working with ESA\nand NASA on a way forward. \"NASA has opened a Payload Anomaly Report on\nthis issue. We have talked to both the NASA and ESA representatives,\" Bauer\nsaid.\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate Amateur Radio New for this excellent summary of\npreviously reported 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\nAMSAT OSCAR-109 Update\n\nThe RadFxSat-2/Fox-1E CubeSat has been designated as AMSAT-OSCAR 109\n(AO-109). AMSAT engineering and operations teams appreciate the satellite\ncommunity’s cooperation to date and reiterated their request that users not\nattempt to use the transponder until further notice. “The proper\nidentification will allow further characterization of the satellite’s\ncondition through additional testing,” AMSAT concluded.\n\nRadFXSat-2/Fox-1E was launched on January 17 on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne,\nwhich carried 10 other satellites into space. AO-109 carries an inverting\nlinear transponder, with uplink at 145.860 MHz – 145.890 MHz, and downlink\nat 435.760 MHz – 435.790 MHz. Telemetry will downlink on 435.750 MHz.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Director and Fox Command Team member Mark Hammond, N8MH,\nfor the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nVirtual HamCation Is this Weekend - Don't miss AMSAT!\n\nHamCation 2021 is a virtual 'Online Only' event this weekend, Saturday and\nSunday, February 13th and 14th.\n\nAMSAT will provide three virtual presentations on Sunday:\n\n* 10:00 AM (EST) AMSAT CubeSat Simulator, Alan Johnston KU2Y, AMSAT VP of\nEducational Relations\n\n* 12:00 AM (EST) AMSAT, Onward and Upward, Robert Bankston KE4AL, AMSAT\nPresident\n\n* 1:00 PM (EST) AMSAT Engineering Update, Jerry Buxton N0JY, AMSAT VP of\nEngineering.\n\nNOTE: > All times are Eastern Standard Time (UTC -05:00)\n\nBe sure to check out the full schedule for other topics of interest.\n\nhttps://www.hamcation.com/forums-speakers\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT President Robert Bankston, KE4AL, 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\nAMSAT 2021 President’s Club Welcomes New Members\n\nThe following new members of the AMSAT 2021 President’s Club have been\nadded as of January 31, 2021. We thank them for their generous support and\nhelping to keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\nCore Level\nGerald Buxton, N0JY\nDale Peer, KF7ZBK\nAlston Simpson, WA5TJB\nCarl Starnes, W4EAT\nRichard Steegstra, K1LKR\n\nBronze Level\nAnton Giroux, KF3BX\nEdward F. Krome, K9EK\n\nSilver Level\nW. Fisher, WB1FJ\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nJoseph Lynch, N6CL\nRonald Parsons, W5RKN\nDavid A. Vine, WA1EAW\n\nGold Level\nBarry Baines, WD4ASW\n\nTitanium Level\nWilliam Brown\n\nAll members receive a full color certificate, 2\" commemorative coin with\nfour accent colors and gold polished finish, and an embroidered \"REMOVE\nBEFORE FLIGHT\" key tag. Members at Silver level and above receive a\nhandsome acrylic desk plaque and tickets for symposium events.\n\nJoin the AMSAT 2021 President’s Club today at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/.\n\n[ANS thanks Frank Karnauskas, N1UW, VP-Development for the above\ninformation.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHappy New Year on Mars!\n\nThe countdown to a new year is in many ways a defining moment for our lives\non Earth. Our age, our seasons, filing our taxes, all depend on the\nduration of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. On Mars, there are no yearly tax\nreturns, but as the planet also orbits around our Sun, time on Mars is\nsimilarly measured in years. However, there are some significant\ndifferences between a year on Mars and a year on Earth. February 7, 2021\nmarked what scientists here on Earth consider the start of Year 36 on Mars.\nLet’s look at some similarities and differences between a year on the two\nplanets:\n\n* One year on Mars equals 687 Earth days. It takes almost twice as long as\nour Earth to orbit the Sun. This means your age would be a lot less if you\nlived on Mars! If you would like to feel younger, just divide your current\nage by 1.88 and casually mention to your friends that that’s your real\nage...on Mars.\n\n* A Martian day is defined, like on Earth, as the time it takes for the\nplanet to make one revolution around its axis. This is called a sol. A sol\nis only slightly longer than an Earth day: 24 hours and 39 minutes.\n\n* Mars has four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn. They are\ndefined by the planet’s position along its orbit around the Sun. The\nMartian New Year begins with the northward equinox (northern spring,\nsouthern autumn). As Mars travels through its yearly trajectory, the\nplanet’s axial tilt causes the northern hemisphere to receive more sunlight\nduring the northern summer, and the southern hemisphere to receive more\nsunlight in northern winter – just like on Earth. Unlike Earth’s seasons\nhowever, the seasons on Mars are not of equal lengths. This is because the\norbit of Mars around the Sun is more elliptical than that of Earth. For\nexample, the northern hemisphere spring (southern hemisphere autumn) lasts\nthe longest, 194 sols, and the northern hemisphere autumn (southern\nhemisphere spring) is the shortest season at 142 sols.\n\n* Mars’ elliptical orbit can have important consequences. During southern\nspring and summer, Mars swings by the sun closer and faster. The resulting\nincrease in luminosity heats up the atmosphere, causing turbulence to lift\nup very fine particles from the Martian soil. For this reason, the second\nhalf of a Martian year is often marked by fierce dust storms that can\nsometimes become planet-wide.\n\n* Like on Earth, winters are cold and summers are warm on Mars, but the\nplanet’s overall temperature is a lot cooler, it has a yearly average\ntemperature of minus 60 degrees Celsius. The planet experiences different\nweather phenomena throughout the seasons. A weather phenomenon that\nreappears every year around the southern spring and summer is the Arsia\nMons Elongated Cloud, a cloud of ice crystals that can reach up to 1800\nkilometres in length. It repeats for at least 80 sols and then disappears\nagain during the rest of the year.\n\n* The Martian calendar began fairly recently compared to the one on Earth.\nThe count started in Earth year 1955. This first Martian year coincided\nwith a very large dust storm in its second half, aptly named ‘the great\ndust storm of 1956.’\n\nIf you’re looking for a reason to celebrate, here’s to a Happy New Mars\nYear!\n\n[ANS thanks the European Space Agency for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Operating Awards Available\n\nAwards are a big part of amateur radio in all of its various\nmanifestations, and the same is true for satellite operations. There are a\nnumber of awards that are available for all your hard work on the\nsatellites. AMSAT sponsors a number of these awards, and others are\navailable from other amateur organizations. You may not have even known\nabout some of them, and may have enough QSL cards to qualify now!\n\nAMSAT's Satellite Communicators’ Club award is given to any operator for\nhaving made their first satellite contact. To apply for this, and other\nAMSAT awards, you should go to the AMSAT.ORG online store and purchase the\naward. After completing your purchase, email the AMSAT Awards Manager,\nkk5do AT amsat DOT org that you have made the purchase and supplying the\nnecessary proof of contacts.\n\nThe Oscar Satellite Communications Achievement Award is for working 20\ncontacts, on any satellite or combination of satellites, in 20 different\nstates, DXCC countries or Canadian Call Areas. Those that have the RAC\nCANDADAWARD or ARRL WAS with satellite endorsements, may submit a copy of\ntheir certificate as proof of working the 13 Canadian Call Areas or 50 U.S.\nStates. All QSOs must be completed from locations separated by no more than\n50 miles or 80 kilometers.\n\nThe Oscar Sexagesimal Award is the same as the Oscar Satellite\nCommunications Achievement Award but is given for 60 contacts. All the\nqualifications and costs are the same.\n\nNext there is the Oscar Century Award. This is the same as the other two\nawards but is for 100 contacts. Qualifications and costs are the same.\nPlease note that the previous 3 awards are aggregated. Once you have worked\nyour 20, that applies towards your 60 so you only need 40 more contacts.\nThe same is true for the 100, once you get your 60, you only need 40 more\nfor your 100.\n\nThe AMSAT Rover Award is given to those intrepid souls who make our grid\ncounts possible. It is based on a rather complex point system, which is\ndetailed at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-rover-award/\n\nFinally, AMSAT offers the Robert W. Barbee Jr., W4AMI Satellite Operator\nAchievement Award. It is awarded for the submission of 1,000 satellite\ncontacts on OSCAR-6 or later satellites. There is an endorsement for each\nadditional 1,000 and a special certificate at 5,000.\n\nFor details on each of the AMSAT awards and how to apply for them, see the\nAMSAT website at https://www.amsat.org/awards-2/\n\nIn addition, the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) offers many of their\noperating awards with satellite endorsements for those who complete the\nnecessary contacts exclusively using satellites. These include the VHF/UHF\nCentury Club (VUCC) for working 100 different grid squares, and the Worked\nAll States (WAS) for confirmed contact stations in each of the 50 states.\nThose up for a particular challenge can shoot for the Worked All Continents\n(WAC) for contacting stations on each of the 8 continents, and DX Century\nClub (DXCC) for contacting 100 different DXCC countries on satellite.\n\nFor details on the ARRL awards, begin the search by consulting\nhttp://www.arrl.org/awards/\n\nSatellite operating success can earn some impressive wallpaper!\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Awards Manager, for the above\ninformation]\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\nAMICALSAT Award Certificates Deadline Approaching\n\nDiplomas for the AMICALSAT satellite are being sent out. If you have not\nyet requested yours, you can do so before 28/02/2021.\n\nThe satellite has been active since September 3, 2020. The launch of the\nVega rocket went well. According to the project team, the commissioning of\nthe satellite is in progress and is proceeding normally. The team has\nsucceeded in stabilizing the satellite and is beginning to test image\ncapture and retrieval.\n\nThe contributions of radio amateurs have been very important for the\nproject. This has contributed to the commissioning of the satellite. In the\ncase of AMICALSAT, it is possible to send telemetry to the dashboard hosted\nby the Satnogs network via\n\n * a Satnogs station\n * the AMICALSAT Decoder software provided by AMSAT-F at\nhttps://bit.ly/3pdTvcm\n * the software edited by DK3WN (TLM Forwarder)\n\nData from AMICALSAT Decoder is also sent to the AMSAT-F database (\nhttps://amsat.electrolab.fr/). To date, more than 42 radio amateurs from\nall over the world have contributed more than 28,000 telemetry frames.\n\nIn order to thank the radio amateurs who have sent telemetry via AMICALSAT\nDecoder software before December 31, 2020, AMSAT-F will issue a diploma.\n\nRules for issuing the diploma\n\nThe diploma in electronic format will be given to all radio amateurs or\nearphones that have received data from the Amicalsat satellite and sent\nthese data to the AMSAT-F database with the \"AMICALSAT Decoder\" software.\n\nDepending on the number of data received on the AMSAT-F database (\nhttps://amsat.electrolab.fr/), the nature of the diploma will be different\ndepending on the number of frames received before December 31, 2020 23:59\nUTC :\n\n GOLD Diploma for persons having sent more than 5000 frames to the\nAMSAT-F database.\n Silver Diploma for those who have sent between 2500 & 4999 frames to\nthe AMSAT-F database.\n Bronze Diploma: for those who have sent between 500 & 2499 frames to\nthe AMSAT-F database.\n Diploma without mention for persons having sent between 1 & 499 frames\nto the AMSAT-F database\n\nThe request for a diploma is done by sending an email to [email protected]\nindicating your callsign or the name given in the AMSAT-F database to send\nthe data.\n\nOnly the received frames actually registered on https://amsat.electrolab.fr/\nwill be taken into account.\n\n[ANS thanks Christophe Mercier, AMSAT-F president, for the above\ninformation]\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 February 11, 2021\n\nRadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E) has been renamed as AO-109 in this week's AMSAT-NA TLE\nDistribution as follows:\n\nAO-109 - NORAD Cat ID 47311.\nAs of February 7, 2021 RadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E) was designated AMSAT-OSCAR 109\n(AO-109) by Mark Hammond, N8MH, AMSAT Director and Command Station.\n\nThe following satellite has been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE\nDistribution:\n\nYUSAT-1 - NORAD Cat ID 47439.\nThanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO, for this satellite identification.\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nNASA Awards Contract to Launch Initial Elements for Lunar Outpost\n\nNASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne,\nCalifornia, to provide launch services for the agency’s Power and\nPropulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), the\nfoundational elements of the Gateway. As the first long-term orbiting\noutpost around the Moon, the Gateway is critical to supporting sustainable\nastronauts missions under the agency’s Artemis program.\n\nAfter integration on Earth, the PPE and HALO are targeted to launch\ntogether no earlier than May 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch\nComplex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The total cost to\nNASA is approximately $331.8 million, including the launch service and\nother mission-related costs.\n\nThe PPE is a 60-kilowatt class solar electric propulsion spacecraft that\nalso will provide power, high-speed communications, attitude control, and\nthe capability to move the Gateway to different lunar orbits, providing\nmore access to the Moon’s surface than ever before.\n\nThe HALO is the pressurized living quarters where astronauts who visit the\nGateway, often on their way to the Moon, will work. It will provide command\nand control and serve as the docking hub for the outpost. HALO will support\nscience investigations, distribute power, provide communications for\nvisiting vehicles and lunar surface expeditions, and supplement the life\nsupport systems aboard Orion, NASA’s spacecraft that will deliver Artemis\nastronauts to the Gateway.\n\nAbout one-sixth the size of the International Space Station, the Gateway\nwill function as a way station, located tens of thousands of miles at its\nfarthest distance from the lunar surface, in a near-rectilinear halo orbit.\nIt will serve as a rendezvous point for Artemis astronauts traveling to\nlunar orbit aboard Orion prior to transit to low-lunar orbit and the\nsurface of the Moon. From this vantage, NASA and its international and\ncommercial partners will conduct unprecedented deep space science and\ntechnology investigations.\n\nNASA’s Launch Services Program at Kennedy will manage the SpaceX launch\nservice. The HALO is being designed and built by Northrop Grumman Space\nSystems of Dulles, Virginia, and the PPE is being built by Maxar\nTechnologies of Westminster, Colorado. NASA’s Johnson Space Center in\nHouston manages the Gateway program for the agency. NASA’s Glenn Research\nCenter in Cleveland is responsible for management of the PPE.\n\nLearn more about NASA’s Gateway program at: https://nasa.gov/gateway\n\nLearn more about NASA’s Artemis program at: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for 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\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\nDue to antenna problems reported earlier, upcoming ARISS contacts are\nprobably going to be via the Kenwood TM-D710E radio located in the Service\nModule. You may or may not notice a difference in signal when compared to\nthe Kenwood TM-710GA that is in the Columbus module.\n\nA contact with Bishop Guertin High School, Nashua, NH, multi-point\ntelebridge via AB1OC, is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 19 at 17:56:36 UTC. The\nISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS and the scheduled astronaut\nis Shannon Walker, KD5DXB. Maximum elevation will be 33 degrees. Watch for\nlive stream at: https://youtu.be/0-Dsel4_7gM\n\nCongratulations to NA7V for his first ARISS contact as an ARISS telebridge\nstation! The contact with Red Hill Lutheran School of Tustin, Calif. was\ncompleted on Wednesday, Feb. 10. Astronaut Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG, operating\nwith the station callsign of NA1SS, made contact at 18:26 UTC on a pass\nwith maximum elevation of 65 degrees. Congratulations to the Red Hill\nLutheran students and Mike!\n\nThe latest information on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://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\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nQuick Hits:\n\n****Watch Twitter, there are lots pop-up roves happening lately, and I\ncan’t keep this page updated with all of them.****\n\nSpring Training Rove! KX9X will be heading down to Ft Myers, FL the week of\nMarch 7 for some sun and baseball. Will activate EL86 & 96 holiday style\nfor sure, possibly a couple other grids as well. Linear/FM. Details soon.\n\nN6UA: I’ve had enough of the arctic zephyr … I’m headed south. I don’t have\nexact details yet – but the plan is to rove to DM74 for passes on February\n19th. I’ll be overnight, so plenty of opportunities. Probably headed down\nvia the “7s” and home into the “8s”\n\nAD0HJ will be in EN23 2/11 & 2/12.\n\nKE0PBR: EL87 Holiday Style FM only Week of 2/14… Might want to reach out if\nyou need it.\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 Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through\namateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests,\nconventions, maker faires, and other events.\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\nQSO Today Virtual Ham Expo; March 13,14 2021\nThe second QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo will be held on March 13-14, 2021.\nThere is an Amateur Radio speaker track and AMSAT will have a virtual booth\nduring the event. Advance tickets are now on sale. More information at:\nhttps://www.qsotodayhamexpo.com/\n\n[ANS thanks Virtual QSO Ham Expo for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ NASA will provide live coverage on NASA Television, the agency’s website,\nand the NASA app of the launch and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft to\nthe International Space Station beginning at 11:15 p.m. EST Sunday, Feb.\n14. The unpiloted Russian Progress 77 is scheduled to launch on a Soyuz\nrocket at 11:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. Monday, Feb. 15, Baikonur time) from the\nBaikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (ANS thanks NASA for the above\ninformation)\n\n+ U.A.E’s Hope (Al Amal) orbiter arrived at Mars on Feb. 9, firing its\nthrusters for 27 minutes to successfully enter Martian orbit. The U.A.E. is\nthe first Arab country, and the fifth overall, to reach the planet.\nMeanwhile, China's Tianwen-1 entered Martian orbit on Feb. 10 for a period\nof checkout before a planned release of its instrument-laden lander and\nrover sometime in May. And next week, on Thursday, Feb. 18, NASA's\nPerseverance rover will slam into Mars’ atmosphere at hypersonic velocities\nand eventually find itself sitting alone on the surface seven minutes later\n(hopefully all in one piece). The Mars fleet is arriving! (ANS thanks The\nOrbital Index for the above information)\n\n+ After an incredible 43 years and 22 billion kilometers, Voyager 1 and 2\nare still delivering science (which takes 21 hours to reach us at the speed\nof light). Using data from both craft, scientists have found evidence for\nelectrons getting reflected off of shockwaves created by our Sun’s coronal\nmass ejections, which then spiral along interstellar magnetic field lines\nwhile accelerating to great speeds (scientific paper at\nhttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc337). (ANS thanks\nThe Orbital Index for the above information)\n\n+ NASA announced Feb. 9 it wants to obtain a seat on the next Soyuz mission\nto the International Space Station, launching in just two months, to ensure\na U.S. presence on the station in the event of any commercial crew delays.\nThere are no known issues with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, one of\nwhich is currently docked to the station for the Crew-1 mission.\n“Experience has shown that new launch capabilities may encounter\nunanticipated delays or difficulties maintaining initial schedules,” NASA\nnoted. (ANS thanks Space News for the above information)\n\n+ If there's an advanced extraterrestrial civilization inhabiting a nearby\nstar system, we might be able to detect it using its own atmospheric\npollution, according to new NASA research. The study looked at the presence\nof nitrogen dioxide gas (NO2), which on Earth is produced by burning fossil\nfuels. In their study, the team used computer modeling to predict whether\nNO2 pollution would produce a signal that is practical to detect with\ncurrent and planned telescopes. They found that for an Earth-like planet\norbiting a Sun-like star, a civilization producing the same amount of NO2\nas ours could be detected up to about 30 light-years away. Since NO2 is\nalso produced naturally, scientists will have to carefully analyze an\nexoplanet to see if there is an excess that could be attributed to a\ntechnological society. (ANS thanks Space Daily for the above information)\n\n+ U.S. astronauts living aboard the ISS orbital outpost, on Feb. 14, will\nbreak the record for most days in space by a crew launched aboard an\nAmerican spacecraft, NASA said. \"They will surpass the record of 84 days\nset by the Skylab 4 crew on Feb. 8, 1974\", NASA said. Four flight engineers\n- Shannon Walker, KD5DXB, Soichi Noguchi, KD5TVP, Victor Glover, KI5BKC,\nMike Hopkins, KF5LJG - docked the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to the US\nmodule last November. (ANS thanks Space Daily for the above information)\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n/EX\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the\nPresident's Club. 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