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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/Y3C5N7EVWZ2XTVY5FODK723C4MWIJV47/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5CjRzfXkh=pmz7LsnQp9oTxFJ9wm8EnDw97NHcAv=mAXA@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "Y3C5N7EVWZ2XTVY5FODK723C4MWIJV47", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/Y3C5N7EVWZ2XTVY5FODK723C4MWIJV47/?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-240 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Aug. 28", "date": "2022-08-28T00:00:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-240\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: ans-editor [at]\namsat.org\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* OMOTENASHI Project Shoots for the Moon This Week\n* SLS Launch Party on Discord!\n* Launch of GENESIS-G and GENESIS-J with Firefly on September 11\n* Limited-Time Opportunity - DX on AO27!\n* 40th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting, Oct. 21-22\n* So, You Want To Build A CubeSat?\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for August 25\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nANS-240 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nTo: All RADIO AMATEURS\nFrom: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n712 H Street NE, Suite 1653\nWashington, DC 20002\n\nDATE 2022 Aug 28\n\n\nOMOTENASHI Project Shoots for the Moon This Week\n\nOMOTENASHI, a project of the JAXA Ham Radio Club, is a CubeSat which will\nbe launched by NASA SLS rocket, scheduled for August 29. It plans to land\non the surface of the moon, and to transmit a beacon in the amateur 70cm\nband.\n\nOMOTENASHI is one of the EM-1 CubeSat missions which will be launched by\nthe NASA/SLS rocket (EM-1) together with the main mission of ORION\nexperimental module on Monday. JAXA Ham Radio Club is going to utilize the\nflight demonstration opportunity of the OMOTENASHI mission to conduct the\nfollowing amateur radio missions:\n (i) To conduct technological research with respect to receiving ultra-weak\nUHF signal from a space probe toward the moon\n (ii) To conduct an outreach activity providing amateur radio operators all\nover the world with an opportunity to try to receive signals from moon\nregion.\n\nOMOTENASHI is a 6U-CubeSat with external dimensions of 239 x 366 x 113mm\nand an approximate mass of 14 kg.\n\nOMOTENASHI consists of three modules: orbiting module, retro motor module,\nand surface probe. During the moon transfer orbit, these modules are\nintegrated. When OMOTENASHI arrives at the moon, the surface probe will be\nseparated and conduct semi-hard landing.\n\nOMOTENASHI is actively controlled by ultra-small attitude control system\nincluding star tracker, sun sensor, IMU, reaction wheel, and cold gas jet\nthruster. During the moon transfer orbit, OMOTENASHI may be spin-stabilized\ndue to the strict resources. For further details, please see:\nhttps://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/omotenashi/JHRCweb/jhrc.html\n\nThere will be UHF CM/PSK/PM/PSK31 beacons, with 1 watt RF, on both the\norbiting module and the surface probe. CisLunar explorer, MIT KitCube and\nLunar IceCube are expected to share the same launch.\n\nOrbiting Module DOWNLINK\n\n Frequency\n 437.31 MHz\n Antenna\n SRR antenna\n Polarization\n Linear\n Modulation\n beacon, PSK31\n Sync Word\n C1 (ASCII code)\n Power\n 30dBm\n\nSurface Probe DOWNLINK\n\n Frequency\n 437.41 MHz\n Antenna\n invert-F antennax4\n Polarization\n LHCP(, RHCP)\n Modulation\n FM, PSK31, PCM-PSK/PM\n Sync Word\n C1 (ASCII code)\n Power\n 30dBm\n\nAmateurs can constantly access the newest TLE from https://bit.ly/3wyopTr\n This file will be overwritten when we have calculated the next TLE during\noperation.\n\n[ANS thanks JAXA Ham Radio Club for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n The 2022 AMSAT President's Club coins have arrived!\n To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its launch on\n October 15, 1972, this year's coin features\n an image of AMSAT-OSCAR 6.\n Join the AMSAT President's Club today and help\n Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nSLS Launch Party on Discord!\n\nAMSAT is hosting an event in Discord,\nhttps://discord.gg/Duca8jY5?event=1012703802727608330. It will be in the\n#watch-party channel for the STS launch carrying Orion to the Moon, along\nwith OMOTENASHI (see above) and a number of other small satellites.\n\nAMSAT plans to start streaming NASA’s YouTube video coverage starting at\nabout 0300Z on Monday, August 29. If that doesn’t work out, people can\nalways watch it on their own, and just join the channel to chat about the\nmission. Voice chat, web cams, and text will all be available for people to\nuse.\n\nThe AMSAT Discord server is available for the amateur satellite community.\nDiscord is a text, voice, and video client that has become very popular in\nrecent years. Discord will provide the amateur satellite community with an\nadditional option to communicate amongst each other, in real-time.\n\nDiscord provides several neat features, including the following:\n\n Ability to create channels, to organize different conversation topics\n Hosting of events, that can include voice and or video chat\n For satellite launch parties!\n Use of bots to automate useful actions\n Try typing /tle AO-92\n More commands are in development!\n Notification of Twitter posts of interest\n Currently only following @AMSAT Twitter account\n\nA special section of the server is reserved for AMSAT members. If you are a\ncurrent member, please send a message in the #request-roles channel once\nyou join the server, indicating whether you are a member or life member.\nOnce the member role is granted, you will be able to post in the “Members\nOnly” category. If you are not yet an AMSAT member, join today at\nhttps://launch.amsat.org/.\n\nThe link below can be used to join the server. See you in Discord!\n\nhttps://discord.gg/xbTXcPJHyt\n\n\n[ANS thanks Matthew Alberti, KM4EXS, AMSAT IT Team for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nLaunch of GENESIS-G and GENESIS-J with Firefly on September 11\n\nAMSAT-EA confirms that the launch of our new GENESIS-G and GENESIS-J\nsatellites with Firefly will take place, if all goes well, on September 11,\nwith the launch window starting at 3 PM Pacific Time (22h GMT), from\nVanderberg. The expected orbit altitude is 300 km with an inclination of\n137 degrees.\n\nAs many of you know, this will be the second attempt of Firefly to reach\norbit after the first attempt made in September 2021 and which had to be\naborted after two minutes of flight, causing our previous GENESIS-N and\nGENESIS-L to be lost, among others.\n\nThese new GENESIS have a more powerful on-board computer than their\npredecessors and updated software that allows FM voice repeater\nfunctionality, AFSK/FSK non-regenerative repeater up to 2400 bps, FSK\nregenerative repeater up to 50 bps, CW, digitized voice pre-recorded FM and\nFSK telemetry at 50 bps. The correct retransmission of AX25 / APRS frames\nover FM up to 2400 bps has been verified in the laboratory.\n\nA small drawback we still have is the antenna deployment mechanism, that is\nthe first version that was made and requires a plenty charged battery. The\nsatellites have been stored for several months, so it is a weak point.\nHopefully it will work.\n\nThese satellites also have the names of ASTROLAND-1 and ASTROLAND-2 to say\nthanks to the sponsorship of the project by the Astroland Planetary Agency.\nWe also thank the private companies and Universities that helped in the\nproject.\n\nAs on the previous occasion, two experimental propellants are flown,\nalthough this time they are from the Madrid company IENAI Space and, unlike\nthe previous GENESIS mission, they use a liquid ionic fuel. Only the one\nfrom GENESIS-J is functional. The one from GENESIS-G carries the\nelectronics but without the fuel.\n\nThe frequencies coordinated with IARU are the following:\n\nGENESIS-G/ASTROLAND-1\n145.875 MHz uplink, Modes: FM voice (no subtone) and FSK 50 bps, AFSK,\nAX.25, APRS 1200 / 2400 bps\n436.888 MHz downlink, Modes: FM voice, CW, FSK 50 bps, FM voice beacon with\nAM2SAT callsign\n\nGENESIS-J/ASTROLAND-2\n145.925 MHz uplink, Modes: FM voice (no subtone) and FSK 50 bps, AFSK,\nAX.25, APRS 1200 / 2400 bps\n436.666 MHz downlink, Modes: FM voice, CW FSK 50 bps, SSTV Robot 36, FM\nvoice beacon with AM3SAT callsign\n\nWe encourage all to try to receive their first transmissions once the first\nkeplerians are available.\n\nThis flight will be streamed by Everyday Astronaut:\nhttps://everydayastronaut.com/\n\nMore information on the Firefly website:\nhttps://firefly.com/alpha-flight-2-to-the-black/\n\n[ANS thanks Felix Paez, EA4GQS of the AMSAT EA Team for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nLimited-Time Opportunity - DX on AO27!\n\n\"On\" times for AO-27 continue to shift along the direction of the orbit.\nThe 5 min \"on time\" for ascending passes at mid-latitudes is now on\nDESCENDING passes. Based on current SATNOGS observations, from when the\nsatellite is at about 75 degN to about 65 deg N. The descending node\ntelemetry and repeater operation is probably only available to stations\nfurther and further south (a few lucky far-S America and maybe VK and ZL\nstations may soon be able work Antarctica if anyone is on!).\n\nNorthern Europe and the UK are now well in the footprint, NE Canadian\nprovinces and some New England stations may be able to work Europe, and KL7\nmay be able to work northern Japan in a few weeks! These opportunities\nwon't last - the \"on\" time will continue to shift, and once the onboard\nclock is reset, the satellite will be back on a \"normal\" schedule.\n\nIf you hear or work AO-27, the command stations would appreciate knowing\nprecise times for when the transmitter came on or turned off, and the\nreporting station's 6-character grid square or lat/lon. If you are in the\nfar South and hear the 20 seconds of telemetry, try to capture KISS frames\n(NOT ASCII) and send the captured data file (or a good audio file we can\ntry to decode). If scheduling SATNOGs observations (provides an excellent\nmeasure of on and off times), try to schedule descending passes during the\n\"on\" times and don't bother with ascending passes for now.\n\n[ANS thanks Stephan Greene, KS1G, on behalf of the AO-27 command team for\nthe 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\n40th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting, Oct. 21-22\n\nThe 40th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting will take place\nin Bloomington, Minn. on Oct. 21-22, 2022. Highlights of all scheduled\nevents include:\n\n– AMSAT Board of Directors Meeting, October 20-21\n– 40th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting, October 21-22\n– Friday Night Social and Auction, October 21\n– AMSAT Banquet and Reception, October 22\n– AMSAT Ambassador Breakfast, October 23\n\nA preliminary schedule is available on the AMSAT Member Portal,\nlaunch.amsat.org, under the Events tab.\n\nCrowne Plaza is located adjacent to the Minneapolis / St. Paul\nInternational Airport and provides complimentary, scheduled shuttle to and\nfrom the airport. Nearby attractions include Mall of America with\nNickelodeon Universe Theme park, Target Field, and the Minnesota Zoo.\n\nYou can make hotel reservations by calling the hotel directly at (952)\n854-9000. The group code is ASG (Amateur Satellite Group). Hotel\nreservations can also be made online at the following link:\nhttps://tinyurl.com/ANS-219-Symposium-Rooms.\n\nSymposium tickets and banquet reservations may be purchased on the AMSAT\nMember Portal. Log into https://launch.amsat.org/ and clock on the Events\ntab.\n\nWe at AMSAT, are excited to be able to host an in-person Symposium this\nyear. We hope that you can join us in celebrating Amateur Radio in Space.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSo, You Want To Build A CubeSat?\n\nEverybody's sure it's easy! Just follow these simple steps:\n+ First, select an appropriate CubeSat form factor based on payload size,\npower requirements, and deployment mechanism.\n+ Consider power budget (especially for when the spacecraft is “in eclipse”\non the dark side of the Earth), acceleration and vibration tolerance (the\nsound of launch alone can damage the spacecraft), and thermal management\n(your satellite is effectively sitting in a rather large vacuum thermos).\n+ Use Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) parts with existing flight heritage\nwherever possible—see satsearch and CubeSatShop.\n+ Pick solar panels, batteries, and an Electrical Power System (EPS) to\nmanage them.\n+ Include one or more antennas and radios to talk to a ground station or\nground station network (or broadcast up to GlobalStar or Iridium instead).\n+ If you need to maintain orientation, include an Attitude Determination\nand Control Systems (ADCS) which will use some combination of Earth, Sun,\nand star trackers, gyroscopes, GPS receivers, and magnetometers to sense\norientation, and rotate the spacecraft using magnetorquers and reaction\nwheels. Some CubeSats also now use miniature thrusters for attitude\ncontrol, desaturation, and orbit maintenance.\n+ Deployable components, such as antennas and solar panels, are usually\nstored under tension and released with electromagnets or redundant burn\nwires.\n+ Next, select an On-Board Computer (OBC) for Command & Data Handling\n(C&DH) and the flight software that will run on it, such as the open-source\ncFS and F´ frameworks from NASA.\n+ Prior to assembly, perform “flatsat” testing with everything wired on a\nbench. This is also when you should verify communications with the\nspacecraft via its radios.\n+ Once assembled, put the CubeSat through vibration and thermal vacuum\ntesting to ensure that it will survive the stresses of launch and the space\nenvironment.\n+ Finally, obtain the required certifications for earth observation, radio\nlicenses, and an approved deorbit plan. NASA has a helpful guide for\nfirst-time CubeSat developers with instructions and templates, and also a\nstate-of-the-art technology report.\n(This overview is incomplete—please do not base your spacecraft design on\nan email newsletter.)\n\n[ANS thanks The Orbital Index 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 August 25\n\nTwo Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps\nin the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical\nmodel of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly\nupdates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. TLE bulletin\nfiles are updated Thursday evenings around 2300 UTC, or more frequently if\nnew high interest satellites are launched. More information may be found at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/\n\nArmadillo NORAD Cat ID 44352 (decayed form orbit on 8/23/2022 per\nSpace-Track).\n\nThose using TLEs provided by Celestrak should be aware of recent changes to\nthe URLs for these files. All Celestrak websites are now at celestrak.org\n-- celestrak.com will no longer work.\n\nThere was a problem with the format of the nasa.all version of the TLEs\nlast week. The nasabare.txt file was unaffected by this problem, and the\nissue appears to have been resolved in this week's file.\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above\ninformation]\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\nRecently completed: Hospital School Program in partnership with Seacrest\nStudios at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville,\nTenn., direct via N4FR. The ISS callsign was NA1SS, and the crewmember was\nKjell Lindgren, KO5MOS. Contact was successful on Wednesday, 2022-08-24\n17:42:54 UTC with 27 degrees elevation. Congratulations to the Monroe\nCarell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt students and Kjell!\n\nCurrent ARISS operations include voice repeater transmissions with the JVC\nKenwood D710GA in the Columbus module and APRS packet operation from an\nidentical radio in the Service Module (Zvezda). Packet operations are on\n145.825 MHz.\n\nKjell Lindgren, KO5MOS, continues to be making general contacts on the\ncross-band repeater. He is using NA1SS. If any crewmember is so inclined,\nall they have to do is pick up the microphone, raise the volume up, and\ntalk on the crossband repeater. So give a listen, you just never know.\n\nThe latest information on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html\n\nThe latest list of frequencies in use can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors\nfor the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an Amateur\n Radio package, including two-way communication capability, to\n be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit.\n\n Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nAA6MU: CN81 August 9-31, Linears and FM.\n\nW7WGC: Starting an Oregon Rove today (8/21/22) 10-14 days. Dates and\napprox dates. Will post details on Twitter for each later.\n Aug 21: CN 93 & 94\n Aug 22: DN03 & DN02 Aug 23 – 28-ish DN14, 13, 12\n Return to the West (TBD): DN04, DN15 DN05 CN95 CN85 & CN86 CN75 CN74 &\nCN84\n\nN8AJM: From September 12 to 16 I hope to be in EM85. I will be working FM\nonly with no set schedule. I may also activate a few grids on the way down\nfrom EN72. I will try to post all passes on hams.at\n\nKJ7DZ: CN74 roving trip booked. Sept 22 – 24. More info will be posted as\ntime gets closer\n\nKI7QEK: I’m taking a family vacation in British Columbia and Alberta from\nAugust 27-September 3, and planning to bring FM and linear gear. “Holiday\nstyle” so no promises on passes, but I will be passing through these grids:\nDN09, DO00, DO01, DO11, DO20 & DO21\n\n9Y60, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (Special Event): Members of the Trinidad and\nTobago Amateur Radio Society (TTARS) will be active as 9Y60TT to celebrate\nTrinidad and Tobago’s 60th anniversary of independence (August 31st, 1962)\nbetween August 26th and September 2nd. Activity will be on the HF/VHF bands\nusing CW, SSB, Slow Scan TV (SSTV), Digital Modes (FT8/ FT4, JS8, JT65, 2m\nEME (Moonbounce), Satellite, APRS via ISS, Digital Voice (DMR, C4FM,\nD-Star), EchoLink….and more. QSL via LoTW, ClubLog and QRZ.com. For more\ndetails and info on how to obtain a certificate, see: 9y60tt [dot] info\n(received from JoAnne Maenpaa by email)\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\n2022 HamXposition, and ARRL New England and Hudson Division Convention (\nhamxposition.org)\nSaturday and Sunday August 27 and 28, Marlborough, MA (Flea Market and some\nclasses and workshops on Friday)\nAMSAT will have a booth with info, demos, and items for sale.\nBurns Fisher, WB1FJ will be presenting “What’s New At AMSAT”\n\n41st ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC)\nSeptember 16–18, 2022\nHilton Charlotte Airport Hotel\nCharlotte, North Carolina\nhttps://tapr.org\n\n2022 Rocky Mountain ARRL Division Convention\nFriday, October 7th, 2022 to Sunday, October 9th, 2022\nEvent Center at Archer\n3921 Archer Pkwy\nCheyenne, Wyoming 82007\nhttps://wyhamcon.org/site\n\n2022 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium\nOctober 8–9, 2022\nKents Hill Park Conference Centre, Milton Keynes\nhttps://rsgb.org/main/about-us/rsgb-convention/\n\n40th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting\nOctober 21–22, 2022\nThe Crowne Plaza Suites, 3 Appletree Square, Bloomington, MN\nhttps://launch.amsat.org/event-4922878\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Congratulations to John Langille, VE1CWJ, in FN85 and Philippe Chateau,\nEA4NF, in IN80 on a new distance record on XW-2A of 4,751 km - an\nastounding distance given XW-2A's apogee is now just 405 km! All current\nsatellite distance records may be viewed at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/satellite-distance-records/ (ANS thanks Paul\nStoetzer, N8HM, AMSAT Executive VP, for the above information)\n\n+ An amazing video that shows how the Starlink antenna works is available\nat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2QcycggWU (ANS thanks Mike Hoblinski,\nN6IMF, for the above information)\n\n+ A SpaceX Dragon supply freighter undocked from the International Space\nStation on August 19, heading for splashdown off the coast of Florida\nSaturday with about two tons of cargo, experiments, and a leaky spacesuit.\nThe unpiloted cargo carrier will bring home a spacesuit worn by European\nastronaut Matthias Maurer in March, when the station crew noticed water\nleaking in Maurer’s helmet after he returned to the lab’s pressurized\nairlock. NASA has suspended use of U.S. spacesuits for non-emergency\nspacewalks until the suit is returned to Earth for inspection and analysis.\n(ANS thanks Spaceflight Now for the above information)\n\n+ Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev’s spacewalk was cut short by a suit battery issue\non August 17. With NASA’s suits grounded at the moment, the ISS is running\nout of EVA options. (ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above information)\n\n+ As World Radio Conference 2023 (WRC23) gets closer so the preparatory\nactivities for all the agenda items are increasing in intensity. The most\npressing for the amateur community is the 23cm band radio navigation\nsatellite service (RNSS) coexistence agenda item 9.1b. The IARU engagement\nis continuing with the studies in the regulatory institutions as well as\namongst the amateur community. As detailed proposals are starting to emerge\nso the amateur community needs to be ready to defend its interests in this\nband. See https://www.iaru-r1.org/ for more information. (ANS thanks Barry\nLewis, G4SJH, for the above information)\n\n+ MANY THANKS to Steve Kenwolf, WH6BSZ, for creating the new logo for the\nAMSAT News Service! We appreciate Steve's work and creativity in updating\nour look on the web and social media versions of ANS. (ANS thanks Mark\nJohns, K0JM, AMSAT News Service Senior Editor, for the above information.\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nJoin AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org/\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:\n\n* Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).\n* Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate.\n* Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status\nshall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary\nyears in this status.\n* Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.\n\nContact info [at] amsat.org for additional membership information.\n\n73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\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/Y3C5N7EVWZ2XTVY5FODK723C4MWIJV47/?format=api", "counter": 2, "name": "attachment.html", "content_type": "text/html", "encoding": "utf-8", "size": 28168, "download": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/Y3C5N7EVWZ2XTVY5FODK723C4MWIJV47/attachment/2/attachment.html" } ] }