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    "sender_name": "Joseph Spier",
    "subject": "[ans] ANS-362 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2014-12-28T04:34:50Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-362\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-\nmation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite\nCorporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space\nincluding reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur\nRadio operators who share an active interest in designing, building,\nlaunching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio\nsatellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur\nRadio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\nans-editor at amsat.org.\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* AMSAT Awards Update\n* FUNcube-1 in full-time transponder mode\n* NASA Cube Quest Challenge Summit Jan 7th & 8th\n* AMSAT Events\n* Russian ISS School Contacts\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-362.01\nANS-362 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 362.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE December 28, 2014\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-362.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Awards Update\n\n\nAs 2014 draws to an end and we look at all the accomplishments hams\nhave made towards satellite operation and those that have entered the\nsatellite community I would like to thank all of those that have made\nthe year what it was. Those that took time off to travel and work\nsatellites from semi-rare and rare grid squares, those that operated\nfor the AO-7 special event, those that helped build, test and launch\nsatellites and especially those that nurture students in elementary\nthrough college grades.\n\nHere are our latest inductions into some of the AMSAT awards\ncommunity.\n\nThe following have entered into the Satellite Communicators Club for\nmaking their first satellite QSO.\n\nDavid Barholomew, AD7DB\nJohn Bartholomew, N7JY\nWalter Dilley, KD7DNY\nNicolas Romero, KG5BON\n\nTo see all the awards visit\nhttp://www.amsat.org or\nhttp://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html\n\nBruce Paige, KK5DO\nAMSAT Director Contests and Awards\nARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE\nHouston AMSAT Net - Wed 0200z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT*\nAlso streaming MP3 at\nhttp://www.amsatnet.com\n\nPodcast at\nhttp://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes\n\n\n[ANS thanks the Bruce, KK5DO for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFUNcube-1 in full-time transponder mode\n\n\nOn December 23 FUNcube-1 / AO-73 was switched into full-time\ntransponder mode with low-power beacon. It will remain in that mode\nfor the next 5-7 days.\n\nEnjoy the transponder.\n\nWith best wishes for the Festive Season, and for 2015\n\nFUNcube Team\n\n\n[ANS thanks the FUNcube team and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNASA Cube Quest Challenge Summit Jan 7th & 8th\n\n\nThe NASA Centennial Challenges Program and NASA Ames Research Center\nare pleased to announce that the Cube Quest Challenge Summit will be\nheld January 7-8, 2015 at the NASA Ames Conference Center.\n\nNASA Ames Conference Center\n500 Severyns Road\nMoffett Field, CA 94035\n650.604.2082\nhttp://naccenter.arc.nasa.gov/\n\nThis event will bring together NASA Centennial Challenges\nadministrators, invited NASA technical experts and presenters, and\nthe community of interested technical service providers and potential\ncompetitor team members for the purposes of:\n\n* To introduce the Cube Quest operating conditions, rules and\nconstraints\n* To encourage potential competitors to self-organize into teams\n* Foster dialog; raise understanding about this exciting competition\nand opportunities\n* Support the best possible competition\n\nThe event will be held:\nJanuary 7, 2015 from 1 p.m to 5 p.m (Registration Desk opens at 12:00\n  noon)\nJanuary 8, 2015 from 8 a.m to 12 p.m\n\nSee website for more information:\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/cubequestsummit/#.VJ7twP8oMw\n\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Events\n\n\nInformation about AMSAT activities at other important events around\nthe country.  Examples of these events are radio club meetings where\nAMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working\namateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with\nAMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations,\nforums, and/or demonstrations).\n\n* Sunday, 4 January 2015 – Ham Radio University in Bethpage NY\n(Briarcliffe College)\n\n* Saturday, 10 January 2015 – Thunderbird Hamfest 2015 in Phoenix AZ\n(43rd Avenue, between Greenway and Bell Roads)\n\n* Friday and Saturday, 16-17 January 2015 – Cowtown Hamfest in Forest\nHill TX (south of Fort Worth)\n\n* Saturday, 14 February 2015 – presentation for the Greater Los\nAngeles Mensa Regional Gathering 2015 in Los Angeles CA (Concourse\nHotel at Los Angeles International Airport)\n\n* Friday and Saturday, 20-21 February 2015 – Yuma Hamfest in Yuma AZ\n(Yuma County Fairgrounds, 32nd Street between Pacific Avenue & Avenue\n3E, south of I-8 exit 3)\n\n* Saturday, 7 March 2015 – Irving Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in\nIrving TX (west of Dallas)\n\n* Friday and Saturday, 13-14 March 2015 – Green Country Hamfest in\nClaremore OK (northeast of Tulsa)\n\n* Friday and Saturday, 20-21 March 2015 – Acadiana Hamfest in Rayne\nLA (west of Lafayette)\n\n* Saturday, 21 March 2015 – Weatherford Hamfest in Weatherford TX\n(west of Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex)\n\n* Saturday, 21 March 2015 – Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in\nScottsdale AZ (northeast of Phoenix, near AZ-101/Princess Drive)\n\n* Saturday, 28 March 2015 – Tucson Spring Hamfest in Tucson AZ (22nd\nStreet, east of Columbus Blvd.)\n\n* Friday, 3 April 2015 – presentation for the Associated Radio\nAmateurs of Long Beach in Signal Hill CA (Signal Hill Community\nCenter)\n\n* Saturday TBD in early May 2015 – Cochise Amateur Radio Association\nHamfest in Sierra Vista AZ\n\n* Saturday TBD in early June 2015 – White Mountain Hamfest in Show\nLow AZ\n\n* Friday and Saturday, 12-13 June 2015 – HAM-COM in Irving TX (west\nof Dallas)\n\n* Friday and Saturday, 7-8 August 2015 – Austin Summerfest in Austin\nTX\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nRussian ISS School Contacts\n\n\nBoth Dmitry Pashkov R4UAB and Michal Zawada SQ5KTM have released\nvideos of ISS school contacts by cosmonaut Yelena Serov operating\nwith the callsign RS0ISS which took place on Sunday, December 21,\n2014.\n\nThe amateur radio station in the Russian Service Module was used and\nthe Kenwood D710 operated on 145.800 MHz FM. The power setting used\nis not clear but may have been 25 watts. It is understood that ISS\nschool contacts had been planned for Sunday with students at both\nEkaterinburg and Chelyabinsk.\n\nIn his blog Dmitry Pashkov R4UAB said of the first Chelyabinsk\ncontact: Radio session of the crew of the International Space Station\nwith a children’s art school in Chelyabinsk. With great difficulty\nthey contacted.\n\nDmitry Pashkov R4UAB Blog\nhttp://tinyurl.com/R4UAB-B\n\nAMSAT-UK\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/12/21/russian-iss-school-contacts/\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between About Gagarin From Space,\nAmateur Session of The Parties  Centre Extracurricular Activities\nChelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk, Russia, direct via  R8AM\nContact was with RSØISS\nContact was successful 2014-12-21  11:55 UTC\n(see above article)\n\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nKursk, Russia,  direct via TBD\nContact is presently scheduled to be with RSØISS\nContact is  postponed until 2015 January TBD UTC\n\nKursk, Russia, direct via  TBD\nContact is presently scheduled to be with RSØISS\nContact is postponed until 2015 January TBD  UTC\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n*Small CubeSat Provides Big Space Experience\n\nAny way you slice it, space exploration -- done right -- requires\nan inordinate range of technical expertise. From designing the\nspacecraft, the mission proposal and the circuit boards to testing\nthe flight software and putting together budgets, sending something,\nanything, into the cosmos depends on good people who know their job.\n\n\"Although significantly smaller in size, CubeSats contain analogous\npayloads and subsystems to larger satellites and require similar\ntechnical knowledge and resources to traditional flight projects,\"\nsaid Shannon Statham, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory\nin Pasadena, California. \"The training and experience gained by\nworking on CubeSats are directly applicable to larger missions.\"\n\nOnly three years after receiving her graduate degree in engineering,\nand having logged time in JPL's Environmental Test Lab, Statham was\nchosen to become the project manager for NASA's Radiometer\nAtmospheric CubeSat Experiment (RACE) mission. The position quickly\nprovided the Georgia Institute of Technology grad all the hands-on\nexperience she could have hoped for -- and more.\n\n\"The core team for RACE was comprised of 15 early career hires,\"\nsaid Statham. \"We each had our designated role, but we all wore many\nhats and contributed to all aspects of taking the mission from\nproposal, to design, to testing, to launch delivery. With a very\nambitious project schedule and budget, it's what we had to do to get\nthe job done.\"\n\nRACE was a CubeSat, a small satellite no bigger than a loaf of\nbread, designed to test components of an Earth-observing radiometer\nthat would be used in future missions by larger, more expensive\nsatellites. RACE was designed to \"hitch a ride\" aboard a rocket that\nwas already tasked with lofting a spacecraft to the International\nSpace Station. Once at the station, RACE would be set free to orbit\nEarth as its own satellite, measuring the liquid water path and water\nvapor that is pertinent to the water cycle and Earth's energy budget\nfrom 240 miles up.\n\n\"That is one of the beauties of CubeSats,\" said Statham. \"They are\nsmall and compact, so placing them in the available nooks and\ncrannies of a rocket already set to carry another payload into space\ncan be quite cost-effective.\"\n\nWhen compared to its larger satellite siblings, just about\neverything about CubeSats is diminutive. Even transporting them is\nlow-key. While their bigger brethren usually require a specially-\nequipped, air-cushioned tractor trailer or perhaps a military cargo\nplane, RACE made its way from the lab into the world via an attache-\nsized box that Statham herself placed in the overhead compartment\nabove her airliner seat.\n\nThe RACE team had hoped to show their instrument's performance could\nrival that of traditional big satellites, resulting in potential cost\nsavings down the line. On the evening of October 28, 2014, Statham\nand several other RACE early career hires watched as an Antares\nrocket carrying their satellite lifted off from the Wallops Flight\nFacility in Virginia. Moments into the flight, one of the rocket's\nmain engines failed, sending its space station-destined payload\n(including RACE) to a fiery end.\n\n\"The launch failure was a disappointment, but I think all of us know\nthat's a risk you take,\" said Statham. \"We saw all our hard work\neffectively go up in flames. But I think everyone on the team is\ntaking this as a very positive experience in general, and we're all\nmoving on to new and exciting endeavors at JPL.\"\n\nStatham is sticking with CubeSats for the time being. She is working\non a JPL concept to fly a space-based radar called \"RaInCube.\" Others\non her team have gone on to other CubeSat projects, while still\nothers are working on more traditional space missions or in one of\nthe research labs at JPL.\n\nAnd what of RACE itself? At the time of this writing, the 13.4-inch-\nlong (34-centimeter) spacecraft has not been recovered. But the\ntechnology that Statham and her colleagues pushed from concept, to\ntest bed, to launch pad, lives on. The lessons learned developing the\nradiometer, the instrument that was the heart of the RACE mission,\nare being applied to a new CubeSat proposal called Temporal\nExperiment for Storms and Tropical Systems - Demonstrator (TEMPEST-D).\n\nThe next JPL CubeSat is scheduled to fly on January 29 of next year.\nCalled GEO-CAPE ROIC In-Flight Performance Experiment (GRIFEX), the\nCubeSat will hitch a ride aboard the Soil Moisture Active-Passive\n(SMAP) launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. GRIFEX is a\nflight test of advanced technology required for future Earth\nobservers measuring atmospheric composition from geostationary Earth\norbit.\n\nJPL has other CubeSat projects in development as well, including\nmissions to the moon, Mars and near-Earth asteroids. JPL recently\nselected proposals from 10 universities to analyze CubeSat concepts\nthat could enhance a proposed Europa Clipper mission. The concepts\nwill be incorporated into a JPL study on how small probes could be\ncarried as auxiliary payloads.\n\n\"These tiny spacecraft are great platforms for increasing the\ntechnology readiness of new technologies to buy down risk for larger\nmissions in a relatively short time frame and minimal budget. They\ncan also provide resources to larger missions with minimal impacts to\ncost and mass,\" said Statham. \"The future looks bright for CubeSats.\"\n\nhttp://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Small_CubeSat_Provides_Big_Space_\nExperience_999.html\n\n\n[ANS thanks Spacedaily.com for the above information]\n\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\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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n",
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