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ARISS News Release No. 24-37
by David H Jordan 05 Jul '24

05 Jul '24

*ARISS News Release No.24-37* *Dave Jordan, AA4KN * *ARISS PR* *aa4kn(a)amsat.org <aa4kn(a)amsat.org>* *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* *ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Participants at * *Youth On the Air 2024, Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia, Canada* July 5, 2024—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and youths at the Youth On the Air 2024 camp located in Mount Saint Vincent University, NS, Canada. ARISS conducts 60-100 of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS. Youth on the Air (YOTA) Summer Camp is a week-long event for young amateur radio operators ages 15 to 25 from North, Central, and South America, as well as other parts of the world. This year’s YOTA, (July 7-12, 2024) is their fourth year of operation, providing young amateur radio operators a camping experience in Halifax. While at camp, these young hams are also gaining experience operating on high frequency ham radio bands from portable and permanent stations, learning how to log their contacts, exploring software defined radio, launching pico balloons, exploring Morse Code, learning electronics from kits, learning antenna theory and building antennas, participating in ham radio foxhunts, and communicating through amateur radio satellites. YOTA is working in tandem with Mount Saint Vincent University and the Halifax Amateur Radio Club and have provided peer led workshops on ham satellite communication prior to this ARISS contact. This will be a telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of astronaut Jeanette Epps, amateur radio call sign KF5QNU. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the telebridge station. The ARISS amateur radio ground station (telebridge station) for this contact is in Paardekraal, South Africa. The amateur radio volunteer team at the ground station will use the callsign ZS6JON, to establish and maintain the ISS connection. The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for July 9, 2024 at 12:06:38 pm/am ADT (Nova Scotia, CAN) (15:06:38 UTC, 11:06 am EDT, 10:06 am CDT, 9:06 am MDT, 8:06 am PDT). *_______________________________* As time allows, students will ask these questions: 1. Can you describe the view of Earth from your perspective? 2. What new technologies are being tested on the ISS that could be crucial for future space missions or have applications on Earth 3. How different is it to operate a radio in space then on earth? 4. What college degrees do you recommend for becoming an astronaut? 5. Are solar events like the northern lights visible and how do you study them from up there? 6. Will you keep doing amateur radio activity after your mission? 7. What's your favorite tool onboard the ISS? 8. How does space affect propagation? 9. How much does your space suit weigh? 10. How has your mindset and view of the world changed since going to space? 11. How often do you do amateur radio on the ISS? 12. If you were to take one thing special to you to the ISS, what would it be? 13. Have you talked to many countries from the ISS using amateur radio? 14. What are you doing on the ISS to prepare for putting people on the moon? 15. What studies have been done of the Earth’s surface from up there? 16. Do you think ham radio in space has a chance to expand to the moon? 17. If you could add a new module to the ISS, what would it contain? 18. Do you feel that being a ham operator has helped you while being on the ISS? 19. What experiment have you carried out aboard the ISS that you’ve liked the most? 20. What do you do when you get a runny nose in space? 21. What is the best part of being on the ISS? *About ARISS:* Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the ISS. In the United States, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN) and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org. Media Contact: Dave Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR Find us on social media at: X: ARISS_Intl Facebook: facebook.com/ARISSIntl Instagram: ariss_intl Mastodon: ariss_intl(a)mastodon.hams.social Check out ARISS on Youtube.com.

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Re: Ariane 6 maiden flight with GENESIS-A module
by David G0MRF 05 Jul '24

05 Jul '24

Not sure I understand why there are signals in the 2m band being transmitted from space below 145.800 Isn't it the case that an FT8 signal will not decode easily with doppler ft4 would be better? Also it will sweep across the 2m ft8 terrestrial frequency causing qrm. Is this another ESA Education Office project? David g0mrf Sent from AOL on Android On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 at 14:40, Félix Páez via AMSAT-BB<amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: Dear all, The maiden flight of the new European launcher, Ariane 6, is scheduled for July 9, 2024, with a launch window of 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. local time from the European spaceport in French Guiana (July 9 20:00h to July 10 00:00h CEST). Among many other payloads, it carries our (inside YPSAT) GENESIS-A module, attached to the second stage of the launcher. The module will transmit FT8 and live SSTV images in Robot 36 format. FT8 transmissions are made every 16 seconds, while SSTV's are every 5 minutes. The working frequencies are as follows: Downlink 144.175 MHz FT8 Mode: - Callsign AO4ARI HO60 if the antenna has been deployed - Callsign AO4ARI HO61 if the antenna has not been deployed Downlink 144.550 MHz SSTV Robot 36 mode with live image and Hades text A carrier with a frequency of 144.550 MHz (same frequency as SSTV) is left between FT8 tones. This information is compiled in PDF in the following document on our web: https://www.amsat-ea.org/app/download/13458580/AMSAT+EA+-+GENESIS-A+transmi… The only thing ESA has given us is the trajectory over the ground while flying over Europe, but we don't have TLEs or anything that we can semi-automate. It is available on our website: https://www.amsat-ea.org/s/cc_images/cache_19006006.jpg?t=1720182961 It will be very difficult to receive it but we thank you all if you try and if you spread this information to have all possible operators tuned into FT-8 that day. The module will fall into the sea with the second stage after a few hours. More information about the flight including timings here:https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Arian… 73, Félix EA4GQS (AMSAT EA) ----------------------------------------------------------- Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ View archives of this mailing list at https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at https://mailman.amsat.org

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Ariane 6 maiden flight with GENESIS-A module
by Félix Páez 05 Jul '24

05 Jul '24

Dear all, The maiden flight of the new European launcher, Ariane 6, is scheduled for July 9, 2024, with a launch window of 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. local time from the European spaceport in French Guiana (July 9 20:00h to July 10 00:00h CEST). Among many other payloads, it carries our (inside YPSAT) GENESIS-A module, attached to the second stage of the launcher. The module will transmit FT8 and live SSTV images in Robot 36 format. FT8 transmissions are made every 16 seconds, while SSTV's are every 5 minutes. The working frequencies are as follows: Downlink 144.175 MHz FT8 Mode: - Callsign AO4ARI HO60 if the antenna has been deployed - Callsign AO4ARI HO61 if the antenna has not been deployed Downlink 144.550 MHz SSTV Robot 36 mode with live image and Hades text A carrier with a frequency of 144.550 MHz (same frequency as SSTV) is left between FT8 tones. This information is compiled in PDF in the following document on our web: https://www.amsat-ea.org/app/download/13458580/AMSAT+EA+-+GENESIS-A+transmi… The only thing ESA has given us is the trajectory over the ground while flying over Europe, but we don't have TLEs or anything that we can semi-automate. It is available on our website: https://www.amsat-ea.org/s/cc_images/cache_19006006.jpg?t=1720182961 It will be very difficult to receive it but we thank you all if you try and if you spread this information to have all possible operators tuned into FT-8 that day. The module will fall into the sea with the second stage after a few hours. More information about the flight including timings here: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_l… 73, Félix EA4GQS (AMSAT EA)

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TEVEL-5
by david.greenberg 05 Jul '24

05 Jul '24

Hello All,TEVEL-5 FM transponder has been activated, starting from today 05.07.24 08:11U for 72 hours.73,David 4X1DGנשלח מה-Galaxy שלי

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NASA ELaNa 43 TLEs including MESAT1
by Joseph Fitzgerald (KM1P) 04 Jul '24

04 Jul '24

TLEs are available for eight objects associated with NASA's ELaNa 43 mission launched just shy of 24 hours ago. They are listed as OBJECT A-H, with the exception of object G which is likely MESAT1. As is the case with most cubesat launches, it will take a while to figure out which object is which<https://www.amsat.org/why-is-there-so-much-tle-confusion-when-new-cubesats-…>. These element sets are available at https://www.amsat.org/tle/current/dailytle.txt and associated file, including the deprecated legacy ones with "nasa" in the filename Joe Fitzgerald (KM1P) AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager/IT Team

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Re: ??
by Alfredos (fredy) Damkalis 04 Jul '24

04 Jul '24

From the latest receptions, it looks like that for now, until we have something more accurate, object with NORAD ID 60209 fits better MESAT-1 signals. The TLE from space-track.org for this object is: OBJECT G 1 60209U 24126G 24186.55793875 -.00000068 00000-0 00000+0 0 9996 2 60209 97.3192 39.4360 0024944 264.5227 183.7607 15.19026686 57 73, fredy On 7/4/24 22:06, Alfredos (fredy) Damkalis via AMSAT-BB wrote: > There are now published TLE sets for this launch, still early to say who > is who and without any reception but all of them could work for tracking > any of them for now. > > You can find the TLE sets in in space-track.org or celestrak.org or in: > > https://community.libre.space/t/firefly-alpha-noise-of-summer-launch-elana-… > > 73, > fredy > > On 7/4/24 21:40, Charles Rubenstein via AMSAT-BB wrote: >> Does anyone have keps for it? Satnogs had a set that was incomplete, >> so SatPC32 won’t accept it. >> >> Charlie KB8CR >> >>> On Jul 4, 2024, at 12:31 PM, egon via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Nothing heard from MESAT at 16:17 UTC this morning. >>> >>> -- >>> VE6EGN EGON >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. >>> Opinions expressed >>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views >>> of AMSAT-NA. Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at >>> https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ >>> >>> View archives of this mailing list at >>> https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org >>> Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at >>> https://mailman.amsat.org >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. >> Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views >> of AMSAT-NA. >> Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at >> https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ >> >> View archives of this mailing list at >> https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org >> Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at >> https://mailman.amsat.org > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at > https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ > > View archives of this mailing list at > https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at > https://mailman.amsat.org

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TEVEL-2
by david.greenberg 04 Jul '24

04 Jul '24

Hello All,TEVEL-2 FM transponder has been activated, starting from today 04.07.24 19:46U for 72 hours.73,David 4X1DGנשלח מה-Galaxy שלי

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Re: ??
by Pedro Converso 04 Jul '24

04 Jul '24

Hi, try these keps: MESAT-1 1 99219U 24078D 24186.17291666 .00000000 00000-0 50000-4 0 01 2 99219 97.4000 39.2969 0001454 0.0000 144.8600 15.21937999 02 Although MESAT still not active, hope active soon. 73, lu7abf, Pedro El jue, 4 jul 2024 a la(s) 3:39 p.m., Charles Rubenstein via AMSAT-BB ( amsat-bb(a)amsat.org) escribió: > Does anyone have keps for it? Satnogs had a set that was incomplete, so > SatPC32 won’t accept it. > > Charlie KB8CR > > > On Jul 4, 2024, at 12:31 PM, egon via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > wrote: > > > > Nothing heard from MESAT at 16:17 UTC this morning. > > > > -- > > VE6EGN EGON > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at > https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ > > > > View archives of this mailing list at > > https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org > > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at > https://mailman.amsat.org > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at > https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ > > View archives of this mailing list at > https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at > https://mailman.amsat.org

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Re: ??
by Alfredos (fredy) Damkalis 04 Jul '24

04 Jul '24

There are now published TLE sets for this launch, still early to say who is who and without any reception but all of them could work for tracking any of them for now. You can find the TLE sets in in space-track.org or celestrak.org or in: https://community.libre.space/t/firefly-alpha-noise-of-summer-launch-elana-… 73, fredy On 7/4/24 21:40, Charles Rubenstein via AMSAT-BB wrote: > Does anyone have keps for it? Satnogs had a set that was incomplete, so SatPC32 won’t accept it. > > Charlie KB8CR > >> On Jul 4, 2024, at 12:31 PM, egon via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: >> >> Nothing heard from MESAT at 16:17 UTC this morning. >> >> -- >> VE6EGN EGON >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available >> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed >> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ >> >> View archives of this mailing list at >> https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org >> Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at https://mailman.amsat.org > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. > Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ > > View archives of this mailing list at > https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at https://mailman.amsat.org

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Re: ??
by Mark Johns, K0JM 04 Jul '24

04 Jul '24

Update your AMSAT keps file in SatPC32 (nasabare or nasa.all). The preliminary MESAT1 TLEs are now included. -- Mark D. Johns, KØJM AMSAT Ambassador & News Service Editor Brooklyn Park, MN USA EN35hd ----------------------------------------------- "Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." ---Mark Twain On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 1:40 PM Charles Rubenstein via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> wrote: > Does anyone have keps for it? Satnogs had a set that was incomplete, so > SatPC32 won’t accept it. > > Charlie KB8CR > > > On Jul 4, 2024, at 12:31 PM, egon via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb(a)amsat.org> > wrote: > > > > Nothing heard from MESAT at 16:17 UTC this morning. > > > > -- > > VE6EGN EGON > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. > Opinions expressed > > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at > https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ > > > > View archives of this mailing list at > > https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org > > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at > https://mailman.amsat.org > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Sent via AMSAT-BB(a)amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available > to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions > expressed > are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of > AMSAT-NA. > Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies available at > https://www.amsat.org/about-amsat/ > > View archives of this mailing list at > https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to amsat-bb-leave(a)amsat.org > Manage all of your AMSAT-NA mailing list preferences at > https://mailman.amsat.org

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