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ANS-181
by Joe Spier 15 Dec '13

15 Dec '13

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-181 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * ESA Education Office announce six CubeSats chosen for Phase 1 Initiative * 13 Colonies Special Event Includes Satellite Operations * 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Starts July 19, 2013 * Two Lithuanian Amateur Radio CubeSats Plan 2013 Launch To ISS * July Space Station Spacewalks To Be Previewed And Broadcast On NASA TV * Upcoming ARISS Contacts * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-181.01 ANS-181 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 181.01 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. June 30, 2013 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-181.01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESA Education Office announce six CubeSats chosen for Phase 1 Initiative Six student teams and their supervisors have gathered at ESA's ESTEC centre in The Netherlands for the kick-off of the new Fly Your Satellite! Programme under the ESA Education Office. On June 26-28, ESA experts will introduce the objectives and present the activities to be performed during the first phase of the programme. In January, ESA's Education Office announced the 'Fly Your Satellite!' initiative. This is aimed at offering student teams the opportunity to become familiar with good engineering practice to build and perform satellite testing in order to increase the chances of a successful mission. The 2013 edition of the programme is however only focusing on testing selected university-built satellites that are already at an advanced stage of development. 'Fly Your Satellite!' builds on the success of the 'CubeSats for the Vega Maiden Flight' pilot programme. This culminated in 2012 with the launch of seven student-built CubeSats on the first flight of the new ESA Vega launcher. The focus of the kick-off meeting will consist of coordinating the activity to be performed during the first phase of Fly Your Satellite! enabling the teams to complete the construction of their satellite. This will include extensive satellite testing in ambient conditions under the supervision of ESA specialists who will decide which satellites should participate in the next phase of the programme. The second phase will see the satellites tested in the simulated conditions of outer space and in those the satellites will experience at launch. These will include vibration and thermal-vacuum tests. The six CubeSats chosen for Phase 1 are: Robusta-1B from France will validate a radiation test methodology for specific transistor components. Oufti-1 from Belgium will demonstrate the D-STAR digital communication protocol and validate high-efficiency solar cells. ConSat-1 from Canada will analyse radiation characteristics in the South-Atlantic Anomaly, and test technology payloads. [email protected] from Italy will test an Active-Attitude Determination Control System. AAUSAT4 from Denmark will test an improved version of student built AIS (Automated Identification System) receivers. Politech.1 from Spain will carry a student built C-band communication system, a "GEODEYE" Earth Observation camera for academic purposes, and solar wind experiments. Read the full ESA article at http://www.esa.int/Education/ESA_and_student_teams_kick-off_Fly_Your_Satell… Fly Your Satellite! initiative http://www.esa.int/Education/Students_are_you_ready_to_fly_your_satellites_… space [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Colonies Special Event Includes Satellite Operations The 13 Colonies Special Event Stations will be active on the air for Independence Week, July 1-6, 2013. Get all of the details at http://www.13colonies.info/ On the high frequency amateur bands the 13 Colonies stations will operate from 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Savings Time (1300Z), on July 1st, to 12:00 PM (midnight) Eastern Daylight Savings Time, July 6 (0400Z, July 7). The 13 Colonies Satellite Stations will be active as shown in the table below: STATE SE CALL STATION CALL OPERATOR ----- ------- ------------ -------- NY K2A WB2OQQ Pete VA K2B NL7VX Steve CT K2D WA8SME Mark DE K2E KB2M Jeffrey MD K2F WA3SWJ Bruce MA K2H KB1PVH David NJ K2I KB2M Jeffrey NC K2J N8MH Mark SC K2L K4YYL Art PA K2M WB3U Elizabeth (FM Birds Only) K3BFS Richard (Linear Birds Only) Any satellite station can work the 13 Colonies states off the birds. Please indicate your contacts are Satellite. More information can be found at http://www.13colonies.info/Satellites.htm [ANS thanks the 13 Colonies Special Event for the above information] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Starts July 19, 2013 The 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will start late afternoon on Friday, July 19 and will run through until the afternoon on Sunday, July 21 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, UK. It will be preceded by a "Hands-on" CubeSat Workshop. This free workshop will take place at the nearby University of Surrey on Friday, July 19 and this will be followed, at the hotel, by the usual Colloquium "Beginners Session" in the late afternoon. It is anticipated that both the FUNcube-1 and FUNcube-2 missions will be launched later this year and the FUNcube team will be on hand to talk about the missions and the planned educational outreach. A full demonstration of the Engineering Model, which has been performing flawlessly for almost a year, will also be provided. Further details and booking information at http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2013/ [ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA for the above information] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two Lithuanian Amateur Radio CubeSats Plan 2013 Launch To ISS It is hoped that two Lithuanian satellites will be among the CubeSats sent by Nanoracks LLC to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX CRS-3 mission in November, 2013. They will be deployed from the ISS by the JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J- SSOD) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Kaunas University of Technology is developing LituanicaSAT-1 while the Lithuanian Space Federation is working on LitSat-1. 2013 is the 80th anniversary of the historic flight by Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Gire.nas in the airplane Lituanica. On July 15, 1933, they took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York and flew across the Atlantic Ocean, covering a distance of 6,411 kilometers without landing, in 37 hours and 11 minutes. Tragically they crashed by the village of Kuhdamm, near Soldin, Germany just 650 km from their destination of Kaunas in Lithuania. LituanicaSAT-1 plans to carry a VGA camera, GPS receiver, 9k6 AX25 FSK telemetry beacon and a 150 mW V/U FM voice transponder. Links: • Google English web http://tinyurl.com/KosmonautaiLituanicaSAT-1 • Google English Wiki http://tinyurl.com/WikiLituanicaSAT-1 • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Lituanicasat1 LitSat-1 is understood to be planning a U/V linear transponder for SSB/CW communications. Links: • Lithuanian Space Association in Google English http://tinyurl.com/LithuanianSpaceAssociation • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/palydovas • Google English article http://tinyurl.com/LitSat-1-Article Google English article on the two Lithuanian CubeSats http://tinyurl.com/LithuanianCubeSats 1933 Lituanica flight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanica [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JULY SPACE STATION SPACEWALKS TO BE PREVIEWED AND BROADCAST ON NASA TV WASHINGTON -- Two Expedition 36 astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station twice in July on spacewalks to prepare for a new Russian module and perform additional installations on the station's backbone. NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a NASA Television briefing to preview the spacewalks at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 2. Reporters may attend the briefing at Johnson and other participating NASA centers, or ask questions by calling Johnson's newsroom at 281-483-5111 no later than 1:45 p.m. Tuesday. Briefers will include: -- David Korth, NASA spacewalk flight director -- Ernest Bell, Spacewalk 22 spacewalk officer -- Karina Eversley, Spacewalk 23 spacewalk officer Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency will conduct the spacewalks July 9 and July 16 from the station's Quest airlock. Each spacewalk is scheduled to last 6 1/2 hours. Cassidy and Parmitano will replace a space-to-ground communications receiver and wireless video equipment and install power and cables for a Russian multipurpose laboratory module that will be launched later this year. The new module will serve as a research facility, docking port and airlock for future Russian spacewalks and will replace the Pirs module. Cassidy, who is designated EV1 for the spacewalks, will wear a U.S. extravehicular mobility suit bearing red stripes. The spacewalks will be the fifth and sixth of Cassidy's career. Parmitano, who is designated EV2, will wear a spacesuit with no stripes and will be making the first two spacewalks of his career. He will become the first Italian astronaut to walk in space. Both spacewalkers will wear helmet cameras to provide up close views of their work. NASA TV coverage of the spacewalks will begin at 7 a.m. on both July 9 and July 16. Both spacewalks are scheduled to begin at 8:10 a.m. For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For more information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station [ANS thanks NASA for the above information] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming ARISS contact with Scuola Secondaria grado "Arturo Toscanini", Capiago Intimiano, Italy and Scuola Media Massimiliano Kolbe, Vercurago, Lecco, Italy An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Scuola Secondaria 1? grado "Arturo Toscanini", Capiago Intimiano, Italy and Scuola Media Massimiliano Kolbe, Vercurago, Lecco, Italy on 29 June. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:50 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a combination of direct and telebridge with the contact starting with IK1SLD, then proceeds to IZ2WLC and finishes back with IK1SLD . The contact should be audible over Italy. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in Italian. Scuola Secondaria 1? grado "Arturo Toscanini", Capiago Intimiano, Italy The school is located in Capiago Intimiano, a small town in the north part of Italy, 7 km far from Como. Como and the surrounding area can be clearly seen from space due to the unique shape of Lario lake (like a Y upside down). It tooks the name from "Arturo Toscanini", a famous musician and conductor lived across the end of 19th century and early 20th. There are 10 classes and the students are from 11 years old to 14. Scuola Media Massimiliano Kolbe, Vercurago, Lecco, Italy Local secondary school with students aged from 10 to 14. It's located in a building, built in 1950 by the government, originally used as a sanatorium converted into school in late 1970. Vercurago is a small town not far from Lecco, built on the shores of Garlate's lake (as it comes out of Lario lake and become Adda river). Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Why did you decide to become an astronaut? 2. How do you recycle water? 3. How did you feel on your first day in space? 4. What are the main characteristics of the Earth seen from space? 5. What was your first impression of the ISS? 6. How the northern lights appear from space? 7. How is life in space for six months with only five other people? 8. What is the most difficult activity you've carried out in space? 9. When you see the Earth from the space, what do you think? 10. How do you treat waste? 11. Is the Sun different seen from the space? 12. How do you shave in space? 13. What do you usually do in your free time? 14. How does life in orbit influence vital functions? 15. When you'll come back to the Earth, what will be the first thing you'll do? 16. When the Earth is in the dark, which are the brightest cities? 17. Can you see pollution on the Earth from the ISS? 18. What kind of studies did you attend to become an astronaut? 19. Which was the strongest emotion you felt when you passed quickly from the Earth to space? 20. What is the human construction visible from the space station? 21. How hard was the training before departure? 22. What do you eat in space? 23. What did you miss more from the earth? 24. Have you ever experimented how spiders build webs in space? 25. Have you ever had any serious technical problems on the ISS? 26. What kind of experiments are you carrying out? 27. What do you like most about your job? 28. What is the most ambitious project for the future? PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES: Information about the upcoming ARISS contacts can be obtained by subscribing to the SAREX maillist. To subscribe, go to http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/ and choose "How to Subscribe". Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status Next planned event(s): 1. Association Intercultura Onlus, Frascati, Italy, telebridge Sat, 06July2013, 17:02 UTC 40 deg via W6SRJ ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on- board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.ariss.org/ (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada). (ANS thanks David Jordan, AA4KN for this ARISS update) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Satelite Shorts From All Over Kevin, N4UFO reported on June 25 he was able to work three transatlantic contacts via AO-7. The stations he contacted included EA8HB, CT3FM, and G7BTA. Kevin noted, "I must say... three QSOs in one pass, WOW! That was a lot of fun! AO-7 is a grand old bird, long may she live! I just had to share how exciting it was!" (via N4UFO on starcomm-bb) In the July 2013 edition of the ARRL publication of QST, ARRL Chief Executive Officer, David Sumner, K1ZZ, presents a feature on CubeSats. Steve Ford, WB8IMY, presents a column, Eclectic Technology, titled "More Satellites on the Way", a listing of the 7 satellites due to be launched in 2013. (via www.arrl.org ) A CubeSat presentation was given by AMSAT Francophone to a scientific conference held by the Radio Club of Paris F6KVP on May 29, 2013. A video of the presentation has been made available on the web. AMSAT-Francophone site in Google English: http://tinyurl.com/AMSAT-Francophone Radio Club of Paris F6KVP in Google English: http://tinyurl.com/RadioClubParis F6KVP on Twitter: https://twitter.com/F6KVP (via AMSAT-UK) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, Joe Spier, K6WAO k6wao at amsat dot org

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ANS-209 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by E.Mike McCardel 28 Jul '13

28 Jul '13

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-209 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * AMSAT Submits Comments to the US Government on ITAR Transition * ARISS Leadership from AMSAT and ARRL to be on-hand for EAA Airventure ARISS contact * July/August AMSAT Journal is Ready * 2013 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballot Has Been Mailed * STRaND-1 Heard After 113 Days of Silence * Slime Mold Satellite gets into the media * QB50: Ham Radio transponder payloads to launch 2014 * AMSAT-UK Colloquium videos now available * AMSAT members wave at Cassini * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-209.01 ANS-209 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 209.01 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. DATE July 28, 2013 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-209.01 AMSAT Submits Comments to the US Government on ITAR Transition On May 24, 2013 the Department of State's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) released proposed changes to the US Munitions List (USML) Category XV ("Spacecraft Systems and Related Articles"), redefining what constitutes satellites that would remain under the USML. Satellites removed from USML will be transferred to the Department of Commerce's Commerce Control List (CCL). Consequently, the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) also released proposed changes on May 24, 2013 regarding modifications to the Commerce Control List, creating a separate category for satellites that were formerly controlled under ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations). AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW and AMSAT Congressional Liaison Peter Portanova, WB2OQQ took on the task of drafting comments in response to the combined 105 pages of "bureaucratize" drafted by the DDTC and the BIS. Former AMSAT President Bill Tynan, W3XO crafted initial comments that provided a starting point. Peter, using various points of contact in Washington to help gauge how AMSAT might submit remarks, made recommendations on the crafting of AMSAT's response. Barry then wrote two different drafts, one addressed to the DDTC in response to the USML changes, requesting confirmation that Amateur Satellite Service spacecraft and associated equipment will be removed from the USML. The other document is addressed to the BIS in response to the proposed changes to the CCL, suggesting that Amateur Satellite Service spacecraft and associated equipment be separately categorized and controlled given the significant differences between Commercial and Amateur Satellite Service spacecraft. Both drafts were initially reviewed by the AMSAT Board of Directors with the final versions submitted on 6 JUL 13. If you would like to review both submissions they have been placed on the AMSAT website (www.amsat.org). In addition, AMSAT's submission to BIS (along with the comments of others) may be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/k75u2go AMSAT's submission to the DDTC along with other interested parties may be found here: http://tinyurl.com/lxobvxh Note that this PDF contains "all" comments received; AMSAT's comments start on page 138. Both DDTC and BIS will now review the comments received and presumably make modifications to the original proposals. It will likely take several months before both agencies respond to the comments that they've received. [ANS thanks Barry WD4ASW for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS Leadership from AMSAT and ARRL to be on-hand for EAA Airventure ARISS contact ARISS International Chair and AMSAT V.P. for Human Spaceflight, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO and ARISS U.S. delegate for the ARRL, Rosalie White, K1STO, will be supporting this week’s ARISS Contact in Oshkosh Wisconsin at Airventure, the Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) annual airshow and convention, which normally hosts 500,000 visitors each year. Possessing private pilot and amateur radio licenses, Frank and Rosalie independently planned to attend Airventure this year, long before the ARISS contact was planned. “My wife Janet and I have attended Airventure 3 years straight,” Frank stated. “It is an outstanding opportunity for us to immerse ourselves in all things aviation. And it enables me to hone one of my other passions, amateur photography. When Rosalie and I heard that a contact was planned for Airventure and we learned that we were both planning a trip to Airventure, we jumped at the chance to mentor the EAA team.” While they will plan to keep a bustling agenda of “all-things aviation,” Frank, Janet and Rosalie will be focused on the ARISS contact. Planned for 12:01 CT on August 1, the contact will be conducted using the telebridge station AH6NM at the Sacred Hearts School in Hawaii. ISS astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, plans to be at the microphone during the contact. The ARISS contact will be held as part of EAA’s Science, Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) initiative, where the focus on August 1 is space—past present and the future. Students attending the contact will include 125 women and their mentors from the EAA’s Women Sour group and students from Flabob Airport High School and Lakeland Aviation High School. Several former astronauts will also on-hand for the contact, including Charlie Precourt, KB5YSQ, who supported SAREX (STS-55 & STS- 71), Jim Voss, who supported ARISS (Expedition 2) and Kent Rominger. They will share their experiences as former astronauts and leaders in NASA’s Commercial Crew program. They will also provide the students a unique view of what it is like to perform SAREX and ARISS contacts from orbit. ARISS is an international STEM outreach program that is jointly sponsored in the U.S. by NASA, ARRL and AMSAT-NA. [ANS thanks Frank KA3HDO for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- July/August AMSAT Journal is Ready The July/August 2013 AMSAT Journal has been sent to the print shop. They are getting geared up for the production printing run. It should arrive at your QTH in a few weeks. Thanks for all the help from the Journal's editorial team: Bernhard VA6BMJ, Mike K4ERA, and Douglas KA2UPW/5. In this issue you will find: + Apogee View Column by AMSAT President Barry Baines + AMSAT-Rochester Institute of Technology Academic Team Complete Fox-2 MPPT Prototype + Fox-1 Attitude Determination Experiment Simulator + A Full-Duplex VHF-UHF Satellite System Using SDR + NASA-Built Nanosatellite Launch Adaptor System Ready for Flight + AMSAT Forum at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention + 2013 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Announcement + AMSAT on Campus - Development of the Penn State Supercapacitor Power System + Thanks to AMSAT's 2013 Dayton Hamvention Volunteers! + Photo Gallery: AMSAT at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention [ANS thanks JoAnne K9JKM for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2013 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballot Has Been Mailed Ballots were mailed to members in good standing by July 15th, and must be returned to the AMSAT-NA office no later than the close of business on September 15th, 2013. If you have not received your ballot by August 5th, please contact the AMSAT Office. Ballots sent to members outside North America are automatically sent via air mail. It is suggested that they be returned the same way. This year there are eight candidates running for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors. The four candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be seated as voting Board Members with two year terms. The two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes will be non-voting Alternate Board Members with terms of one year. Please vote for no more than four candidates. AMSAT-NA Board candidates in alphabetical order by last name: Barry Baines, WD4ASW Alan Biddle, WA4SCA Steve Coy, K8UD Frank Griffin, K4FEG Mark Hammond, N8MH Brian Klofas, KF6ZEO JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM Tony Monteiro, AA2TX [ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- STRaND-1 Heard After 113 Days of Silence Graham Shirville, G3VZV, announced on the AMSAT-BB that Mike DK3WN has just reported hearing STRaND-1 and decoding telemetry this evening. The spacecraft has been silent since March 31st so this is really good news. I am certain that the project leader, Dr Chris Bridges, who presented a paper about STRaND-1 at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium last Sunday, would be really pleased to receive any and all reports from other amateurs around the world. Mike has an info page about this spacecraft here: http://www.dk3wn.info/sat/afu/sat_strand.shtml STRaND-1 transmits on frequency of 437.568 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler) Please send your reports to C.P.Bridges at surrey.ac.uk A video of the presentation on STRaND-1 given on July 21 by Chris Bridges M6OBC / M0GKK to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium can be seen via: http://amsat-uk.org/2013/07/23/uk-strand-1-cubesat-is-back/ Download the video by right-clicking on http://www.batc.tv/vod/strand.flv See the report from Mike Rupprecht DK3WN http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=35582 STRaND-1 information http://amsat-uk.org/satellites/strand-1/ How to decode the telemetry http://amsat-uk.org/satellites/strand-1/strand-1-telemetry/ [ANS thanks Graham G3VZV, Mike DK3WN and Trevor M5AKA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Slime Mold Satellite gets into the media A brief mention of the Slime Mold CubeSat posted last March on the AMSAT-UK and Southgatearc.org sites has been picked up by one of the Space.Com website writers, Leonard David, who has written a good article which retained a mention of amateur radio. It's Summer in the northern hemisphereand media outlets can be short of stories at this time of year so Leonards story has in turn been picked up by a few other news outlets and hopefully that will spread. I guess the thought of Slime in Space captures the imagination.Most of the resulting stories seem to have retained the mention of amateur radio. You can read Leonard David's article at http://www.space.com/21982-space-slime-grows-mold-tiny-satellite.html March AUK mention http://amsat-uk.org/2013/03/15/teikyosat-3-slime-mold-from-space/ [ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- QB50: Ham Radio transponder payloads to launch 2014 It was announced during the QB50 presentation at the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium that two CubeSats, carrying SSB/CW and FM voice transponders should be launched into a 600 km orbit in the first half of 2014 The QB50 project team has announced that on July 19, 2013 they signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AMSAT-UK, AMSAT- Francophone, and AMSAT-NL to enable two amateur radio payloads to fly on two 2-Unit CubeSats in the first half of 2014. These precursor CubeSats, which have still to be named, will be placed into a conventional 600 km 98o orbit in advance of the main mission. This allows for the testing of key satellite and payload components ahead of the full QB50 mission. In addition, the precursor mission allows for experimentation and validation of operational concept of the QB50 mission. Next to these objectives the amateur radio payloads will be operated as well. At the beginning of the mission, the various payloads onboard the spacecraft will be operated in an alternating fashion, whilst the amateur radio payloads will be operated as the primary payload of the spacecraft once all QB50 related experimentation has been concluded. The main mission of QB50 has the scientific objective to study in situ the temporal and spatial variations of a number of key constituents and parameters in the lower thermosphere (90-320 km) with a network of about 40 double CubeSats. These, university built, CubeSats will be launched into a 320km circular orbit, will be separated by a few hundred kilometres and carry identical science sensors. The sensors will monitor parameters that will greatly increase our knowledge and understanding of this little explored region of the E and F layers of the Ionosphere. QB50 will also study the re-entry process by measuring a number of key parameters during re-entry and by comparing predicted and actual CubeSat trajectories and orbital lifetimes. The AMSAT-Francophone (AMSAT-F) payload for one of the satellites will be an FM voice relay with VHF uplink and UHF downlink. It will also transmit FX25 telemetry at 9.6kbit. This secondary payload will be also used in several satellites in the main constellation as their main receiver and transmitter. The AMSAT-NL payload, on the other precursor satellite, will incorporate an SDR based, linear, V/U, transponder core and is being designed to allow the uploading of firmware updates to enable enhanced performance and functionality. It will also provide a telemetry downlink at 1.2kbit using FUNcube compatible BPSK modulation. The QB50 spacecraft in the main, short duration, mission will, generally, have downlinks operating on frequencies in the 435-438 MHz Amateur Satellite Service allocation and some are expected to use 2.4GHz. They will be notified to the ITU as a Belgian network after having been coordinated by the IARU Frequency Coordination Panel. Some of these will also, on occasions, act as FM voice relays during their missions. Watch the video of the QB50 Presentation at the 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium http://www.batc.tv/streams/amsat1308 Direct video download http://www.batc.tv/vod/qb50.flv More information about the QB50 project can be found at http://www.qb50.eu/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT-UK Colloquium Videos Now Available Thanks to the hard work of volunteers from the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) videos of the presentations given to the AMSAT- UK International Space Colloquium held in Guildford July 20-21, 2013 are now available to view online or download to your PC. To access them follow these steps: • Go to http://www.batc.tv/ • Click on the ‘Film Archive’ icon • Select ‘AMSAT-UK 2013' from the Category drop down menu • Click ‘Select Category’ • Select the video you wish to watch • Click on ‘Select Stream’ • Click the play icon ‘>’ on the player • Clicking on the icon to the left of the player volume control will give you full screen display. You can also download a video file to your PC by right-clicking on the ‘Click Here’ link under the player. [ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA and AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT members wave at Cassini NASA asked people to wave at the Cassini space probe which was taking pictures from near Saturn. Attendees at the AMSAT-UK International Space Collquium responded enthusiastically On Friday, July 19 between 21:27 and 21:47 UT NASA's Cassini spacecraft took images of Saturn, with the planet Earth in the background nearly 1.5 billion kilometers away. NASA encouraged the public to look and wave in the direction of Saturn at the time of the portrait and share their pictures via the Internet. AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium attendees were among the many world-wide who did just that. NASA Interplanetary Probes to Take Pictures of Earth From Space http://tinyurl.com/np6v38g JPLers Wave at Saturn as Part of Worldwide Campaign http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-228 [ANS thanks Southgate Amateur Radio News for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News Recent Successful Contacts + A Successful contact was made between Boy Scouts of America, 2013 National Jamboree, Mount Hope, WV, USA and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-07-20 15:34 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via K2BSA. The ARISS mentor for the contact was W2CYK. + A Successful contact was made between Colegio Urugua, El Pinar, Uruguay and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-07-20 19:05 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via LU8YY. The ARISS mentors for the contact were IKØWGF and IKØUSO. + A Successful contact was made between Scuola Italiana di Montevideo (SIM), Montevideo, Uruguay and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-07-22 11:39 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via VK5ZAI. The ARISS mentors for the contact were IKØWGF and IKØUSO. + A Successful contact was made between ESA Space Camp 2013, Radstadt, Austria, and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-07-24 11:44 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via VK4KHZ. The ARISS mentor for the contact were IN3GHZ. + A Successful simulation contact was made between Radioclub of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Alexander Gerst KF5ONO. The contact ocurred 2013-07-22 between 18:30 and 19:30 UTC. Contact was direct via ON4CP. This terrestrial contact served as a training session for Alexander Gerst KF5ONO, who is expected to serve as a Flight Engineer with Expedition 40 scheduled to launch in April 2014. + A Successful simulation contact was made between Radioclub of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Reid Wiseman KF5LKT. The contact ocurred 2013-07-22 between 18:30 and 19:30] UTC and lasted about ten minutes. Contact was direct via ON4CP. This terrestrial contact serves as a training session for Reid Wiseman KF5LKT, who is expected to serve as a Flight Engineer with Expedition 40 scheduled to launch in April 2014. Upcoming Contacts +Italian Bilingual School, Leichhardt (Sydney), NSW, Australia, telebridge via VK5ZAI Contact is a go for: Tue 2013-07-30 08:26:02 UTC OR Contact is a go for: Wed 2013-07-31 07:37:40 UTC +Oshkosh Air Venture Air Show, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, telebridge via AH6NM Contact is a go for: Thu 2013-08-01 17:01:31 UTC +Space Jam 7 at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, IL, telebridge via LU8YY Contact is a go for: Sat 2013-08-03 20:46:15 ARISS is requesting listener reports for the above contacts. Due to issues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the Ericsson radio is going to be used for these contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please review the document provided by Gaston Bertels ON4WF, the ARISS-Europe Chairman. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/HamTV.pdf Crew members currently onboard the ISS Exp. 35/36 on orbit Pavel Vinogradov RV3BS Aleksandr Misurkin Christopher J. Cassidy KF5KDR Exp. 36/37 on orbit Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI Karen L. Nyberg Luca Parmitano KF5KDP [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and Dave AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over +++ Satellite Operation from Guernsey >From Peter Goodhall via AMSAT-BB Hi All, Just a quick note to say that from the 24th of July till the 30th of July, I will be active sporadically on satellite passes from Guernsey (IN89RL) as 2U0SQL. I shall be focusing on FO-29 and SO-50 passes but no firm pass times, but hopefully will have internet access and will try posting on Twitter (@2E0SQL) when I'll be on. Due to this being camping I will be battery powered using a FT-817 and an Arrow antenna. If anyone needs a QSL Card its direct to 2E0SQL or bureau. +++ iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch 'Satellite Explorer Pro' app >From Tom Doyle via AMSAT-BB iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch 'Satellite Explorer Pro' app is available in the Apple app store. It is free. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRM16bIucQ8 +++ Gospodin Murphy was right! >From Alan WA4SCA via AMSAT-BB An interesting article on the recent launch failure of a Proton-M: http://preview.tinyurl.com/kt5x9hw The latest in a long line of bizarre, expensive errors in the world launch business. +++ D-STAR AMSAT User's Net D-STAR AMSAT User's Net meets Thursday Evenings @ 01:00 UTC / 20:00 CDT, Reflector 60B https://sites.google.com/site/memphisdstar/d-satellite-amsat-net If you do not have a d star radio or dv dongle ,you can still checkin using drats , The down load is on the above link Meet us in the "dratsamsat" chat room. For more information contact Damon WA4HFN, wa4hfn at comcast dot net +++ July/August Issue of SatMagazine Is Now Online Download it in PDF format from http://www.satmagazine.com/ +++ DARPA Seeks to Eliminate GPS Dependence The same impulse that led to the invention of GPS now has engendered a drive to beget non-GPS. Because of vulnerability to jamming, spoofing, and other intentional or unintentional modifications of position, orientation, and time information, DARPA has put forth a new goal "to completely eliminate dependence on GPS or any other external signals during the mission and rely solely on self-contained solutions such as inertial navigation." Read more at http://tinyurl.com/ms8t6yz [ANS Thanks Alan Cameron and GPS World for the above information] +++ AMSAT Mentions in the Press World Radio Online August 2013 Carole Perry's WB2MPG article "Great Expectations Fulfilled" is about presenters at Dayton's Youth Forum. In his forum presentation, "Getting Started with Amateur Radio Satellites" Young Ben Jacobs KC9RO recommends "... http://amsat.org as the best resource for more information." In his column "Amateur Satellites" Terry Douds N8KI mentions AMSAT's YouTube Channel, the upcoming AMSAT Space Symposium in Houston, and the Fox-1 launch announcement. CQ VHF Spring 2013 CQ VHF many articles related amateur radio satellites. Catch Hector Martinez's CO6CBF "Working Satellites with a Homebrew Setup Cuban Style" He retools his presentation from last year's Symposium. In Christopher Friesen's VE4CWF "Building The Slap Shot - A HockeyStick Satellite Antenna" He suggests "... with AMSAT working on two satellites, and plans to depoly them in the next few years, now is the time to build a satellite antenna and begin operating." Keith Pugh W5IU offers "What to do While Waiting for the Next Satellite or the next Band Opening". Amongs other activities he mentions the Dayton Hamvention Forums, the Houston AMSAT Space Symposium November 1, the AMSAT UK Space Colloqium which just finished up and makes an appeal to continue to "... support AMSAT's plans for the future of amateur radio satellites," as well as refering to AMSAT's newly designed web page at http://www.amsat.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, EMike McCardel, KC8YLD kc8yld at amsat dot org

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WSR-203 Weekly Satellite Report 203 - July 22, 2013
by James French 20 Jul '13

20 Jul '13

This report is organized into three (3) parts. Part 1 (S1) - operational analog amateur satellites Part 2 (S2) - operational digital amateur satellites Part 3 (S3) - non - operational satellites SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-203.S1 WSR 203 Part 1 07/22/2013 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 203.S1 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, July 22, 2013 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-203.S1 NEE-01 Pegasus Catalog Number: 39151 Launch date: April 26, 2013 Launch site: Jiuquan Space Center, PRC Status: Reported possible collision with space junk Mode: ? Downlink: 910MHz wide band signal - 720dpi HD CW SSTV Voice announcement [05272013] ===== TURKSAT-3USAT Catalog Number: 39152 Launch Date: April 26, 2013 0413z Launch site: Jiuquan Space Center, PRC Status: On orbit Mode: V/u Uplink: 145.940-145.990MHz Downlink: 435.200-435.250MHz Beacon: 437.225MHz CW Callsign: IARU Coordination Page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=213 URL: [05272013] ===== PW-Sat Catalog Number: 38083 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: On Orbit Mode: V/u Uplink: 435.020 MHz FM Downlink: 145.900 MHz DSB Beacon: Callsign: IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=132 URL: [05272013] ===== DO-64 Delfi-C3 Catalog number: 32789 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Mode: Science Mode - Beacon ONLY Telemetry: 145.870 MHz Downlink: 145.880 to 145.920 MHz Uplink: 435.530 to 435.570 MHz IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=68 URL: http://www.delfic3.nl/ [05272013] ===== VO-52 HAMSAT Catalog number: 28650 Launch Date: May 05, 2005 0444z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Mode: U/v Frequencies: Indian Transponder: Uplink: 435.220 to 435.280 MHz LSB/CW Downlink: 145.930 to 145.870 MHz USB/CW Dutch Transponder: Uplink: 435.225 to 435.275 MHz LSB/CW Downlink: 145.925 to 145.875 MHz USB/CW Indian Beacon: 145.9360 MHZ CW Dutch Beacon: 145.860 MHz 12WPM with CW message Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: LHCP U: RHCP Official Webpage: http://www.amsatindia.org/hamsat.htm IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=30 [05272013] ===== SO-50 SAUDISAT-1C Catalog number: 27607 Launch date: December 20, 2002 1700z Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan Status: Operational Mode: V/u Uplink: 145.850 MHz FM - 67.0 Hz PL tone Downlink: 436.795 MHz Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: Linear U: Linear Official Webpage: http://saudisat.kacst.edu.sa/index.shtml (not up and running currently) To switch the transmitter on, you need to send a CTCSS tone of 74.4 Hz. The order of operation is thus: (allow for Doppler as necessary): 1) Transmit on 145.850 MHz with a tone of 74.4 Hz to arm the 10 minute timer on board the spacecraft. 2) Now transmit on 145.850 MHz (FM Voice) using 67.0 Hz to PT the re- peater on and off within the 10 Minute window. 3) Sending the 74.4 tone again within the 10 minute window will reset the 10 minute timer. [05272013] ===== FO-29 JAS-2 Catalog number: 24278 Launch Date: August 17, 1996 Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: Operational Mode: V/u (Mode JA) Voice/CW (Mode JA) Uplink: 145.90 to 146.00 MHz CW/LSB Downlink: 435.80 to 435.90 MHz CW/USB Beacon: 435.795 MHz Digital Mode JD Uplinks: 145.850 MHz FM 145.870 MHz FM 145.910 MHz FM Downlink: 435.910 MHz 1200-baud BPSK or 9600-baud FSK Callsign: 8J1JCS Digitalker: 435.910 MHz Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: RHCP U: RHCP For current operational schedule for FO-29: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/m-arai/gkz/satinfo/fo29e.htm JARL English webpage: http://www.jarl.or.jp/English/5_Fuji/ejasmenu.htm AMSAT-NA Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID =5&retURL=/satellites/status.php Mineo Wakita, JE9PEL, has created a simple decoder program for FO29's CW telemetry downlink: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ fo29cwts.htm [05272013] ===== AO-7 AMSAT OSCAR 7 Catalog number: 07530 Launch Date: November 15, 1974 Launch site: Vandenberg AFB, California, USA Status: Operational Mode: Alternating between Mode A (V/a) and Mode B (V/u) Uplink: 145.850 to 145.950 MHz CW/USB Mode A 432.125 to 432.175 MHz CW/LSB Mode B Downlink: 29.400 to 29.500 MHz CW/USB Mode A (1W PEP) 145.975 to 145.925 MHz CW/USB Mode B (8W PEP) 145.975 to 145.925 MHz CW/USB Mode C (2W PEP) Beacons: 29.502 MHz CW 145.972 MHz CW 435.100 MHz CW 2304.100 MHz CW Official Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/sat_summary/ao7.php [05272013] ===== INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) - ARISS Catalog number: 25544 Launch date: November 20, 1998 0640z (ZARYA module) Launch sites: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan Kourou, French Guiana Uchinoura Space Center, Japan Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Florida, USA Possible Modes: FM Repeater - OFF Voice - V/v BBS - V/v 2m APRS - V/v 2m Digi - V/v 70cm APRS - U/u 70cm Digi - U/u SSTV - V/v Status: Operational Expedition 36 Crew (May 2013 - September 2013): Commander: Pavell Vinogradov RV3BS Flight Engineer: Alexander Misurkin Flight Engineer: Christopher Cassidy KF5KDR Flight Engineer: Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI Flight Engineer: Karen L. Nyberg Flight Engineer: Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Available Modes and Frequencies: Digital/APRS: Worldwide 2m packet uplink: 145.825 MHz FM 1k2 Worldwide 2m packet downlink: 145.825 Mhz FM 1k2 Worldwide 70cm packet uplink: 437.550 Mhz FM 1k2 Worldwide 70cm packet downlink: 437.550 Mhz FM 1k2 Voice: Region 1 voice uplink: 145.200 MHz FM Region 2/3 voice uplink: 144.490 MHz FM Worldwide downlink: 145.800 MHz FM Crossband Repeater: Repeater Uplinks: 1269.650 MHz FM 437.800 MHz FM 145.990 MHz FM - 67.0 PL (Kenwood) Repeater Downlink: 145.800 MHz FM 437.800 MHz FM (Kenwood) SSTV Robot 36: Downlink: 145.800 MHz FM Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: Linear U: Linear Callsigns: Belgian: OR4ISS German: DP0ISS Italian: IR0ISS Russian: RS0ISS RZ3DZR United States: NA1SS 2m Packet Mailbox: RS0ISS-11 2m Digipeater alias: ARISS 70cm Packet Mailbox: RS0ISS-1 70cm Digipeater callsign: RS0ISS 70cm Digipeater alias: ARISS Official ARISS Webpage: http://www.rac.ca/ariss ISS Fan Club Webpage: http://www.issfanclub.com APRS tracking page: http://www.ariss.net/ ISS Daily Crew Schedule: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines Remember that the crew operates on UTC time. Also, all of the time line is NOT translated from Russian and posted. [07222013] NNNN /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-203.S2 WSR 203 Part 2 07/22/2013 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 203.S2 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, July 22, 2013 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-203.S2 Name: ESTCUBE-1 Catalog Number: 39161 Launch date: May 07, 2013 Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Operational Downlink(s): 437.505MHz 9k6 bps AX.25 telemetry Beacon(s): 437.250MHz CW Callsign: ES5E/S Beacon ES5E-11 9.6kbps AX.25 IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=171 URL:http://www.estcube.eu/en/ [05272013] ===== CubeBug-1 Catalog Number: 39153 Launch date: April 26, 2013 Launch site: Jiuquan Space Center, PRC Status: Reported possible collision with space debris Mode: /u Downlink(s): 437.445MHz 1k2bps AX.25 AFSK Callsign: LU1VZ-11 IARU Coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=239 URL: http://1.cubebug.org/ [06242013] ===== OSSI-1 Catalog Number: 39131 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Tyuratam Missile and Space Center, Kazakhstan Status: On orbit Mode: /u Uplink(s): Downlink(s): 145.980 MHz CW 437.525 MHz 1k2bps Beacon(s): Callsign: DS1SBO (?) IARU Coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=290 [05272013] ===== SOMP Catalog Number: 39135 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Tyuratam Missile and Space Center, Kazakhstan Status: On orbit Mode: /u Uplink(s): Downlink(s):437.485 MHz 1k2/9k6 Callsign: DM1EF (?) IARU Coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=173 [05272013] ===== BEESAT-2 Catalog Number: 39136 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Tyuratam Missile and Space Center, Kazakhstan Status: On orbit Mode: /u Downlink(s): 435.950 MHz 4k8bps GMSK/Mobitex Callsign: DJ1JBL IARU Coordination Page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=233 URL: http://www.raumfahrttechnik.tu-berlin.de/beesat/ [05272013] ===== BEESAT-3 Catalog Number: 39134 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Tyuratam Missile and Space Center, Kazakhstan Status: On orbit Downlink(s): 10 M/b Callsign: DJ1JBL IARU Coordination Page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=234 URL: http://www.raumfahrttechnik.tu-berlin.de/beesat/ [05272013] ===== STRaND-1 Catalog Number: 39090 Launch Date: February 25, 2013 12:31z Launch Site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Mode: /u Downlink:437.568MHz 9k6 FSK URL: http://www.sstl.co.uk/Missions/STRaND-1--Launched-2013 [05272013] ===== Aeneas Catalog Number: 38760 Launch Date: September 13, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: On Orbit Mode: /s /u Uplink: WiFi 2425MHz Downlink(s): WiFi: 2425MHz Spread Spectrum: Somewhere in the 70cm band Beacon: 437.600MHz 1k2 ax25 every 10 seconds [05272013] ===== CSSWE (Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment) Catalog Number: 38761 Launch Date: September 12, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.345MHz 9k6 with ax.25 [10012012] ===== CP5 (Polysat) Catalog Number: 38763 Launch Date: September 12, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.405MHz AFSK on LSB ax.25 over NRZI at 1k2 baud, every 2 minutes begins 3.5 hours after first turn-on [10012012] ===== CXBN (Cosmic X-Ray Background Nanosatellite) Catalog Number: 38762 Launch Date: September 12, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.525MHz GFSK ax.25 [10012012] ===== Proiteres Catalog Number: 38756 Launch Date: September 09, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.485MHz FM/AFSK Callsign: JL3YZK [10012012] ===== RS-40 MiR (Yubileiny-2) Catalog Number: 38735 Launch Date: July 28, 2012 Launch Site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: On Orbit Downlink(s): 435.265 MHz 435.365 MHz [08272012] ===== HORYU-II Catalog number: 38340 Launch Date: May 17, 2012 1639z Status: On Orbit Uplink: 145.??? MHz Downlink: 437.375 MHz CW/AX25/FSK Beacon: 437.375 MHz CW Callsign: JG6YBW IARU Coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=216 [10012012] ===== XaTcobeo Catalog Number: 38082 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Operational Downlink: 437.365 MHz FFSK with AX.25 IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=135 [100162012] ===== UniCubeSat Catalog Number: 38085 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Operational Downlink: 437.305 MHz 9k6 bps GMSK URL: http://www.gaussteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96:un… besat&catid=36:unicubesat&Itemid=183 IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=133 [10012012] ===== Robusta Catalog Number: 38084 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.325 MHz 1k2 FM telemetry (data every 3 min, 20 sec. burst) IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=122 [10012012] ===== MO-72 MaSat-1 Catalog Number: 38081 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Operational Downlink(s): 437.345 MHz GFSK 625/1250 bps 437.345 MHz CW IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=126 [10012012] ===== Goliat Catalog Number: 38080 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Operational Downlink: 437.485 MHz 1k2 AFSK IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=98 [10012012] ===== [email protected] Catalog Number: 38079 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.445 MHz 1k2 bps AFSK IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=130 [10012012] ===== ALMASat-1 Catalog Number: 38078 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: On Orbit Downlink(s): 437.465 MHz 1k2 bps FSK 2407.850 MHz IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=39 [10012012] ===== RS-39 Chibis-M Catalog Number: 38051 Launch Date: October 30, 2011 10:11:00 UTC Launch site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan Status: Operational Beacon: 435.315 MHz CW 435.215 MHz CW [07302012] ===== JUGNU Catalog Number: 37839 Launch Date: October 12, 2011 05:30:00 UTC Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: On Orbit Uplink: 145.??? MHz 1k2 (mode?) Downlink: 437.505 MHz 9k6 (mode?) Beacon: 437.275 MHz 15 wpm (?) CW URL: http://www.iitk.ac.in/me/jugnu/index.htm IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=160 [07092012] ===== SRMSAT Catalog Number: 37841 Launch Date: October 12, 2011 05:30:00 UTC Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Uplink: 145.900 MHz 1k AX.25 (speed?) Downlink: 437.500 MHz 2k4 AX.25 Beacon: 437.425 MHz 12 wpm CW URL: http://srmsat.in/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=181 [01282013] ===== HRBE (E1P Explorer 1 [Prime] CubeSat (E1P-U2)) Catalog Number: 37855 Launch Date: October 28, 2011 Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA Status: On Orbit Uplink: 437.305 MHz (???) Downlink: 437.505 MHz AX.25 URL: http://ssel.montana.edu/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=116 [01122012] ===== M-Cubed Catalog Number: 37855 Launch Date: October 28, 2011 Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.485 MHz AX.25 URL: http://umcubed.org/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=215 [01122012] ===== RAX-2 Catalog Number: 37853 Launch Date: October 28, 2011 Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA Status: Operational Downlink: 437.345MHz 9k6 GMSK URL: http://rax.engin.umich.edu// IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=221 [03232012] ===== AO-71 AubieSat-1 Catalog Number: 37854 Launch Date: October 28, 2011 Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA Status: Beacon only Downlink: 437.475 MHz 1k2 AX.25 Beacon: 437.475 MHz CW Callsign: KI4NQO URL: http://www.space.auburn.edu/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=148 [07152013] ===== O/OREOS Catalog Number: 37224 Launch Date: November 20, 2010 Launch site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.035 MHZ AX.25 URL: http://www.ooreos.org/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=146 [02092011] ===== Rax-1 Radio Aurora Explorer Catalog Number: 37223 Launch Date: November 20, 2010 Launch site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.505 MHz 9k6 GMSK Callsign: RAX-1 URL: http://rax.engin.umich.edu/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=165 [02092011] ===== FO-69 Fastrac-1 Sara Lily Catalog Number: 37227 Launch Date: November 20, 2010 Launch site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA Status: Operational Uplink 1: 145.980 MHz 1k2 baud Uplink 2: 145.825 MHz 1k2 baud Downlink: 437.345 MHz 1k2 and 9k6 baud Beacon: 437.435 MHz 1k2 AX.25 Callsign: Fast1 URL: http://fastrac.ae.utexas.edu/index.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=83 [07052011] ===== FO-70 Fastrac-2 Emma Catalog Number: 37380 Launch Date: November 20, 2010 Launch site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA Status: Operational Uplink 1: 435.025 MHz 1k2 baud Uplink 2: 437.435 MHz 9k6 baud Downlink: 145.825 MHz 1k2 and 9k6 baud Beacon: 145.825 MHz 1k2 AX.25 Callsign: Fast2 URL: http://fastrac.ae.utexas.edu/index.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=84 [12162011] ===== StudSat Catalog Number: 36796 Launch Date: July 12, 2010 0352z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: On Orbit Uplink: 437.505MHz, 9600bps FSK Downlink: 437.505MHz, 9600bps FSK Beacon : 437.505MHz, 20bps ASK IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=164 [02092011] ===== TIsat-1 Catalog Number: 36799 Launch Date: July 12, 2010 0352z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: On orbit Callsign: HB9DE Uplink: 145.980MHz FM, AFSK Downlink: 437.305MHz FM, AFSK Beacon: 437.305MHz CW IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=118 [02092011] ===== SwissCube Catalog Number: 35932 Launch Date: September 23, 2009 0621z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Callsign: HB9EG Beacon(100mw): 437.5050MHz CW Beacon(1w): 437.5050MHz FSK 1k2bps IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=109 [02092011] ===== UWE-2 Catalog Number: 35934 Launch Date: September 23, 2009 0621z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: In Orbit Beacon(500mw): 437.3850 MHz AFSK 1k2bps 437.3850 MHz FSK 9k6bps IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=110 [02092011] ===== ITUpsAT1 Catalog Number: 35935 Launch Date: September 23, 2009 0621z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Beacon(100mw): 437.325MHz CW Beacon(1w): 437.325MHz 19k2bps IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=113 [02092011] ===== BEESAT Catalog Number: 35933 Launch Date: September 23, 2009 0621z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Callsign: DP0BEE Beacon(100mw): 436.000MHz CW Beacon(500mw): 436.000MHz GMSK 4k8bps Beacon(500mw): 436.000MHz GMSK 9k6bp [02092011] ===== SOHLA-1 (ASTRO TECH.) Catalog Number: 33496 Launch Date: January 23, 2009 0354z Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: Operational Proposed Frequencies and Modes: Downlink: 437.505 MHz AFSK/CW Beacon: 437.505 MHz AFSK/CW IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=101 [02092011] ===== KAGAYAKI (Solan Co.) Catalog Number: 33495 Launch Date: January 23, 2009 0354z Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: In Orbit Downlink: 437.375 MHZ FSK9k6/CW Beacon: 437.375 MHz FSK9k6/CW [02092011] ===== STARS (Kagawa Univ.) (Twin Satellites) Catalog Number: 33498 Launch Date: January 23, 2009 0354z Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: Operational ? Downlinks: 437.485 MHz FM/CW 437.465 MHz FM/CW Beacons: 437.305 MHz FM/CW 437.275 MHz FM/CW Callsigns: JR5YBN JR5YBO IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=99 AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=121&retURL =/satellites/status.php [02092011] ===== KKS-1 (Tokyo MCIT) Catalog Number: 33499 Launch Date: January 23, 2009 0354z Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: Operational Downlink: 437.455 MHz AFSK/CW Beacon: 437.385 MHz AFSK/CW Callsign: JQ1YYY IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=107 AMSAT-NA webapge: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=120&retURL =/satellites/status.php [20092011] ===== PRISM (Tokyo Univ.) Catalog Number: 33493 Launch Date: January 23, 2009 0354z Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: Operational Uplink: 145.xxx MHz AFSK 1k2 Downlink: 437.425 MHz AFSK 1k2 Beacon: 437.250 MHz CW Callsign: JQ1YCX IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=97 Read terms and conditions of operations at the PRISM web page to find out how to properly operate on the satellite and to get the uplink frequency. It has been asked that the uplink frequency not be given out untik you have read and understood the terms of usage. URL: http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prism/en/HAMservice.html [10282012] ===== RS-30 Radio Sputnik 30 (Yubileiny) Catalog Number: 32953 Launch Date: May 23, 2008 1520z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: Operational Curent Modes: Telemetry Audio Images Downlinks: 435.315 MHz 435.215 MHz AMSAT-NA website: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=115&ret URL=/satellites/status.php Official website: http://www.npopm.com/?cid=leoca&caid=43 [02092011] ===== CanX-2 Catalog number: 32790 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational in range of ground station only Downlink: 437.478 MHz GFSK For the latest project status update please visit the Can X-2 web page: http://www.utias-sfl.net/nanosatellites/CanX2/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=46 [02092011] ===== AAUSAT-II Catalog number: 32788 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Downlink: 437.425 MHz 1k2 baud packet For the latest project status update please visit the AAUSAT-II web page: http://www.aausatii.aau.dk/homepage/index.php?language=en&page=home IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=60 [02092011] ===== CO-65 CUTE-1.7+APD II Catalog number: 32785 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Downlink: 437.475 MHz 9k6 Packet Uplink: 1267.600 Mhz Telemetry Beacon: Downlink: 437.2750 MHz CW For the latest project status update please visit the Cute-1.7+APD II web page: http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/index_e.html IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=78 Command Station blog website: http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/blog/ AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=112&retURL =/satellites/status.php [03232012] ===== Compass-1 Catalog number: 32787 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Current Mode: dependant on last received command Uplink: 145.980 MHz FM Downlink: 437.275 Mhz CW 437.405 MHz Packet For the latest project status update please visit the Compass 1 web page: http://www.raumfahrt.fh-aachen.de/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=52 AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=114&retURL =/satellites/status.php [06162011] ===== CO-66 Seeds II Catalog number: 32791 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Downlink: 437.485 MHz Callsign: JQ1YGU For the latest project status update please visit the Seeds 2 web page: http://cubesat.aero.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp/english/seeds_2_e.html IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=36 AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=113&retURL =/satellites/status.php [073092011] ===== CAPE-1 Catalog Number: 31130 Launch Date: April 17,2007 0702z Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan Status: Intermittent TLM Downlink: 435.245 MHz 9600 bs FSK AX.25 CW Beacon: 435.245 MHz CW Callsign: K5USL TLM and CW interchange every 30 seconds. AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=94&retURL= /satellites/status.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=72 [02092011] ===== CP3 Catalog Number: 31129 Launch Date: April 17,2007 0702z Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan Status: Operational Downlink: 436.845 MHz 1200 bps AFSK AX.25 IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=74 [02092011] ===== CO-58 CubeSat XI-V Catalog number: 28895 Launch Date: October 27, 2005 0652z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: Operational - CW Beacon only Telemetry Downlink: 437.4250 MHz AFSK 1200bps using AFK protocol Beacon: 437.2750 MHz CW Callsign: JQ1YGW Official Webpage: http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cubesat/mission/V/ Pictures received by Mineo Wakita - JE9PEL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/xivpicte.htm IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=37 [02092011] ===== CO-57 CubeSat XI-IV Catalog number: 27848 Launch date: June 30, 2003 1415z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: In orbit Beacon: 436.8475 MHz CW Telemetry : 437.4900 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Callsign: JQ1YGW AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=96&retURL =/satellites/status.php Official Webpage: http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cubesat/mission/V/ [02092011] ===== QuakeSat Catalog Number: 27845 Launch Date: June 30, 2003 1415z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: Telemetry only Mode U packet Downlink: 436.675 MHz 9k6 BPS Quakesat webpage: http://www.quakefinder.com/services/quakesat-ssite/ [02252011] ===== CO-55 Cute-1.7+APD II Catalog Number: 27844 Launch date: June 30, 2003 1415z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: Operational Current Mode: CW downlink worldwide AX25 Packet with uplink command over Japan only Mode U Telemetry Downlink: 437.4000 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Mode U TLM Beacon Downlink: 436.8375 MHz CW AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=69&retURL =/satellites/status.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=78 [02092011] ===== NO-44 PCSAT Catalog number: 26931 Launch Date: September 30, 2001 0240z Launch site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA Status: Operational General Usage Uplink/Downlink: 145.827 MHz 1200 Baud Special Usage Downlink: 144.390 Mhz 1200 Baud PCSAT APRS page: http://pcsat.aprs.org aprstlm Telemetry Decoder program: http://www.xciv.org/~iain/aprstlm/v1.2/ [10292012] ===== RS-22 RADIO SPORT 22 (MOZHAYETS 4) Catalog number: 27939 Launch Date: September 27, 2003 0612z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: Operational CW Beacon - 435.352 MHz 145.818 MHz AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=76&retURL =/satellites/status.php [02092011] ===== LO-19 LUSAT Catalog number: 20442 Launch date: January 22, 1990 Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: CW Beacon only Uplinks: 145.840 MHz 1200-baud Manchester FSK 145.860 MHz 1200-baud Manchester FSK 145.880 MHz 1200-baud Manchester FSK 145.900 MHz 1200-baud Manchester FSK CW downlink: 437.125 MHz Digital downlink: 437.150 MHz SSB (RC-BPSK 1200-baud PSK) Broadcast Callsign: LUSAT-11 BBS: LUSAT-12 General information and telemetry samples can be found at: www.telecable.es/personales/ea1bcu [02092011] ===== UO-11 OSCAR-11 Catalog number: 14781 Launch Date: March 1, 1984 Launch site: Vandenburg AFB, California, USA Status: Operational Mode: Telemetry only Telemetry Downlink: 145.825 MHz FM 1200 AFSK UHFBeacon: 435.025 MHz Mode-S Beacon: 2401.500 MHz Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: RHCP S: LHCP Webpage: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/clivew/ MPEG3 files: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/uo11tlme.htm [07052011] ===== INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) - ARISS Catalog number: 25544 Launch date: November 20, 1998 0640z (ZARYA module) Launch sites: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan Kourou, French Guiana Uchinoura Space Center, Japan Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Florida, USA Status: Operational Possible Modes: FM Repeater - OFF Voice - V/v BBS - V/v 2m APRS - V/v 2m Digi - V/v 70cm APRS - U/u 70cm Digi - U/u SSTV - V/v Expedition 36 Crew (May 2013 - September 2013): Commander: Pavell Vinogradov RV3BS Flight Engineer: Alexander Misurkin Flight Engineer: Christopher Cassidy KF5KDR Flight Engineer: Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI Flight Engineer: Karen L. Nyberg Flight Engineer: Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Available Modes and Frequencies: Digital/APRS: Worldwide 2m packet uplink: 145.825 MHz FM 1k2 Worldwide 2m packet downlink: 145.825 Mhz FM 1k2 Worldwide 70cm packet uplink: 437.550 Mhz FM 1k2 Worldwide 70cm packet downlink: 437.550 Mhz FM 1k2 Voice: Region 1 voice uplink: 145.200 MHz FM Region 2/3 voice uplink: 144.490 MHz FM Worldwide downlink: 145.800 MHz FM Crossband Repeater: Repeater Uplinks: 1269.650 MHz FM 437.800 MHz FM 145.990 MHz FM - 67.0 PL (Kenwood) Repeater Downlink: 145.800 MHz FM 437.800 MHz FM (Kenwood) SSTV Robot 36: Downlink: 145.800 MHz FM Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: Linear U: Linear Callsigns: Belgian: OR4ISS German: DP0ISS Italian: IR0ISS Russian: RS0ISS RZ3DZR United States: NA1SS 2m Packet Mailbox: RS0ISS-11 2m Digipeater alias: ARISS 70cm Packet Mailbox: RS0ISS-1 70cm Digipeater callsign: RS0ISS 70cm Digipeater alias: ARISS Official ARISS Webpage: http://www.rac.ca/ariss ISS Fan Club Webpage: http://www.issfanclub.com APRS tracking page: http://www.ariss.net/ ISS Daily Crew Schedule: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines Remember that the crew operates on UTC time. Also, all of the time line is NOT translated from Russian and posted. [07222013] NNNN /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-203.S3 WSR 203 Part 3 07/22/2013 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 203.S3 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, July 22, 2013 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-203.S3 THE FOLLOWING ARE IN ORBIT BUT ARE NON-OPERATIONAL AT THIS TIME: NANOSAIL-D Catalog Number: 37361 Ejection Date: January 17, 2011 Launch date: Launch site: Status: Non - Operational Downlink: 437.270 MHz AX.25 URL: http://nanosaild.engr.scu.edu/dashboard.htm IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=115 [07302012] ===== HO-68 HOPE-1 (CAS-1) (XW-1) Catalog Number: 36122 Launch Date: December 15, 2009 0231z Launch site: Taiyuan Space Center, PRC Status: Telemetry only Mode: Callsign: Broadcast: BJ1SA-11 BBS: BJ1SA-12 Uplinks: 145.8250 MHz FM, PL 67.0 Hz. 145.9250 - 145.9750 MHz SSB/CW 145.8250 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Downlinks: 435.6750 MHz FM 435.7650 - 435.7150 MHz SSB/CW 435.6750 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Beacon: 435.7900 MHz CW Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: LHCP 2.0dBi max U: RHCP 3.0dBi max IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=108 For more information about XW-1 (CAS-1): http:// [04302012] ===== SO-67 SumbandilaSat Catalog Number: 35870 Launch Date: September 17, 2009 1555z Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan Status: Non - Operational Mode: Callsign: ZS0SUM Uplink: 145.875MHz FM tone 233.6 Hz Downlink: 435.345MHz FM Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: Linear U: Linear For more information about SO-67: http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=88 [01272012] ===== CP4 Catalog Number: 31132 Launch Date: April 17, 2007 Status: Non-Operational Mode: TLM Downlink: 437.325 MHz 1200 bps FSK AX.25 CW Beacon: 437.325 MHz CW IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=79 [09062010] ===== LIBERTAD-1 Catalog Number: 31128 Launch Date: April 17, 2007 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Callsign: 5K3L Uplink: 145.825 MHz 1200 AFSK ax25 APRS Downlink: 437.399 MHz 1200 AFSK ax25 APRS Telemetry Beacon: 437.4050 MHz 1200 AFSK ax25 IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=76 [09062010] ===== PO-63 PEHUENSAT-1 Catalog Number: 29712 Launch Date: January 10, 2007 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Uplink/Downlink: 145.825 Mhz FM Voice Recorder: 145.825 Mhz FM IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=51 [09062010] ===== NCUBE-2 Catalog number: 28897 Launch Date: October 27, 2005 Launch site: Status: Still attached to XO-53 (SSETI) Proposed Callsign: TBA Proposed Transmit Frequency: 437.305 2407.250 Official Website: http://www.ncube.no IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=24 [09062010] ===== XO-53 SSETI Catalog number: 28894 Launch Date: October 27, 2005 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Mode: Voice Uplink: 437.250 MHz FM 67Hz CTCSS Voice Downlink: 2401.835 MHz FM Packet Up/Downlink: 437.250 MHz 9k6 packet Packet Downlink 2401.835 MHz 38k4 packet IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=54 [09062010] ===== UWE-1 Catalog Number: 28892 Launch Date: October 27, 2005 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Mode U Telemetry Downlink: 437.5050 MHz 9600 AFSK IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=53 [09062010] ===== AO-51 ECHO Catalog number: 28375 Launch date: June 29, 2004 0745z Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan Status: Non - Operational Current Mode(s): Voice repeater: V/u Uplink: 145.880 MHz FM Downlink: 435.150 MHz FM Telemetry: Recovery efforts Downlink: 435.150MHz 9k6 Analog voice downlink: 435.300 MHz FM 435.150 MHz FM 2401.200 Mhz FM Analog voice uplink: 145.860 MHZ FM 145.880 MHz USB 145.880 MHz FM 145.920 MHz FM 145.920 MHz FM - 67 Hz PL tone burst 1268.705 MHz FM Digital Downlinks: 435.150 MHz FM 38k4 PBP, 1 watt output 435.150 MHz FM 9k6 Pacsat Broadcast Protocol 2401.200 MHz FM 38k4 bps, AX.25 Digital Uplink: 145.860 MHz FM 9k6 Pacsat Broadcast Protocol 1268.703 mhz FM 9k6 Pacsat Broadcast Protocol Beacon: 435.150 MHz Mode and Antenna Polarization: T: Linear V: Linear U: TX A (usually digital)LHCP TX B (usually analog) RHCP L: Linear S: Linear Broadcast: PECHO-11 BBS: PECHO-12 Official Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/CTNews.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=19 [12062011] ===== CANX-1 Catalog Number: 27847 Launch Date: June 30, 2003 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Downlink: 437.8800 MHz AFSK 1k2bps [06052009] ===== DTUSAT Catalog Number: 27842 Launch Date: June 30, 2003 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Downlink: 437.475MHz Officail webpage: http://dtusat1.dtusat.dtu.dk/ AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=101&retURL =satellites/all_oscars.php [02212009] ===== AO-49 AATiS OSCAR-49 (SAFIR-M) Catalog number: 27605 Launch Date: December 20, 2002 Launch site: Status: Non-operational. Mode: Uplink: 435.275 MHz 1200-baud AFSK Downlink: 145.825 MHz 9600-baud FSK (optional voice message) Broadcast callsign: DP0AIS Official webpage: http://amend.gmxhome.de [01222007] ===== MO-46 TIUNGSAT-1 Catalog number: 26548 Launch date: September 26, 2000 Launch site: Status: Telemetry only Uplinks: 145.850 MHz 145.925 MHz 9600-baud FSK Downlink: 437.325 MHz Broadcast callsign: MYSAT3-11 BBS: MYSAT3-12 TiungSat-1 is Malaysia's first micro-satellite and in addition to commercial land and weather imaging payloads offers FM and FSK Amateur Radio communication. TiungSat-1, named after the mynah bird of Malaysia, was developed as a collaborative effort between the Malaysian government and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. [03302009] ===== NO-45 SAPPHIRE Catalog number: 26932 Launch Date: September 30, 2001 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Downlink: 437.095 MHz 1200 baud AX-25 AFSK Uplink: 145.945 MHz UI Digipeater Digi Callsign: KE6QMD [03132005] ===== SO-42 SAUDISAT-1B Catalog number: 26549 Launch date: September 26, 2000 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Downlink: 437.075 MHz Broadcast Callsign: SASAT2-11 BBS: SASAT2-12 Further information is available at: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/so42.html [01222007] ===== SO-41 SAUDISAT-1A Catalog number: 26545 Launch Date: September 26, 2000 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Uplink: 145.850 MHz Downlink: 436.775 MHz Broadcast Callsign: SASAT1-11 BBS: SASAT1-12 Further information is available at: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/so41.html [01222007] ===== AO-40 AMSAT OSCAR 40 Catalog number: 26609 Launch Date: November 16, 2000 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Uplinks ------- V-band: 145.840 - 145.990 MHz CW/LSB U-band: 435.550 - 435.800 MHz CW/LSB L1-band: 1269.250 - 1269.500 MHz CW/LSB L2-band: 1268.325 - 1268.575 MHz CW/LSB Downlinks --------- S2-band: 2401.225 - 2401.475 MHz CW/USB K-band: 24048.010 - 24048.060 MHz CW/USB Beacon: 2401.323 MHz 24048.035 MHz P3-D Telemetry Beacons (IHU) ---------------------------- BEACON General Beacon(GB) Middle Beacon(MB) Engineering Beacon(EB) 2 m none 145.898 MHz none 70cm 435.438 MHz 435.588 MHz 435.838 MHz 13cm(1) 2400.188 MHz 2400.338 MHz 2400.588 MHz 13cm(2) 2401.173 MHz 2401.323 MHz 2401.573 MHz 3cm 10450.975 MHz 10451.125 MHz 10451.375 MHz 1.5cm 24047.885 MHz 24048.035 MHz 24048.285 MHz [07162007] ===== OO-38 OPAL Catalog Number: 26063 Launch Date: January 27, 2000 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Mode U TLM Beacon Downlink: 437.1000 MHz 9600 FSK [08132007] ===== UO-36 UoSAT-12 Catalog number: 25693 Launch date: April 21, 1999 Launch site: Status: Unknown Mode: Uplink: 145.960 MHz (9600-baud FSK) Downlinks: 437.025 MHz 437.400 MHz Broadcast Callsign: UO121-11 BBS: UO121-12 The VK5HI viewer shareware for UO-36 is available on the AMSAT-NA web site at the following URL: ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/software/win32/display/ccddsp97-119.zip [01222007] ===== SO-35 SUNSAT Catalog Number: 25636 Launch date:February 23, 1999 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Downlink: Mode B Repeater: 436.291 MHz Mode J Digipeater: 436.250 MHz Uplinks: Mode B Repeater: 145.825 MHz Mode J Digipeater: 145.825 MHz 145.900 MHz For more information of SUNSAT vist the satellite web site: http://esl.ee.sun.ac.za/projects/sunsat/ [01222007] ===== PO-34 PANSAT Catalog number: 25520 Launch date: October 30, 1998 Launch site: Status: Telemetry downloads only Mode: Uplink/downlink: 436.500 MHz Official Webpage: http://www.sp.nps.navy.mil/pansat/ [05092004] ===== SO-33 SEDSAT-1 Catalog number: 25509 Launch date: October 24, 1998 Launch site: Status: Semi-operational Mode: Downlink: 437.910 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK) The satellite is not currently available for uplink transmissions and the image and transponder recovery efforts have been unsuccessful. For more information on SedSat-1 visit the satellite web site: http://seds.uah.edu/projects/sedsat/sedsat.htm [09042006] ===== GO-32 Gurwin TechSat-1B Catalog number: 25397 Launch Date: July 10, 1998 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Modes: Telemetry : /u Downlink: 435.225 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK) 435.325 Mhz - Not Available - temperature problems Uplinks: 145.850 FM 145.890 FM 145.930 FM 1269.700 FM 1269.800 FM 1269.900 FM Broadcast Callsign: 4XTECH-11 BBS Callsign: 4XTECH-12 More information of GO-32 can be found at: http://asri.technion.ac.il/techsat/ AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=14&retURL =/satellites/status.php [07172010] ===== TO-31 TMSAT-1 Catalog number: 25396 Launch Date: July 10, 1998 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 145.925 MHz 9600 baud FSK Downlink: 436.925 MHz 9600 baud FSK Broadcast callsign: TMSAT1-11 BBS: TMSAT1-12 [05012006] ===== MO-30 UNAMSAT-2 Catalog Number: 24305 Launch Date: September 5, 1996 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Downlink: 435.1380 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Downlink: 435.2060 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8150 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8350 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8550 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8750 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS [06042009] ===== PO-28 POSAT-1 Catalog number: 22829 Launch Date: September 25, 1993 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Downlink: 429.950 Uplink: Not until handover back to Amatuer usage Broadcast callsign: POSAT1-11 BBS callsign: POSAT1-12 AMSAT Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/po28.html POSAT-1 webpage: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/SSC/CSER/UOSAT/missions/posat1.html [01012009] ===== AO-27 AMRAD Catalog number: 22825 Launch Date: September 26, 1993 0140z Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Recovery efforts in progress Uplink: 145.850 MHz FM Downlink: 436.797 MHz FM Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: Linear U: Linear Official Webpage: http://www.ao27.org [12032012] ===== IO-26 ITAMSAT Catalog number: 22826 Launch Date: September 26, 1993 0140z Launch site: Status: PSK carrier only Uplinks: 145.875 MHz FM 1200-baud 145.900 MHz FM 1200-baud 145.925 MHz FM 1200-baud 145.950 MHz FM 1200-baud Downlink: 435.808 MHz PSK Broadcast Callsign: ITMSAT-11 BBS: ITMSAT-12 Official webpage: http://www.itamsat.org AMSAT Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/io26.html [01212007] ===== KO-25 KITSAT Catalog number: 22828 Launch date: September 26, 1993 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 145.980 MHz FM 9600-baud FSK Downlink: 436.500 MHz FM Broadcast Callsign: HL02-11 BBS: HL02-12 [05092004] ===== AO-24 ARSENE Catalog Number: 22654 Launch Date: May 13, 1993 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 435.0625 MHz FM 1k2bps AFSK 435.1125 MHz FM 1k2bps AFSK 435.1375 MHz FM 1k2bps AFSK Downlink: 145.9750 MHz FM 1k2bps AFSK 2446.5025 MHz FM 1k2bps AFSK Beacon: 2446.4700 MHz CW Broadcast callsign: BBS: [12162009] ===== KO-23 KITSAT Catalog number: 22077 Launch date: August 10, 1992 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 145.900 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK) Downlink: 435.170 MHz FM Broadcast Callsign: HLO1-11 BBS: HLO1-12 [01222007] ===== UO-22 UOSAT Catalog number: 21575 Launch date: July 17, 1991 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Uplink: 145.900 FM 9600-baud FSK Downlink: 435.120 MHz FM Broadcast Callsign: UOSAT5-11 BBS: UOSAT5-12 [01222007] ===== AO-21 AMSAT-OSCAR 21 Catalog Number: 21087 Launch Date: January 29, 1991 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Uplink: 435.041 MHz FM DSP Downlink: 145.983 MHz FM DSP [01222007] ===== FO-20 JAS-1b Catalog number: 20480 Launch Date: February 07, 1990 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Beacons: 435.795 MHz CW 435.910 MHz AX25 Voice Transponder: Uplink: 145.900 to 146.000 MHz CW/LSB Downlink: 435.800 to 435.900 MHz CW/USB Digital Transponder: Uplinks: 145.850 MHz 145.870 MHz 145.890 MHz 145.910 MHz Downlink: 435.910 MHz More FO-20 info can be found at: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/fo20.html [01152007] ===== WO-18 WEBERSAT Catalog Number: 20441 Launch Date: January 22, 1990 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Downlink: 437.104 MHz SSB 1200 Baud PSK AX.25 [05012006] ===== DO-17 Dove Catalog Number: 20440 Launch Date: January 22, 1990 Launch site: Status: Non-operational. Downlink: 145.825 MHz FM 1200 Baud AFSK Beacon: 2401.220 MHz [05012006] ===== AO-16 PACSAT Catalog number: 20439 Launch Date: January 22, 1990 Launch site: Status: non-operational Uplink: 145.900 MHz FM 1200-baud Manchester FSK (reserved) 145.920 MHz FM VOICE 145.940 MHz FM 1200-baud Manchester FSK (reserved) 145.960 MHz FM 1200-baud Manchester FSK (reserved) Downlink: 437.026 MHz USB VOICE (1200-baud PSK - MBL Telemetry Only) Mode-S Beacon: 2401.1428 MHz [NO FUTURE OPERATIONS PLANNED] Mode and Antenna Polarization: U: RC 437.050 MHz RHCP PSK 437.026 MHz LHCP V: Linear Broadcast Callsign: PACSAT-11 BBS: PACSAT-12 AO-16 AMSAT Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/ao16.html [07242009] ===== UO-15 UoSAT-4 Catalog Number: 20438 Launch Date: January 22, 1990 Lunch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: ? Downlink: 435.1250MHz (?) 435.1200MHz (?) [06042009] ===== UO-14 UoSAT-3 Catalog number: 20437 Launch date: January 22, 1990 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 145.975 MHz FM Downlink: 435.070 MHz FM [05092004] ===== FO-12 Fuji-OSCAR 12 Catalog Number: 16909 Launch Date: August 12, 1986 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode V/U (J) Linear Transponder (Inverting): Uplink: 145.9000 - 146.0000 MHz SSB/CW Downlink 435.8000 - 435.9000 MHz SSB/CW Mode V/U (J) Packet: Uplink: 145.8500 MHz MFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8700 MHz MFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8900 MHz MFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.9100 MHz MFSK 1200 BPS Downlink 435.9100 MHz PSK 1200 BPS Telemetry Beacon: 435.7950 MHz SSB/CW [01152007] ===== AO-10 OSCAR 10 Catalog number: 14129 Launch Date: June 16, 1983 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 435.030 to 435.180 MHz CW/LSB Downlink: 145.975 to 145.825 MHz CW/USB Beacon: 145.810 MHz (unmodulated carrier) W4SM has more information about the satellite at the following URL: http://www.cstone.net/~w4sm/AO-10.html [05092004] ===== AO-8 AMSAT-OSCAR 8 Catalog Number: 10703 Launch Date: March 3, 1978 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode V/U (J) Linear Transponder (Non-Inverting): Non-Operational Uplink: 145.9000 - 146.0000 MHz SSB/CW Downlink 435.1990 - 435.2000 MHz SSB/CW Mode V/U (J) TLM Beacon: Non-Operational Downlink 435.0950 MHz CW Mode V/A (A) Linear Transponder (Non-Inverting): Non-Operational Uplink: 145.8500 - 145.9000 MHz SSB/CW Downlink 29.4000 - 29.5000 MHz SSB/CW Mode V/A (A) TLM Beacon: Non-Operational Downlink 29.4020 MHz CW [01152007] ===== AO-6 AMSAT-OSCAR 6 Catalog Number: 06236 Launch Date: October 15, 1972 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Uplink: 145.9000 - 146.0000 MHz SSB/CW Downlink: 29.4500 - 29.5500 MHz SSB/CW Beacons: 29.450 MHz 435.100 MHz [01312008] ===== AO-5 Australis-OSCAR 5 Catalog Number: 04321 Launch Date: January 23, 1970 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Telemetry Beacons: 144.0500 MHz CW 29.4500 MHz CW [01152007] ===== OSCAR III Catalog Number: 01293 Launch Date: March 09, 1965 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Uplink: 145.9750 - 146.0250 MHz SSB/CW Downlink: 144.3250 - 144.3750 MHz SSB/CW [01012007] ===== RS-15 RADIO SPORT RS-15 Catalog number: 23439 Launch Date: December 26, 1994 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 145.858 to 145.898 MHz CW/USB Downlink: 29.354 to 29.394 MHz CW/USB Beacon 1: 29.352 MHz (intermittent) Beacon 2: 29.398 MHz SSB meeting frequency: 29.380 MHz (unofficial) [06202004] ===== RS-13 RADIO SPORT RS-13 Catalog number: 21089 Launch date: February 5, 1991 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 21.260 to 21.300 MHz CW/USB Downlink: 145.860 to 145.900 MHz CW/USB Beacon: 145.860 MHz Robot: 145.908 MHz [05232004] ===== RS-12 RADIO SPORT RS-12 Catalog number: 21089 Launch date: February 5, 1991 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 21.210 to 21.250 MHz CW/USB Downlink: 29.410 to 29.450 MHz CW/USB Beacon: 29.408 MHz Robot: 29.454 MHz [05232004] NNNN /EX

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WSR-194 Weekly Satellite Report 194 - July 15, 2013
by James French 13 Jul '13

13 Jul '13

This report is organized into four (4) parts. Part 1 (S1) - operational analog amateur satellites Part 2 (S2) - operational digital amateur satellites Part 3 (S3) - non - operational satellites Part 4 (S4) - deborbited/returned satellites SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-194.S1 WSR 194 Part 1 07/15/2013 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 194.S1 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, July 15, 2013 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-194.S1 NEE-01 Pegasus Catalog Number: 39151 Launch date: April 26, 2013 Launch site: Jiuquan Space Center, PRC Status: Reported possible collision with space junk Mode: ? Downlink: 910MHz wide band signal - 720dpi HD CW SSTV Voice announcement [05272013] ===== TURKSAT-3USAT Catalog Number: 39152 Launch Date: April 26, 2013 0413z Launch site: Jiuquan Space Center, PRC Status: On orbit Mode: V/u Uplink: 145.940-145.990MHz Downlink: 435.200-435.250MHz Beacon: 437.225MHz CW Callsign: IARU Coordination Page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=213 URL: [05272013] ===== PW-Sat Catalog Number: 38083 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: On Orbit Mode: V/u Uplink: 435.020 MHz FM Downlink: 145.900 MHz DSB Beacon: Callsign: IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=132 URL: [05272013] ===== DO-64 Delfi-C3 Catalog number: 32789 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Mode: Science Mode - Beacon ONLY Telemetry: 145.870 MHz Downlink: 145.880 to 145.920 MHz Uplink: 435.530 to 435.570 MHz IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=68 URL: http://www.delfic3.nl/ [05272013] ===== VO-52 HAMSAT Catalog number: 28650 Launch Date: May 05, 2005 0444z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Mode: U/v Frequencies: Indian Transponder: Uplink: 435.220 to 435.280 MHz LSB/CW Downlink: 145.930 to 145.870 MHz USB/CW Dutch Transponder: Uplink: 435.225 to 435.275 MHz LSB/CW Downlink: 145.925 to 145.875 MHz USB/CW Indian Beacon: 145.9360 MHZ CW Dutch Beacon: 145.860 MHz 12WPM with CW message Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: LHCP U: RHCP Official Webpage: http://www.amsatindia.org/hamsat.htm IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=30 [05272013] ===== SO-50 SAUDISAT-1C Catalog number: 27607 Launch date: December 20, 2002 1700z Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan Status: Operational Mode: V/u Uplink: 145.850 MHz FM - 67.0 Hz PL tone Downlink: 436.795 MHz Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: Linear U: Linear Official Webpage: http://saudisat.kacst.edu.sa/index.shtml (not up and running currently) To switch the transmitter on, you need to send a CTCSS tone of 74.4 Hz. The order of operation is thus: (allow for Doppler as necessary): 1) Transmit on 145.850 MHz with a tone of 74.4 Hz to arm the 10 minute timer on board the spacecraft. 2) Now transmit on 145.850 MHz (FM Voice) using 67.0 Hz to PT the re- peater on and off within the 10 Minute window. 3) Sending the 74.4 tone again within the 10 minute window will reset the 10 minute timer. [05272013] ===== FO-29 JAS-2 Catalog number: 24278 Launch Date: August 17, 1996 Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: Operational Mode: V/u (Mode JA) Voice/CW (Mode JA) Uplink: 145.90 to 146.00 MHz CW/LSB Downlink: 435.80 to 435.90 MHz CW/USB Beacon: 435.795 MHz Digital Mode JD Uplinks: 145.850 MHz FM 145.870 MHz FM 145.910 MHz FM Downlink: 435.910 MHz 1200-baud BPSK or 9600-baud FSK Callsign: 8J1JCS Digitalker: 435.910 MHz Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: RHCP U: RHCP For current operational schedule for FO-29: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/m-arai/gkz/satinfo/fo29e.htm JARL English webpage: http://www.jarl.or.jp/English/5_Fuji/ejasmenu.htm AMSAT-NA Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID =5&retURL=/satellites/status.php Mineo Wakita, JE9PEL, has created a simple decoder program for FO29's CW telemetry downlink: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ fo29cwts.htm [05272013] ===== AO-7 AMSAT OSCAR 7 Catalog number: 07530 Launch Date: November 15, 1974 Launch site: Vandenberg AFB, California, USA Status: Operational Mode: Alternating between Mode A (V/a) and Mode B (V/u) Uplink: 145.850 to 145.950 MHz CW/USB Mode A 432.125 to 432.175 MHz CW/LSB Mode B Downlink: 29.400 to 29.500 MHz CW/USB Mode A (1W PEP) 145.975 to 145.925 MHz CW/USB Mode B (8W PEP) 145.975 to 145.925 MHz CW/USB Mode C (2W PEP) Beacons: 29.502 MHz CW 145.972 MHz CW 435.100 MHz CW 2304.100 MHz CW Official Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/sat_summary/ao7.php [05272013] ===== INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) - ARISS Catalog number: 25544 Launch date: November 20, 1998 0640z (ZARYA module) Launch sites: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan Kourou, French Guiana Uchinoura Space Center, Japan Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Florida, USA Possible Modes: FM Repeater - OFF Voice - V/v BBS - V/v 2m APRS - V/v 2m Digi - V/v 70cm APRS - U/u 70cm Digi - U/u SSTV - V/v Status: Operational Expedition 36 Crew (May 2013 - September 2013): Commander: Pavell Vinogradov RV3BS Flight Engineer: Alexander Misurkin Flight Engineer: Christopher Cassidy KF5KDR Flight Engineer: Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI Flight Engineer: Karen L. Nyberg Flight Engineer: Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Available Modes and Frequencies: Digital/APRS: Worldwide 2m packet uplink: 145.825 MHz FM 1k2 Worldwide 2m packet downlink: 145.825 Mhz FM 1k2 Worldwide 70cm packet uplink: 437.550 Mhz FM 1k2 Worldwide 70cm packet downlink: 437.550 Mhz FM 1k2 Voice: Region 1 voice uplink: 145.200 MHz FM Region 2/3 voice uplink: 144.490 MHz FM Worldwide downlink: 145.800 MHz FM Crossband Repeater: Repeater Uplinks: 1269.650 MHz FM 437.800 MHz FM 145.990 MHz FM - 67.0 PL (Kenwood) Repeater Downlink: 145.800 MHz FM 437.800 MHz FM (Kenwood) SSTV Robot 36: Downlink: 145.800 MHz FM Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: Linear U: Linear Callsigns: Belgian: OR4ISS German: DP0ISS Russian: RS0ISS RZ3DZR United States: NA1SS 2m Packet Mailbox: RS0ISS-11 2m Digipeater alias: ARISS 70cm Packet Mailbox: RS0ISS-1 70cm Digipeater callsign: RS0ISS 70cm Digipeater alias: ARISS Official ARISS Webpage: http://www.rac.ca/ariss ISS Fan Club Webpage: http://www.issfanclub.com APRS tracking page: http://www.ariss.net/ ISS Daily Crew Schedule: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines Remember that the crew operates on UTC time. Also, all of the time line is NOT translated from Russian and posted. [07012013] NNNN /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-194.S2 WSR 194 Part 2 07/15/2013 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 194.S2 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, July 15, 2013 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-194.S2 Name: ESTCUBE-1 Catalog Number: 39161 Launch date: May 07, 2013 Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Operational Downlink(s): 437.505MHz 9k6 bps AX.25 telemetry Beacon(s): 437.250MHz CW Callsign: ES5E/S Beacon ES5E-11 9.6kbps AX.25 IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=171 URL:http://www.estcube.eu/en/ [05272013] ===== CubeBug-1 Catalog Number: 39153 Launch date: April 26, 2013 Launch site: Jiuquan Space Center, PRC Status: Reported possible collision with space debris Mode: /u Downlink(s): 437.445MHz 1k2bps AX.25 AFSK Callsign: LU1VZ-11 IARU Coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=239 URL: http://1.cubebug.org/ [06242013] ===== OSSI-1 Catalog Number: 39131 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Tyuratam Missile and Space Center, Kazakhstan Status: On orbit Mode: /u Uplink(s): Downlink(s): 145.980 MHz CW 437.525 MHz 1k2bps Beacon(s): Callsign: DS1SBO (?) IARU Coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=290 [05272013] ===== SOMP Catalog Number: 39135 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Tyuratam Missile and Space Center, Kazakhstan Status: On orbit Mode: /u Uplink(s): Downlink(s):437.485 MHz 1k2/9k6 Callsign: DM1EF (?) IARU Coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=173 [05272013] ===== BEESAT-2 Catalog Number: 39136 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Tyuratam Missile and Space Center, Kazakhstan Status: On orbit Mode: /u Downlink(s): 435.950 MHz 4k8bps GMSK/Mobitex Callsign: DJ1JBL IARU Coordination Page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=233 URL: http://www.raumfahrttechnik.tu-berlin.de/beesat/ [05272013] ===== BEESAT-3 Catalog Number: 39134 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Tyuratam Missile and Space Center, Kazakhstan Status: On orbit Downlink(s): 10 M/b Callsign: DJ1JBL IARU Coordination Page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=234 URL: http://www.raumfahrttechnik.tu-berlin.de/beesat/ [05272013] ===== STRaND-1 Catalog Number: 39090 Launch Date: February 25, 2013 12:31z Launch Site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Mode: /u Downlink:437.568MHz 9k6 FSK URL: http://www.sstl.co.uk/Missions/STRaND-1--Launched-2013 [05272013] ===== Aeneas Catalog Number: 38760 Launch Date: September 13, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: On Orbit Mode: /s /u Uplink: WiFi 2425MHz Downlink(s): WiFi: 2425MHz Spread Spectrum: Somewhere in the 70cm band Beacon: 437.600MHz 1k2 ax25 every 10 seconds [05272013] ===== CSSWE (Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment) Catalog Number: 38761 Launch Date: September 12, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.345MHz 9k6 with ax.25 [10012012] ===== CP5 (Polysat) Catalog Number: 38763 Launch Date: September 12, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.405MHz AFSK on LSB ax.25 over NRZI at 1k2 baud, every 2 minutes begins 3.5 hours after first turn-on [10012012] ===== CXBN (Cosmic X-Ray Background Nanosatellite) Catalog Number: 38762 Launch Date: September 12, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.525MHz GFSK ax.25 [10012012] ===== Proiteres Catalog Number: 38756 Launch Date: September 09, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.485MHz FM/AFSK Callsign: JL3YZK [10012012] ===== RS-40 MiR (Yubileiny-2) Catalog Number: 38735 Launch Date: July 28, 2012 Launch Site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: On Orbit Downlink(s): 435.265 MHz 435.365 MHz [08272012] ===== HORYU-II Catalog number: 38340 Launch Date: May 17, 2012 1639z Status: On Orbit Uplink: 145.??? MHz Downlink: 437.375 MHz CW/AX25/FSK Beacon: 437.375 MHz CW Callsign: JG6YBW IARU Coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=216 [10012012] ===== XaTcobeo Catalog Number: 38082 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Operational Downlink: 437.365 MHz FFSK with AX.25 IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=135 [100162012] ===== UniCubeSat Catalog Number: 38085 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Operational Downlink: 437.305 MHz 9k6 bps GMSK URL: http://www.gaussteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96:un… besat&catid=36:unicubesat&Itemid=183 IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=133 [10012012] ===== Robusta Catalog Number: 38084 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.325 MHz 1k2 FM telemetry (data every 3 min, 20 sec. burst) IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=122 [10012012] ===== MO-72 MaSat-1 Catalog Number: 38081 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Operational Downlink(s): 437.345 MHz GFSK 625/1250 bps 437.345 MHz CW IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=126 [10012012] ===== Goliat Catalog Number: 38080 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Operational Downlink: 437.485 MHz 1k2 AFSK IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=98 [10012012] ===== [email protected] Catalog Number: 38079 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.445 MHz 1k2 bps AFSK IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=130 [10012012] ===== ALMASat-1 Catalog Number: 38078 Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 1000z Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: On Orbit Downlink(s): 437.465 MHz 1k2 bps FSK 2407.850 MHz IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=39 [10012012] ===== RS-39 Chibis-M Catalog Number: 38051 Launch Date: October 30, 2011 10:11:00 UTC Launch site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan Status: Operational Beacon: 435.315 MHz CW 435.215 MHz CW [07302012] ===== JUGNU Catalog Number: 37839 Launch Date: October 12, 2011 05:30:00 UTC Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: On Orbit Uplink: 145.??? MHz 1k2 (mode?) Downlink: 437.505 MHz 9k6 (mode?) Beacon: 437.275 MHz 15 wpm (?) CW URL: http://www.iitk.ac.in/me/jugnu/index.htm IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=160 [07092012] ===== SRMSAT Catalog Number: 37841 Launch Date: October 12, 2011 05:30:00 UTC Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Uplink: 145.900 MHz 1k AX.25 (speed?) Downlink: 437.500 MHz 2k4 AX.25 Beacon: 437.425 MHz 12 wpm CW URL: http://srmsat.in/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=181 [01282013] ===== HRBE (E1P Explorer 1 [Prime] CubeSat (E1P-U2)) Catalog Number: 37855 Launch Date: October 28, 2011 Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA Status: On Orbit Uplink: 437.305 MHz (???) Downlink: 437.505 MHz AX.25 URL: http://ssel.montana.edu/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=116 [01122012] ===== M-Cubed Catalog Number: 37855 Launch Date: October 28, 2011 Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.485 MHz AX.25 URL: http://umcubed.org/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=215 [01122012] ===== RAX-2 Catalog Number: 37853 Launch Date: October 28, 2011 Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA Status: Operational Downlink: 437.345MHz 9k6 GMSK URL: http://rax.engin.umich.edu// IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=221 [03232012] ===== AO-71 AubieSat-1 Catalog Number: 37854 Launch Date: October 28, 2011 Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA Status: Beacon only Downlink: 437.475 MHz 1k2 AX.25 Beacon: 437.475 MHz CW Callsign: KI4NQO URL: http://www.space.auburn.edu/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=148 [07152013] ===== O/OREOS Catalog Number: 37224 Launch Date: November 20, 2010 Launch site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.035 MHZ AX.25 URL: http://www.ooreos.org/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=146 [02092011] ===== Rax-1 Radio Aurora Explorer Catalog Number: 37223 Launch Date: November 20, 2010 Launch site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA Status: On Orbit Downlink: 437.505 MHz 9k6 GMSK Callsign: RAX-1 URL: http://rax.engin.umich.edu/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=165 [02092011] ===== FO-69 Fastrac-1 Sara Lily Catalog Number: 37227 Launch Date: November 20, 2010 Launch site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA Status: Operational Uplink 1: 145.980 MHz 1k2 baud Uplink 2: 145.825 MHz 1k2 baud Downlink: 437.345 MHz 1k2 and 9k6 baud Beacon: 437.435 MHz 1k2 AX.25 Callsign: Fast1 URL: http://fastrac.ae.utexas.edu/index.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=83 [07052011] ===== FO-70 Fastrac-2 Emma Catalog Number: 37380 Launch Date: November 20, 2010 Launch site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA Status: Operational Uplink 1: 435.025 MHz 1k2 baud Uplink 2: 437.435 MHz 9k6 baud Downlink: 145.825 MHz 1k2 and 9k6 baud Beacon: 145.825 MHz 1k2 AX.25 Callsign: Fast2 URL: http://fastrac.ae.utexas.edu/index.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=84 [12162011] ===== StudSat Catalog Number: 36796 Launch Date: July 12, 2010 0352z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: On Orbit Uplink: 437.505MHz, 9600bps FSK Downlink: 437.505MHz, 9600bps FSK Beacon : 437.505MHz, 20bps ASK IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=164 [02092011] ===== TIsat-1 Catalog Number: 36799 Launch Date: July 12, 2010 0352z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: On orbit Callsign: HB9DE Uplink: 145.980MHz FM, AFSK Downlink: 437.305MHz FM, AFSK Beacon: 437.305MHz CW IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=118 [02092011] ===== SwissCube Catalog Number: 35932 Launch Date: September 23, 2009 0621z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Callsign: HB9EG Beacon(100mw): 437.5050MHz CW Beacon(1w): 437.5050MHz FSK 1k2bps IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=109 [02092011] ===== UWE-2 Catalog Number: 35934 Launch Date: September 23, 2009 0621z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: In Orbit Beacon(500mw): 437.3850 MHz AFSK 1k2bps 437.3850 MHz FSK 9k6bps IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=110 [02092011] ===== ITUpsAT1 Catalog Number: 35935 Launch Date: September 23, 2009 0621z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Beacon(100mw): 437.325MHz CW Beacon(1w): 437.325MHz 19k2bps IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=113 [02092011] ===== BEESAT Catalog Number: 35933 Launch Date: September 23, 2009 0621z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Callsign: DP0BEE Beacon(100mw): 436.000MHz CW Beacon(500mw): 436.000MHz GMSK 4k8bps Beacon(500mw): 436.000MHz GMSK 9k6bp [02092011] ===== SOHLA-1 (ASTRO TECH.) Catalog Number: 33496 Launch Date: January 23, 2009 0354z Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: Operational Proposed Frequencies and Modes: Downlink: 437.505 MHz AFSK/CW Beacon: 437.505 MHz AFSK/CW IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=101 [02092011] ===== KAGAYAKI (Solan Co.) Catalog Number: 33495 Launch Date: January 23, 2009 0354z Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: In Orbit Downlink: 437.375 MHZ FSK9k6/CW Beacon: 437.375 MHz FSK9k6/CW [02092011] ===== STARS (Kagawa Univ.) (Twin Satellites) Catalog Number: 33498 Launch Date: January 23, 2009 0354z Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: Operational ? Downlinks: 437.485 MHz FM/CW 437.465 MHz FM/CW Beacons: 437.305 MHz FM/CW 437.275 MHz FM/CW Callsigns: JR5YBN JR5YBO IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=99 AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=121&retURL =/satellites/status.php [02092011] ===== KKS-1 (Tokyo MCIT) Catalog Number: 33499 Launch Date: January 23, 2009 0354z Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: Operational Downlink: 437.455 MHz AFSK/CW Beacon: 437.385 MHz AFSK/CW Callsign: JQ1YYY IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=107 AMSAT-NA webapge: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=120&retURL =/satellites/status.php [20092011] ===== PRISM (Tokyo Univ.) Catalog Number: 33493 Launch Date: January 23, 2009 0354z Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Status: Operational Uplink: 145.xxx MHz AFSK 1k2 Downlink: 437.425 MHz AFSK 1k2 Beacon: 437.250 MHz CW Callsign: JQ1YCX IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=97 Read terms and conditions of operations at the PRISM web page to find out how to properly operate on the satellite and to get the uplink frequency. It has been asked that the uplink frequency not be given out untik you have read and understood the terms of usage. URL: http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prism/en/HAMservice.html [10282012] ===== RS-30 Radio Sputnik 30 (Yubileiny) Catalog Number: 32953 Launch Date: May 23, 2008 1520z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: Operational Curent Modes: Telemetry Audio Images Downlinks: 435.315 MHz 435.215 MHz AMSAT-NA website: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=115&ret URL=/satellites/status.php Official website: http://www.npopm.com/?cid=leoca&caid=43 [02092011] ===== CanX-2 Catalog number: 32790 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational in range of ground station only Downlink: 437.478 MHz GFSK For the latest project status update please visit the Can X-2 web page: http://www.utias-sfl.net/nanosatellites/CanX2/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=46 [02092011] ===== AAUSAT-II Catalog number: 32788 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Downlink: 437.425 MHz 1k2 baud packet For the latest project status update please visit the AAUSAT-II web page: http://www.aausatii.aau.dk/homepage/index.php?language=en&page=home IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=60 [02092011] ===== CO-65 CUTE-1.7+APD II Catalog number: 32785 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Downlink: 437.475 MHz 9k6 Packet Uplink: 1267.600 Mhz Telemetry Beacon: Downlink: 437.2750 MHz CW For the latest project status update please visit the Cute-1.7+APD II web page: http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/index_e.html IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=78 Command Station blog website: http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/blog/ AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=112&retURL =/satellites/status.php [03232012] ===== Compass-1 Catalog number: 32787 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Current Mode: dependant on last received command Uplink: 145.980 MHz FM Downlink: 437.275 Mhz CW 437.405 MHz Packet For the latest project status update please visit the Compass 1 web page: http://www.raumfahrt.fh-aachen.de/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=52 AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=114&retURL =/satellites/status.php [06162011] ===== CO-66 Seeds II Catalog number: 32791 Launch Date: April 28, 2008 0354z Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Operational Downlink: 437.485 MHz Callsign: JQ1YGU For the latest project status update please visit the Seeds 2 web page: http://cubesat.aero.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp/english/seeds_2_e.html IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=36 AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=113&retURL =/satellites/status.php [073092011] ===== CAPE-1 Catalog Number: 31130 Launch Date: April 17,2007 0702z Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan Status: Intermittent TLM Downlink: 435.245 MHz 9600 bs FSK AX.25 CW Beacon: 435.245 MHz CW Callsign: K5USL TLM and CW interchange every 30 seconds. AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=94&retURL= /satellites/status.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=72 [02092011] ===== CP3 Catalog Number: 31129 Launch Date: April 17,2007 0702z Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan Status: Operational Downlink: 436.845 MHz 1200 bps AFSK AX.25 IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=74 [02092011] ===== CO-58 CubeSat XI-V Catalog number: 28895 Launch Date: October 27, 2005 0652z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: Operational - CW Beacon only Telemetry Downlink: 437.4250 MHz AFSK 1200bps using AFK protocol Beacon: 437.2750 MHz CW Callsign: JQ1YGW Official Webpage: http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cubesat/mission/V/ Pictures received by Mineo Wakita - JE9PEL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/xivpicte.htm IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=37 [02092011] ===== CO-57 CubeSat XI-IV Catalog number: 27848 Launch date: June 30, 2003 1415z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: In orbit Beacon: 436.8475 MHz CW Telemetry : 437.4900 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Callsign: JQ1YGW AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=96&retURL =/satellites/status.php Official Webpage: http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cubesat/mission/V/ [02092011] ===== QuakeSat Catalog Number: 27845 Launch Date: June 30, 2003 1415z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: Telemetry only Mode U packet Downlink: 436.675 MHz 9k6 BPS Quakesat webpage: http://www.quakefinder.com/services/quakesat-ssite/ [02252011] ===== CO-55 Cute-1.7+APD II Catalog Number: 27844 Launch date: June 30, 2003 1415z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: Operational Current Mode: CW downlink worldwide AX25 Packet with uplink command over Japan only Mode U Telemetry Downlink: 437.4000 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Mode U TLM Beacon Downlink: 436.8375 MHz CW AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=69&retURL =/satellites/status.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=78 [02092011] ===== NO-44 PCSAT Catalog number: 26931 Launch Date: September 30, 2001 0240z Launch site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA Status: Operational General Usage Uplink/Downlink: 145.827 MHz 1200 Baud Special Usage Downlink: 144.390 Mhz 1200 Baud PCSAT APRS page: http://pcsat.aprs.org aprstlm Telemetry Decoder program: http://www.xciv.org/~iain/aprstlm/v1.2/ [10292012] ===== RS-22 RADIO SPORT 22 (MOZHAYETS 4) Catalog number: 27939 Launch Date: September 27, 2003 0612z Launch site: Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia Status: Operational CW Beacon - 435.352 MHz 145.818 MHz AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=76&retURL =/satellites/status.php [02092011] ===== LO-19 LUSAT Catalog number: 20442 Launch date: January 22, 1990 Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: CW Beacon only Uplinks: 145.840 MHz 1200-baud Manchester FSK 145.860 MHz 1200-baud Manchester FSK 145.880 MHz 1200-baud Manchester FSK 145.900 MHz 1200-baud Manchester FSK CW downlink: 437.125 MHz Digital downlink: 437.150 MHz SSB (RC-BPSK 1200-baud PSK) Broadcast Callsign: LUSAT-11 BBS: LUSAT-12 General information and telemetry samples can be found at: www.telecable.es/personales/ea1bcu [02092011] ===== UO-11 OSCAR-11 Catalog number: 14781 Launch Date: March 1, 1984 Launch site: Vandenburg AFB, California, USA Status: Operational Mode: Telemetry only Telemetry Downlink: 145.825 MHz FM 1200 AFSK UHFBeacon: 435.025 MHz Mode-S Beacon: 2401.500 MHz Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: RHCP S: LHCP Webpage: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/clivew/ MPEG3 files: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/uo11tlme.htm [07052011] ===== INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) - ARISS Catalog number: 25544 Launch date: November 20, 1998 0640z (ZARYA module) Launch sites: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan Kourou, French Guiana Uchinoura Space Center, Japan Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Florida, USA Status: Operational Possible Modes: FM Repeater - OFF Voice - V/v BBS - V/v 2m APRS - V/v 2m Digi - V/v 70cm APRS - U/u 70cm Digi - U/u SSTV - V/v Expedition 36 Crew (May 2013 - September 2013): Commander: Pavell Vinogradov RV3BS Flight Engineer: Alexander Misurkin Flight Engineer: Christopher Cassidy KF5KDR Flight Engineer: Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI Flight Engineer: Karen L. Nyberg Flight Engineer: Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Available Modes and Frequencies: Digital/APRS: Worldwide 2m packet uplink: 145.825 MHz FM 1k2 Worldwide 2m packet downlink: 145.825 Mhz FM 1k2 Worldwide 70cm packet uplink: 437.550 Mhz FM 1k2 Worldwide 70cm packet downlink: 437.550 Mhz FM 1k2 Voice: Region 1 voice uplink: 145.200 MHz FM Region 2/3 voice uplink: 144.490 MHz FM Worldwide downlink: 145.800 MHz FM Crossband Repeater: Repeater Uplinks: 1269.650 MHz FM 437.800 MHz FM 145.990 MHz FM - 67.0 PL (Kenwood) Repeater Downlink: 145.800 MHz FM 437.800 MHz FM (Kenwood) SSTV Robot 36: Downlink: 145.800 MHz FM Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: Linear U: Linear Callsigns: Belgian: OR4ISS German: DP0ISS Russian: RS0ISS RZ3DZR United States: NA1SS 2m Packet Mailbox: RS0ISS-11 2m Digipeater alias: ARISS 70cm Packet Mailbox: RS0ISS-1 70cm Digipeater callsign: RS0ISS 70cm Digipeater alias: ARISS Official ARISS Webpage: http://www.rac.ca/ariss ISS Fan Club Webpage: http://www.issfanclub.com APRS tracking page: http://www.ariss.net/ ISS Daily Crew Schedule: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines Remember that the crew operates on UTC time. Also, all of the time line is NOT translated from Russian and posted. [07012013] NNNN /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-194.S3 WSR 194 Part 3 07/15/2013 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 194.S3 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, July 15, 2013 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-194.S3 THE FOLLOWING ARE IN ORBIT BUT ARE NON-OPERATIONAL AT THIS TIME: NANOSAIL-D Catalog Number: 37361 Ejection Date: January 17, 2011 Launch date: Launch site: Status: Non - Operational Downlink: 437.270 MHz AX.25 URL: http://nanosaild.engr.scu.edu/dashboard.htm IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=115 [07302012] ===== HO-68 HOPE-1 (CAS-1) (XW-1) Catalog Number: 36122 Launch Date: December 15, 2009 0231z Launch site: Taiyuan Space Center, PRC Status: Telemetry only Mode: Callsign: Broadcast: BJ1SA-11 BBS: BJ1SA-12 Uplinks: 145.8250 MHz FM, PL 67.0 Hz. 145.9250 - 145.9750 MHz SSB/CW 145.8250 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Downlinks: 435.6750 MHz FM 435.7650 - 435.7150 MHz SSB/CW 435.6750 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Beacon: 435.7900 MHz CW Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: LHCP 2.0dBi max U: RHCP 3.0dBi max IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=108 For more information about XW-1 (CAS-1): http:// [04302012] ===== SO-67 SumbandilaSat Catalog Number: 35870 Launch Date: September 17, 2009 1555z Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan Status: Non - Operational Mode: Callsign: ZS0SUM Uplink: 145.875MHz FM tone 233.6 Hz Downlink: 435.345MHz FM Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: Linear U: Linear For more information about SO-67: http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=88 [01272012] ===== CP4 Catalog Number: 31132 Launch Date: April 17, 2007 Status: Non-Operational Mode: TLM Downlink: 437.325 MHz 1200 bps FSK AX.25 CW Beacon: 437.325 MHz CW IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=79 [09062010] ===== LIBERTAD-1 Catalog Number: 31128 Launch Date: April 17, 2007 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Callsign: 5K3L Uplink: 145.825 MHz 1200 AFSK ax25 APRS Downlink: 437.399 MHz 1200 AFSK ax25 APRS Telemetry Beacon: 437.4050 MHz 1200 AFSK ax25 IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=76 [09062010] ===== PO-63 PEHUENSAT-1 Catalog Number: 29712 Launch Date: January 10, 2007 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Uplink/Downlink: 145.825 Mhz FM Voice Recorder: 145.825 Mhz FM IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=51 [09062010] ===== NCUBE-2 Catalog number: 28897 Launch Date: October 27, 2005 Launch site: Status: Still attached to XO-53 (SSETI) Proposed Callsign: TBA Proposed Transmit Frequency: 437.305 2407.250 Official Website: http://www.ncube.no IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=24 [09062010] ===== XO-53 SSETI Catalog number: 28894 Launch Date: October 27, 2005 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Mode: Voice Uplink: 437.250 MHz FM 67Hz CTCSS Voice Downlink: 2401.835 MHz FM Packet Up/Downlink: 437.250 MHz 9k6 packet Packet Downlink 2401.835 MHz 38k4 packet IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=54 [09062010] ===== UWE-1 Catalog Number: 28892 Launch Date: October 27, 2005 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Mode U Telemetry Downlink: 437.5050 MHz 9600 AFSK IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=53 [09062010] ===== AO-51 ECHO Catalog number: 28375 Launch date: June 29, 2004 0745z Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan Status: Non - Operational Current Mode(s): Voice repeater: V/u Uplink: 145.880 MHz FM Downlink: 435.150 MHz FM Telemetry: Recovery efforts Downlink: 435.150MHz 9k6 Analog voice downlink: 435.300 MHz FM 435.150 MHz FM 2401.200 Mhz FM Analog voice uplink: 145.860 MHZ FM 145.880 MHz USB 145.880 MHz FM 145.920 MHz FM 145.920 MHz FM - 67 Hz PL tone burst 1268.705 MHz FM Digital Downlinks: 435.150 MHz FM 38k4 PBP, 1 watt output 435.150 MHz FM 9k6 Pacsat Broadcast Protocol 2401.200 MHz FM 38k4 bps, AX.25 Digital Uplink: 145.860 MHz FM 9k6 Pacsat Broadcast Protocol 1268.703 mhz FM 9k6 Pacsat Broadcast Protocol Beacon: 435.150 MHz Mode and Antenna Polarization: T: Linear V: Linear U: TX A (usually digital)LHCP TX B (usually analog) RHCP L: Linear S: Linear Broadcast: PECHO-11 BBS: PECHO-12 Official Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/CTNews.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=19 [12062011] ===== CANX-1 Catalog Number: 27847 Launch Date: June 30, 2003 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Downlink: 437.8800 MHz AFSK 1k2bps [06052009] ===== DTUSAT Catalog Number: 27842 Launch Date: June 30, 2003 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Downlink: 437.475MHz Officail webpage: http://dtusat1.dtusat.dtu.dk/ AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=101&retURL =satellites/all_oscars.php [02212009] ===== AO-49 AATiS OSCAR-49 (SAFIR-M) Catalog number: 27605 Launch Date: December 20, 2002 Launch site: Status: Non-operational. Mode: Uplink: 435.275 MHz 1200-baud AFSK Downlink: 145.825 MHz 9600-baud FSK (optional voice message) Broadcast callsign: DP0AIS Official webpage: http://amend.gmxhome.de [01222007] ===== MO-46 TIUNGSAT-1 Catalog number: 26548 Launch date: September 26, 2000 Launch site: Status: Telemetry only Uplinks: 145.850 MHz 145.925 MHz 9600-baud FSK Downlink: 437.325 MHz Broadcast callsign: MYSAT3-11 BBS: MYSAT3-12 TiungSat-1 is Malaysia's first micro-satellite and in addition to commercial land and weather imaging payloads offers FM and FSK Amateur Radio communication. TiungSat-1, named after the mynah bird of Malaysia, was developed as a collaborative effort between the Malaysian government and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. [03302009] ===== NO-45 SAPPHIRE Catalog number: 26932 Launch Date: September 30, 2001 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Downlink: 437.095 MHz 1200 baud AX-25 AFSK Uplink: 145.945 MHz UI Digipeater Digi Callsign: KE6QMD [03132005] ===== SO-42 SAUDISAT-1B Catalog number: 26549 Launch date: September 26, 2000 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Downlink: 437.075 MHz Broadcast Callsign: SASAT2-11 BBS: SASAT2-12 Further information is available at: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/so42.html [01222007] ===== SO-41 SAUDISAT-1A Catalog number: 26545 Launch Date: September 26, 2000 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Uplink: 145.850 MHz Downlink: 436.775 MHz Broadcast Callsign: SASAT1-11 BBS: SASAT1-12 Further information is available at: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/so41.html [01222007] ===== AO-40 AMSAT OSCAR 40 Catalog number: 26609 Launch Date: November 16, 2000 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Uplinks ------- V-band: 145.840 - 145.990 MHz CW/LSB U-band: 435.550 - 435.800 MHz CW/LSB L1-band: 1269.250 - 1269.500 MHz CW/LSB L2-band: 1268.325 - 1268.575 MHz CW/LSB Downlinks --------- S2-band: 2401.225 - 2401.475 MHz CW/USB K-band: 24048.010 - 24048.060 MHz CW/USB Beacon: 2401.323 MHz 24048.035 MHz P3-D Telemetry Beacons (IHU) ---------------------------- BEACON General Beacon(GB) Middle Beacon(MB) Engineering Beacon(EB) 2 m none 145.898 MHz none 70cm 435.438 MHz 435.588 MHz 435.838 MHz 13cm(1) 2400.188 MHz 2400.338 MHz 2400.588 MHz 13cm(2) 2401.173 MHz 2401.323 MHz 2401.573 MHz 3cm 10450.975 MHz 10451.125 MHz 10451.375 MHz 1.5cm 24047.885 MHz 24048.035 MHz 24048.285 MHz [07162007] ===== OO-38 OPAL Catalog Number: 26063 Launch Date: January 27, 2000 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode: Mode U TLM Beacon Downlink: 437.1000 MHz 9600 FSK [08132007] ===== UO-36 UoSAT-12 Catalog number: 25693 Launch date: April 21, 1999 Launch site: Status: Unknown Mode: Uplink: 145.960 MHz (9600-baud FSK) Downlinks: 437.025 MHz 437.400 MHz Broadcast Callsign: UO121-11 BBS: UO121-12 The VK5HI viewer shareware for UO-36 is available on the AMSAT-NA web site at the following URL: ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/software/win32/display/ccddsp97-119.zip [01222007] ===== SO-35 SUNSAT Catalog Number: 25636 Launch date:February 23, 1999 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Downlink: Mode B Repeater: 436.291 MHz Mode J Digipeater: 436.250 MHz Uplinks: Mode B Repeater: 145.825 MHz Mode J Digipeater: 145.825 MHz 145.900 MHz For more information of SUNSAT vist the satellite web site: http://esl.ee.sun.ac.za/projects/sunsat/ [01222007] ===== PO-34 PANSAT Catalog number: 25520 Launch date: October 30, 1998 Launch site: Status: Telemetry downloads only Mode: Uplink/downlink: 436.500 MHz Official Webpage: http://www.sp.nps.navy.mil/pansat/ [05092004] ===== SO-33 SEDSAT-1 Catalog number: 25509 Launch date: October 24, 1998 Launch site: Status: Semi-operational Mode: Downlink: 437.910 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK) The satellite is not currently available for uplink transmissions and the image and transponder recovery efforts have been unsuccessful. For more information on SedSat-1 visit the satellite web site: http://seds.uah.edu/projects/sedsat/sedsat.htm [09042006] ===== GO-32 Gurwin TechSat-1B Catalog number: 25397 Launch Date: July 10, 1998 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Modes: Telemetry : /u Downlink: 435.225 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK) 435.325 Mhz - Not Available - temperature problems Uplinks: 145.850 FM 145.890 FM 145.930 FM 1269.700 FM 1269.800 FM 1269.900 FM Broadcast Callsign: 4XTECH-11 BBS Callsign: 4XTECH-12 More information of GO-32 can be found at: http://asri.technion.ac.il/techsat/ AMSAT-NA webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=14&retURL =/satellites/status.php [07172010] ===== TO-31 TMSAT-1 Catalog number: 25396 Launch Date: July 10, 1998 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 145.925 MHz 9600 baud FSK Downlink: 436.925 MHz 9600 baud FSK Broadcast callsign: TMSAT1-11 BBS: TMSAT1-12 [05012006] ===== MO-30 UNAMSAT-2 Catalog Number: 24305 Launch Date: September 5, 1996 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Downlink: 435.1380 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Downlink: 435.2060 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8150 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8350 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8550 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8750 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS [06042009] ===== PO-28 POSAT-1 Catalog number: 22829 Launch Date: September 25, 1993 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Downlink: 429.950 Uplink: Not until handover back to Amatuer usage Broadcast callsign: POSAT1-11 BBS callsign: POSAT1-12 AMSAT Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/po28.html POSAT-1 webpage: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/SSC/CSER/UOSAT/missions/posat1.html [01012009] ===== AO-27 AMRAD Catalog number: 22825 Launch Date: September 26, 1993 0140z Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: Recovery efforts in progress Uplink: 145.850 MHz FM Downlink: 436.797 MHz FM Mode and Antenna Polarization: V: Linear U: Linear Official Webpage: http://www.ao27.org [12032012] ===== IO-26 ITAMSAT Catalog number: 22826 Launch Date: September 26, 1993 0140z Launch site: Status: PSK carrier only Uplinks: 145.875 MHz FM 1200-baud 145.900 MHz FM 1200-baud 145.925 MHz FM 1200-baud 145.950 MHz FM 1200-baud Downlink: 435.808 MHz PSK Broadcast Callsign: ITMSAT-11 BBS: ITMSAT-12 Official webpage: http://www.itamsat.org AMSAT Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/io26.html [01212007] ===== KO-25 KITSAT Catalog number: 22828 Launch date: September 26, 1993 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 145.980 MHz FM 9600-baud FSK Downlink: 436.500 MHz FM Broadcast Callsign: HL02-11 BBS: HL02-12 [05092004] ===== AO-24 ARSENE Catalog Number: 22654 Launch Date: May 13, 1993 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 435.0625 MHz FM 1k2bps AFSK 435.1125 MHz FM 1k2bps AFSK 435.1375 MHz FM 1k2bps AFSK Downlink: 145.9750 MHz FM 1k2bps AFSK 2446.5025 MHz FM 1k2bps AFSK Beacon: 2446.4700 MHz CW Broadcast callsign: BBS: [12162009] ===== KO-23 KITSAT Catalog number: 22077 Launch date: August 10, 1992 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 145.900 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK) Downlink: 435.170 MHz FM Broadcast Callsign: HLO1-11 BBS: HLO1-12 [01222007] ===== UO-22 UOSAT Catalog number: 21575 Launch date: July 17, 1991 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Uplink: 145.900 FM 9600-baud FSK Downlink: 435.120 MHz FM Broadcast Callsign: UOSAT5-11 BBS: UOSAT5-12 [01222007] ===== AO-21 AMSAT-OSCAR 21 Catalog Number: 21087 Launch Date: January 29, 1991 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Uplink: 435.041 MHz FM DSP Downlink: 145.983 MHz FM DSP [01222007] ===== FO-20 JAS-1b Catalog number: 20480 Launch Date: February 07, 1990 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Beacons: 435.795 MHz CW 435.910 MHz AX25 Voice Transponder: Uplink: 145.900 to 146.000 MHz CW/LSB Downlink: 435.800 to 435.900 MHz CW/USB Digital Transponder: Uplinks: 145.850 MHz 145.870 MHz 145.890 MHz 145.910 MHz Downlink: 435.910 MHz More FO-20 info can be found at: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/fo20.html [01152007] ===== WO-18 WEBERSAT Catalog Number: 20441 Launch Date: January 22, 1990 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Downlink: 437.104 MHz SSB 1200 Baud PSK AX.25 [05012006] ===== DO-17 Dove Catalog Number: 20440 Launch Date: January 22, 1990 Launch site: Status: Non-operational. Downlink: 145.825 MHz FM 1200 Baud AFSK Beacon: 2401.220 MHz [05012006] ===== AO-16 PACSAT Catalog number: 20439 Launch Date: January 22, 1990 Launch site: Status: non-operational Uplink: 145.900 MHz FM 1200-baud Manchester FSK (reserved) 145.920 MHz FM VOICE 145.940 MHz FM 1200-baud Manchester FSK (reserved) 145.960 MHz FM 1200-baud Manchester FSK (reserved) Downlink: 437.026 MHz USB VOICE (1200-baud PSK - MBL Telemetry Only) Mode-S Beacon: 2401.1428 MHz [NO FUTURE OPERATIONS PLANNED] Mode and Antenna Polarization: U: RC 437.050 MHz RHCP PSK 437.026 MHz LHCP V: Linear Broadcast Callsign: PACSAT-11 BBS: PACSAT-12 AO-16 AMSAT Webpage: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/ao16.html [07242009] ===== UO-15 UoSAT-4 Catalog Number: 20438 Launch Date: January 22, 1990 Lunch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: ? Downlink: 435.1250MHz (?) 435.1200MHz (?) [06042009] ===== UO-14 UoSAT-3 Catalog number: 20437 Launch date: January 22, 1990 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 145.975 MHz FM Downlink: 435.070 MHz FM [05092004] ===== FO-12 Fuji-OSCAR 12 Catalog Number: 16909 Launch Date: August 12, 1986 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode V/U (J) Linear Transponder (Inverting): Uplink: 145.9000 - 146.0000 MHz SSB/CW Downlink 435.8000 - 435.9000 MHz SSB/CW Mode V/U (J) Packet: Uplink: 145.8500 MHz MFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8700 MHz MFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.8900 MHz MFSK 1200 BPS Uplink: 145.9100 MHz MFSK 1200 BPS Downlink 435.9100 MHz PSK 1200 BPS Telemetry Beacon: 435.7950 MHz SSB/CW [01152007] ===== AO-10 OSCAR 10 Catalog number: 14129 Launch Date: June 16, 1983 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 435.030 to 435.180 MHz CW/LSB Downlink: 145.975 to 145.825 MHz CW/USB Beacon: 145.810 MHz (unmodulated carrier) W4SM has more information about the satellite at the following URL: http://www.cstone.net/~w4sm/AO-10.html [05092004] ===== AO-8 AMSAT-OSCAR 8 Catalog Number: 10703 Launch Date: March 3, 1978 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Mode V/U (J) Linear Transponder (Non-Inverting): Non-Operational Uplink: 145.9000 - 146.0000 MHz SSB/CW Downlink 435.1990 - 435.2000 MHz SSB/CW Mode V/U (J) TLM Beacon: Non-Operational Downlink 435.0950 MHz CW Mode V/A (A) Linear Transponder (Non-Inverting): Non-Operational Uplink: 145.8500 - 145.9000 MHz SSB/CW Downlink 29.4000 - 29.5000 MHz SSB/CW Mode V/A (A) TLM Beacon: Non-Operational Downlink 29.4020 MHz CW [01152007] ===== AO-6 AMSAT-OSCAR 6 Catalog Number: 06236 Launch Date: October 15, 1972 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Uplink: 145.9000 - 146.0000 MHz SSB/CW Downlink: 29.4500 - 29.5500 MHz SSB/CW Beacons: 29.450 MHz 435.100 MHz [01312008] ===== AO-5 Australis-OSCAR 5 Catalog Number: 04321 Launch Date: January 23, 1970 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Telemetry Beacons: 144.0500 MHz CW 29.4500 MHz CW [01152007] ===== OSCAR III Catalog Number: 01293 Launch Date: March 09, 1965 Launch site: Status: Non-Operational Uplink: 145.9750 - 146.0250 MHz SSB/CW Downlink: 144.3250 - 144.3750 MHz SSB/CW [01012007] ===== RS-15 RADIO SPORT RS-15 Catalog number: 23439 Launch Date: December 26, 1994 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 145.858 to 145.898 MHz CW/USB Downlink: 29.354 to 29.394 MHz CW/USB Beacon 1: 29.352 MHz (intermittent) Beacon 2: 29.398 MHz SSB meeting frequency: 29.380 MHz (unofficial) [06202004] ===== RS-13 RADIO SPORT RS-13 Catalog number: 21089 Launch date: February 5, 1991 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 21.260 to 21.300 MHz CW/USB Downlink: 145.860 to 145.900 MHz CW/USB Beacon: 145.860 MHz Robot: 145.908 MHz [05232004] ===== RS-12 RADIO SPORT RS-12 Catalog number: 21089 Launch date: February 5, 1991 Launch site: Status: Non-operational Uplink: 21.210 to 21.250 MHz CW/USB Downlink: 29.410 to 29.450 MHz CW/USB Beacon: 29.408 MHz Robot: 29.454 MHz [05232004] NNNN /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-194.S4 WSR 194 Part 4 07/15/2013 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 194.S4 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, July 15, 2013 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-194.S4 THE FOLLOWING SATELLITES HAVE RE-ENTERED OR HAVE BEEN RETURNED SAFELY: We-Wish Catalog number: 38856 Launch date: October 04,2012 Launch Site: Kibo Japanese Experiment Module, International Space Station Status: Operational Re-entry date: March 03, 2013 Mode: /u Downlink(s): 437.505MHz 1k2 AFSK 437.505MHz SSTV Beacon(s): 437.505MHz CW Callsign: JQ1ZIJ [06242013] ===== F-1 Catalog number: 38855 Launch Date: October 04, 2012 Launch Site: Kibo Japanese Experiment Module, International Space Station Status: Re-entered Re-entry date: May 09, 2013 MOde: Uplink(s): Downlink(s): 145.980MHz 1k2 AFSK 437.485MHz FM moduled CW Beacon(s): Callsign: XV1VN URL: http://fspace.edu.vn/ [05132013] ===== TechEdSat Catalog number: 38854 Launch date: October 04, 2012 Launch site: Kibo Japanese Experiment Module, International Space Station Status: Re-entered Re-entry date: May 05, 2013 Mode: Uplink(s): Downlink(s): 437.465 1k2 AFSK Beacon(s): Callsign: IARU coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=228 URL:http://www.techedsat.com/ [05062013] ===== Fitsat-1 (Niwaka) Catalog number: 38853 Launch Date: October 04, 2012 Launch site: Kibo Japanese Experiment Module, International Space Station Status: Re-entered Re-entry date: July 04,2013 Mode: /u /c /Light Downlink(s): 437.445MHz 1k2 AFSK 5840.00 MHz 115k2 data LED CW (200w pulses) Beacon(s): 437.250 MHz CW Callsign: NIWAKA URL: http://carpcomm.com/satellite/fitsat1 [07152013] ===== Bell Catalog Number: 39142 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: Re-entered Re-entry date: April 27, 2013 Mode: Callsign: KJ6KRW Uplink(s): Downlink(s): 437.425 MHz IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=211 URL: http://phonesat.org/ [05132013] ===== Graham Catalog Number: 39146 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: Re-entered Re-entry date: April 27, 2013 Callsign: KJ6KRW Mode: Uplink(s): Downlink(s): 437.425 MHz IARU Coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=267 URL: http://phonesat.org [40292013] ===== Alexander Catalog Number: 39144 Launch Date: April 19, 2013 Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: Re-entered Re-entry date: April 26, 2013 Mode: Callsign: KJ6KRW Uplink(s): Downlink(s): 437.425 MHz IARU Coordination page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=267 URL: http://phonesat.org [40292013] ===== HAWKSAT 1 Catalog number: 35004 Launch Date: May 19, 2009 2355z Launch site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: re-entered Re-entry date: September 04, 2012 Mode: Downlink: 437.345 MHz ? IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=105 [02112013] ===== ARISSat-1 Catalog number: 37772 Launch date: August 03, 2011 1843z Launch site: International Space Station Status: Re-entered Rentery date: January 04, 2012 Mode: Callsign: RS01S Current Mode(s): Linear Transponder: U/v Uplink: 435.758 to 435.742 MHz CW/LSB Downlink: 145.922 to 145.938 MHz CW/USB FM Telemetry/SSTV/Messages/ID: Downlink: 145.950 MHz FM Telemetry/Beacon: Downlink: 145.939 MHz CW1 145.919 MHz CW2 145.920 MHz 1k BPSK USB 145.920 MHz 400b BPSK USB Official Webpage:http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/ARISSat/ARISSat.php IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/informal_detail.php?serialnum=89 [01052012] ===== CP-6 Catalog Number: 35003 Launch Date: May 19, 2009 2355z Launch site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: Re-enetered Rentry date: October 06, 2011 Mode: Downlink: 437.365 MHz 1k2 AFSK IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=121 [01282013] ===== Pharmasat Catalog Number: 35002 Launch Date: May 19, 2009 2355z Launch site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: Re-entered Rentry date: August 14, 2012 Mode: Downlink: 437.465 MHz 1k2 AFSK IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=94 [01282013] ===== ANUSAT Catalog Number: 34808 Launch Date: April 20, 2009 0115z Launch Site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India Status: Re-entered Re-entry date : April 18, 2012 Mode: Downlink: 435.000 MHz Uplink: 145.800 MHz Telemetry: 137.400 MHz [02112013] ===== CAERUS (Mayflower) Catalog Number: 37252 Launch Date: December 08, 2010 15:43:00 UTC Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Florida, USA Status: Re-entered Re-entry date: December 22, 2010 Uplink: Downlink: 437.600 MHz 1k2 AX.25 Beacon: 437.600 MHz CW Callsign: KJ6FIX URL: http://www2.isi.edu/research/prj-serc/prj-serc_projects/prj-serc_projects-8… IARU coordination status page: [01282013] ===== Cinema Catalog Number: 36764 Launch Date: September 13, 2012 2139z Launch Site: Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Status: Ren-entered Re-entry date: Spetember 10, 2010 Uplink: Downlink: Engineering: 2400 - 2450MHz Telemetery: 2200 - 2300MHz Beacon: Callsign: URL: [02112013] ===== CO-56 CUTE-1.7 + APD Catalog number: 28941 Launch date: February 21, 2006 Launch site: Status: Re-entered Re-enrty date: October 25, 2009 Uplink: 1268.5000 MHz GMSK 9600 BPS Downlink: 437.4700 MHz 1200 FM ax25 or SRLL (ACTIVE only near Japan?) Telemetry Beacon: 437.3850 CW Callsign: JQ1YPC Information webpage: http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/spacerium/cute1blog/ IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=56 [09062010] ===== BEVO-1 (DRAGONSAT-1) Catalog Number: 35690 Launch Date: May 19, 2009 Launch site: Status: Re-entered Re-entered: Mode: Downlink: 437.325 MHz 9k6 GMSK 437.325 MHz CW 20wpm IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=117 [07312009] ===== AggieSat2 (DRAGONSAT-2) Catalog Number: 35690 Launch Date: May 19, 2009 Launch site: Status: Re-entered Re-entered: March 17, 2010 Mode: Downlink: 436.250 MHz 9k6 FHSS [11112009] ===== Pollux Catalog Number: 35693 Launch Date: July 31, 2009 Launch Site: Status: Re-entered Re-entered: Callsign: POLLUX-1 Downlink: 145.825MHz 1k2 AX.25 IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=139 [09062010] ===== Castor (ANDE-2) Catalog Number: 35694 Launch Date: July 31, 2009 Launch site: Status: Re-entered Re-entered: Mode: Callsign: KD4HBO-1 Downlink: 145.825 MHz 1k2 AX.25 IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=144 [09062010] ===== NO-62 FCAL Catalog Number: 29667 Launch Date: December 21, 2006 Launch site: Status: Re-Entered Re-entered: July 28, 2008 Mode: Downlink: 437.385 Mhz APRS AX25 Downlink ID: KD4HBO Website: http://eng.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/fcal.html IARU coordination status page: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=59 [01012009] ===== NO-61 ANDE Catalog Number: 29664 Launch Date: December 21, 2006 Launch site: Status: Re-Entered Re-entered: December 25, 2007 Mode: Uplink/Downlink: 145.825 Mhz FM APRS AX25 [01032008] ===== GENESAT-1 Catalog Number: 29655 Launch Date: December 16, 2006 Launch site: Status: Re-Entered Re-entered date: August 8, 2010 Mode: /u Callsign: KE7EGC Telemetry Beacon Downlink: 437.0695 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Official webpage: http://www.crestnrp.org/genesat1/ahc.html [08082010] ===== HO-59 HITSat Catalog number: 29484 Launch date: September 22, 2006 Launch site: Status: Re-Entered Re-entered: June 18, 2008 Mode: Telemetry Downlink: 437.4250 MHz AFSK 1200 BPS Beacon: 437.2750 MHz CW Callsign: JR8YJT [01012009] ===== SO-43 Starshine 3 Catalog Number: 26929 Launch Date: September 30, 2001 Launch site: Status: Re-Entered Re-entered: January 21, 2003 Mode: Beacon: 145.825Mhz [02212009] NNNN /EX ANS is released worldwide via the AMSAT ANS e-mail reflector and a live radiocast on the AMSAT-NA 20-meter net held each Sunday on 14.282 MHz. Pre-net operations start at 18:00 UTC, with current ANS bulletins trans- mitted to the eastern U.S. at 19:00 UTC and to the western U.S. at 19:30 UTC. Information on AMSAT-NA is available at the following URL: http://www.amsat.org Mailing address: AMSAT-NA 850 Sligo Avenue, Suite 600 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-4703 Voice: 301-589-6062 888-322-6728 FAX: 301-608-3410 Currently, AMSAT-NA supports the following (free) mailing lists: * AMSAT News Service (ANS) * General satellite discussion (AMSAT-BB) * Orbit data (KEPS) * Manned space missions (SAREX) * District of Columbia area (AMSAT-DC) * New England area (AMSAT-NE) * AMSAT Educational Liaison mailing list (AMSAT-EDU) * AMSAT K-12 Educational Liaison mailing list (AMSAT-K12) A daily digest version is available for each list. To subscribe, or for more list information, visit the following URL: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans In addition to regular membership, AMSAT-NA offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT-NA Office. This week's Weekly Satellite Report Editor is James French, W8ISS. ANS is always dedicated to past ANS editor 'BJ' Arts, WT0N, and to the memory of longtime AMSAT supporters Werner Haas, DJ5KQ, Dennis Kitchen, G0FCL and John Branegan GM4IHJ. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor{at} amsat.org NNNN /EX ANS is released worldwide via the AMSAT ANS e-mail reflector and a live radiocast on the AMSAT-NA 20-meter net held each Sunday on 14.282 MHz. Pre-net operations start at 18:00 UTC, with current ANS bulletins trans- mitted to the eastern U.S. at 19:00 UTC and to the western U.S. at 19:30 UTC. Information on AMSAT-NA is available at the following URL: http://www.amsat.org Mailing address: AMSAT-NA 850 Sligo Avenue, Suite 600 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-4703 Voice: 301-589-6062 888-322-6728 FAX: 301-608-3410 Currently, AMSAT-NA supports the following (free) mailing lists: * AMSAT News Service (ANS) * General satellite discussion (AMSAT-BB) * Orbit data (KEPS) * Manned space missions (SAREX) * District of Columbia area (AMSAT-DC) * New England area (AMSAT-NE) * AMSAT Educational Liaison mailing list (AMSAT-EDU) * AMSAT K-12 Educational Liaison mailing list (AMSAT-K12) A daily digest version is available for each list. To subscribe, or for more list information, visit the following URL: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans In addition to regular membership, AMSAT-NA offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT-NA Office. This week's Weekly Satellite Report Editor is James French, W8ISS. ANS is always dedicated to past ANS editor 'BJ' Arts, WT0N, and to the memory of longtime AMSAT supporters Werner Haas, DJ5KQ, Dennis Kitchen, G0FCL and John Branegan GM4IHJ. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor{at} amsat.org NNNN /EX

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ANS-188 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by E.Mike McCardel 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-188 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * Last Reminder for AMSAT Field Day Summary results * FITSAT-1 (NIWAKA) Decays * ISS Ham Radio Slow Scan TV active * Sending Your Own Spacecraft to the Moon * 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium starts July 19 * OPS-SAT opportunity for Radio Amateurs * Dutch Amateur Radio Satellite User Meeting September 28th 2013 * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-188.01 ANS-188 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 188.01 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. DATE July 7, 2013 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-188.01 Last Reminder for AMSAT Field Day Summary results Just a quick reminder that you must have your AMSAT Field Day results received by me no later than Monday, July 8, 2013 at 23:59 PM Central Time. If I do not receive them, your group will not be listed in the AMSAT Field Day story in the journal and they will be mad at you. We have had 14 submissions so far, last year we had 19. I hope we beat that number. Even if your group made one contact, turn it in. That shows you participated in AMSAT Field Day and succeeded in the feat of getting through the mess to complete your contact. A lot of groups were unable to accomplish one. [ANS thanks Bruce KK5DO, kk5do at arrl dot net, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- FITSAT-1 (NIWAKA) Decays FITSAT-1 (NIWAKA) decayed on 4th July 2013. The last signal was received by JA0CAW at 03:07(UT). I appreciate all hams who joined our experiments, helped our operations, and sent me many reports. I could make many friends in the world and enjoyed through FITSAT-1. Though FITSAT-1 became a shooting star, I am very happy now. Thank you very much again all Ham friends. Very Best 73, de Takushi -- Takushi Tanaka, JA6AVG FITSAT-project Fukuoka Institute of Technology [ANS thanks Takushi Tanaka, JA6AVG for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ISS Ham Radio Slow Scan TV active The Slow Scan TV (SSTV) experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) was active on July 2-3, on 145.800 MHz FM The MAI-75 experiment worked very well producing some stunning images. All you need to do to receive the SSTV pictures from the space station is to connected the audio output of a scanner or amateur rig via a simple interface to the soundcard on a Windows PC or an Apple iOS device, and tune in to 145.800 MHz FM. You can even receive pictures by holding an iPhone next to the radio's loudspeaker. On Windows PC's the free application MMSSTV can be used to decode the signal, on Apple iOS devices you can use the SSTV app. The ISS Fan Club website will show you when the space station is in range. MMSSTV http://hamsoft.ca/pages/mmsstv.php iOS SSTV App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sstv/id387910013 For more on Slow Scan Television SSTV, see this article SSTV - The Basics http://www.essexham.co.uk/sstv-the-basics How to be successful with the ISS Slow Scan Television (SSTV) imaging system http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/howtoisssstv.html Information on the MAI-75 SSTV experiment http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/researches/education-26.html IZ8BLY Vox Recoder, enables you to record the signals from the ISS on 145.800 MHz while you're away at work http://antoninoporcino.xoom.it/VoxRecorder/ For the latest status of amateur radio activity on the ISS and real time tracking see http://www.issfanclub.com/ [ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA and Southgate ARN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sending Your Own Spacecraft to the Moon A new project to give thousands of people the opportunity to design, build and launch personalised spacecraft and send them to the moon has begun. Now anyone can become a citizen space explorer and take part in a mission to send their own Pocket Spacecraft to the moon. At a cost of just GBP 99 (~EUR119/JPY15499/USD159), explorers who back the project will be able to personalise their own spacecraft by adding a picture or message direct from their favourite social media or game profile or create their own unique design. They can do this from their smartphone or web browser and will be able to monitor progress throughout their mission with their own Pocket Mission Control app. Users will be able to track the progress of their spacecraft as it is designed, built in the lab and travels through space. More technical explorers will be able to write software and even customise the on-board hardware enabling them to conduct their own unique experiments whether mapping the solar wind or playing laser tag - in space! Pocket Spacecraft are disks with flexible electronics, smaller than a CD and as thin as a piece of paper, that will be loaded into an Interplanetary CubeSat mothership to hitch a ride into space on a commercial rocket. The mothership will then set off to the moon and when it arrives many months later, the fleet of Pocket Spacecraft will be photographed as they are released to land on the moon to complete their mission. Anyone can take part in the mission via the crowd-funding site Kickstarter (search for ‘Pocket Spacecraft‘ or visit PocketSpacecraft.com ). Since launch in 2009, Kickstarter has raised more than $500 million for various projects from over 3 million individuals. Pocket Spacecraft only needs support from 2000 or more people to allow the mission to go ahead. The global team of scientists, engineers and designers behind Pocket Spacecraft have already created two dozen open space projects for the mission since 2009, supported by more than a hundred volunteers from twenty countries (and counting) led by co-ordinators in Europe (Bristol, UK) and America (Pasadena, CA, USA). Michael Johnson, founder of Pocket Spacecraft, co-created the first space mission funded on KickStarter (KickSat - due to be launched by NASA later this year), and influential workshops such as the Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop at MIT, and the Keck Institute for Space Studies Small Satellites: A Revolution in Space Science workshop at Caltech. “By backing this mission people will revolutionise space exploration and space science” enthuses Michael. “By democratising interplanetary space exploration we will create a generation of young explorers who can use the same affordable methods to explore Mars, Venus and beyond. We’re building tools so that one day every child will be able to send their own spacecraft on a robotic field trip in space”. The campaign will run for 60 days and end on August 26, 2013. Detailed information regarding the campaign is available on the KickStarter website: http://tinyurl.com/q8nbj6j MEDIA RELATIONS: media(a)PocketSpacecraft.com | PHONE +44 117 230 2060 / +1 626 768 2050 Helen White (Media Relations) helen(a)PocketSpacecraft.com Michael Johnson (Founder) michael(a)PocketSpacecraft.com Seth Jackson (Partnership enquiries) seth(a)PocketSpacecraft.com [ANS thanks Helen White for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium starts July 19 The 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will start late afternoon on Friday, July 19 and will run through until the afternoon on Sunday, July 21 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, UK. It will be preceded by a "Hands-on" CubeSat Workshop. This free workshop will take place at the nearby University of Surrey on Friday, July 19 and this will be followed, at the hotel, by the usual Colloquium "Beginners Session" in the late afternoon. The Holiday Inn, Guildford It is anticipated that both the FUNcube-1 and FUNcube-2 missions will be launched later this year and the FUNcube team will be on hand to talk about the missions and the planned educational outreach. A full demonstration of the Engineering Model, which has been performing flawlessly for almost a year, will also be provided. Further details and booking information at http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2013/ [ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- OPS-SAT opportunity for Radio Amateurs The ESA OPS-SAT CubeSat provides a rare opportunity for testing new amateur radio software for use on a CubeSat actually in space. The 3U CubeSat has deployable solar arrays and plans to launch in 2016 into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Although the formal closing dates for expressions of interest from potential experimenters for this project has now closed, contact has been made with Dave Evans at ESA-ESOC who has confirmed that they would be very interested to receive proposals from an AMSAT team to develop a novel use of this spacecraft for amateur radio purposes. In addition to an X Band downlink and S Band uplinks and downlinks, the spacecraft will carry a simplex transceiver operating with 4k8/9k6 telemetry using GMSK on the 435 MHz band. It s understood that experimenters will have access to an onboard processor running Linux/Java at 500 to 800 MHz. The project is open to teams led by a group from any ESA member country (this includes Canada) and initial info is shown here although the detailed design is being rapidly iterated.. It is emphasised that this is a very open project which will require lots of interaction between the contributing groups. Bright ideas are needed from our software experts and If there is sufficient interest it may be possible to host a Skype conference about this opportunity during the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium over the weekend of July 20-21. It is not proposed that this should be an AMSAT-UK led project, but Graham Shirville G3VZV is happy to provide some initial coordination! OPS-SAT Evolving Software Technology for Spacecraft Operations http://tinyurl.com/nrlzsbg [ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dutch Amateur Radio Satellite User Meeting September 28th 2013 On September 28th, 2013 there will be an amateur radio meeting (in Dutch: "Interessedag Amateursatellieten") held for everyone who is interested in amateur radio satellites. It will be held in Paasloo, in the Northern part of The Netherlands. We are very pleased to join this day with the annual VHF day held by the Dutch amateur radio society VERON. There will be a series of presentations concerning amateur radio satellites. Amongst others, the following topics will be included: a portable radio setup, the support radio amateurs provide give to the scientific community, beginners sessions, and last but not least, the latest news about two new satellites to be launched soon: the FUNcube- 1 and the Delfi-N3xT satellites (by their project representatives)! Besides these presentations, it is of course a great opportunity to meet other amateurs who are interested in satellites, and make plans for future meetings! While the main language will be Dutch (including the presentations), non-Dutch guests are of course welcome to join as well. If you need assistance with signing up, do not hesitate to ask either PA1IVO or PA3GUO (both callsign AT amsat.org) for help. The latest information about this event can be found on this webpage: http://ivok.home.xs4all.nl/other/SatDay2013.html (Dutch language with a summary in English) Ivo Klinkert, PA1IVO and Henk Hamoen, PA3GUO Dutch Amateur Radio Satellite User Meeting 2013 [ANS thanks Henk PA3GUO for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News Successful ARISS Contacts + A Successful contact was made between Ruder Boskovic Technical School, Zagreb, Croatia and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using callsign OR4ISS. The contact began 17:31 UTC 2013-06-26 and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via 9A1A. Ruder Boskovic Technical School in Zagreb is a secondary school with more than a sixty year tradition. Even since it was founded in 1948, it has been one of the highest rated schools in northwestern part of Croatia,on the present county of Grad Zagreb. It was named in honour to famous Croatian 18th century mathematician, astronomer, physicist, philosopher and theologian Ruder Boskovic who was born in Dubrovnik. There are 44 classes divided in 4 grades and 4 school educational programs : IT technician, electronics technician, mechatronics technician and optician. There are approximately 1.100 students aged 15 to 19, and more then 110 professors. + A Successful contact was made between Scuola Secondaria 1° grado "Arturo Toscanini", Capiago Intimiano, Italy and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using callsign IRØISS. The contact began 11:50:23 UTC 2013-06-29 and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was both dirct and telebridged because of the mountainous terrain around with the contact, starting with IK1SLD, then proceeding to IZ2WLC and finished back with IK1SLD. This school contact was in made in conjunction with the one from Scuola Media Massimiliano Kolbe. Scuola Secondaria 1° grado "Arturo Toscanini", Capiago Intimiano, Italy The school is located in Capiago Intimiano, a small town in the north part of Italy, 7 km far from Como. Como and the surrounding area can be clearly seen from space due to the unique shape of Lario lake (like a Y upside down). It takes the name from "Arturo Toscanini", a famous musician and conductor lived across the end of 19th century and early 20th. There are 10 classes and the students are from 11 years old to 14. + A Successful contact was made between Scuola Media Massimiliano Kolbe, Vercurago, Lecco, Italy and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using callsign OR4ISS. The contact began 11:50:23 UTC 2013-06-29 and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was both dirct and telebridged because of the mountainous terrain around with the contact, starting with IK1SLD, then proceeding to IZ2WLC and finished back with IK1SLD. This school contact was in made in conjunction with the one from Scuola Secondaria 1° grado "Arturo Toscanini" Scuola Media Massimiliano Kolbe, Vercurago, Lecco, Italy is a Local secondary school with students aged from 10 to 14. It's located in a building, built in 1950 by the government, originally used as a sanatorium converted into school in late 1970. Vercurago is a small town not far from Lecco, built on the shores of Garlate's lake (as it comes out of Lario lake and become Adda river). + A Successful contact was made between Association Intercultura Onlus, Frascati, Italy, and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 17:02:30 UTC 2013-07-06 and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via W6SRJ. Intercultura is the Italian representative of AFS Intercultural Programs (New York), an international, no profit, voluntary based organization that provides intercultural learning opportunities and cultural exchange programs throughout more than 60 different countries in the world, involving every year 13,000 students and an equivalent number of families and schools. In Italy, Intercultura is a no profit organization (ONLUS) recognized by the Italian government, under the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The professional staff of Intercultura is made by 40 people who work in the headquarters of Colle Val d’Elsa (Siena) or in the PR offices based in Milan and Rome. The 4,000 affiliated volunteers are organized in 140 local chapters and offer they voluntary work to promote international school based exchange programs. Upcoming ARISS Contacts + Scout Canada Jamboree, Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada, telebridge via VK5ZAI Contact is a go for: Mon 2013-07-08 16:31:11 UTC 36 deg + Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu’, Rome, State of Vatican City, direct via HV2VO Contact is a go for: Wed 2013-07-10 12:36:28 UTC 66 deg ARISS is requesting listener reports for the above contacts. Due to issues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the Ericsson radio is going to be used for these contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. [ANS thanks Charlie, AJ9N for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + 432 and Above EME Newsletter The July issue of the free amateur radio 432 MHz and Above EME Newsletter is now available The newsletter can be downloaded in Word or PDF formats from http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm.html Previous newsletters are at http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm_arc.html [ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information] + G4HYG RELEASES NEW APRS MESSENGER ANDROID APP Chris Moulding, G4HYG, says that he has just released a new APRS app for Android phones and tablets. This so that radio amateurs can send APRS position beacons and messages from an Android equipped phone or tablet over a 3G or Wi-Fi link to the APRS-IS internet system. It can also link by Bluetooth to the new Bluetooth version of the APRS TNC Digi Tracker. G4HYG notes that there is a small charge for the app to help pay for the development tool licensing fee. More information on the web at tinyurl.com/aprs-android-app. (G4HYG) [ANS thanks Amateur Radio Newsline™ for the above information] + Google Project Loon Interference Concerns It has been reported that concerns have been raised with Google about the interference their 2400 MHz and 5800 MHz Project Loon balloons could cause, see http://tinyurl.com/m23fjqp [ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA and AMSAT-UK for the above information] + This Week in Space History July 7 1998 First Satellite Launched from Submarine 2003 Mars Rover Opportunity Launched June 8 1994 STS-65 Columbia Launched 2011 STS-135 Atlantis Launched - Final Shuttle Mission June 9 1945 White Sands Missle Range opened 1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter June 10 1962 Telstar Launched allowing transatlantic TV Transmission 1992 Biotto spave craft flies past Comet Grigg-Skjellerup June 11 1962 NASA picks lunar orbit rendezvous method for lunar landings 1979 Skylab Re-enters Atmosphere June 12 2000 Zvezda Service Module Launched to ISS 2001 STS-104 Atlantis Launched June 13 1995 STS 70 Discovery Launched [ANS thanks The Planetary Society for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, EMike McCardel, KC8YLD kc8yld at amsat dot org

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