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ANS-325 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by E.Mike McCardel 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-325 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: * ARISS-I Celebrates 20th Anniversary and Plans for the Future of Amateur Radio in Human Spaceflight * AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success! * NEON - NASA Educators Online Network Free STEM Education Webinars * Lunar Amateur Radio Satellites DSLWP-A1/A2 * XW-1/HO-68 Restoration Work - Listening Reports Requested * Jim Wilson, K5ND Earns Satellite VUCC * ARISS News * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-325.01 ANS-325 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 325.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. November 20, 2016 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-325.01 ARISS-I Celebrates 20th Anniversary and Plans for the Future of Amateur Radio in Human Spaceflight The ARISS-I delegates met this week in Houston, Texas at the ISS Conference Facility to celebrate 20 years of Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). Prior to and during the conference, over 50 delegates and guests from Russia, Japan, Italy, German, the UK, and North America had the option for a behind the scenes tour of Johnson Space Center. The conference also had special guest visits from Astronauts Mike Fincke, Ken Cameron, and Cosmonaut Aleksandr Poleshchuk. The delegates and guests also were able to tour the W5RRR Johnson Space Center Amateur Radio Club and utilize the club's amateur radio repeater. The three main tracks of the conference were covered in two tracks per day to maximize the short time span of the 4 day meeting with the international delegates. Delegates who could not attend in person utilized video conferencing. ARISS Benefactors such as SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation office at NASA-JSC) and CASIS (Center for the Advancement of Science in Space) also attended in-person and online. The three main tracks were Sustainability & Funding, Hardware Development, and Educational Impact. Plenary Sessions were held in the mornings on selected topics of great interest to all attendees. Members also met informally at Ken Ransom's house (N5VHO) for a BBQ - "Texas Style." The 20th Anniversary Dinner was held overlooking Galveston Bay. Much work, many thanks, and a wonderful spirit of international camaraderie was evident by the end of the week at this International Face-to-Face meeting. The future of Amateur Radio in Human Space was discussed heavily and many tasks were undertaken by the delegations to report back or develop a response. Summarizing one comment at the end of the meeting, "This week, just as with any ARISS contact, as we approach LOS (loss of signal), I know it's coming soon, but I don't want it to end." The international attendees expressed great appreciation for the 20th Anniversary ARISS Face-to-Face Meeting organizing committee lead by Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, ARISS International Chair and AMSAT-NA Vice President, Human Spaceflight, Rosalie White, K1STO, ARISS Delegate, Debra Johnson, K1DMJ, ARRL, Mark Steiner, K3MS, ARISS, and Ms. Janet Bauer. Next year's ARISS International Face-to-Face Meeting is schedule for September 2017 in Rome, Italy. [ANS thanks ARISS for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea a Success! The 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting held aboard the Carnival Liberty in the Gulf of Mexico is now history! Approximately 70 AMSAT members as well as family and friends from the United States, Canada, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, and the Azores enjoyed the presentations, activities, and camaraderie during the four day cruise, which departed from Galveston, Texas and included a port call at Progreso, Mexico. Look for more details about the Symposium presentations and activities in the next issue of The AMSAT Journal. Due to a lack of internet bandwidth, live audio of the 2016 AMSAT General Meeting was not available via Echolink. Please see the following slides presented during the General Meeting by AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, for an update on the status of AMSAT: http://tinyurl.com/ANS325-AnnualMeeting For selected photos see this post on the AMSAT website: http://www.amsat.org/?p=5664 [ANS thanks Paul N8HM for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- NEON - NASA Educators Online Network Free STEM Education Webinars ANNOUNCEMENTS Free STEM Education Webinars From NASA Educator Professional Development Audience: In-service, Pre-service, Home School and Informal Educators The NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative (EPDC) at Texas State University is presenting a series of free webinars open to all educators. Join NASA education specialists to learn about activities, lesson plans, educator guides and resources that bring NASA into your classroom. Registration is required to participate. To register, simply click on the link provided beneath the webinar description. November 21, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. ET: NASA Technology in Your Classroom: Images and Data (Grades 4-10) - Explore NASA resources for using images and data in the classroom. These resources can be used to engage students, illustrate concepts, and develop educational exhibits, programs or products. Learn about the latest science discoveries and more at http://nasawavelength.org/data-and-images. Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/203264 ++++++++++++ November 21, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. ET: Astrobiology and the Origin of Life (Grades 6-12) - Learn how NASA has turned the search for alien life from science fiction to a quickly growing research field. Topics in earth and space science linked to biology will help us understand the most current theories for how life came to be here on Earth and where we could find it next. Classroom activities fit for numerous grade levels will put this exploration into the hands of our next generation of scientists! Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/198801 ++++++++++++ November 22, 2016, at 4:00 p.m. ET: NASA Technology in Your Classroom: NASA Apps for All Ages (Grades K-12) - NASA has over 50 FREE apps for educational use. Learn how to use and integrate some of the applications in the classroom setting. Virtual reality, 3-D exploration and NASA missions come alive with the use of these apps. Engage students on topics such as earth science, the solar system, robotics and space station research through the usage of technology apps. Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/202778 ++++++++++++ For the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development webinar schedule, go to: http://www.txstate-epdc.net/events/ ************ SPACE EXPLORATION EDUCATORS CONFERENCE (SEEC) February 9-11, 2017 at Space Center Houston 1601 NASA Pkwy, Houston, TX 77058 Experience three days of complete immersion into the out-of-this world adventure of space exploration! This conference is for grades kindergarten to 12th – and not just for science teachers! Space Center Houston strives to use space to teach across the curriculum. The activities presented can be used for science, language arts, mathematics, history, and more. Attend sessions hosted by the actual scientists and engineers working on exciting endeavors like the International Space Station and explorations of Mars and the planets beyond. Hear from the astronauts leading the charge in exploration! Come learn about the bold vision to send humans back to the Moon and off to Mars! Attend sessions presented by educators and receive ready to implement classroom ideas and experience minds-on, hands-on fun. Network with fellow educators, take back a multitude of cross-curriculum ideas and activities and earn 24 hours of continuing professional education credit. For more information or to register, visit : http://spacecenterSEEC.org email seec(a)spacecenter.org or call (281) 244-2149. [ANS thanks NEON for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lunar Amateur Radio Satellites DSLWP-A1/A2 Mingchuan Wei BG2BHC reports DSLWP is a lunar formation flying mission for low frequency radio astronomy, amateur radio and education, consists of 2 microsatellites. Developed by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology the amateur radio payload onboard DSLWP-A1 will provide telecommand uplink and telemetry / digital image downlink. An open telecommand is also designed to allow amateurs to send commands to take and download an image. The satellites are 50x50x40 cm with a mass of about 45 kg and are 3- axis stabilized. Two linear polarization antennas are mounted along and normal to the flight direction. The team proposes downlinks for A1 on 435.425 MHz and 436.425 MHz while downlinks for A2 would be 435.400 MHz and 436.400 MHz using 10K0F1DCN or 10K0F1DEN 250 bps GMSK with concatenated codes or JT65B. Planning a launch into a 200 x 9000km lunar orbit in June 2018. Further info at http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/ IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/ [ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- XW-1/HO-68 Restoration Work - Listening Reports Requested China's professional space TT&C network has been monitoring XW-1 telemetry Since November 12 in an effort to restore its work. If anyone has heard the CW beacon signal at 435.790 MHz, Please contact Alan Kung, BA1DU, camsat (at) vip.163.com [ANS thanks Alan BA1DU for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Wilson, K5ND Earns Satellite VUCC Congratulations to Jim Wilson, K5ND on earning his Satellite VUCC award for working 100 grids. At the same time, because so many grid expeditions were confirmed on LoTW, he also qualified for the VUCC endorsement sticker for 125 grids. Jim wrote, "Thanks everyone for taking the time to enter your QSOs on Logbook of the World or to send me QSL cards in response to my own card. As I’ve mentioned before, it has been such a blast to work all these grids and to figure out how to work both the FM and linear satellites." [ANS thanks JoAnne K9JKM for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News + A Successful contact was made between Col·legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra., Barcelona, Spain and Astronaut Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD using Callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2016-11-17 08:25 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridge via W6SRJ. ARISS Mentor was Marcelo IKØUSO. In 2016, Col·legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra. is celebrating the 140th anniversary of the 1876 founding of the school. The school has approximately 600 students of Kindergarden (from 3 to 6 years of age), Primary (6-12 years old) and Secondary (from 12 to 16 years old) and is located in Barcelona, in the Poblenou neighbourhood, belonging to Sant Martí district. It was a very rewarding finish the anniversary by contacting with the International Space Station as the main activity of a set of Interdisciplinary Didactic Projects and multiple age level participation activities. Col·legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra's aim is to engage every student in these activities, which are not only STEM/STEAM related, but also cover geography, languages, history and others. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule Private Salesian High School named of St. Dominic Savio, Wroclaw, Poland, telebridge via W6SRJ The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Contact is a go for: Fri 2016-11-25 11:12:47 UTC ************ ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz. ************ All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ************ Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. ************ Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net ************ ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 123 Gaston ON4WF with 121 Francesco IKØWGF with 118 ************ The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC. Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1093. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1058. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact Charlie, aj9n at amsat.org or aj9n at aol.com, if more detailed statistics are needed. ************ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ************ QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS ************ The successful school list has been updated as of 2016-11-18 08:00 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_cor rection.rtf [Editor's Note: Please note truncation of above address. Please use care when copy/pasting the above URL] Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 ************ Exp. 49 on orbit Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + W1NU, Satellite DXCC No. 3, SK The December 2016 issue of QST reports the passing of Vic Politi, W1NU, among its Silent Keys department article. Vic was 93. Before going into assisted living several years ago, he was on top of the DXCC Honor Roll. Vic held Satellite DXCC No. 3, earned entirely via LEO satellites. In 1992, he was AMSAT SKN's first Best Fist winner. RIP, Vic. [ANS thanks Ray W2RS for the above information] + PSAT digipeater is back on. As well as its 28.121 ten meter PSK31 uplink and 435.350 MHz downlink. [ANS thanks Bob WB4APR for the above information] + The 2016 edition of the book "Getting Started with Amateur Satellites" is once again available from the AMSAT-UK shop. http://shop.amsat-uk.org/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK 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, AA8EM aa8em at amsat dot org

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ANS-381 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Lee McLamb 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-318 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: * CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification Satellite * Listening to the 2016 AMSAT Annual Meeting * Special Awards for the 2016 AMSAT Symposium at Sea * EO79/FUNcube-3 Enters Service for the Amateur Radio Community * Ham Radio Now Webcast Sunday Seminar From the ARRL/TAPR DCC * JAXA to Launch Satellites with Ham Radio Payloads to ISS SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-318.01 ANS-318 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 318.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE November 13, 2016 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-318.01 CAMSAT launched CAS-2T Technical Verification Satellite CAS-2T a technical verification satellite for CAMSAT CAS-2 series amateur radio satellite launched at 23:42, 9 November 2016, It is an 2U Cubsat and will not be separated from the final stage of rocket, so the orbital life may be 10 to 30 days since the final stage of rocket will be re-entry atmosphere. Amateur radio payloads: CW Telemetry Beacon:435.710MHz FM Transponder Uplink:145.925MHz FM Transponder Downlink:435.615MHz Launch vehicle: CZ-11(Y2) solid rocket Launch time: 23:42, 9-Nov-2016 Epoch time: +620.615 seconds Inclination degree: 97.400985 degrees RA of node degree: Eccentricity: 1.77E-4 Perigee degree: 328.206969 degrees Mean anomaly degree: 198.226766 degrees Period: 5685.564 seconds Speed: 7607.496391 m/s Longitude: 93.693693E Latitude: 13.531945N [ANS thanks Alan, BA1DU, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Listening to the 2016 AMSAT Annual Meeting As part of the “AMSAT Symposium @ Sea”, the AMSAT Annual Meeting will take place on Sunday, 13 NOV 16 at 1300 CST on board Carnival Liberty as the ship transits back to Galveston, TX from Progreso, Mexico. The Annual Meeting includes an overview of the “State of AMSAT” by the AMSAT President followed by a Q&A whereby meeting attendees are encouraged to ask questions addressed to the Senior Leadership Team as well as to the Board of Directors. The meeting concludes with our recognition of AMSAT volunteers who have made a significant impact on behalf of AMSAT in 2016 through their efforts in support of AMSAT Engineering, Field Operations, AMSAT Journal, Human Spaceflight, Educational Relations, Dayton Hamvention, and Operations as well as Presidential Recognition. The original intent was to make the Annual Meeting available via Echolink so that AMSAT members not attending the AMSAT Symposium @ Sea could participate. At prior Annual Meetings, Echolink was used to provide access to the Annual Meeting for AMSAT members not attending Symposium with a reasonably good level of interest by those that have used this connection to hear the President’s presentation and participate in the Q&A. Given that internet access on board Carnival Liberty will not provide reliable EchoLink connections, A live EchoLink connection for this year’s Annual Meeting will not be available. However, the meeting will be recorded and the expectation is to have the recording available through the AMSAT website after the conclusion of the cruise and an announcement will be made when it is available. [ANS thanks AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Awards for the 2016 AMSAT Symposium at Sea Two unique awards are being offered during AMSAT’s 2016 Space Symposium being held November 10-14, 2016 aboard the Carnival Liberty cruise ship. The Landlubbers Award is available to amateur radio operators who complete a two-way satellite QSO with any Symposium attendee aboard the Carnival Liberty. The Sea Legs Award is available to amateur radio operators who complete a two-way satellite QSO while sailing aboard the Carnival Liberty during the Symposium. The awards will be made available in PDF format for self-printing. Submit logs to Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, via email to n8hm at amsat.org to apply for the awards. [ANS thanks Clayton, W5PFG, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- EO79/FUNcube-3 Enters Service for the Amateur Radio Community AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL working with ISIS BV are delighted to announce that the FUNcube U/V transponder, on the 2U CubeSat QB50p1, has now been activated with a regular schedule. Due to power budget constraints the transponder cannot be operational 24/7 and an orbit specific schedule has been developed. The transponder will commence operation 27 minutes after the spacecraft enters sunlight and will stay on for a period of 25 minutes. This schedule may be modified over the forthcoming weeks as a result of experience.imagesCAAFR7EH The transponder frequencies are: Uplink: 435.047-435.077 MHz LSB Downlink: 145.935-145.965 MHz USB Output power is approximately 400mW. Qb50p1 was launched in June 2014, as a collaborative effort led by the von Karman Institute and ISIS-BV, into a sun synchronous 620×600 km polar orbit as a precursor spacecraft for the QB50 mission. The primary function of the satellite was to test a number of the systems and science payloads. This phase has now been completed and we are grateful to VKI and ISIS BV for carrying this transponder into space and, again, to ISIS, for developing and uploading the new, required, flight code. [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ham Radio Now Webcast Sunday Seminar From the ARRL/TAPR DCC Team Leader for the design and execution of the AMSAT Ground Terminal Michelle Thompson W5NYV (@abraxas3d) and AMSAT Board Member Bob McGwier, N4HY, attended the 2016 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference. Both presented the Sunday Seminar. In these videos Michelle and Bob speak about the spectrum and cognitive radio. Michelle expects technology to really disrupt the radio art in the near future. The Sunday Seminar spanned 3 hours. Gary Pearce, KN4AQ, presents the entire seminar video via his Ham Radio Now webcast. The 3 parts can viewed at these links: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOV7jab67B4 Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V_u2vEY2CY Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciX5Jjn_Ipc [ANS thanks Gary Pearce, KN4AQ, Ham Radio Now and TAPR for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- JAXA to Launch Satellites with Ham Radio Payloads to ISS Mineo Wakita JE9PEL reports on the AMSAT Bulletin Board that six satellites with amateur radio payloads are to be launched to the International Space Station in December. JAXA announced to the public November 7 that seven nano satellites are to be installed in H-IIB Transfer Vehicle “KOUNOTORI” (HTV) to be launched in December. Satellites are only about 1U~3U in size and will conduct experiments aimed at realizing the space elevator which is expected to facilitate the movement of Earth and Universe in the future. It’s the first time to launch in JAXA with seven satellites at a time. HTV6 Launch: 1326 UT, Dec. 9, 2016 at the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. Downlink Beacon Mode AOBA-VeloxIII 437.375 437.375 1k2 AFSK,CW ITF-2 437.525 437.525 1k2 FM,CW STARS-C (Mother) 437.405 437.245 1k2 FM,CW STARS-C (Daughter) 437.425 437.255 1k2 FM,CW WASEDA-Sat3 437.290 437.290 1k2 PCM-FSK,CW TuPod 437.425 437.425 1k2 GMSK,CW H-II Transfer Vehicle “KOUNOTORI” (HTV), JAXA http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/rockets/htv/index.html AOBA-VeloxIII Kyusyu Institute of Technology http://aoba2016.blog.fc2.com/ EGG University of Tokyo / Nihon University http://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/bitstream/a-is/2961/1/SA6000021010.pdf FREEDOM Tohoku University / Nakashimada Engineering Works, Ltd http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/newimg/pressimg/tohokuuniv- press_20140926_01web.pdf ITF-2 University of Tsukuba http://yui.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/ TuPOD Gauss Srl http://www.gaussteam.com/tupod-almost-ready-for-launch/ STARS-C Shizuoka University http://stars.eng.shizuoka.ac.jp/english.html WASEDA-SAT3 Waseda University http://www.miyashita.mmech.waseda.ac.jp/Waseda-Sat3/ [ANS thanks Mineo, JE9PEL, 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, Lee McLamb, KU4OS ku4os at amsat dot org

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ANS-311 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Lee McLamb 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-311 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 Symposium Cruise Port Call Changed * ARISS Packet Active on 437.550 MHz * Upcoming ARISS contact with Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL * US Naval Academy Students Plan HF Transponder Satellite * UBAKUSAT 3U Linear Transponder CubeSat * NASA CubeSat Launch Opportunity * Free Program -- Cubes in SpaceTM SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-311.01 ANS-311 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 311.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE November 6, 2016 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-311.01 AMSAT Symposium Cruise Port Call Changed The 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held aboard a commercial cruise ship departing from the port of Galveston, Texas. Sail dates are November 10-14 aboard the Carnival Liberty. Galveston is conveniently located near Houston, Texas with access from both the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and the Houston Hobby Airport (HOU.) AMSAT has been notified that due to a technical issue with Carnival Liberty which only affects the ship;s maximum cruise speed, the arrival and departure times as well as scheduled itinerary have been modified. This cruise will embark on Thursday evening, 19:00-22:00 CST and return on the following Monday morning at 10:00 CST. The trip includes two full days at sea and one day in port at Progreso, Mexico. Symposium presentations and meetings will be conducted during the days at sea to allow free time during the stop while in port. The AMSAT Board of Directors meeting will occur on shore at the DoubleTree by Hilton Galveston Beach, Galveston, Texas, November 9-10. [ANS thanks Carnival Cruise Lines for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS Packet Active on 437.550 MHz N5VHO reported via Twitter (#ARISS, #hamradio) that the ISS packet system now operational on UHF (437.550 MHz). See also: http://www.issfanclub.com/node/41955 [ANS thanks Kenneth, N5VHO, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming ARISS contact with Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Boca Raton Christian School, Boca Raton FL on 07 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 17:15 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and N4BRF. The contact should be audible over the state of Florida and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Boca Raton Christian School is a faith-based school distinguished by its academic excellence, spiritual formation, and caring environment. BRCS serves approximately 570 students in grades PreK-12. The campus is situated on approximately 22 acres in downtown Boca Raton, FL. Founded in 1973 as a ministry of Boca Raton Community Church, the school is accredited by several educational institutions and has been recognized twice as a National Blue Ribbon School. The college preparatory high school features a one-to-one laptop program as well as superior fine arts and athletic programs. All BRCS students participate in community service: grades K through 8 are involved in local projects, and high school students spend a week serving under-served communities in Tennessee, Arizona, and Costa Rica. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org. [ANS thanks David, AA4KN, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- US Naval Academy Students Plan HF Transponder Satellite AMSAT-UK reported the US Naval Academy HFSAT received IARU frequency coordination on October 27, 2016. This is a 1.5U CubeSat with a 15 meter to 10 meter linear transponder. The #HFsat 21.4 to 29.42 MHz inverting transponder will have a bandwidth of 30 kHz. The satellite will also carry an APRS digipeater on 145.825 MHz. crossed 1/4 wave whips on VHF and also a 10 meter dipole. No launch has yet been identified. IARU Coordination: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=528 US Naval Academy page: http://aprs.org/hfsat.html [Thanks to IARU and US Naval Academy] --------------------------------------------------------------------- UBAKUSAT 3U Linear Transponder CubeSat Turkey’s 3U CubeSat UBAKUSAT carrying an amateur radio 145/435 MHz SSB/CW transponder is planned to be deployed from the ISS in 2017. The linear transponder is almost the same as that on the TURKSAT-3USAT which was launched on April 26, 2013. The satellite is being developed by Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Space Systems Design and Test Lab (SSDTL) along with TAMSAT, GUMUSH and ERTEK Ltd, with some support of the RF lab of ITU (RFL) and Ministry of Transportation, Communication and Maritime in collaboration with the Japanese Government. The primary mission of UBAKUSAT is to provide voice communications for amateur radio stations around the globe. Additionally the satellite will carry the TAMSAT Simplesat card which will send telemetry data, including the relative radiation data absorbed by the card, to ground stations. There is also a CW beacon. The estimated duration of the satellite mission is about 6 to 12 months before re-entry. The launch from Japan to the International Space Station is planned for late 2016 or early 2017 and deployment from the ISS will occur sometime later. IARU coordinated frequencies: • 437.225 MHz CW Beacon • 437.325 MHz Telemetry • SSB/CW transponder: – 145.940-145.990MHz – 435.200-435.250 MHz IARU satellite frequency coordination pages http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/ Turkish Amateur Satellite Technologies Organization (TAMSAT) http://tinyurl.com/TurkeyTAMSAT [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- NASA CubeSat Launch Opportunity NASA has opened the next round of its CubeSat Launch Initiative in an effort to engage the growing community of space enthusiasts who can contribute to NASA's space exploration goals. The CubeSat Launch Initiative gives students, teachers and faculty a chance to get hands-on flight hardware development experience in the process of designing, building and operating small research satellites. It also provides a low-cost pathway to space for research in the areas of science, exploration, technology development, education or operations consistent with NASA's Strategic Plan. Applicants must submit their proposals electronically by 4:30 p.m. EST, Nov. 22, 2016. NASA will choose the payloads by Feb. 17, 2017, but initial selection does not guarantee a launch opportunity. Certain selected experiments are slated to be flown as auxiliary payloads on agency rocket launches or to be deployed from the International Space Station beginning in 2017 and running through 2020. NASA does not fund the development of the small satellites, and this opportunity is open only to U.S. nonprofit organizations and U.S. accredited educational organizations. One goal of the CubeSat Launch Initiative is to extend the successes of space exploration to all 50 states by launching a small satellite from at least one participant in each state in the next five years. During this round, NASA is particularly focused on gaining participation in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 18 states not previously selected for the CubeSat Launch Initiative. These states are Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. CubeSats are in a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The base CubeSat dimensions are about 4 inches by 4 inches by 4 inches (10 centimeters by 10 centimeters by 11 centimeters), which equals one "cube," or 1U. CubeSats supported by this launch effort include volumes of 1U, 2U, 3U and 6U. CubeSats of 1U, 2U and 3U size typically have a mass of about three pounds (1.33 kilograms) per 1U Cube. A 6U CubeSat typically has a mass of about 26.5 pounds (12 kilograms). The CubeSat's final mass depends on which deployment method is selected. To date, NASA has selected 119 CubeSat missions from 66 unique organizations. Of those missions, 46 have been launched into space with 29 more CubeSats scheduled to go in the next 12 months. For additional information about NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative program, visit http://go.nasa.gov/CubeSat_initiative. Questions about this opportunity should be directed to Jason Crusan at Jason.Crusan(a)nasa.gov. [ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message -- Nov. 3, 2016 for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Free Program -- Cubes in SpaceTM Cubes in SpaceT provides students ages 11-18 an opportunity to design and compete to launch an experiment into space at no cost! Cubes in SpaceT is offered by idoodledu, inc., in partnership with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, the Colorado Space Grant Consortium and NASA's Langley Research Center. This global education program based on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) enables students to learn about space exploration using innovative problem-solving and inquiry-based learning methods. Participants have access to resources that help prepare them to design and develop an experiment to be integrated into a small cube. This year, experiments will be launched into space via sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, in late June 2017 or from a high-altitude balloon launched from NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in August 2017. The deadline for program registration is Jan. 6, 2017. For more information, visit http://www.cubesinspace.com. Questions about this program may be directed to info(a)cubesinspace.com. About idoodedu inc. idoodledu inc., a charitable nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, is a wholly owned subsidiary of idoodlelearning inc., and was created in 2015 as a legal vehicle to bring public/private partnerships and publicly funded programs to all learners and educators. idoodlelearning inc. is an education company based in Ottawa, Canada; London, England; and Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. [ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message -- Nov. 3, 2016 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, Lee McLamb, KU4OS ku4os at amsat dot org

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