[jamsat-news:3824] [ANS] ANS-225 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Aug. 13
Mark Johns, K0JM via ANS
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2023年 8月 13日 (日) 09:05:49 JST
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-225
In this edition:
* AM1SAT Satellite Contest, September 2023
* Registration Open for 41st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual
General Meeting
* International AMSAT Conferences Taking Place
* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution
* SpaceX Crew 8 Mission to Include Three U.S. Radio Amateurs
* ARISS News
* Upcoming Satellite Operations
* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
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ANS-225 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
To: All RADIO AMATEURS
From: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
712 H Street NE, Suite 1653
Washington, DC 20002
DATE 2023 Aug 13
AM1SAT Satellite Contest, September 2023
AMSAT-EA will be on the air on all available satellites with the callsigns
AM1SAT and AM2023SAT from September 4th to 17th, 2023 to celebrate the
fourth edition of the AM1SAT trophy contest as part of the URE activities
within the IberRadio 2023 event, the largest one in the world of amateur
radio in Spain and Portugal (http://www.iberradio.es), and which will open
its doors during the weekend of 16-17 in Avila, a city near Madrid, capital
of Spain.
The AMSAT-EA operators will activate the aforementioned callsigns from the
different states and autonomous cities of Spain during the said period of
time and with the objective in this edition to promote contacts with the
maximum number of them.
As part of this activity and to encourage participation, SILVER and GOLD
diplomas will be available for the different modalities of satellites
according to their footprint and orbital height, LEO, MEO (IO-117
satellite) and GEO (QO-100 satellite), as well as a trophy for the station
that works the greatest number of states in the total number of available
satellites and another trophy for the one that contacts the greatest number
of states on the satellite with the largest footprint and coverage (in this
case, IO-117). These trophies will be physically sent at no cost to the
winners.
The third edition of the AM1SAT satellite contest, in 2021, finished with
1327 QSOs including GEO and LEO contacts, with 57 different
radio-countries, using 20 satellites and with the participation of 419
different competitors (callsigns).
Full rules can be found here:
https://www.amsat-ea.org/app/download/13570625/AM1SAT+CONTEST+2023+-+RULES.pdf
[ANS thanks Félix Páez, EA4GQS, AMSAT-EA President, for the above
information]
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The 2023 AMSAT President's Club coins are here now!
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of its launch
on June 16, 1983, this year's coin features
an image of AMSAT-OSCAR 10.
Join the AMSAT President's Club today and help
Keep Amateur Radio in Space!
https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/
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Registration Open for 41st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General
Meeting
The 41st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting will be
held on Friday through Saturday, October 20-21, 2023 at the Sheraton DFW
Airport Hotel in Irving, Texas. Highlights of all scheduled events include:
- AMSAT Board of Directors Meeting, October 19-20
- 41st AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting, October 20-21
- Friday Night Social and Auction, October 20
- AMSAT Banquet and Reception, October 21
- AMSAT Member Breakfast, October 22
Prices for the Symposium, the Banquet and the Member Breakfast remain the
same as last year:
- Friday and Saturday Symposium and General Meeting $75
- Saturday Evening Banquet $55
- Sunday Morning Member Breakfast $15
EVENT REGISTRATION
You can register online for individual events or all events at:
https://launch.amsat.org/event-5363188.
HOTEL ROOM RESERVATIONS
The Sheraton DFW Airport is located adjacent to the Dallas/Fort Worth
International Airport and provides complimentary, scheduled shuttle to and
from the airport. Complimentary parking is available for those who drive to
the Symposium. The hotel address and phone number is:
Sheraton DFW Airport Hotel
4440 W John Carpenter Fwy.
Irving, TX 75063
972-929-8400
Rooms are available for check-in on Wednesday, October 18 and check out
Sunday, October 22.
- Standard room with single King bed is **SOLD OUT** ACT FAST! GET YOUR
RESERVATIONS NOW!
- Standard room with two Queen beds is $137.00*
* Rate does not include state and local taxes of 15%
For Phone Hotel Reservations:
Call 972-929-8400. Ask for rate RADIO AMATEUR SATELLITE.
For Online Hotel Reservations click on this link:
https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1689956666782&key=GRP&app=resvlink
Please send your Symposium questions or comments to info [at] amsat [dot]
com.
We, at AMSAT, are excited to be able to host our 41st annual Symposium this
year. We hope that you can join us in celebrating Amateur Radio in Space.
[ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information.]
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Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows,
and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through
AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards
Keeping Amateur Radio in Space.
https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/
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International AMSAT Conferences Taking Place
+ AMSAT-UK is pleased to announce that the 2023 Colloquium will take place
alongside the RSGB Convention at Kents Hill Park Conference Centre, Milton
Keynes on the weekend of 14/15th October 2023.
Full details of the Colloquium will be made available nearer the time on
the AMSAT-UK website at https://amsat-uk.org As in previous years, the
AMSAT-UK Colloquium will run as a separate stream within the RSGB
Convention and will include presentations on a variety of satellite and
space related topics.
Entrance to the RSGB Convention is managed by the RSGB and you will be
required to purchase Day Tickets for the Saturday and/or Sunday to attend
the AMSAT-UK Colloquium. These can be booked via the RSGB website at
https://rsgb.org/main/rsgb-2023-convention/ Early bird discounts are being
offered by the RSGB via their website.
+ AMSAT-DL was founded in 1973, so this year we can look back on 50 years
of space exploration. We have taken this as an opportunity to put this
year’s symposium in a special setting. Ticket sales are now available at
https://shop.amsat-dl.org/. The festive conference and symposium will be
held Friday, September 15 to Sunday, September 17, 2023.
With a view to the 50-year history of AMSAT-Germany and its mission of
promoting amateur radio via satellites, the celebratory conference “From
OSCAR 10 to OSCAR 100: 50 years of AMSAT-DL in service to science, research
and education” will take place at the Bochum Observatory radome.
Accomodations are limited, and the booking of the overnight stays is only
possible via the AMSAT-DL store. See
https://amsat-dl.org/en/ticket-sales-festive-conference-50-years-amsat-dl/
for more information.
[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-DL for the above information]
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Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition?
Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff
from our Zazzle store!
25% of the purchase price of each product goes
towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space
https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear
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Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for August 11
Two Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps
in the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical
model of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly
updates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. Elements in
the TLE bulletin files are updated daily. TLE bulletin files are updated to
add or remove satellites as necessary Thursday evenings around 2300 UTC, or
more frequently if new high interest satellites are launched. More
information may be found at
https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/
The following satellite has decayed from orbit and has been removed from
this week's AMSAT-NA TLE distribution:
ATHENOXAT-1 NORAD Cat ID 41168 decayed from orbit on 8 August 2023
[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager for the
above information]
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SpaceX Crew 8 Mission to Include Three U.S. Radio Amateurs
Four crew members now are assigned to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8
mission for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station.
NASA made the announcement on August 4.
NASA astronauts Commander Matthew Dominick, KC0TOR; Pilot Michael Barratt,
KD5MIJ; and Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU; along with Roscosmos
cosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin, will join Expedition 70
and 71 crew members aboard the station in early 2024 to conduct a
wide-ranging set of operational and research activities.
This will be the first spaceflight for Dominick, who became a NASA
astronaut in 2017. He is from Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and earned a
bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of San
Diego, California, and a master’s in systems engineering from the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is an active-duty U.S. Navy
astronaut. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent
River, Maryland, and then served as a test pilot specializing in testing
landing on and catapult launches from U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.
This will be Barratt’s third trip to the space station. In 2009, Barratt
served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 19 and 20 as the station
transitioned its standard crew complement from three to six, and performed
two spacewalks. He flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 2011 on
STS-133, which delivered the Permanent Multipurpose Module and fourth
Express Logistics Carrier. He has spent a total of 212 days in space. Born
in Vancouver, Washington, he Considers Camas, Washington, to be his
hometown. Barratt earned a bachelor’s in zoology from the University of
Washington, Seattle, and a doctor of medicine from Northwestern University
in Chicago, Illinois. He completed residencies in internal medicine at
Northwestern and aerospace medicine along with a master’s degree at Wright
State University in Dayton, Ohio. After nine years as a NASA flight surgeon
and project physician, Barratt joined the astronaut corps in 2000.
This also will be Epps’ first trip to the space station. She is from
Syracuse, New York, and earned a bachelor’s in physics from LeMoyne College
in Syracuse, New York, and a master’s in science and a doctorate in
aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior
to joining NASA, she worked at Ford Motor Company and the Central
Intelligence Agency. She was selected as an astronaut in July 2009, and has
served on the Generic Joint Operation Panel working on space station crew
efficiency, as a crew support astronaut for two expeditions, and as lead
capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space
Center in Houston. Epps previously was assigned to NASA’s Boeing
Starliner-1 mission. NASA reassigned Epps to allow Boeing time to complete
development of Starliner while also continuing plans for astronauts to gain
spaceflight experience for future mission needs.
Grebenkin, who graduated from Irkutsk High Military Aviation School,
Irkutsk, Russia, majoring in engineering, maintenance, and repair of
aircraft radio navigation systems, also is flying on his first mission. He
graduated from Moscow Technical University of Communications and
Informatics with a degree in radio communications, broadcasting, and
television.
This is the eighth rotational mission to the space station under NASA’s
Commercial Crew Program, which works with the American aerospace industry
to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from
the orbital outpost on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from
American soil.
[ANS thanks NASA and ARISS for the above information]
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ARISS NEWS
Amateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between
amateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with
astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The
downlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide.
No contacts are currently scheduled due to summer school holidays.
The crossband repeater continues to be active (145.990 MHz up {PL 67} &
437.800 MHz down). If any crewmember is so inclined, all they have to do is
pick up the microphone, raise the volume up, and talk on the crossband
repeater. So give a listen, you just never know.
The packet system is also active (145.825 MHz up & down).
As always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios
are turned off as part of the safety protocol.
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.
The latest information on the operation mode can be found at
https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html
The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at
https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html
[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors
for the above information]
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Upcoming Satellite Operations
Lyle, WB7VUF will be in CN73 –and possibly CN83- 12th-13th Aug. Email or DM
for skeds.
Phillipe, EA4NF will be QRV as KE4NF from EL94 10th-13th Aug; then EL95
21st-22nd Aug. Pass details as they become available.
Nina, DL2GRC, and family will do a 2 weeks Iceland holiday. Operations can
be expected between August 18th to 30th. Please keep in mind, it will be a
family holiday and no DX-pedition. Look out for TF/DL4BEN, TF/DL8SCU and
TF/DL2GRC.
[ANS thanks Ian Parsons, K5ZM, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above
information]
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Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events
AMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through
amateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests,
conventions, maker faires, and other events.
+ Huntsville Hamfest
August 19 & 20, 2023
Von Braun Center South Hall
700 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL 35801
More information at: https://hamfest.org/
+ Northeast HamXposition and ARRL New England Division Convention
August 25-27, 2023
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel
Marlboro, MA
More information at: https://hamxposition.org/
+ 41st AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting
October 20-21, 2023
Sheraton DFW Airport Hotel
4440 W John Carpenter Fwy, Irving, TX 75063
More information at: https://launch.amsat.org/event-5363188
[ANS thanks the AMSAT Events page for the above information]
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Satellite Shorts From All Over
+ Crew members who will soon fly aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission will
enter quarantine Friday in one of the major milestones before they head to
the launch site in Florida to start their mission to the International
Space Station. The process of flight crew health stabilization is a routine
part of final preparations for all missions to the space station. Spending
the final two weeks before liftoff in quarantine will help ensure Crew-7
members are healthy, as well as protect the astronauts already on the space
station. Commander Jasmin Moghbeli, KI5WSL; Danish ESA pilot Andreas
Mogensen, KG5GCZ; JAXA mission specialist Satoshi Furukawa, KE5DAW; and
cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov are now scheduled to launch to the
International Space Station on August 25. (ANS thanks NASA for the above
information)
+ Two Russian Cosmonauts conducted a spacewalk on August 9 Wednesday to to
attach three debris shields to the Rassvet module on the International
Space Station. Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin also tested
the sturdiness of a work platform that will be affixed to the end of the
European robotic arm attached to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.
NASA livestreamed the seven hour spacewalk on YouTube, its website and on
the NASA app. As always, ARISS amateur radio operations were suspended
during the EVA. (ANS thanks Space Daily for the above information)
+ Russia reignited its moon exploration program on August 10, sending a
lander toward Earth's nearest neighbor. The Luna-25 mission lifted off at
23:10 GMT after being delayed for nearly two years. The launch picked up
where the former Soviet Union left off in 1976, when Luna-24 successfully
delivered about 6.2 ounces (170 grams) of moon samples to Earth. But that
was then. Luna-25 is the first domestically produced moon probe in modern
Russian history. If all goes according to plan, Luna-25 will spend the next
five days journeying to the moon, then circle the natural satellite for
another five to seven days. The spacecraft will then set down in the moon's
south polar region, near Boguslawsky Crater. Once down safe and sound,
Luna-25 will work on the lunar surface for at least one Earth year. (ANS
thanks Space.com for the above information)
+ Also in the race to land on the moon, India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander
has returned its first images from the moon after entering orbit around our
nearest neighbor. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released
the images on Sunday, August 6, showing that the spacecraft had reached its
destination ahead of a lunar landing attempt expected on Aug. 23. If it's
successful, India will join the United States, the former Soviet Union and
China as the only nations to perform a soft lunar landing. (ANS thanks
Space.com for the above information)
+ Virgin Galactic conducted its second-ever commercial mission on August
10, setting a number of spaceflight records in the process. The company
launched its "Galactic 02" flight, sending six people to suborbital space
and back. Four of them were women, setting a new mark for most women on a
single spaceflight, according to Virgin Galactic. They included the first
mother-daughter duo (one of whom became the youngest-ever spaceflyer), as
well as the first former Olympian, to reach space. (ANS thanks Space.com
for the above information)
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73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!
This week's ANS Editor, Mark Johns, KØJM
k0jm [at] amsat.org
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