[jamsat-news:3818] [ANS] ANS-197 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for July 16

[Mark Johns, K0JM via ANS]

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-197

In this edition:

* AMSAT Board of Directors Voting Has Begun
* Youth on the Air Camp 2023 To Be On Satellites
* HABGab and StratoScience Balloon Launch
* Space Shuttle Remembered
* Historical Space Tour Before Orlando Hamcation
* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution
* ARISS-USA Seeks for Director of Education
* ARISS News
* Upcoming Satellite Operations
* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

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ANS-197 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 July 16


AMSAT Board of Directors Voting Has Begun

AMSAT members may access the 2023 Board of Directors election information
and balloting now. Candidate statements can be reviewed by voting members
via AMSAT’s Wild Apricot membership portal. An email with a link to the
electronic ballot was sent to all AMSAT members when the voting opened on
July 15th.

The nomination period for the 2023 Board of Directors Election ended on
June 15, 2023. The following candidates have been duly nominated:

    Barry Baines, WD4ASW
    Jerry Buxton, N0JY
    Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA
    Zach Metzinger, N0ZGO
    Frank Karnauskas, N1UW

As four seats on the Board of Directors are up for election this year, four
of these candidates will be seated on the Board, along with one alternate
when the voting period concludes on September 15th.

To view the candidate statements members may go to https://launch.amsat.org/
and log in using their usual member credentials. Those who need assistance
with the login should see the document at https://bit.ly/44LOXPV

[ANS thanks Jeff Davis, KE9V, AMSAT Secretary, for the above information]

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Youth on the Air Camp 2023 To Be On Satellites

Youth on the Air (YOTA), the camp for young amateur radio operators in
North, Central and South America, will operate special event station
VE3YOTA while camp is in session from July 16-21, 2023. The camp will also
have a contact with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station,
and complete a Parks on the Air (POTA) activation. The camp's opening and
closing ceremonies will also be streamed on YouTube.

Campers will be operating special event station VE3YOTA from the camp at
Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and the Diefenbunker Cold
War Museum in Carp, Ontario, Canada. Additionally, campers will activate a
two-for-one POTA location.

Activation of the VE3YOTA callsign will begin on Sunday, July 16 and
conclude at 2 p.m. on Friday, July 21. Youth will operate the station as
they finish projects, between sessions, and during free time.

In addition, dedicated HF station operating times will be: Monday, July 17
through Wednesday, July 19 from 2300Z to 0230Z (7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. EDT).
Dedicated satellite station operating time will be: Wednesday, July 19 from
1400Z to 1700Z (10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT).

Fifteen QRP stations will activate a two-for-one POTA location, Central
Experimental Farm National Historic Site (VE-5095) and Rideau Canal
National Historic Site (VE-4882) on 40m, 20m, 15m, and 10m.  Weather
permitting, the activation will be on the air on Tuesday, July 18 from
1900Z to 2100Z (3 p.m. to 5 p.m. EDT) and Thursday, July 20 from 1300Z to
1600Z (9 a.m. to noon EDT).

The opening and closing ceremonies and the International Space Station
contact will be streamed live on the Youth on the Air YouTube channel. The
opening ceremony is Sunday, July 16 from 2100Z to 2315Z, and will feature
keynote speaker Phil McBride, VA3QR, the president of Radio Amateurs of
Canada.  The ARISS contact is currently scheduled to take place on Tuesday,
July 18 at 1842Z (2:42 p.m. EDT).  The closing ceremony is Friday, July 21
from 1500Z to 1600Z (11 a.m. to noon EDT). The channel will also feature a
daily highlight video spotlighting the activities of the previous day.

For details about the camp, visit https://youthontheair.org/

For additional information, please contact Camp Director Neil Rapp, WB9VPG
at director ＠ youthontheair.org.

[ANS thanks Frank Karnauskas, N1UW, and YOTA for the above information]

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HABGab and StratoScience Balloon Launch

HABGab 2023 is a special event for the ham radio community in New England
taking place in the Summer of 2023. Attached to a 2000g weather balloon
will be suspended three payloads:

+ One will contain a crossband UHF/VHF repeater, built from two linked
Baofeng BF-F8HP HTs. This repeater will act as a 2-3 hr. one-time event for
hams around New England. Anyone with a ham radio license is invited to try
calling into the repeater during the flight.

+ To make it even more exciting, the second payload will transmit live
video of the flight from two cameras. The camera feed and repeater audio
will be streamed live on YouTube from New England Sci-Tech.

+ The third payload will contain a number of science and engineering
experiments from middle school students at New England Sci-Tech and
Franklin’s BFCCPS school as part of a new program called StratoScience Lab.

Each weekend starting in July will be a new potential opportunity for
flight, however, much depends on good weather and wind patterns. Current
launch date set for Sunday, July 16. Please check
https://nescitech.org/clubs/newbs/habgab-launch/ regularly as the launch
date approaches to get an up to date countdown. High altitude balloon
flights can be frequently scrubbed many times before finally launching.

During the flight, the balloon’s real-time position will be available
online at https://amateur.sondehub.org under the callsign W1U. The
repeater’s frequencies are currently set to:
Uplink (your transmit): 146.55 MHz
Downlink (your receive): 446.05 MHz
When calling in, listen for the W1U station operator then try to making a
contact! Please have your four character Maidenhead grid location for the
contact exchange. If your contact is confirmed, you will receive a special
event QSL card for HABGab 2023!

The HABGab and StratoScience payloads will have several ham radio trackers
aboard, which provide live position and altitude data to ground stations.
These ground stations post this data to the internet in real time. This
means you can view the position of the payload at any time during the
flight by visiting this website, https://amateur.sondehub.org/, navigating
to Massachusetts, and looking for these callsigns:
W1U – Main payload (transmitted by repurposed RS-41 radiosonde)
W1U-15 – Main payload (transmitted by custom-built APRS transmitter)
W0MXX-15 – Autorotation device. A small, unpowered helicopter that will
separate from main payload at 81,000 feet and descend to the ground using
autorotation. Tracker is a LightAPRS module.
KC1SFR-11 – Glider that will separate from main payload at 80,000 feet and
glide back to the ground. It will also deploy a parachute at roughly 3,000
feet.

Also onboard will be a U4B Pico tracker being tested by KC1OAV in
preparation for a circumnavigation flight to happen at a later date. This
can be tracked separately at http://qrp-labs.com/tracking.html under the
name NESciTech1.

HABGab 2023 has been made possible thanks to a grant from the Amateur Radio
Relay League (ARRL).

[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, and New England Sci-Tech for the above
information]

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Space Shuttle Remembered

Saturday, July 8 marked the 12th anniversary of the last Space Shuttle
mission. Ham astronauts operated amateur radio in space on a number of
shuttle missions, providing many with their first opportunity to contact an
astronaut in space -- an opportunity still actively pursued today through
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS).

Over three decades, the five NASA space shuttles were launched on 135
flights to orbit. The shuttles collectively traveled more than 537 million
miles and spent more than three and half years in orbit.

* 355 people flew aboard the shuttles, including Sally Ride, the first
American woman to fly to space. Her first mission was aboard the Challenger
in 1983.

* Missions averaged about 10 days, with the shortest at 2 days, 6 hours and
the longest 17 days, 15 hours.

* Mission objective included building the International Space Station,
carrying large satellites to space and maintaining equipment like the
Hubble Space Telescope. Ten missions remain classified, with little to no
information publicly available.

Ultimately, the fatalities on Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003
helped bring about the end of the Shuttle program. The investigation in the
loss of Columbia concluded that safety improvements would be costly. The
program was shut down after construction on the ISS was complete.

[ANS thanks Axios Space for the above information]

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Historical Space Tour Before Orlando Hamcation

Sadly, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center, a few years ago, stopped
offering historical tours of Cape Canaveral and the sites of the Mercury
launches and early uncrewed missions.

However, Bruce Perens, K6BP, has arranged for a Canaveral tour on Thursday,
Feb. 8, 2024 (the day before the Orlando Hamcation) at 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Only 9 people can be accomodated, U.S. Citizens only, and there will be a
_required_ ID process before the tour. Cost will be about $60 each, and
lunch or snacks will be offered between the sites.

We will go to:
* LC-26, LC-5, and LC-6: the (adjacent) launch sites for much early space
exploration including the first crewed flights of Alan Shepard and Gus
Grissom. Besides walking around the pads and seeing a number of historical
space exhibits there, you will be able to access the firing room and the
Space Force Missile Museum.

* Hangar C, where there are many restored historical space vehicles and
missiles, and the Canaveral lighthouse.

We will NOT have access to the Mercury Memorial, LC-14 (restored uncrewed
flights firing room), and LC-34 (mostly-torn-down site of the Apollo 1
fire), which were (at times) on the old Rise to Space tour.

Activity on the base can force us to cancel or can change or curtail the
itinerary.

Reserve your spot now via email to bruce ＠ perens.com

[ANS thanks Bruce Perens, K6BP, for the above information]

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Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for July 14

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 been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE
distribution:

UmKA 1 (RS40S) NORAD Cat ID 57172 IARU coordinated frequencies 437.625 MHz,
435.825 MHz and 2402.400 MHz (Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO for
identification).

[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, and the AMSAT Orbital Elements page for
the above information]

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ARISS-USA Seeks for Director of Education

ARISS-USA, a 501(c)(3) educational and scientific non-profit organization,
is seeking an experienced educator with extensive leadership experience to
serve as our Director of Education. This is a part-time, remote position in
the USA which includes a one-year probationary period.

ARISS provides and operates Amateur Radio systems on International Space
Station (ISS) and elsewhere to inspire, educate, and engage youth and
communities in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics
(STEAM) and to support ISS backup communications. For more detailed
information on ARISS, see the About ARISS-USA section, below, or visit the
ARISS web sites: www.ariss.org and www.ariss-usa.org.

Responsibilities

+ ARISS Education Senior Leadership: As the Director of Education, work
with the ARISS team to develop strategies and a vision to maintain and
expand the educational outcomes of youth that participate in the ARISS
experience.

+ Education Engagement Volunteer Team (EEVT) Leadership: Serve as the
leader of the ARISS education engagement volunteer team, fostering passion
within the team, recruiting new team members, and ensuring each radio
contact opportunity meets ARISS’ objectives of inspiring, engaging, and
educating youth in STEAM/STEM and encouraging youth to pursue careers in
these fields.

+ Host Organization Contact Competitive Selection: Coordinate the
semi-annual request for proposal (RFP) process to solicit and select host
organizations (e.g., schools and informal education organizations) for
ARISS astronaut radio contacts. Staff the proposal selection team, maintain
RFP selection rubric and RFP process, conduct host organization information
sessions, serve as the selection official, and coordinate with the ARISS
executive team on endorsement of final selections and on ensuring host
organizations and external media are promptly and accurately informed of
the results.

+ ARISS Education Ambassadors (AEA): Recruit, train and guide AEAs,
selected from the EEVT ranks. AEAs track their appointed ARISS contact host
organizations to gather details and insight into how these contact teams
are following their educational objectives as outlined in their proposals.
AEAs also gather data to document ARISS contact educational outcomes,
including photos, parent permission slips, student engagement descriptions,
metrics and post-survey compliance.

+ Diversity and Inclusion: Develop team strategies that explicitly target
improvements in ARISS’ engagement with diverse and underrepresented youth
and provide opportunities for these youth that motivate them to pursue
STEAM careers.

+ ARISS Lesson Plans: Create or coordinate the development of lesson plans
and educational kits that support the educational outcomes of ARISS host
organizations. Compile external lessons that can serve ARISS host
organizations, including lessons developed by our NASA and ISS National Lab
sponsors. Maintain dedicated areas on the ARISS web site for posting these
lessons for distribution.

+ National Science Standards Alignment: Ensure ARISS education
initiatives—including the contact experience, lesson plans, and educational
kits—align with National Science Standards.

+ Metric Collection: Work with the education volunteer team to ensure
contact metrics and post-contact surveys are submitted. Conduct
post-contact surveys and track survey performance over the course of the
program. Present metrics and survey results to ARISS executive team and
prepare materials and present results of educational outcomes to sponsors,
stakeholders and prospective new partners.

+ Networking: Participate in meetings, conferences, workshops and other
opportunities to convey the educational breadth and depth of the ARISS
Experience to space agencies, educators, sponsors, stakeholders, education
departments, and federal and state governments.

+ International Coordination: Work with ARISS educators in other countries
to develop best practices and to convey the activities and methods employed
by the ARISS-USA educator team.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

+ Demonstrated leadership in a formal or informal education setting.

+ 3+ years of teaching experience in a formal or informal education
environment

+ Graduation from an accredited college or university with a degree in
education, education administration or a related field.

+ Proficient in the use of virtual technology, including Zoom, and ability
to learn other virtual tools, such as Google Meet, Teams, Webex, Dropbox,
Google docs and Office 365 products.

+ Enthusiasm in providing education experiences in the STEAM field.

+ Enthusiasm learning about amateur radio and wireless technologies and to
enthusiastically convey these to educators and youth.

+ Must be a U.S. citizen.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

+ Basic understanding of amateur radio; possessing an amateur radio license
preferred; obtaining an amateur radio license required post-hire. License
training will be provided upon hiring.

+ Educator that has previously conducted an ARISS contact.

+ Experience and/or ability to work and lead a virtual, distributed,
nationwide team.

+ Experience in coordinating experiences, lessons learned and best
practices with ARISS international colleagues.

+ Experience in coordinating with partners, stakeholders and sponsors.

+ Experience interfacing with space agencies or space organizations.

Location

Remote, within the USA.

Anticipated Salary

Part time, 20-hour per week salary range is $23,000-$34,500 per year,
depending upon experience.

Hours worked per week and during the day are flexible, as long as the
candidate supports meeting engagements, meets deliverable times, and works
an average of about 20 hours per week.

Other Position Information

Candidates accepted into this position will be required to first serve a
one-year probationary period. All candidates must be U.S. citizens.

To Apply

If you are interested in making a difference as an ARISS-USA team member,
please send your resume or CV to candidates ＠ ariss-usa.org. Include a cover
letter explaining your interest in the position and why you are the optimal
candidate for this position.

All position applications are due no later than midnight (Eastern Daylight
Time) July 31, 2023

[ANS thanks 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.

UPCOMING:
YOTA 2023, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, telebridge via IK1SLD.
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS and the scheduled
crewmember is Steve Bowen, KI5BKB. The ARISS mentor is VE3TBD. Contact is
go for: Tue 2023-07-18 18:42:54 UTC, 76 degrees maximum elevation.
Watch for Livestream at:
YOTA will be using https://youtube.com/live/A5bXZUGifYY?feature=share
IK1SLD will start about 15 minutes before AOS at http://www.ariotti.com/

Camp William B. Snyder, Haymarket, VA, telebridge via IK1SLD. The ISS
callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS and the scheduled crewmember
is Sultan Al Neyadi, KI5VTV. The ARISS mentor is AJ9N. Contact is go for:
Fri 2023-07-21 17:54:29 UTC, 54 degrees maximum elevation.
Watch for Livestream at:
The Camp will using: https://www.facebook.com/NCACSTEM/
IK1SLD will start about 15 minutes before AOS at http://www.ariotti.com/

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

Bruce, VE7PTN, is planning to operate from the CO50/CO60 gridline during
July 20 to 22. FM / linear LEO, and Greencube MEO. Posible POTA activation
on July 22 from VE-0711. New area for me so not sure what I will find when
I get there. Will post more information closer to the date.

BI1NJI will be QRV as BI1NJI/3 from ON83, 24 through 27 July, FM and
IO-117. Twitter @YankaiP and has said that details will follow.

[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.

+ Small Satellite Conference
August 5-10, 2023
Utah State University, Logan, UT
More information at: https://smallsat.org/

+ 41st AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting
October 20-21, 2023
Sheraton DFW Airport Hotel
4440 W John Carpenter Fwy, Irving, TX 75063

AMSAT Ambassador Clint Bradford, K6LCS, says,
“Think a 75-minute presentation on “working the easy satellites” would be
appropriate for your club or event? Let me know by emailing me at
k6lcsclint (at) gmail (dot) com or calling me at 909-999-SATS (7287)!”

Clint has NEVER given the exact same show twice: EACH of the 150+
presentations so far has been customized/tailored to their audiences.

[ANS thanks the AMSAT Events page for the above information]

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Satellite Shorts From All Over

+ Condolences to the family and friends of well-known satellite enthusiast,
rover, and POTA operator Sara R. "Bean" Lefebvre, KC1MEB, who became a
Silent Key on July 7 at age 40 after a battle with Auto-Brewery Syndrome.
(ANS thanks Ant Lefebvre, NU1U, for the above information)

+ Volunteer amateur satellite enthusiasts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are
needed to help talk Amateur Radio in space to a mostly non-ham audience of
all ages at the 2023 edition of an event called "Moon Day" at the Frontiers
of Flight Museum, Love Field, Dallas, TX on Saturday, July 22. The event is
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with Setup at 8 a.m. Mostly indoor, but we will have a
number of satellite passes to work, cubesat simulators to show off, The FOX
Engineering model, and other cool things to show off. If you can
help/participate, contact Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, via email, n5hyp ＠ arrl.net
immediately. For more information see https://www.flightmuseum.com/moon-day/
(ANS thanks Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, for the above information)

+ AMSAT-DL was founded in 1973, so with a view to the 50-year history of
AMSAT-Germany and its mission of promoting amateur radio via satellites, a
celebratory conference “From OSCAR 10 to OSCAR 100: 50 years of AMSAT-DL in
service to science, research and education” is planned for September 15-17,
2023, at the Bochum Observatory, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. For more
information, see https://bit.ly/44rhPNE (ANS thanks AMSAT-DL for the above
information)

+ NASA has marked the first anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope’s
scientific debut this week with the release of a new image, demonstrating
the telescope’s ability to re-envision the universe. The dramatic, somewhat
hallucinatory image captures the dynamism of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud
complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth, where planetary systems
like our own could be in the initial stages of forming:
http://bit.ly/3PX0ZSb  “The telescope is working better than we could have
possibly hoped for,” said NASA astrophysicist Jane Rigby, who earlier this
month became the senior project scientist for the JWST. (ANS thanks The
Washington Post for the above information)

+ The Mars Sample Return mission — a joint project between NASA and the
European Space Agency — is currently under a major review. The cost of the
mission may have increased from $4 billion or $5 billion to $8 billion or
$9 billion, according to one estimate. NASA confirmed that one estimate in
the review of the program was in that cost range, but added, "all scenarios
are highly speculative." If the sample return mission does come with a
higher price tag, it could impact NASA's entire planetary science
portfolio, as other missions are also experiencing technical delays and
schedule problems. (ANS thanks Axios Space for the above information)

+ Chinese private rocket firm Landspace achieved a global first late
Tuesday, July 11 by reaching orbit with a methane-fueled rocket. Zhuque-2
beats a range of other methalox rockets, including SpaceX’s Starship, the
ULA Vulcan, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, Rocket Lab’s Neutron and Terran R from
Relativity Space, in reaching orbit. These other launch vehicles will be
much larger and feature much greater payload capacity. A methane-liquid
oxygen propellant mix offers advantages in performance and reduces issues
of soot formation and coking for purposes of reusability. (ANS thanks
SpaceNews for the above information)

+ India’s second attempt to land on the Moon, Chandrayaan-3, launched on
July 14. The mission is a replacement for Chandrayaan-2, which crashed
while descending to the lunar surface in September 2019. Chandrayaan-3 is
scheduled for an August 23 or August 24 arrival. The lander and rover are
scheduled to operate for one lunar day, which is about 14 Earth days. (ANS
thanks The Parabolic Arc 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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