[jamsat-news:3870] [ANS] ANS-077 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for March 17

[Mark Johns, K0JM via ANS]

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-077

In this edition:

* First SONATE 2 Images Received
* FUNcube Mode Change
* Free On-Line Amateur Radio Operating Class
* Starship Lifts Off On Third Test Flight
* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for March 15
* NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Finishes Mission, Returns to Earth
* ARISS News
* Upcoming Satellite Operations
* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

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ANS-077 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

To: All RADIO AMATEURS
From: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
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DATE 2024 March 17
First SONATE 2 Images Received

First images were received this week from the SONATE 2 satellite. A
low-resolution Slow-Scan TV (SSTV) image that had been pre-loaded onto the
satellite prior to launch was received on March 8. The first wide field of
view earth image from the onboard camera was received on March 11. Both
images can be viewed at
https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/aerospaceinfo/staff/kayal/research-activities/sonate-2/

[*12.03.2024 First wide field of view image from SONATE-2*]

SONATE 2 was built by students and faculty in the Aerospace Information
Technology program at at Würzburg University in Germany. It was launched on
March 4 as part of the SpaceX Transporter 10 mission from Space Launch
Complex 4E in Vandenberg SFB, Calif.

Using Doppler measurements, Nico Janssen, PAØDLO, has identified SONATE 2
as object 59112. The telemetry downlink frequency is 437.0254 MHz, just
slightly above the published target frequency of 437.025 MHz. Telemetry is
in 9k6 G3RUH GMSK AX.25 using a protocol that may be downloaded from
https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/1003-ifex/2024/SONATE-2_protocol_definition_for_radio_amateurs.xlsx

The SSTV downlink is at 145.880 MHz FM using the Martin M1 protocol. The
satellite also carries an APRS digipeater for 145.825 MHz, but the
digipeater is not yet active. A schedule for upcoming SSTV transmissions is
published at
https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/aerospaceinfo/mitarbeiter/kayal/forschungsprojekte/sonate-2/information-for-radio-amateurs/

[ANS thanks Würzburg University and Nico Janssen, PAØDLO, for the above
information.]
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FUNcube Mode Change

The FUNcube team are pleased to announce that FUNcube 1 (aka AO-73) is out
of Safe mode back in Eclipse mode as of March 11. "Eclipse mode" means that
the transponder is normally operational only when the satellite is in
eclipse, i.e. the solar panels are NOT being illuminated.

The nominal transponder frequencies are:

Uplink: 435.150 – 435.130 MHz LSB (Inverting)
Downlink: 145.950 – 145.970 MHz USB
Telemetry Tx: 145.935 MHz BPSK

(The passband may be up to 15kHz higher depending on on-board temps. Lower
temperatures give higher freqs!)

[ANS thanks David Johnson, G4DPZ, and https://funcube.org.uk/ for the above
information.]
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Free On-Line Amateur Radio Operating Class

A free, weekly, 3-hour Amateur Radio Operating Class on Zoom will begin on
Thursday April 4 and run through June 20 at 6:30 p.m. Eastern / 5:30 p.m.
Central time. The presenters will be various experienced folks in the
various subjects.

A detailed syllabus will be published before the classes begin. Attend them
all, or any that you like, but you must register for the classes. To
receive registration information, contact Rol Anders, K3RA, at
roland.anders ＠ comcast.net.

Subjects will include:

   - All About Operating--A general Introduction
   - Amateur Radio Organizations—Local to International
   - Ham Radio Awards
   - DXing-History and Tips from the Experts
   - QSLing-How to get that needed card for DXCC or WAS
   - VHF/UHF Weak Signal Work and “Roving”
   - Image Operating—Slow Scan and Fast Scan TV
   - Remote Station control over internet
   - Learning CW in the no-code era
   - Digital Modes—From RTTY to FT8 and beyond
   - Contesting—How to get started, tips for the beginner and intermediated
   contester
   - Logging Software—What’s available, how to use
   - Propagation—A general intro to HF Propagation
   - **Amateur Satellites—How to get started**
   - Portable (backpacking) operation—Tips from an expert
   - Setting Up a Modern (or not so modern) HF Station
   - Lightning Protection and Grounding
   - Traffic Handling
   - Public Service, Emergency Communications

[ANS thanks Dan Hausauer, WØCN, and Rol Anders, K3RA, for the above
information.]
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Starship Lifts Off On Third Test Flight

SpaceX’s Starship vehicle lifted off on its third test flight March 14,
making significant progress compared to its first two by achieving most of
its planned test milestones.

The Starship/Super Heavy vehicle lifted off from the company’s Starbase
site at 9:25 a.m. Eastern. The liftoff was delayed by nearly an hour and a
half because of ships in restricted waters offshore. SpaceX reported no
technical issues during the countdown.

[*Starship lifts off on its third integrated test flight March 14. Credit:
SpaceX webcast*]

The Super Heavy booster fired all 33 of its Raptor engines for nearly three
minutes before executing “hot staging”, with the Starship upper stage’s
engines igniting while still attached to Super Heavy before separating.

The booster then performed burns to attempt what SpaceX webcast hosts
called a “soft splashdown” in the Gulf of Mexico, where it would not be
recovered. However, the landing burn did not appear to go correctly, and
the company later said that the booster broke apart 462 meters above the
ocean after lighting several Raptor engines for a landing burn.

The Starship upper stage performed its burn, placing the vehicle onto its
planned suborbital trajectory. It avoided the fate of the previous Starship
launch in November, when the vehicle broke apart late in its burn after
catching fire while venting propellant.

While in space on its suborbital trajectory, SpaceX opened a payload bay
door that will be used on later Starship vehicles for deploying Starlink
satellites. It also performed an in-space propellant transfer demonstration
as part of a NASA contract where it would move propellant from one tank
within the vehicle to another. SpaceX said it was evaluating the data from
both tests.

SpaceX had planned to perform a brief relight of a Raptor engine on
Starship about 40 minutes after liftoff, but the company said on the
webcast that this test was skipped for reasons not immediately known. The
company later said the engine test was called off because of the vehicle’s
roll rates.

Several minutes later, the vehicle started reentry. A camera mounted on a
flap on Starship provided dramatic images of the reentry, relayed through
Starlink satellites. Telemetry was lost about 49 and a half minutes after
liftoff when the vehicle was descending through an altitude of 65
kilometers. SpaceX later said on the webcast that it lost contact through
both its own Starlink satellites as well as through NASA TDRSS data relay
satellites at the same time, speculating that the vehicle may have broken
up.

While the mission did not achieve all its test objectives, the company
considered the launch a success. “What we achieved on this flight will
provide invaluable data to continue rapidly developing Starship,” it said
in a statement.

[ANS thanks SpaceNews for the above information.
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Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for March 15

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. TLE bulletin
files are updated daily in the first hour of the UTC day. New bulletin
files will be posted immediately after reliable elements become available
for new amateur satellites. More information may be found at
https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/.

This week there are no additions or deletions to the AMSAT TLE distribution.

[ANS thanks AMSAT Orbital Elements page for the above information.]
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Finishes Mission, Returns to Earth

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, with NASA astronaut Jasmin
Moghbeli, KI5WSL, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen,
KG5GCZ, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi
Furukawa, KE5DAW, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov aboard,
splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on
Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov are
returning after nearly six-months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard
the International Space Station.

The Crew-7 mission lifted off
<https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-spacex-crew-7-launches-to-international-space-station/>
at 3:27 a.m. on Aug. 26, 2023, on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy
Space Center in Florida. About 30 hours later, Dragon docked
<https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2023/08/27/spacex-crew-7-mission-docks-to-stations-harmony-module/>
to the Harmony module’s space-facing port. Crew-7 undocked at 11:20 a.m.
Monday, March 11, to begin the trip home.

Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov traveled 84,434,094 miles during
their mission, spent 197 days aboard the space station, and completed 3,184
orbits around Earth. The Crew-7 mission was the first spaceflight for
Moghbeli and Borisov. Mogensen has logged 209 days in space over his two
flights, and Furukawa has logged 366 days in space over his two flights.

[
*A thermal screenshot showing the successfully deployed four parachutes of
the Dragon Capsule as it makes its descent on March 12](Image credit: NASA)*

Throughout their mission, the Crew-7 members contributed to a host of science
and maintenance activities and technology demonstrations
<https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/crew-5-scientific-mission-on-iss>,
including a number of ARISS amateur radio contacts. Moghbeli conducted one
spacewalk, joined by NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, replacing one of the 12
trundle bearing assemblies on the port solar alpha rotary joint, which
allows the arrays to track the Sun and generate electricity to power the
station.

The crew contributed to hundreds of experiments and technology
demonstrations
<https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/nasas-spacex-crew-7-completes-scientific-mission-on-space-station/>,
including the first study of human response to different spaceflight
durations, and an experiment growing food on the space station.

This was the third flight of the Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance. It
also previously supported the Crew-3 and Crew-5 missions. The spacecraft
will return to Florida for inspection and processing at SpaceX’s
refurbishing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, where teams
will inspect the Dragon, analyze data on its performance, and process it
for its next flight.

The Crew-7 flight is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
<https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html> and its
return to Earth follows on the heels of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 launch, which
docked to the station March 5, beginning another science expedition. That
crew consists of Matthew Dominick, KCØTOR, Michael Barratt, KD5MIJ,
Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU, and Alexander Grebenkin, RZ3DSE.

[ANS thanks NASA for the above information.]
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[image: ARISS News]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.

Second Chance School of Orestiada, Orestiada, Greece, telebridge via VK4KHZ
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled crewmember is Loral O’Hara KI5TOM, Mike Barratt, KD5MIJ
(Observing)
The Moderator is scheduled to be Will KW4WZ
The ARISS mentor is IKØWGF
Contact is go for: Wed 2024-03-20 17:45:54 UTC 60 deg
Watch for Livestream at
https://youtube.com/@sdeorestiadas9736?si=RPdn0JxEjpbK2Rhx

Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled crewmember is Aleksandr Grebyonkin, RZ3DSE
The ARISS mentor is RV3DR
Contact is go for Mon 2024-03-25 08:40 UTC

Kursk, Russia, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled crewmember is Aleksandr Grebyonkin, RZ3DSE
The ARISS mentor is RV3DR
Contact is go for Wed 2024-03-27 14:55 UTC

Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled crewmember is Marina Vasilevskaya
The ARISS mentor is RV3DR
Contact is go for Fri 2024-03-29 16:20 UTC

The crossband repeater is 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 currently misconfigured (145.825 MHz up & down). The
SSTV system is currently stowed.

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

Jay Stephenson, WA1JAY, pays a visit to Paradise Isl. from March 15 to
April 2. QRV as C6A/WA1JAY on HF (SSB, FT4/8) and via FM satellites. QSL
via ClubLog OQRS, LoTW.

F4DXV Jérôme (@F4DXV) and EA4NF Philippe (@EA4NF_SAT) announce that they
will be actívating Noirmoutier island EU-064 IN86 from April 1 to 4, 2024
with the special callsign TM4J. This International DXpedition is the 1st
100% SAT from this French island:
LEO (FM+SSB)
GEO (QO-100)
MEO (GREENCUBE IO-117)
Updates available on @TM4J_SAT

Please submit any additions or corrections to k5zm (at) comcast (dot) net.

A growing number of satellite rovers are currently engaged in sharing their
grid square activations on https://hams.at. By visiting the website, you
gain easy access to comprehensive information about the operators
responsible for activating specific grid squares. Additionally, you have
the ability to assess the match score between yourself and a particular
rover for a given pass, while also being able to identify the upcoming
satellite passes that are accessible from your location.

[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.

AMSAT-Francophone Seventh Amateur Radio Space Meeting
Saturday March 16th – Sunday March 17th
Electrolab Hackerspace à Nanterre
52 Rue Paul Lescop
92000 Nanterre, France
https://site.amsat-f.org/

JAMSAT Symposium 2024
Saturday March 23rd – Sunday March 24th
Hotel Binario Saga Arashiyama
3-4 Hiromichicho, Saga Tenryuji, Ukyo Ward
Sagano, Kyoto, Japan
https://www.jamsat.or.jp/?p=2446

Raleigh NC Hamfest
Saturday, 6 April 2024
Jim Graham Building, NC State Fairgrounds
https://www.rarsfest.org/

2024 CubeSat Developer’s Workshop
Tuesday April 23rd – Thursday April 25th
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA
https://www.cubesatdw.org/

Dayton Hamvention 2024
Friday May 17th – Sunday May 19th
Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center
120 Fairground Road
Xenia, OH 45385
https://hamvention.org

[ANS thanks the AMSAT Events page for the above information.]
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Satellite Shorts From All Over

+ NASA has terminated its OSAM-1 mission, a multibillion-dollar endeavor
aimed at showcasing robotic satellite servicing technology in space, due to
ongoing technical, cost, and schedule challenges. Originally intended to
demonstrate satellite refueling, the mission expanded to include in-orbit
assembly, incorporating a 16-foot robotic arm named SPIDER. Despite
significant congressional funding, the project faced continual delays and
ballooning costs, reaching $1.5 billion with an estimated additional cost
of nearly $1 billion for launch. Changes in the satellite servicing market,
with a shift towards alternative technologies like Northrop Grumman's
Mission Extension Vehicle, contributed to the cancellation. Maxar, the
prime contractor for OSAM-1, faced criticism for poor performance, leading
to delays and cost overruns, although the company cited other factors like
the COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellation impacts approximately 450 workers
at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, prompting NASA to review strategies
to mitigate workforce impacts and consider alternative uses for developed
technologies. (ANS thanks Ars Technica, for the above information.)

+ China's human spaceflight agency, CMSA, is progressing towards its goal
of landing astronauts on the moon before 2030. The spacecraft developed for
this purpose has been named Mengzhou, translating to "Dream Vessel," for
lunar missions, and Lanyue, meaning "Embracing the Moon," for orbital
travel. These names were selected through a public contest, with Mengzhou
having a variant for low Earth orbit (LEO) carrying seven astronauts and a
moon version transporting three astronauts into lunar orbit. The China
Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is designing and
building the spacecraft and lander, along with a new rocket, the Long March
10. The moon landing plan involves two Long March 10 rockets launching
Mengzhou and Lanyue, rendezvousing in lunar orbit, with astronauts
descending to the lunar surface. A 440-pound crew rover will accompany the
lunar lander. Progress on various mission hardware is reportedly on track,
including completed development of the primary spacecraft and technical
proposals for launch and landing sites. Recently, models of the rocket,
spacecraft, and lander were showcased at an exhibition in Shanghai. (ANS
thanks Space.com, for the above information.)

+ U.S. regulators have approved ground rules for allowing SpaceX and other
satellite operators to use radio waves from terrestrial mobile partners to
keep smartphone users connected outside cell tower coverage. The Federal
Communications Commission voted March 14 unanimously in favor of its
Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) regulatory framework. SCS providers
would operate as a secondary service to companies providing Mobile
Satellite Services (MSS) with conventional frequencies already approved for
use from space. This means an SCS operator would have to immediately cease
operations if they interfere with an MSS provider or terrestrial telco with
primary rights. (ANS thanks SpaceNews for the above information.)

+ A rocket made by a Japanese company exploded seconds after launch on
Wednesday, in a spectacular failure for the start-up's bid to put a
satellite into orbit. Tokyo-based Space One's 18-metre (60-foot) Kairos
rocket blasted off in the coastal Wakayama region of western Japan,
carrying a small government test satellite. But around five seconds later,
the solid-fuel rocket erupted in fire, sending white smoke billowing around
the remote mountainous area as orange flames raged on the ground, live
footage showed. Space One said it had taken the decision to "abort the
flight" and details were being investigated. (ANS thanks Space Daily 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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