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<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">AMSAT NEWS SERVICE<br></span></font>
<font size="4">ANS-245</font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">In this edition: <img class="gmail-alignright gmail-wp-image-45978 gmail-size-thumbnail" src="https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ANSlogoA-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150"></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">* Seven Cubesats Deploy From ISS<br>
* AMSAT Mail Alias Service to End — FINAL NOTICE!<br>
* Japanese Company Takes First Step Toward Removing Space Junk<br>
* Halibut Electronics Releases New EggNOGS Kit for Satellite Antennas<br>
* UNNE-1 and MARIA-G Launch Delayed Until 2025<br>
* Paul D. Graveline, K1YUB, Silent Key<br>
* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution<br>
* ARISS News<br>
* Upcoming Satellite Operations<br>
* AMSAT Ambassador Activities<br>
* Satellite Shorts From All Over</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and
information service of AMSAT, 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.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">ANS-245 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">From: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">DATE: 2024 Sept 01</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Seven Cubesats Deploy From ISS</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Seven CubeSats deployed from Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” on Thursday, August 29.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">According to the IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination, six
of these satellites, CosmoGirl-Sat, SaganSat0, SAKURA, Binar2, Binar3
and Binar4, operate on the amateur bands. Three of them carry APRS
digipeaters operating on the world-wide APRS frequency of 145.825 MHz.</span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-medium gmail-wp-image-58726" src="https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/74006_cosmogirl-sat-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"><em><br>Image by Cosmo Girls Amateur Radio Club</em></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>CosmoGirl-Sat</strong> 145.825MHz, 437.120MHz<br>
APRS VHF, callsign JS1YOI<br>
CW, 4k8 GMSK UHF<br>
A 1U cubesat built by Cosmo Girls Amateur Radio Club, a group of
Japanese women established under the theme of “Getting closer to the
universe.” The satellite also carries a high-resolution camera for earth
imaging, as well as a short message UHF store-and-forward system.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>SaganSat0</strong> 145.825MHz, 437.050MH<br>
APRS VHF<br>
GMSK 4k8, CW UHF<br>
A 1U cubesat built by students at various high schools in the Saga
Prefecture of Japan. The satellite also carries an infrared camera and
gamma ray detector.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>SAKURA</strong> 145.825MHz, 437.375MHz<br>
APRS VHF<br>
GMSK 4k8 UHF<br>
A 1U cubesat built by the Chiba Institute of Technology, a university in
Narashino, Japan. The satellite also carries experiments designed to
monitor sunspots and solar flares, as well as to assess environmental
damage on earth.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Binar-2</strong> 437.700MHz, <strong>Binar-3</strong> 437.850MHz, <strong>Binar-4</strong> 437.925MHz<br>
CW, OQPSK 100/38.4kbps, GFSK 19.2/9.6/1.2kbps<br>
Three cubesats built by Curtin University in Australia designed to test
radiation shielding materials and modeling of re-entry data from LEO.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Info from<br>
7 CubeSats were deployed from “Kibo” on Thursday, August 29, 2024.<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/en/biz-lab/news/detail/004121.html">https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/en/biz-lab/news/detail/004129.html</a></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Masa Arai, JN1GKZ, for the above information.]</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">AMSAT Mail Alias Service to End — FINAL NOTICE!</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">A long-standing member service, the AMSAT Mail Alias Service was
scheduled to end on August 31, 2024, but a day or two of grace period
has been added.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Members should understand that the email alias service, the news and
bulletin board subscription lists and the membership portal are three
separate systems.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><strong style="font-family:georgia,serif">Persons using the Mail Alias Service should immediately
migrate to a different email account so they do not lose receipt of
personal emails. Notify your friends and business accounts of the
change.</strong></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Persons wishing to continue to receive AMSAT News Service
Weekly Bulletins and AMSAT-BB posts or official messages from AMSAT
itself should update their subscription addresses at </strong><a href="https://mailman.amsat.org/">https://mailman.amsat.org/</a></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Members are especially asked to make sure they are NOT using a <a href="mailto:callsign@amsat.org"><b>callsign@amsat.org</b></a>
as their registered email address in the AMSAT membership portal.
Members can easily change their registered member email address by
logging into the portal and updating their profile at </strong><a href="https://mailman.amsat.org/">https://mailman.amsat.org/</a>.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">A mail alias on <a href="http://AMSAT.ORG">AMSAT.ORG</a> permitted people to send an email to
members without knowing their actual internet email address. They just
needed to know their amateur radio callsign.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Unfortunately, the unchecked rise in domain name hacking and email
account high-jacking has made it impossible to sustain this service at a
cost-effective level. The number of <a href="mailto:callsign@amsat.org">callsign@amsat.org</a> email accounts
that had been hijacked and converted to zombie spam accounts over the
years had led many internet service providers and gateway centers to ban
all @<a href="http://amsat.org">amsat.org</a> email addresses, including those business accounts of
AMSAT officers and officials. The tireless efforts of AMSAT’s all
volunteer IT staff has worked for years to repair much of the damage,
but AMSAT still get complaints from members who are not getting their
personal emails, ANS bulletins or AMSAT-BB posts because of persistent
delivery problems.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">It has come to the point where the AMSAT volunteer IT staff can no
longer keep up with the maintenance requirements to keep the alias mail
list clean and to work with email gateways to remove blocks. And, after
considerable investigation into alternative paid email services, AMSAT
leadership decided that the money required to keep an email alias system
alive would be better spent on building and flying satellites for its
members.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks the AMSAT IT Team for the above information]</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Japanese Company Takes First Step Toward Removing Space Junk</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">There are more than 2,000 mostly intact dead rockets circling the
Earth, but until this year, no one ever launched a satellite to go see
what one looked like after many years of tumbling around the planet.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">In February, a Japanese company named Astroscale sent a small
satellite into low-Earth orbit on top of a Rocket Lab launcher. A couple
of months later, Astroscale’s ADRAS-J (Active Debris Removal by
Astroscale-Japan) spacecraft completed its pursuit of a Japanese rocket
stuck in orbit for more than 15 years.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">ADRAS-J photographed the upper stage of an H-IIA rocket from a range
of several hundred meters and then backed away. This was the first
publicly released image of space debris captured from another spacecraft
using rendezvous and proximity operations.</span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-58727" src="https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/astroscale-flyaround-800x427-1.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="427"><em><br>Astroscale’s ADRAS-J spacecraft captured these views of the H-IIA rocket upper stage on July 15. [Credit: Astroscale]</em></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Since then, Astroscale has pulled off more complex maneuvers around
the H-IIA upper stage, which hasn’t been controlled since it deployed a
Japanese climate research satellite in January 2009. Astroscale
attempted to complete a 360-degree fly-around of the H-IIA rocket last
month, but the spacecraft triggered an autonomous abort one-third
through the maneuver after detecting an attitude anomaly.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">ADRAS-J is the first mission to approach a piece of space debris,
which comes with more challenges. The H-IIA upper stage lacks laser
reflectors and targeting aids that would help an approaching spacecraft
navigate its way closer.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">A few years ago, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
cinched a public-private partnership with Astroscale to demonstrate
technologies the private sector could use to remove large pieces of
space debris littering low-Earth orbit. The same robotic technologies
could also apply to satellite servicing or refueling missions.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">With more financial assistance from JAXA, Astroscale is developing a
follow-on mission called ADRAS-J2 to dock with the same H-IIA rocket
visited by the ongoing mission, then steer it on a trajectory to reenter
the atmosphere. Astroscale hopes a successful demonstration of this
capability on the ADRAS-J2 mission will lead to more contracts from
commercial or government operators to remote large pieces of space junk
from orbit.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">An H-IIA upper stage similar to the one visited by Astroscale’s demo
mission broke apart in 2019, creating more than 70 new debris fragments
in low-Earth orbit. A predicted close flyby by one of the pieces from
the H-IIA upper stage prompted the International Space Station to fire
its engines to move out of its path in 2020.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Ars Technica for the above information. Read the full article at <a href="https://bit.ly/4cFO0vW">https://bit.ly/4cFO0vW</a>.]</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Halibut Electronics Releases New EggNOGS Kit for Satellite Antennas</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Halibut Electronics has announced the release of its latest product,
the EggNOGS kit, designed to facilitate the construction of Egg Beater
antennas. This kit is aimed at amateur radio enthusiasts and satellite
operators who wish to enhance their communication capabilities,
particularly with the SatNOGS network. Priced at $79.00, EggNOGS is
available for purchase through Halibut Electronics’ website at <a href="https://electronics.halibut.com/product/eggnogs/">https://electronics.halibut.com/product/eggnogs/</a>.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The EggNOGS kit is engineered to address the complexity of building
Egg Beater antennas, which are known for their use in satellite
communications. The kit includes a range of specialized components that
are not typically available at local hardware stores. These components
feature a band-specific phasing board that creates a 90-degree phase
shift, a critical element in the construction of effective
quadrature-fed antennas.</span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-58729" src="https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Halibut-Electronics-EggNOGS-Kit-Parts-1.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="467"><em><br>The parts kit. [Credit: Halibut Electronics]</em></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Currently, the EggNOGS kit supports several frequency bands:
137.5MHz, 145.9MHz, 388.0MHz, 401.0MHz, and 436.5MHz. However, due to
high demand, the kits for the 137.5MHz and 145.9MHz bands are
temporarily out of stock and are expected to be back in inventory by
August 28th. Customers can place back orders for these bands in the
interim.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The EggNOGS kit is designed to be versatile, compatible with various
types of quadrature-fed antennas beyond just Egg Beaters. It can be used
with turnstiles, helicals, and other balanced VHF/UHF antennas.
Additionally, it works with any radio system, including low-power
transmitters, making it a flexible option for a range of communication
needs.</span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-58728" src="https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Halibut-Electronics-Antenna-Close-Up-1.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="533"><em><br>Antenna closeup [Credit: Halibut Electronics]</em></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The kit includes essential parts such as circuit boards for signal
routing and phasing, a common mode current choke, and stainless steel
mounting hardware. Builders will need to source additional materials,
such as a section of PVC pipe and materials for the aerial loops and
ground plane, from local hardware stores. The default feed point
connector is SMA, but there is an option to upgrade to BNC or Type-F
connectors.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The EggNOGS kit is capable of handling moderate transmit power, with
the upper limit still being determined but expected to range between 15W
and 50W. The kit is confirmed to handle up to 10W without issues.
Halibut Electronics invites feedback from users who may need phasing
boards for additional frequencies not currently offered, with the
possibility of expanding the product line based on customer demand.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Halibut Electronics, for the above information]</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">UNNE-1 and MARIA-G Launch Delayed Until 2025</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Due to the significant damage to the RFA’s One launcher stage during
the static firing test at SaxaVord’s spaceport in the Shetland Islands,
Scotland (UK) on August 19th, AMSAT-EA’s UNNE-1 and MARIA-G satellites
launch will be delayed.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">They were originally planned for launch on September 30th, and now it is not expected before 2025. Video of the BBC’s coverage of the
incident is available here:<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgEn6-8ekJQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgEn6-8ekJQ</a></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">UNNE-1 and MARIA-G are both based on the currently orbiting HADES-D
(SO-121) hardware, providing a repeater service for voice and data
communications in FM and FSK-derived modes. They have been designed and
built by AMSAT-EA together with private sector companies and with the
collaboration of Universities and educational centres.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Both satellites will offer licensed radio amateurs around the world
the opportunity to make FM and FSK QSOs, including FT modes, such as
FT-4 and FT-8, or AX.25/APRS. The satellites will also transmit
telemetry with their status, voice messages and CW.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">UNNE-1 includes an Arduino-based board with software from Nebrija
University of Madrid. The students have developed a small decoding game
with a space story as a background. The satellite sends a clue each week
in its FSK telemetry so that radio amateurs can solve the challenge.
This game will be detailed on the AMSAT EA website and on the Nebrija
University one.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">MARIA-G also includes two CW reception games/challenges implemented
by students from the María Guerrero high school in Collado Villalba,
also from the region of Madrid.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">One of the games consists of receiving the coordinates of a
significant place on Earth (for example a city, a monument…) and the
other about receiving a code that will correspond to a question about
Science. Both games will have a dedicated web page.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">MARIA-G also includes a small experiment, developed by the
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft research center in Germany. It consists of a
proof of concept for the transmission of a TS-UNB waveform from a low
Earth orbit. Therefore, it will transmit a TS-UNB message according to
the ETSI-TS-103-357 standard. It is intended solely as a research and
development project with no commercial intention.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The ITU modulation classification would be 100K W2DWW but the
bandwidth will be reduced. The operation of this experiment will be
carried out by AMSAT-EA.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The UNNE-1 and MARIA-G satellites are part of the Erminaz mission, a
joint effort of AMSAT-DL, AMSAT-EA and LibreSpace Foundation, each
organization flying its own satellites and using LibreSpace’s PicoBus
deployer.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The mission management with the German Space Agency (DLR) and the
launcher (RFA), as well as with the UK authorities, has been carried out
jointly, with AMSAT DL leading it.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Felix Páez, EA4GQS, AMSAT EA, for the above information.]</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Paul D. Graveline, K1YUB, Silent Key</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">With heavy hearts, AMSAT and The AMSAT Journal mourn the passing of
Journal assistant editor, Paul D. Graveline, K1YUB, on August 19, 2024.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Paul served as an assistant editor for the past seven years, starting
with the July/August 2017 issue. In addition to his editing and
authoring contributions to the Journal, Paul also served as an active
member of the CubeSatSim Educational Materials Team for AMSAT’s
Educational Relations program.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Here is how Paul described his ham radio exploits:</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">“Like many future hams in the 1960s, I became interested in radio by
listening to shortwave stations on my grandfather’s old huge Philco
radio.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">“In 1960, I got a Hallicrafters S120 short wave receiver for
Christmas, and I was hooked. A year later, K1DEN got me interested in
ham radio. I was issued KN1YUB as a novice, and in 1963, I upgraded to
General and K1YUB, which I still use today. Most of my ham operating has
been using CW.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">“By 1973, I passed my Advanced and Extra which required 20 wpm skills.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">“In the 1980s, I worked and taught Novice and General license courses
at Tufts Radio in Medford, MA. My time at Tufts included numerous ham
conventions from Denver to Clearwater.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">“Along with K1TW, I helped reestablish the shortwave focused Boston
Area DXers which met on the third Friday of every month. Nearly 35 years
later, we still do!</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">“More recently, I have been spending time in activities to support ham radio.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">“For a number of years, I’ve been an Assistant Editor for The AMSAT
Journal as well as being engaged, along with KU2Y, KD2XS , KK6NOW and
WD6DRI, on an AMSAT project developing the CubeSat Simulator as a
learning tool.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">“I began following the space weather bulletins from Dr. Tamitha Skov,
WX6SWW, better known as “The Space Weather Woman,” a few years back and
now am a member of her steering committee, as well as being the
Coordinator for her new Super Community project with the objective of
sharing space weather knowledge across stakeholder communities like
Aurora Chasers and Ham Radio operators. I did a cover story of Dr. Skov
in The AMSAT Journal.”</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Paul’s good humor, dedication, enthusiasm and many contributions to
AMSAT and the larger amateur radio community will be greatly missed.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Joe Kornowski, KB6IGK, AMSAT Journal Editor-in-Chief, for the above information]</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">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 <a href="https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/">https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/</a>.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">No changes have been announced for this week.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager for the above information]</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">ARISS NEWS</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">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.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Would your group like to have an ARISS contact? Here are some upcoming deadlines for be aware of:<br>
For U.S. contacts, proposals are due by 6-Sept. Contacts would be in the first half of 2025.<br>
For Europe, Africa, and the Middle East applications are due by 27-October for second half of 2025.<br>
See <a href="https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html">https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html</a> for details.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>COMPLETED:</strong><br>
Fasta Villa Eucaristica School, Cordoba City, Argentina, direct via LU1HKO<br>
The ISS callsign was presently scheduled to be NA1SS<br>
The crewmember was Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU. The ARISS mentor was VE3TBD.<br>
Contact was successful: Fri 2024-08-30 15:29:39 UTC 42 degrees maximum elevation.<br>
Congratulations to the Fasta Villa Eucaristica School students, Jeanette, mentor VE3TBD, and ground station LU1HKO!<br>
Livestream URL was provided to ARISS <a href="https://youtube.com/live/2oQkA6vqdu4?feature=share">https://youtube.com/live/2oQkA6vqdu4?feature=share</a></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">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.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The packet system is also active (145.825 MHz up & down).</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The HamTV system (2395 MHz down), and the SSTV system (145.800 MHz down) are both currently STOWED and not in operation.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">As always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios are turned off as part of the safety protocol.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">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.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The latest information on the operation mode can be found at <a href="https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html">https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html</a></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at <a href="https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html">https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html</a></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors for the above information]</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Upcoming Satellite Operations</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Tom, KB5FHK, will be heading home to Mississippi on Labor Day
weekend. His main focus is EM41. He already posted a couple of passes on
<a href="https://hams.at">hams.at</a>.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Mitch, AD0HJ, will be heading up to Fargo/Grand Forks over Labor Day
weekend “for some more gridline fun.” Look for him to activate EN06 EN07
EN08 EN16 EN17 EN18 on RS-44. Pass schedule is available on <a href="https://hams.at">hams.at</a>.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Zach, K8ZRY, will be doing a POTA activation on the EN83/EN84
gridline over the Labor Day holiday. Pass schedule is available on <a href="https://hams.at">hams.at</a>.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">A growing number of satellite rovers are currently engaged in sharing their grid square activations on <a href="https://hams.at">https://hams.at</a>.
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.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Ian Parsons, K5ZM, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above information]</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">AMSAT Ambassador Activities</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">AMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating
through amateur satellites, and host information tables at club
meetings, hamfests, conventions, maker faires, and other events.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">September 7, 2024<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Greater Louisville Hamfest</strong><br>
Shepherdsville, KY<br>
AMSAT Forum and Information Table<br>
W4FCL</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">October 5, 2024<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>North Star Radio Convention</strong><br>
Hennepin Technical College (North Campus)<br>
Brooklyn Park, Minn.<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://conv2023.tcfmc.org/">https://conv2023.tcfmc.org/</a><br>
AMSAT Forum and Information Table<br>
KØJM and ADØHJ</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">October 5th, 2024<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Central Kentucky Hamfest</strong> –<br>
Highlands Baptist Church<br>
2032 Parallel Road<br>
Lexington, KY 40502<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/w9khz/">https://www.facebook.com/w9khz/</a><br>
AMSAT and Educational Satellites Forum and Information Table<br>
AI4SR and W4FCL</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">October 5, 2024<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Radio Society of Tucson</strong><br>
Calvary Tucson Church<br>
7811 E. Speedway<br>
Tucson, AZ<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://k7rst.club/2024/07/tucson-autumn-ham-fest-2024/">https://k7rst.club/2024/07/tucson-autumn-ham-fest-2024/</a><br>
N1UW</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">October 18-20, 2024<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Pacificon 2024, ARRL Pacific Division Conference</strong><br>
San Ramon, CA<br>
WUØI</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">October 25-27, 2004<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting</strong><br></span></font>
<font size="4">Double Tree<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> Rocky Point Waterfront Hotel<br>
Tampa Bay, FL</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">November 2-3, 2024<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Stone Mountain Hamfest, ARRL State Convention</strong><br>
Stone Mountain, GA<br>
K4RGK</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">November 9, 2024<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Oro Valley Amateur Radio Club</strong><br>
Marana Middle School<br>
11285 West Grier Rd.<br>
Marana, AZ 85653<br>
<a href="https://www.tucsonhamradio.org/copy-of-hamfest-2022">https://www.tucsonhamradio.org/copy-of-hamfest-2022</a><br>
N1UW</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">February 20-22, 2025<br></span></font>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Yuma HAMCON</strong><br>
Yuma, AZ<br>
N1UW</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks the AMSAT Events page for the above information]</span></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Satellite Shorts From All Over</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ The FUNcube Data Warehouse will be going off line on Saturday,
August 31, as it transitions to a new server. The service may be down
for about three days as the team has to migrate the large amount of data
collected over 11 years and ensure that the service is running
correctly. The dashboards will catch up if they are left connected, once
the service comes on line. The team will probably turn on the
collection service before the UI so that there is not to much data loss.
(ANS thanks Dave Johnson, G4DPZ, of the FUNcube Team for the above
information.)</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ NASA will return Boeing’s Starliner to Earth without astronauts
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, KD5PLB, aboard the spacecraft, the
agency announced last week. The uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing
to continue gathering testing data on Starliner during its upcoming
flight home, while also not accepting more risk than necessary for its
crew. Wilmore and Williams, who flew to the International Space Station
in June aboard NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, have been busy supporting
station research, maintenance, and Starliner system testing and data
analysis, among other activities. They will continue their work formally
as part of the Expedition 71/72 crew through February 2025, and will
fly home aboard a Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned
to the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission. Starliner is expected to depart
from the space station and make a safe, controlled autonomous re-entry
and landing in early September. (ANS thanks NASA for the above
information.)</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ NASA astronaut Nick Hague, KG5TMV, and Roscosmos cosmonaut
Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the
agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA
astronauts Zena Cardman, KJ5CMN, and Stephanie Wilson, KD5DZE,
previously announced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a
future mission. The updated crew complement follows NASA’s decision to
return the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9
with two unoccupied seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni
Williams, KD5PLB, who launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June,
will fly home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025. (ANS thanks NASA
for the above information.)</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy
Observatory (NSF NRAO), and its administrator Associated Universities,
Inc. (AUI), have created SuperKnova, an online educational platform that
provides inclusive, equitable access to radio technology learning and
training. Thanks to a generous grant from Amateur Radio Digital
Communications (ARDC), learners can now enroll in two self-paced courses
to learn the fundamentals of radio communications. The Technician
Amateur Radio License and EMS Course introduces learners to the
electromagnetic spectrum using amateur (ham) radio as a vehicle. (ANS
thanks the National Radio Astronomy Observatory for the above
information.)</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ Alick Gardiner, 2E0HDV, has undertaken a “retro radio” project to
utilize the APRS packet digipeater aboard the International Space
Station with equipment dating back to the 1980s! Alick documents how he
resurrected a Commodore 64 computer and a 30+ year old AEA PK-232
“Pakratt” TNC in his blog at <a href="http://www.alickgardiner.com/c64-packet-radio/">http://www.alickgardiner.com/c64-packet-radio/</a> (ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and Alick Gardiner, 2E0HDV, for the above information.)</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Join AMSAT today at <a href="https://launch.amsat.org/">https://launch.amsat.org/</a></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">* Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).<br>
* Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate.<br>
* Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status
shall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary
years in this status.<br>
* Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Contact info [at] <a href="http://amsat.org">amsat.org</a> for additional membership information.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">This week’s ANS Editor, Mark Johns, KØJM<br>
mjohns [at] <a href="http://amsat.org">amsat.org</a></span></font></p>
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