<div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span>AMSAT News Service<br></font><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span>ANS-075</font><div class="entry-content"><p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
March 16, 2025</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">In this edition:</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">* Amateur Satellites Finally Launch After Delays<br>
* NASA’s SPHEREx, PUNCH Missions Launch<br>
* ISS Changes Crew for Expedition 73<br>
* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution<br>
* ARISS News<br>
* Upcoming Satellite Operations<br>
* AMSAT Ambassador Activities<br>
* Satellite Shorts From All Over</font></p>
<p><font size="4" 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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The news feed on <a href="http://www.amsat.org">http://www.amsat.org</a> publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at] <a href="http://amsat.org">amsat.org</a></strong></font></p>
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<h2><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Amateur Satellites Finally Launch After Delays</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">After delaying the launch of the mission a (highly unusual) seven
times — it was originally slated to take to the skies on Feb. 27 — a
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket finally carried the 13th Rideshare to orbit on
Saturday, March 15. The launch carried 74 small satellites to
sun-sychronous orbit (SSO), lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force
Base, California at 06:43 UTC (11:43 p.m. on March 14 local California
time).</font></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-wp-image-60131 gmail-size-large" src="https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/uScfPAbpBJJuEBeVmsJAxQ-1200-80.jpg-1024x575.webp" alt="" width="1024" height="575"><br>
<em>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Transporter 13 rideshare
mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 15,
2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)</em></font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Among the satellites aboard is HADES-ICM 1.5 PocketQube satellite
main mission is to act as a FM voice repeater. It can also repeat FSK
derived modes like FT-4 and FT-8. It has the same functionalities as in
HADES-R (SO-124). FM and Digital modes repeater with Uplink on 145.875
MHz and Downlink on 436.666 MHz. It also carries the same experiment for
SMART-IR/Manchester University. The repeater will not be active until
all the checks have been performed on the satellite. This can take
several weeks.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">A group of satellites labeled as “TEVEL2” are on the launch manifest
for the SpaceX Transporter 13 mission. Designated as TEVEL2-1 through
TEVE2-9, they are all listed as having a downlink frequency of 436.400
MHz, and are expected to be activated in rotation, much in the same way
as the previous constellation of TEVEL satellites, which have now all
decayed from orbit.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">A French cubesat named UVSQ-Sat NG — or “Next Generation” is also on
the launch manifest. This satellite appears to have capabilities for
amateur operation, however no such operation has been coordinated or
announced.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">See AMSAT News Service bulletins 061 for more details on all of these satellites.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Space.com and AMSAT-EA for the above information]</font></p>
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<h2><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">NASA’s SPHEREx, PUNCH Missions Launch</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions were launched together on a SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base,
California, on Tuesday evening, March 11 (early March 12 UTC). The
launch had been delayed one day due to unfavorable weather at the launch
site and an issue with one of the spacecraft.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of
Reionization and Ices Explorer) will then collect data on more than 450
million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky
Way in order to explore the origins of the universe, contributing to
NASA Science’s key goals to discover the secrets of the universe and
search for life elsewhere.</font></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-60133" src="https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SPHEREx-standard-37vaf3.webp" alt="" width="800" height="450"><br>
<em>NASA’s SPHEREx mission will operate in low Earth orbit, detecting
hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies and creating the first
all-sky spectroscopic survey in the near-infrared. This artist’s concept
shows the spacecraft and its distinctive conical photon shields, which
protect SPHEREx’s telescope from infrared light and heat from the Sun
and Earth. (Graphic: NASA/JPL-Caltech)</em></font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The mission’s 3D all-sky map will help scientists answer big-picture
questions about the universe. The mission will investigate a cosmic
phenomenon called inflation that caused the universe to expand rapidly
for a fraction of a second after the big bang, measure the collective
glow created by galaxies near and far, including hidden galaxies that
have not been individually observed, and search the Milky Way galaxy for
hidden reservoirs of water, carbon dioxide, and other essential
ingredients for life.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The SPHEREx mission’s ability to scan large sections of the sky
quickly and gather data on millions of objects complements the work of
more targeted telescopes, like NASA’s Hubble and James Webb, and the
observatory’s data will be freely available to scientists around the
world, providing a new encyclopedia of information about hundreds of
millions of cosmic objects.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Along for the ride was a second mission, PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify
the Corona and Heliosphere), a mission consisting of four satellites
operating in concert. These small sats will observe the Sun’s corona as
it transitions into the solar wind, supporting NASA Science’s key goals
by creating a broad awareness and understanding of how the Sun creates
conditions that influence Earth and space, which is increasingly part of
the human domain.</font></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-60132" src="https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PUNCH.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576"><br>
<em>Illustration of one of the four identical PUNCH satellites in operation. (Graphic: NASA)</em></font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">By providing scientists with new information about how these
potentially disruptive solar events form and evolve, data from PUNCH
could lead to more accurate prediction about the arrival and impact of
such events on Earth and for humanity’s robotic explorers in space.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Following orbital adjustments and commissioning, each of these two
missions is planned to last for at least two years, contributing
valuable data to the study of the universe and the sun’s influence on
space weather.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]</font></p>
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<h2><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">ISS Changes Crew for Expedition 73</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The 73rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station
(ISS) will begin with the departure of Soyuz MS-26, expected to take
place in April 2025. The Expedition 73 crew will consist of astronauts
cosmonauts just launched to the station aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon
Endurance, as well as those soon to follow aboard the Soyuz MS-27.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The crew of MS-26, Russian cosmonaunts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan
Vagner and American astronaut Don Pettit, KD5MDT, are already making
preparations for departure in the coming weeks.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Scheduled for departure even sooner — probably in the coming week —
is SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom with two members of SpaceX Crew 9,
astronaut Nick Hague, KG5TMV, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov,
accompanied by U.S. astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore, and Sunita
Williams, KD5PLB. Wilmore and Williams were launched to the ISS in June
of last year aboard the Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test.</font></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-large gmail-wp-image-60138" src="https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/82338212007-crb-031225-spacex-1024x704.webp" alt="" width="1024" height="704"></font></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><em>The astronauts of NASA’s SpaceX Crew
10 (from left) Kirill Peskov, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi and Anne
McClain, leave crew quarters at Kennedy Space Center, FL Wednesday,
March 12, 2025 headed for the launch pad. They finally launched to the
International Space Station on March 14.<br>
(Photo: Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY via USA TODAY NETWORK)</em></font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">SpaceX Crew 10 consists of NASA astronaut Anne McClain, who will
serve as Crew-10’s commander. She is joined by Crew-10’s pilot, NASA
astronaut Nichole Ayers, KJ5GWI, mission specialist Japanese Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, KF5LKS, and Roscosmos
cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. Crew 10 was launched from pad 39A at the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 14, at 23:03 UTC after a
scrub on Wednesday. The March 12 launch attempt was scrubbed due to an
issue with the hydraulics on ground support systems on the launch pad.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">That crew will be joined later next month by the crew of Soyuz MS-27,
which is scheduled to consist of cosmonaunts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey
Zubritsky, as well as American astronaut Jonny Kim.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Once the MS-26 crew departs, Takuya Onishi of the Japan will serve as
the commander of Expedition 73, the third JAXA astronaut to take
command of the station. Born in Nerima, Japan, Onishi earned an
aeronautical and space engineering degree from the University of Tokyo
and was a co-pilot of Boeing 767 airplanes from 2003 to 2009. Onishi
will fly to space for the second time on Crew-10, having previously
flown to the ISS aboard Soyuz MS-01 in 2016 as part of Expedition 48/49.
JAXA and NASA selected Onishi for NASA’s 20th astronaut group in 2009.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Expedition 73 will continue the extensive scientific research
conducted aboard the ISS, focusing on various fields, including biology,
human physiology, physics, and materials science. The crew members will
also maintain and upgrade the space station systems.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]</font></p>
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<h2><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for 14 March</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" 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>.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">NOTICE: In an effort to minimize confusion between sources of two
line element sets, AMSAT is adopting the convention of listing the
USSF/NORAD Satellite Catalog name first, followed by any secondary name
or names in parentheses. For example, “POEM 4 (BGS ARPIT)” was added
recently where “POEM 4” is the name that appears in the U.S. Space Force
Satellite Catalog, and “BGS ARPIT” is the name best known within the
amateur satellite community. Expect name changes for affected satellites
in the coming weeks as this change is fully implemented.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The following satellite has been added to this week’s AMSAT TLE distribution:<br>
+ HYDRA-T NORAD Cat ID 62692 Downlink 437.778 MHz</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager for the above information]</font></p>
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<h2><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">ARISS NEWS</font></h2>
<p style="text-align:center"><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-medium gmail-wp-image-17334" src="https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/cm/ARISS-Large1-300x80.png" alt="" width="300" height="80"><br></font></p><p><font size="4" 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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">None scheduled in the immediate future due to crew changes.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" 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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The packet system is also active (145.825 MHz up & down).</font></p>
<p><font size="4" 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. <strong>Systems will be OFF for Crew Dragon docking on March 16, and for undocking later in the week.</strong></font></p>
<p><font size="4" 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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" 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></font></p>
<p><font size="4" 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></font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors for the above information]</font></p>
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<h2><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Upcoming Satellite Operations</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ N4AKV/R will be on various satellites from FM25, FM26, FM27, and FM28 on March 16-18. See <a href="http://hams.at">hams.at</a> for details.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ PA3GAN will be on AO-07 from JO22 on March 16.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ WD5GRW will be on FM satellites for a POTA operation in EM01 on March 16.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" 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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks <a href="http://hams.at">hams.at</a> for the above information]</font></p>
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<h2><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">AMSAT Ambassador Activities</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" 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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>March 22, 2025</strong><br>
Midwinter Madness Hamfest<br>
Buffalo Civic Center<br>
1306 County Rd 134<br>
Buffalo MN 55313<br>
<a href="https://k0ltc.org/midwinter-madness/">https://k0ltc.org/midwinter-madness/</a><br>
KØJM, ADØHJ, KEØPBR</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>March 27, 2025</strong><br>
AMSAT Update and Info<br>
West Fork Amateur Radio Club<br>
Paradise Fire Dept.<br>
303 Main St.<br>
Paradise, TX 76073<br>
<a href="https://wfarc.org/">https://wfarc.org/</a><br>
W5ITR</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>April 4 – 5, 2025</strong><br>
Southeastern VHF Conference 2025<br>
Quality Inn<br>
3095 Wilma Rudolph Blvd<br>
Clarksville, TN 37040<br>
<a href="https://svhfs.org/wp/2025-conference/">https://svhfs.org/wp/2025-conference/</a><br>
W4FCL</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><strong>April 5, 2025</strong><br>
RARSfest<br>
Jim Graham Building<br>
NC State Fairgrounds<br>
Youth Center Drive, Gate 5<br>
Raleigh NC<br>
<a href="https://www.rarsfest.org/index.php">https://www.rarsfest.org/index.php</a><br>
K4EB, N4AEW, W1DCM, KK4HG, N4HF</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ANS thanks Bo Lowrey, W4FCL, Director – AMSAT Ambassador Program, for the above information]</font></p>
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<h2><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Satellite Shorts From All Over</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ AMSAT Italia is pleased to announce the renewal of its Board of
Directors, which were elected on February 26th and assigned to the role
on March 3rd. The new Board of Directors, in charge for the period
2025-2027, consists of:</font></p>
<ul><li><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">De Paolis Francesco IKØWGF – President / Treasurer</font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ferrario Gianpietro IZ2GOJ – Vice President</font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Andrioli Fabio IZØQPO – Secretary</font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ariotti Claudio IK1SLD – Board Member</font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Tognolatti Piero IØKPT – Board Member</font></li></ul>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Andrioli Fabio IZØQPO and Tognolatti Piero IØKPT join the BoD after
being former members of the board of auditors. Fabrizio Carrai IU5GEZ
and Emanuele D’Andria IØELE leave the BoD, while Emanuele IØELE was
already appointed by the assembly of associates as President Emeritus of
AMSAT Italia. For more information about AMSAT Italia and its
activities, please visit their website <a href="https://www.amsat.it">https://www.amsat.it</a>. (ANS thanks Francesco De Paolis, IKØWGF, for the above information.)</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ Intuitive Machine’s IM-2 Athena lander touched down near the Moon’s
south pole, 250 meters from its target in the Mons Mouton region,
inside of a crater. But, while a softer landing than last time, like
IM-1 in Feb 2024, the lander appears to have fallen over into an
“incorrect attitude” ending up “somewhat on its side.” A day later the
mission was declared over, with little hope of even partial recovery due
to solar panels oriented in the wrong direction and the extreme cold
temperatures in the crater. (ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above
information.)</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ With somewhat better luck, another private lunar lander carrying a
drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon on
March 2, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart
business on Earth’s celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut missions.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit on
autopilot, aiming for the slopes of an ancient volcanic dome in an
impact basin on the moon’s northeastern edge of the near side. (ANS
thanks The Associate Press for the above information.)</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ Starship blew up over the Caribbean, again. Starship Flight 8 seems
to have suffered the same fate as its predecessor. Eight minutes into
Ship 34’s powered flight, four of its six Raptor engines shut down, and
the craft began to tumble. Minutes later, it exploded over the
Caribbean, producing a similarly spectacular light show as the last
flight. In better news, Super Heavy Booster 15 was again caught by its
launch tower, an incredible feat that is somehow slowly starting to look
routine. (ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above information.)</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:georgia,serif">+ NASA recently turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem
experiment and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument to
conserve power. At 43 years old, both craft are at half their initial
power levels, now operating at around 235W each and losing about 4W of
power generation capacity each year. In part, this is due to the
87.7-year half-life decay of Plutonium-238, which powers the probes’
three Multi-Hundred-Watt Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators. (ANS
thanks The Orbital Index for the above information.)</font></p>
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