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ANS-019
January 19, 2025
On this version:
* SpaceX Launches Hamsats on Rideshare Mission
* Two Personal Moon Landers Have Launched at As soon as
* Blue Origin New Glenn Reaches Orbit on Its First Launch
* SpaceX Success & Failure in Starship Flight 7
* Three U.S. Colleges Moved Ahead in ARISS Choice Course of
* New ARISS Proposal Window is Now Open
* Modifications to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution
* ARISS Information
* Upcoming Satellite tv for pc Operations
* AMSAT Ambassador Actions
* Satellite tv for pc Shorts From All Over
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SpaceX Launches Hamsats on Rideshare Mission
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 131 totally different payloads lifted off on the corporate’s Transporter 12 mission from Vandenberg Area Pressure Base on January 14 at 19:09z. Included among the many payloads had been the novice radio satellites HADES-R, operated by AMSAT-EA in Spain, and PARUS-T1, constructed by Nationwide Formosa College of Taiwan, amongst others.
With so many payloads aboard, not all the satellites might be launched without delay. Reasonably, releases might be spaced over a time period. At this writing, there isn’t any phrase but on the profitable deployment of HADES-R. Additional, the satellite tv for pc will endure a number of weeks of commissioning earlier than the FM repeater is opened to be used.
HADES-R has a downlink frequency, coordinated by the Worldwide Newbie Radio Union (IARU) of 436.888 MHz. Whereas FM voice is the first mission, the downlink could generally embrace FSK knowledge as much as 1200 bps, APRS as much as 1200 bps, FSK telemetry and experimental knowledge as much as 1600 bps or CW. The uplink might be 145.925 MHz, Modes: FM voice (with out subtone) and FSK 200 bps, AFSK, AX.25, APRS 1200 / 2400 bps.
Additionally launched on Transporter 12 was PARUS-T1, a 3U CubeSat devoted to receiving APRS indicators on three main international frequencies: 144.640 MHz, 144.390 MHz, and 144.800 MHz. The satellite tv for pc will report the Obtained Sign Power Indicator (RSSI) knowledge for every obtained APRS packet and make the most of a International Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS) receiver to find out the CubeSat’s orbit location throughout every sign reception. The obtained APRS knowledge, RSSI values, and corresponding location knowledge might be saved within the On-Board Laptop (OBC) reminiscence for transmission to floor stations.
PARUS-T1 satellite tv for pc [Illustration from Taiwan Space Agency via Taipei Times]
College students may also be extensively concerned in mission knowledge evaluation and can achieve hands-on expertise in understanding ionospheric propagation and its impression on terrestrial and satellite tv for pc radio communications. The beacon packets shall not be encrypted and made public to the group by way of web sites. Group participation might be inspired by means of on-line leaderboards for instance SatNOGS community. Knowledge format of PARUS-T1 well being telemetry and payload uncooked knowledge may also be printed and welcome all amateurs to obtain 436.850MHz for packet knowledge of AX.25 protocol on 1200bps.
PARUS-T1 additionally has an APRS digipeater to offer international novice actions on the identical frequency of ISS APRS channel 145.825 MHz.
An inventory of novice radio payloads launched on the rideshare seems beneath:
[Libre Space graphic]
Thirty-seven of the 131 payloads going up as we speak belong to San Francisco firm Planet, which operates three constellations of Earth-observing satellites. Thirty-six of the 37 Planet craft are “SuperDove” cubesats, shoebox-sized craft that accumulate pictures with a decision of about 10 toes (3 meters) per pixel. The opposite one is Pelican-2, whose decision is about 7.5 occasions sharper than that.
SpaceX has launched a complete of 13 rideshare missions thus far — the 11 Transporter flights and two in a special program often called Bandwagon. Collectively, these missions have lofted about 1,100 payloads for greater than 130 totally different clients, in line with the Transporter 12 description.
[ANS thanks Space.com, AMSAT-EA, and IARU for the above information]
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Two Personal Moon Landers Have Launched at As soon as
An area twofer passed off early Wednesday morning — two lunar missions for the worth of 1 rocket launch.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from the NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle in Florida at 1:11 a.m. Jap time, carrying the Blue Ghost lander constructed by Firefly Aerospace of Austin, Texas, and the Resilience lander from Ispace of Japan.
Why did two moon landers share one rocket? That was the results of fortuitous scheduling by SpaceX and never one thing that was deliberate by Firefly or Ispace.
Firefly had bought a Falcon 9 launch to ship its Blue Ghost lander to the moon. On the identical time, Ispace, to save lots of on the prices for the mission, had requested SpaceX for a rideshare, that’s, hitching a journey as a secondary payload on a rocket launch that was going roughly in the suitable path to get its Resilience lander to the moon. That turned out to be Blue Ghost’s journey.
“It was a no brainer to place them collectively,” Julianna Scheiman, the director for NASA science missions at SpaceX, stated throughout a information convention on Tuesday.
After the Falcon 9 rocket reached orbit, the second stage fired once more for a minute so it might deploy Blue Ghost in an elliptical orbit round Earth, about an hour after launch. The rocket stage fired as soon as extra, for only a second, to regulate the orbit for the deployment of Resilience, about 1.5 hours after launch.
On Wednesday morning, Firefly and Ispace introduced that their spacecraft efficiently turned on, established communications with floor stations on Earth and had been working as anticipated.
Based on AMSAT-DL, the German novice satellite tv for pc group, the Firefly_Space Blue Ghost Mission contains the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) with the aim of demonstrating GNSS-based positioning, navigation, and timing on the Moon. LuGRE will construct on the legacy of prior missions within the Area Service Quantity (SSV) together with the preliminary experiments by AMSAT on OSCAR-40 (P3-D) satellite tv for pc and others.
Learn the complete story of the launch at https://bit.ly/4fYhCpV [may have pay wall]. Extra info on the LuGRE payload is at https://way4ward.eu/companies/lugre/.
[ANS thanks Kenneth Chang of The New York Times and AMSAT-DL for the above information]
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Blue Origin New Glenn Reaches Orbit on Its First Launch
Blue Origin entered into the historical past books within the predawn hours of Thursday, January 16. The corporate, based by Jeff Bezos, grew to become the primary to efficiently attain orbit on their first launch with a brand new orbital-class rocket within the new period of economic spaceflight that dawned within the final 20 years.
After coping with an unplanned maintain to sit back its engines and a wayward boat getting into the preserve out zone, the New Glenn rocket, standing as tall as a 32-story constructing, lumbered off the pad beneath the facility of three.9 million kilos of thrust.
The seven BE-4 engines on the primary stage booster roared to life at 2:03 a.m. EST (07:03 UTC) shining an excellent orange that turned to blue because the liquified pure fuel (LNG) fueled rocket started its journey from pad 36 at Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket lifts off the pad for the primary time at Launch Complicated 36 at Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station. [Image: Pete Carstens/MaxQ Productions for Spaceflight Now]
Blue Origin handled a number of weather-related delays to get to launch day and even through the countdown, confronted unsure skies that threatened to probably delay the mission but once more.
It additionally bumped into technical points on its solution to launch. Blue Origin stated a difficulty that prevented Monday’s launch was “ice forming in a purge line on an auxiliary energy unit that powers a few of [New Glenn’s] hydraulic methods.” Groups labored to clear that difficulty through the three-hour window, however weren’t in a position to take action in time.
One of many objectives of the NG-1 mission was to aim to land the primary stage booster, named ‘So You’re Telling Me There’s a Probability,’ on Blue Origin’s touchdown vessel, named ‘Jacklyn,’ which was positioned out within the Atlantic Ocean.
In the end, it was decided that the landing on the 380-foot-long (116 m) touchdown vessel, named ‘Jacklyn,’ was unsuccessful. That stated, going into the launch, Blue Origin stated repeatedly that touchdown the booster was an aspirational aim and never their most important goal.
Learn the entire story at https://bit.ly/3CcTSRa
[ANS thanks Spaceflight Now for the above information]
SpaceX Success & Failure in Starship Flight 7
SpaceX’s seventh flight of its Starship rocket was a mix of nice success and catastrophic loss, with a catch of its Tremendous Heavy booster on the launch tower and the failure of the Starship higher stage because it climbed to house.
Starting round seven minutes and 40 seconds into the flight, SpaceX’s on-screen telemetry knowledge started to point out one Raptor engine after one other flip off on the Ship till the telemetry froze at eight minutes and 27 seconds.
A nonetheless picture taken from video of what’s reportedly the remnants of SpaceX’s Starship higher stage as seen from the vantage level of the Turks and Caicos Islands. [Image: Alex Davenport and Spaceflight Now.]
The launch started nominally, with the greater than 400-foot-tall rocket lumbering off of the pad at 22:37 UTC on Thursday, Jan. 16. The mission featured the primary flight of the Block 2 variant of the higher stage.
The 33 Raptor engines on the booster powered it down vary as anticipated and starting about two minutes and 30 seconds into the mission, most of them lower off and the six Raptor engines on the Ship sprang to life to start carrying it in the direction of house.
The booster carried out a flip maneuver and one other burn to place it on a course in the direction of the launch tower. The Tremendous Heavy booster, B14, carried out a closing touchdown burn about 6 minutes and 30 seconds after liftoff and earlier than seven minutes had been up, it was caught by the tower.
Learn the complete story, with movies, at https://bit.ly/3WjAXLu
[ANS thanks Spaceflight Now for the above information.]
Three U.S. Colleges Moved Ahead in ARISS Choice Course of
Newbie Radio on the Worldwide Area Station (ARISS) is happy to announce the U.S. faculties/host organizations newly chosen for 2025 ARISS contacts. A complete of three of the submitted proposals through the latest proposal window have been accepted to maneuver ahead within the processes of planning to host a scheduled novice radio contact with crew on the ISS. The first aim of the ARISS program is to have interaction younger individuals in Science, Know-how, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) actions and lift their consciousness of house communications, radio communications, house exploration, and associated areas of examine and profession prospects.
The ARISS program anticipates that NASA will have the ability to present scheduling alternatives for the three US host organizations through the July – December 2025 time interval. They’re now at work beginning to implement their 4–6-month training plan which was outlined of their proposal. These STEAM based mostly instructional actions assist put together college students for his or her contact in addition to create an on-going exploration and curiosity in aerospace and novice radio subjects. They’re additionally finishing an appropriate gear plan that demonstrates their capacity to execute the ham radio contact. As soon as their gear plan is authorized by ARISS, the ultimate chosen faculties/organizations might be scheduled as their availability and suppleness match up with the scheduling alternatives supplied by NASA.
The faculties and host organizations are:
- Paterson P-Tech Excessive Faculty, Paterson, NJ
- Pinecrest Academy, Cumming, GA
- Terre Haute Youngsters’s Museum, Terre Haute, IN
[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]
New ARISS Proposal Window is Now Open
The Newbie Radio on the Worldwide Area Station (ARISS) Program is in search of formal and casual training establishments and organizations, individually or working collectively, to host an Newbie Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the contact can be held between July 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will decide the precise contact dates. To maximise these radio contact alternatives, ARISS is on the lookout for organizations that may draw massive numbers of contributors and combine the contact right into a well-developed training plan.
The deadline to submit a proposal is February 28, 2025. Proposal info and extra particulars resembling expectations, proposal pointers and the proposal type could be discovered at www.ariss.org. An ARISS Introductory Webinar session might be held on January 22 at 8 p.m. EST. The Zoom hyperlink to enroll is: https://us06web.zoom.us/assembly/register/kznKuyHCRyKi8_j00JBd_g
The Alternative
Crew members aboard the Worldwide Area Station will take part in scheduled Newbie Radio contacts. These radio contacts are roughly 10 minutes in size and permit college students to work together with the astronauts by means of a question-and-answer session.
An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication alternative by way of Newbie Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the house station and school rooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford training audiences the chance to study firsthand from astronauts what it’s wish to reside and work in house and to find out about house analysis performed on the ISS. College students additionally can have a possibility to find out about satellite tv for pc communication, wi-fi know-how, and radio science. Due to the character of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling actions aboard the ISS, organizations should show flexibility to accommodate adjustments in dates and occasions of the radio contact.
Newbie Radio organizations all over the world with the help of NASA and house businesses in Canada, Japan, Europe and Russia current instructional organizations with this chance. The ham radio organizations’ volunteer efforts present the gear and operational help to allow communication between crew on the ISS and college students all over the world utilizing Newbie Radio.
Please direct any inquiries to [email protected] .
[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]
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Modifications to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for Jan. 17
Two Line Components or TLEs, also known as Keplerian components or keps within the novice group, are the inputs to the SGP4 normal mathematical mannequin of spacecraft orbits utilized by most novice monitoring applications. Weekly updates are utterly sufficient for many novice satellites. TLE bulletin information are up to date every day within the first hour of the UTC day. New bulletin information might be posted instantly after dependable components grow to be accessible for brand spanking new novice satellites. Extra info could also be discovered at https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/.
This week there aren’t any additions or deletions to the AMSAT TLE distribution.
[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager for the above information]
ARISS NEWS
Amateurs and others all over the world could eavesdrop on contacts between amateurs working in faculties and permitting college students to work together with astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the Worldwide Area Station. The downlink frequency on which to pay attention is 145.800 MHz worldwide.
RECENTLY COMPLETED
Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) and Vermont Faculty, Mexico Metropolis, Mexico,
telebridge by way of IK1SLD
The ISS callsign was OR4ISS
The scheduled crewmember was Nick Hague, KG5TMV
The ARISS mentor was VE3TBD
Contact was profitable: Fri 2025-01-17 17:00:18 UTC 77 deg
UPCOMING
College of Prešov, Prešov, Slovakia, direct by way of OM25ISS
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled crewmember is Sunita Williams, KD5PLB
The ARISS mentor is SP3QFE
Contact is go for: Sat 2025-01-25 15:21:17 UTC 52 deg
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 need to do is decide up the microphone, elevate the amount up, and speak on the crossband repeater. So give a pay attention, you simply by no means know.
The packet system can be ACTIVE (145.825 MHz up & down).
Ham TV digital novice tv operations (2395.00 MHz down) is presently STOWED.
As all the time, if there’s an EVA (“spacewalk”), a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios are turned off as a part of the protection protocol. At the moment scheduled for powering off for U.S. EVA on Jan 23: OFF Jan 22 about 17:30 UTC. ON Jan 24 about 10:15 UTC.
Observe, all occasions are approximate. It is suggested that you just do your personal orbital prediction or begin listening about 10 minutes earlier than the listed time.
The newest info on the operation mode could be discovered at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html
The newest listing of frequencies in use could be discovered 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]
Upcoming Satellite tv for pc Operations
+ NR1Z plans to be on RS-44 from EM93 on January 25, CW solely, uplink on 145.965 MHz.
A rising variety of satellite tv for pc rovers are presently engaged in sharing their grid sq. activations on https://hams.at. By visiting the web site, you achieve quick access to complete details about the operators accountable for activating particular grid squares. Moreover, you might have the power to evaluate the match rating between your self and a selected rover for a given go, whereas additionally with the ability to establish the upcoming satellite tv for pc passes which can be accessible out of your location.
[ANS thanks Ian Parsons, K5ZM, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above information]
AMSAT Ambassador Actions
AMSAT Ambassadors present displays, show speaking by means of novice satellites, and host info tables at membership conferences, hamfests, conventions, maker faires, and different occasions.
January 17-18, 2025
Cowtown Hamfest and 2025 ARRL North Texas Part Conference
Forest Hill Civic and Conference Middle
6901 Wichita St.
Forest Hill, TX (Fort Price)
https://www.cowtownhamfest.com/–residence–.html
N5HYP
Saturday February 1, 2025 (rescheduled from) January 11, 2025
Gwinnett Newbie Radio Society – TechFest
Gwinnett County Fairgrounds
Expo Middle Constructing
2405 Sugarloaf Pkwy.
Lawrenceville, GA 30045
[ANS thanks Bo Lowrey, W4FCL, Director – AMSAT Ambassador Program, for the above information]
Satellite tv for pc Shorts From All Over
+ NASA astronaut Suni Williams, KD5PLB, one of many two astronauts caught on the Worldwide Area Station by the Boeing Starliner failure, ventured exterior for a spacewalk on Thursday, Jan. 16, for the primary time since arriving on board seven months in the past. Williams – an skilled astronaut who has performed many spacewalks throughout earlier stays aboard the ISS – teamed up with astronaut Nick Hague, KG5TMV, on Thursday to carry out upkeep on the craft. (ANS thanks BBC.com for the above info.)
+ SpaceX maintained its fast tempo of launching an orbital mission on common each two days with its Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station on Friday, Jan. 10. The Falcon 9 first stage booster for this mission, tail quantity B1067 within the SpaceX fleet, made a record-setting twenty fifth launch and touchdown. (ANS thanks Spaceflight Now for the above info.)
+ After some delay attributable to drift points, the 2 spacecraft from the Indian Area Analysis Group’s (ISRO — India’s nationwide house company) SpaDex mission efficiently docked with each other. On Thursday morning, Jan. 16, the house company introduced that it had made historical past by turning into solely the fourth nation on the earth with such know-how after United States, Russia and China. The booster for these satellites, nonetheless in orbit, carries the BGS ARPIT novice radio experiment (see ANS 012 from final week.) (ANS thanks The Orbital Index and BBC.com for the above info.)
+ All are deeply saddened by the wildfires in LA. You possibly can watch them proceed to unfold on NASA’s FIRMS hearth monitoring system, or take a look at this novice open supply evaluation. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) prevented getting burned, as did the Mount Wilson Observatory, however many people employed at JPL and past misplaced their houses.
A MAXAR picture exhibits the Eaton Hearth in North Pasadena and Altadena close to JPL.
In case you’d wish to donate to help these impacted, there are assets right here for the JPL area, or lists of advisable organizations for all of LA from CBS and from Charity Navigator. (ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above info.)
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