On this version:
* Firefly Delivers New Newbie Satellites to Orbit
* Ariane 6 Maiden Flight With GENESIS-A Module
* Logbook of The World Returns To Service
* LUSAT, Lifeless or Alive?
* LEGO Bricks Printed out of House Mud
* Discipline Day Submissions Now Due
* 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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ANS-189 AMSAT Information Service Weekly Bulletins
DATE 2024 July 7
Firefly Delivers New Newbie Satellites to Orbit
The Firefly Alpha FLTA005/NASA ELaNa 43 mission, nicknamed “Noise of Summer season,” launched efficiently at 04:04 UTC on July 4 (Wednesday night, July 3 within the U.S.) and deployed eight new dice satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). 5 of those cubesats carry novice radio tools.
The cubesats have been positioned right into a sun-synchronous Earth orbit, which means that each one areas on earth will see high-elevation passes roughly between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. and between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. native time each day, with decrease elevation passes earlier and later.
Among the many newly-deployed satellites, the one in every of best curiosity to the novice radio group is MESAT1. Constructed by the College of Maine, in cooperation with AMSAT, this satellite tv for pc carries a 30 kHz extensive V/U Transponder plus a 1k2 BPSK telemetry downlink. Telemetry downlink 435.800 MHz with transponder downlink 435.810-435.840 MHz, and transponder uplink 145.910-145.940 MHz. Amateurs are inspired to make use of AMSAT’s FoxTelem software program to gather telemetry.
MESAT1 being ready for integration aboard the Firefly Alpha (Photograph credit score, College of Maine)
MESAT1 includes three missions designed by highschool college students in Maine. The science payloads are local weather targeted and embody ALBEDO, IMAGER, and HAB. These will establish city warmth islands, decide focus of phytoplankton in water our bodies, and assist predict dangerous algal blooms. 4 multispectral cameras on board will relay the info all the way down to College of Maine’s floor station for additional processing. Amateurs are inspired to make use of AMSAT’s FoxTelem software program to gather telemetry and help in these science initiatives.
Additionally deployed was CatSat, a know-how demonstration of an inflatable antenna for high-speed communications, constructed by the College of Arizona. CatSat’s deployable antenna consists of a Mylar balloon. The entrance half of the balloon is clear, permitting microwaves to move by. The again half of the balloon is aluminized, making a reflecting antenna. After reaching low Earth orbit, CatSat’s antenna will deploy and inflate to a diameter of simply over one-and-a-half toes CatSat’s demonstration shall be to transmit high-definition Earth pictures to 10 GHz, X-band floor stations at ~50 megabits per second.
Artist’s rendering of CatSat with 10 GHz balloon antenna deployed. (College of Arizona)
Along with photos, information concerning the construction of the Earth’s ionosphere shall be gathered by listening-in to hundreds of beacons from ground-based ham radio stations. CatSat will relay WSPR and FT8 alerts from HF. Downlinks on 437.185 MHz and 10470.00 MHz.
Different satellites with IARU-coordinated novice frequency downlinks embody:
Serenity, which makes use of a 4k8 FM with AX25 downlink on 437.100 MHz. Serenity was constructed by Lecturers in House, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit instructional group in North America that stimulates scholar curiosity in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM). They supply lecturers with actual area science experiences, area flight alternatives, and business connections.
KUbeSat-1, revives small satellite tv for pc analysis on the College of Kansas and begins a brand new KUbeSat program that can provide area entry to scholar analysis. The principle payload on KUbeSat-1 is the Main Cosmic Ray Detector which is able to use a brand new methodology to measure the vitality and species of major cosmic rays hitting the Earth. The secondary payload is the Excessive-Altitude Calibration, (HiCalK) that builds on many years of analysis surrounding Very Excessive Frequency alerts generated by cosmic ray interactions with the environment. UHF downlink utilizing 9k6 GMSK. A downlink on 437.085 MHz.
SOC-i (Satellite tv for pc for Optimum Management and Imaging) is a know-how demonstration mission of angle management know-how and a digital camera that serves as an instrument to display SOC-i’s pointing talents. Developed on the College of Washington, SOC-i has a UHF downlink utilizing 4k8 GMSK. downlink 437.125 MHz.
[ANS thanks NASA, Firefly Aerospace, and Spacflight Now for the above information]
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Ariane 6 Maiden Flight With GENESIS-A Module
The maiden flight of the brand new European launcher, Ariane 6, is scheduled for July 9, 2024, with a launch window of three:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. native time from the European spaceport in French Guiana (July 9 20:00h to July 10 00:00h CEST). Amongst many different payloads, it carries our (inside YPSAT) GENESIS-A module, connected to the second stage of the launcher. The module will transmit FT8 and dwell SSTV photos in Robotic 36 format.
FT8 transmissions are made each 16 seconds, whereas SSTV’s are each 5 minutes.
The working frequencies are as follows:
Downlink 144.175 MHz FT8 Mode:
– Callsign AO4ARI HO60 if the antenna has been deployed
– Callsign AO4ARI HO61 if the antenna has not been deployed
Downlink 144.550 MHz SSTV Robotic 36 mode with dwell picture and Hades textual content
A provider with a frequency of 144.550 MHz (identical frequency as SSTV) is left between FT8 tones.
This data is compiled in PDF within the following doc on our internet:
https://www.amsat-ea.org/app/obtain/13458580/AMSAT+EA+-+GENESIS-A+transmissions+description.pdf
The one factor ESA has given us is the trajectory over the bottom whereas flying over Europe, however we don’t have TLEs or something that we will semi-automate. It’s out there on our web site:
https://www.amsat-ea.org/s/cc_images/cache_19006006.jpg?t=1720182961
Will probably be very tough to obtain it however we thanks all in case you try to in case you unfold this data to have all potential operators tuned into FT-8 that day. The module will fall into the ocean with the second stage after a number of hours.
Extra details about the flight together with timings right here:
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launch_how_to_watch_and_what_to_look_out_for
[ANS thanks Félix Páez, EA4GQS, AMSAT EA, for the above information]
Logbook of The World Returns To Service
Efficient 12:00pm ET / 16:00 UTC on July 1, Logbook of The World® (LoTW®) has been to service.
As work progressed on the community, some customers encountered LoTW opening briefly throughout which some 6600 logs have been uploaded. The logs weren’t processed till this weekend as we examined that the interfaces to LoTW have been functioning correctly.
We’re taking steps to assist handle what’s going to probably be an enormous inflow of logs. We’re requesting that you probably have massive uploads, maybe from contests or from a DXpedition, please wait every week or two earlier than importing to offer LoTW an opportunity to catch up. Now we have additionally carried out a course of to reject logs with extreme duplicates. Please don’t add your complete log to “guarantee” your contacts are in LoTW as they are going to be rejected. Lastly, please don’t name ARRL Headquarters to report points you’re having with LoTW. You possibly can contact help at [email protected].
By way of the top of the yr, chances are you’ll expertise deliberate instances when LoTW shall be unavailable. Now we have been utilizing this time to guage operational and infrastructure enhancements we wish to make to LoTW. These instances shall be introduced.
We respect your persistence as we labored by the challenges protecting LoTW from returning to service. We all know the significance of LoTW to our members, and to the tens of hundreds of LoTW customers who should not ARRL members. LoTW, simply behind QST, is our second hottest ARRL profit.
[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information]
LUSAT, Lifeless or Alive?
LO-19, co-ordinated by AMSAT Argentina, the LUSAT (named after the LU novice designation for Argentina) microsatellite was launched on the primary ARIANE ASAP flight V35 with SPOT 2, on the 22 January 1990 (01:35:27 GMT) into an 780 km sun-synchronous, 98 diploma inclined orbit.
It carried a Digital Retailer and Ahead packet communications transponder much like AO-16. Downlink was AX.25 at 437.125 MHz SSB 1200 bps RC-BPSK. It’s field formed with dimensions of 213 × 230 × 230 mm, with 4 photo voltaic panels and weighs 13.76 kg.
Gone its anticipated helpful life, in recent times LUSAT has solely been transmitting an unmodulated provider sign.
On June 29, Gustavo Carpignano, LW2DTZ, reported that latest observers had did not detect the provider. Gustavo declared LO-19 useless.
Nevertheless, on July 1, Nico Janssen, PAØDLO, reported receiving the provider, however at a sign power a lot weaker than over earlier years. Nico recommended that, maybe, the onboard energy amplifier has failed.
Properly-equipped floor stations might want to give a pay attention to check what they’ll hear.
[ANS thanks Gustavo Carpignano, LW2DTZ, Nico Janssen, PAØDLO, and Gunter’s Space Page, for the above information]
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LEGO Bricks Printed out of House Mud
There have been many proposals for constructing buildings on the Moon out of lunar regolith. However right here’s an thought certain to resonate with creators, mechanical tinkerers, mannequin builders and the child inside us all.
What about utilizing precise LEGO bricks?
Researchers floor up a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite and used the mud to 3D print LEGO-style area bricks. They really click on collectively just like the plastic selection, with to this point just one draw back: they solely are available in one shade, gray.
Universe At the moment
Wish to see a few of these lunar LEGOs? LEGO will showcase the area bricks at a few of its shops.
Creating constructing supplies on the Moon or Mars from the fabric readily available means building supplies don’t need to be transported from Earth. This is able to be an enormous financial savings in launch prices as a result of much less weight must be boosted from Earth.
A bunch of scientists from ESA (European House Company) have been impressed by LEGO bricks, and with the advances in 3D printing, had the thought to print area bricks and check how they’d work for building.
The one drawback was that aside from the Moon rocks introduced again by the Apollo astronauts – that are extremely guarded for scientific examine solely — there’s not any lunar regolith out there on Earth to experiment with.
However meteorite mud is a detailed cousin to lunar regolith. The ESA crew was capable of get a meteorite that was found in Northwest Africa in 2000 and is about 4.5 billion years outdated. It’s product of steel grains and chondrules, much like Moon mud.
Impressed by LEGO, ESA scientists have used mud from a meteorite to 3D-print LEGO-style ‘area bricks’
to check out building concepts for a future Moon base. Credit score: The LEGO Group
They blended the meteorite mud with a another issues, like a polymer known as polylactide and regolith simulant and 3D printed bricks that mimic and behave identical to LEGO bricks. Whereas they aren’t easy like common LEGO bricks, ESA mentioned the area bricks gave ESA’s area engineers the flexibleness to construct and check a wide range of buildings utilizing this new materials.
“It’s no secret that real-world scientists and engineers generally check out concepts with LEGO bricks,” mentioned Emmet Fletcher, Head of ESA’s Branding and Partnerships Workplace. “ESA’s area bricks are an effective way to encourage younger individuals and present them how play and the ability of the creativeness have an necessary function in area science, too.”
“No person has constructed a construction on the Moon, so it was nice to have the flexibleness to check out all types of designs and constructing strategies with our area bricks,” mentioned . ESA Science Officer Aidan Cowley. “It was each enjoyable and helpful in scientifically understanding the boundaries of those strategies.”
For an inventory of the place the lunar LEGOs shall be on show worldwide, see https://www.universetoday.com/167675/lego-bricks-printed-out-of-space-dust/#more-167675
The LEGO web site has extra particulars at https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/information/2024/june/lego-bricks-scientists-build-astronaut-shelters-on-the-moon
Hopefully the lunar LEGOs will encourage each youngsters and adults about area and to encourage them to construct their very own LEGO Moon bases.
[ANS thanks Universe Today for the above information]
Discipline Day Submissions Now Due
Discipline Day is behind us and it’s time to tally your contacts and submit the for AMSAT Discipline Day.
The Satellite tv for pc Abstract Sheet must be used for submission of the AMSAT Discipline Day competitors and be obtained by KK5DO (e-mail) by 11:59 P.M. CDT, Monday, July 23, 2024. This yr, we’re utilizing the identical due date because the ARRL. The one methodology for submitting your log is by way of e-mail to [email protected] or [email protected]. I’ve not had a mail-in entry in a really very long time.
If you might want to obtain a abstract sheet, it may be discovered at https://www.amsat.org/field-day/
or immediately from my web site https://www.amsatnet.com/2024fd.docx
[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director Contests and Awards, for the above information]
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Modifications to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for July 5
Two Line Parts or TLEs, sometimes called Keplerian parts or keps within the novice group, are the inputs to the SGP4 commonplace mathematical mannequin of spacecraft orbits utilized by most novice monitoring packages. Weekly updates are fully sufficient for many novice satellites. TLE bulletin recordsdata are up to date each day within the first hour of the UTC day. New bulletin recordsdata shall be posted instantly after dependable parts develop into out there for brand new novice satellites. Extra data could also be discovered at https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/.
The next satellites from final week’s Firefly Alpha FLTA005/NASA ELaNa 43 launch have been added. They’re listed as OBJECT A-H, aside from object G which is probably going MESAT1. As is the case with most cubesat launches, it should take some time to determine which object is which.
OBJECT A 60203
OBJECT B 60204
OBJECT C 60205
OBJECT D 60206
OBJECT E 60207
OBJECT F 60208
MESAT1 60209
OBJECT H 60210
OBJECT J 60211
OBJECT Ok 60212
[ANS thanks AMSAT Orbital Elements page for the above information]
ARISS NEWS
Amateurs and others all over the world might pay attention to contacts between amateurs working in faculties and permitting college students to work together with astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the Worldwide House Station. The downlink frequency on which to pay attention is 145.800 MHz worldwide.
UPCOMING CONTACTS:
Youth On the Air 2024, Mount Saint Vincent College, NS, Canada, Telebridge by way of ZS6JON
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled crewmember is Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU
The ARISS mentor is VE3TBD
Contact is go for: Tue 2024-07-09 15:06:38 UTC 65 levels most elevation
Houjoudu Elementary Faculty, Imizu, Japan, direct by way of JA9YQJ
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled crewmember is Mike Barratt, KD5MIJ
The ARISS mentor is 7M3TJZ
Contact is go for: Thu 2024-07-11 10:48:03 UTC 83 levels
The crossband repeater continues to be lively (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 lively (145.825 MHz up & down). HamTV (2.395 GHz) and SSTV (145.80 MHz) are each stowed.
As at all times, if there’s an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios are turned off as a part of the protection protocol.
Be aware, all instances are approximate. It is strongly recommended that you simply do your individual orbital prediction or begin listening about 10 minutes earlier than the listed time.
The newest data on the operation mode will be discovered at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html
The newest checklist of frequencies in use will 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
NDØC and household shall be on one other household tenting trip from 24 June via 7 July, this time by Wisconsin to Michigan and again via Illinois and Iowa. No tremendous uncommon grids however a number of which may be wanted by many. The grids and passes will rely on the place/after we occur to be whereas on the street or tenting. This shall be all LEO sats: FM & SSB. As at all times, they may strive for EU passes on RS-44 when potential. Randy is trying ahead to pushing previous the 100 grids-roved milestone.
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 easy accessibility to complete details about the operators liable for activating particular grid squares. Moreover, you may have the power to evaluate the match rating between your self and a specific rover for a given move, whereas additionally with the ability to establish the upcoming satellite tv for pc passes which are accessible out of your location.
[ANS thanks Ian Parsons, K5ZM, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above information]
AMSAT Ambassador Actions
AMSAT Ambassadors present shows, display speaking by novice satellites, and host data tables at membership conferences, hamfests, conventions, maker faires, and different occasions.
July 20, 2024
“Moon Day” Frontiers of Flight Museum
Love Discipline in Dallas, Texas
AMSAT volunteers wanted! Contact tschuessler(at) amsat.org for extra data.
August 17-18, 2024
Huntsville Hamfest
Huntsville, AL
AMSAT Sales space and Discussion board
N8DEU and W4FCL
September 7, 2024
Higher Louisville Hamfest
Shepherdsville, KY
AMSAT Discussion board and Data Desk
W4FCL
October 5, 2024
Central Kentucky Hamfest
Lexington, KY
AMSAT and Instructional Satellites Discussion board and Data Desk
AI4SR and W4FCL
October 5, 2024
North Star Radio Conference
Hennepin Technical School (North Campus)
Brooklyn Park, Minn.
AMSAT Discussion board and Data Desk
KØJM and ADØHJ
AMSAT Ambassador Clint Bradford, K6LCS, says,
“Suppose a 75-minute presentation on “working the straightforward satellites” could be acceptable to your membership or occasion? Let me know by emailing me at k6lcsclint (at) gmail (dot) com or calling me at 909-999-SATS (7287)!”
Clint has NEVER given the very same present twice: EACH of the 150+ shows to this point has been personalized/tailor-made to their audiences.
[ANS thanks the AMSAT Events page for the above information]
Satellite tv for pc Shorts From All Over
+ What GOES up … NOAA’s newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite tv for pc, GOES-U, launched on the primary Falcon Heavy of the yr on June 25 from Launch Complicated 39A at Kennedy House Middle. The mission, the final of the GOES-R collection of geostationary climate satellites, repeatedly screens climate techniques over the Western Hemisphere. Assuming that subsequent week’s deliberate burn to raise the satellite tv for pc to geosynchronous orbit is profitable, this satellite tv for pc shall be re-designated as GOES-19 and can, in coming months, take over the GOES-East duties from the ageing GOES-16. (See ANS 182 final week for extra particulars.)
+ Musk come down … Elon Musk’s SpaceX has gained a contract valued at as much as $843 million to construct a car able to safely deorbiting the Worldwide House Station as soon as the station is decommissioned in 2030. Whereas many individuals have recommended elevating the ISS’s orbit and turning it right into a museum, the quantity of gasoline wanted to maneuver the roughly 420-ton station to a excessive sufficient orbit to stay secure for lengthy durations is prohibitive.
+ Blow up … Russian Resurs-P1, an almost-six-ton defunct Earth remark satellite tv for pc that stopped orbit upkeep in 2017 however continued operations till 2022, unexpectedly exploded final week into lots of of fragments. Anticipated to reenter later this yr, Resurs-P1 was orbiting at ~350 km, shut sufficient to the ISS’s orbital altitude that the occasion pressured ISS astronauts into shelter for an hour whereas particles was tracked.
+ Or go up, come down, and blow up (unexpectedly) … throughout a static hearth check of the primary stage of China’s close-to-finished Tianlong-3 rocket, the hold-down {hardware} did not do its singular job: maintain down the rocket. Moments after ignition, the rocket shot 1.5 km into the sky above town of Gongyi, China. With no steering system, gravity took over, leading to a large fireball on influence. Very fortuitously, there have been no casualties because the rocket principally went straight up and straight again down.
(ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the entire above gadgets.)
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