ANS-231 AMSAT Information Service Weekly Bulletins – AMSAT

AMSAT Information Service

ANS-231
August 18, 2024

On this version:

• Registration Now Open for the forty second Annual AMSAT Area Symposium & Annual Common Assembly
• Name for Papers
• AMSAT Board of Administrators Election Underway
• AMSAT Mail Alias Service to Finish August 31, 2024
• Modifications to AMSAT TLE Distribution for August 16, 2024
• ARISS Information
• Upcoming Satellite tv for pc Operations
• AMSAT Ambassador Actions
• Satellite tv for pc Shorts From All Over

The AMSAT Information Service bulletins are a free, weekly information and data service of AMSAT, The Radio Newbie Satellite tv for pc Company. ANS publishes information associated to Newbie Radio in Area together with stories on the actions of a worldwide group of Newbie Radio operators who share an lively curiosity in designing, constructing, launching and speaking by analog and digital Newbie Radio satellites.

The information feed on https://www.amsat.org publishes information of Newbie Radio in Area as quickly as our volunteers can publish it.

Please ship any novice satellite tv for pc information or stories to: ans-editor [at] amsat.org

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AMSAT Board of Administrators Election Underway

[ANS thanks Jeff Davis, KE9V, AMSAT Secretary for the above information]

AMSAT Mail Alias Service to Finish August 31, 2024

An extended-standing member service, the AMSAT Mail Alias Service is scheduled to finish on August 31, 2024. A mail alias on AMSAT.ORG permitted individuals to ship an e mail to members with out realizing their precise web e mail deal with. They simply wanted to know their novice radio callsign.

Sadly, the unchecked rise in area identify hacking and e mail account high-jacking has made it unattainable to maintain this service at a cheap stage. The variety of [email protected] e mail accounts that had been hijacked and transformed to zombie spam accounts through the years had led many web service suppliers and gateway facilities to ban all @amsat.org e mail addresses, together with these enterprise accounts of AMSAT officers and officers. The tireless efforts of AMSAT’s all volunteer IT employees has labored for years to restore a lot of the injury, however AMSAT nonetheless get complaints from members who are usually not getting their private emails, ANS bulletins or AMSAT-BB posts due to persistent supply issues.

It has come to the purpose the place the AMSAT volunteer IT employees can not sustain with the upkeep necessities to maintain the alias mail record clear and to work with e mail gateways to take away blocks. And, after appreciable investigation into various paid e mail companies, AMSAT management determined that the cash required to maintain an e mail alias system alive could be higher spent on constructing and flying satellites for its members.

Individuals utilizing the Mail Alias Service ought to start emigrate to completely different e mail accounts so they don’t lose receipt of private emails, AMSAT Information Service Weekly Bulletins, AMSAT-BB posts, or official messages from AMSAT itself. Members are particularly requested to ensure they’re NOT utilizing a [email protected] as their registered e mail deal with within the AMSAT membership portal. Members can simply change their registered member e mail deal with by logging into the portal and updating their profile.

[ANS thanks the AMSAT IT Team for the above information]

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Modifications to AMSAT TLE Distribution for August 16, 2024

Two Line Parts or TLEs, sometimes called Keplerian components or keps within the novice group, are the inputs to the SGP4 customary mathematical mannequin of spacecraft orbits utilized by most novice monitoring packages. Weekly updates are utterly satisfactory for many novice satellites. TLE bulletin information are up to date Thursday evenings round 2300 UTC, or extra steadily if new excessive curiosity satellites are launched. Extra info could also be discovered at https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/

The next satellites have been faraway from this week’s AMSAT TLE distribution:

KASHIWA NORAD Cat ID 59508 Decayed from orbit on or about 10 August 2024
SPROUT NORAD Cat ID 39770 Decayed from orbit on or about 11 August 2024

[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above information]

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ARISS Information

Amateurs and others world wide might pay attention to 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 hear is 145.800 MHz worldwide.

Bayou Academy, Cleveland, MS, direct by way of W5YD

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled crewmember is Sunita Williams KD5PLB
The ARISS mentor is K4RGK

Contact is go for: Thu 2024-08-22 16:43:06 UTC 80 deg

Look ahead to Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/dwell/PzZuhb1bGiw  https://dwell.ariss.org/

Gymnasium der Stadt Meschede, Meschede, Germany, direct by way of DRØZ

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled crewmember is Sunita Williams KD5PLB
The ARISS mentor is IN3GHZ

Contact is go for: Fri 2024-08-23 08:05:04 UTC 45 deg

As all the time, if there may be an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios are turned off as a part of the security protocol.

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 choose up the microphone, elevate the amount up, and speak on the crossband repeater. So give a hear, you simply by no means know.

Notice, all occasions are approximate. It’s endorsed 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 record 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

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 answerable for activating particular grid squares. Moreover, you could have the flexibility to evaluate the match rating between your self and a specific rover for a given go, whereas additionally having the ability to determine the upcoming satellite tv for pc passes which can be accessible out of your location.

Philippe, EA4NF can be QRV (as KE4NF) from EL94 13-17 Aug, then EL95 25-27 Aug. Appears like this can be FM LEO solely. Log as KE4NF.

In between these two activations, Philippe will activate Grenada (FK92) as J38NF on FM satellites, August 18-23. Log as J38NF.

[ANS thanks Ian Parsons, K5ZM, AMSAT Rover Page Manager,  for the above information]

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AMSAT Ambassador Actions

AMSAT Ambassadors present displays, exhibit speaking by novice satellites, and host info tables at membership conferences, hamfests, conventions, maker faires, and different occasions.

AMSAT Ambassador Clint Bradford, K6LCS, says,

“Assume a 75-minute presentation on “working the straightforward satellites” could be applicable in 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+ displays to this point has been custom-made/tailor-made to their audiences.

Scheduled Occasions

Northeast HamXpostion
August 22-25, 2024

Finest Western Royal Plaza Lodge & Commerce Middle
181 Boston Submit Street W
Marlborough, MA 01752

Larger Louisville Hamfest
September 7, 2024

Shepherdsville, KY
AMSAT Discussion board and Data Desk
W4FCL

Central Kentucky Hamfest
October 5, 2024

Lexington, KY
AMSAT and Academic Satellites Discussion board and Data Desk
AI4SR and W4FCL

North Star Radio Conference
October 5, 2024

Hennepin Technical Faculty (North Campus)
Brooklyn Park, Minn.
AMSAT Discussion board and Data Desk
KØJM and ADØHJ

Radio Society of Tucson
October 5, 2024

Calvary Tucson Church
7811 E. Speedway
Tucson, AZ
https://k7rst.membership/2024/07/tucson-autumn-ham-fest-2024/
N1UW

Pacificon 2024, ARRL Pacific Division Convention
October 18-20, 2024

San Ramon, CA
WU0I

2024 AMSAT Area Symposium and Annual Common Assembly
October 25-27, 2024

Doubletree by Hilton Tampa Rocky Level Waterfront
3050 N Rocky Level Dr W
Tampa, FL 33607

Stone Mountain Hamfest, ARRL State Conference
November 2-3, 2024

Stone Mountain, GA
K4RGK

Oro Valley Newbie Radio Membership
November 9, 2024

Marana Center College
11285 West Grier Rd.
Marana, AZ 85653
https://www.tucsonhamradio.org/copy-of-hamfest-2022
N1UW

Yuma HAMCON
February 20-22, 2025

Yuma, AZ
N1UW

[ANS thanks Bo Lowrey, W4FCL, Director – AMSAT Ambassador Program, for the above information]

Satellite tv for pc Shorts from All Over

+ A Chinese language Lengthy March 6A rocket launched 18 Qianfan broadband Web satellites into polar orbit final week. Shanghai Spacecom Satellite tv for pc Expertise (SSST)’s new constellation, translated as “Thousand Sails,” might develop to as many as 14,000 satellites. It joins probably two different under-development broadband Chinese language megaconstellations, every proposing over 10,000 satellites, in competitors with OneWeb, Kupier, and Starlink. Sadly, the LM-6A’s higher stage seems to have malfunctioned and scattered over 700 items of area particles in a reasonably excessive 800 km orbit (once more). The particles at this altitude will doubtless take a few century for orbital decay. (ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above info)

+ Orbital Area has introduced its Lunar Program to ship a student-built experiment to the Moon, marking the Arab world’s first privately funded lunar mission. The experiment by college students from AGH College of Science and Expertise in Poland focuses on analyzing interactions between lunar regolith and numerous supplies that may very well be utilized in making cables and connectors for future lunar missions. Astrobotic will carry the payload on its third lunar mission aboard a Griffin-class lunar lander, concentrating on launch no sooner than This fall 2026. (ANS thanks Spacewatch World for the above info)

+ The 2024 Olympic Video games formally started in Paris, France on July 26, with athletes coming from world wide to compete. In the meantime, above the world — on our orbiting laboratory, the Worldwide Area Station — NASA’s astronauts bought into the Olympic spirit. Take a look at their coaching montage from area, adopted by a message to Earth from astronaut Matt Dominick at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycDoaIn6wuk (ANS thanks The Orbital Index and NASA for the above info)

+ From Dave, G4DPZ, relating to the FUNcube Information Warehouse: “Our internet hosting supplier has informed us that they are going to be migrating our companies to a brand new digital machine on the first of September. Sadly the variations of the MySQL database server and Java runtime obtainable on the brand new occasion are usually not suitable with the present utility implementation. Due to this fact I’ve to rebuild the event software chain and migrate the appliance to swimsuit the brand new occasion. The work is underway however might take us into early September. We do know that database desk migration works as now we have already finished a take a look at of migrating the a number of GB of database between machines. If we do have any outage, the dashboards will add once they detect the brand new occasion is alive.” (ANS thanks Dave Johnson, G4DPZ, Hon. Sec., AMSAT-UK, for the above info)

+ The SpaceX Transporter-11 rideshare mission launched 116 payloads from Vandenberg Area Drive Base in California on August sixteenth. 4 of those payloads carry transmitters on novice bands. NIGHTJAR and TORO carry novice UHF transmitters, however are usually not IARU coordinated. QUBE carries an novice UHF transmitter, however its IARU coordination was declined. ORESAT0.5 is the only IARU coordinated novice mission on this launch with downlinks of 436.500 MHz and 2422.0 MHz. Extra details about ORESAT could be discovered at https://www.oresat.org/satellites/oresat0-5. Dialogue relating to this launch could be discovered on the LibreSpace discussion board at https://group.libre.area/t/spacex-f9-transporter-11-rideshare-vsfb-slc-4e-2024-08-16-18-19-utc/11973/1 (ANS thanks LibreSpace and the ORESAT workforce for the above info)

+ Three AMSAT GridMaster Awards had been awarded over the previous week: #67 was awarded to Endaf, N6UTC, #68 was awarded to Raymond, KN2K, and #69 was awarded to Steven, KC1MMC. Congratulations to each. Moreover, two Reverse VUCC Awards had been issued. #15 was awarded to Sean, KX9X, with 103 grids and #16 was issued to Randy, ND0C, with 109 grids. Congratulations to all the brand new award recipients! Extra details about AMSAT’s awards program could be discovered at https://www.amsat.org/awards-2/ (ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards for the above info)

+ IO-117’s digipeater has not been operational for the previous week. No additional info is obtainable relating to its standing or anticipated timeframe for a possible return to service.

+ AMSAT’s Operations workforce, in coordination with the College of Maine and AMSAT Engineering, continues to work to finish MESAT1’s science mission. Extra telemetry protection is required! In case you have UHF obtain functionality, please download FoxTelem and assist us seize extra knowledge. (ANS thanks AMSAT for the above info)

Be part of AMSAT at present at https://launch.amsat.org/

Along with common membership, AMSAT presents membership to:

• Societies (a acknowledged group, golf equipment or group).
• Major and secondary college college students are eligible for membership at one-half the usual yearly charge.
• Submit-secondary college college students enrolled in not less than half time standing shall be eligible for the coed charge for a most of 6 post-secondary years on this standing.
• Memberships can be found for annual and lifelong phrases.

Contact information [at] amsat.org for added membership info.

73 and keep in mind to assist Maintain Newbie Radio in Area!

This week’s ANS Editor,

Paul Stoetzer, N8HM
n8hm [at] arrl.web

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