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Today's Topics:
1. Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
(Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL)
2. Re: 145.825 MHz APRS on Katy to Nanjing Balloon (Michael Chen)
3. Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin (WA6FWF)
4. Re: 145.825 MHz APRS on Katy to Nanjing Balloon (Steve Daniels)
5. Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
(Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
6. K7UGA satellite activity starting Sunday evening (early
Monday, UTC) (Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
7. Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin (Dee)
8. ANS 043 Bulletins (Dee)
9. Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
(Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK))
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:33:29 -0700
From: "Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL" <vlfiscus@xxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
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At 08:17 AM 2/11/2012 +0100, domenico.i8cvs@xxx.xx wrote:
> > < snip>
> >
> > + Return the form sent with the letter to reply with your donation
> > for the Fox-1 Project.
> > - All donations over $40 will receive a Fox pin.
> > - Donations of $120 or more qualify you for AMSAT President's Club
>
>I invite All to donate the maximum as possible only to AMSAT-DL for
>P3E because AMSAT-NA before the launch of OSCAR-10 promised to
>the Radio Amateur Community to communicate by satellite much better
>than in HF.........Where actually the Amateur Satellite Service have gone ?
>
>I pull only for AMSAT-DL and P3E because looking to the AMSAT-NA
>projects for a HEO at this time, before AO40 died I invested a lot of money
>in my HEO satellite station for nothing.
Hi Domenico,
I agree with you. I've donated and want P3E as well, but the hams that
only have Broken handhelds, Dead batteries, and Rubber ducks need a
satellite too. We must be considerate of those that aren't serious
about satellite. Those who only want to pass grids and prefer the
circus clown CB like atmosphere of an FM bird.
73, KB7ADL
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:40:17 +0800
From: Michael Chen <michael.bd5rv@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "Trevor ." <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Cc: amsat-bb <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: 145.825 MHz APRS on Katy to Nanjing Balloon
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Well, I live in Nanjing. It's interesting to read this.
Michael Chen, BD5RV/4
AMSAT-China: http://www.camsat.cn
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Trevor . <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
> The kt5tk-11 balloon will be using the ISS Digipeater frequency of 145.825
MHz while in mid-Atlantic on its journey from Texas to China. See
>
> http://www.uk.amsat.org/4505
>
> Launch date 3pm CST Feb. 11
>
> 73 Trevor M5AKA
>
>
>
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:37:02 -0800
From: WA6FWF <wa6fwf@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
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On 2/11/2012 12:33 PM, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote:
> At 08:17 AM 2/11/2012 +0100, domenico.i8cvs@xxx.xx wrote:
>> > < snip>
>> >
>> > + Return the form sent with the letter to reply with your donation
>> > for the Fox-1 Project.
>> > - All donations over $40 will receive a Fox pin.
>> > - Donations of $120 or more qualify you for AMSAT President's Club
>>
>> I invite All to donate the maximum as possible only to AMSAT-DL for
>> P3E because AMSAT-NA before the launch of OSCAR-10 promised to
>> the Radio Amateur Community to communicate by satellite much better
>> than in HF.........Where actually the Amateur Satellite Service have
>> gone ?
>>
>> I pull only for AMSAT-DL and P3E because looking to the AMSAT-NA
>> projects for a HEO at this time, before AO40 died I invested a lot of
>> money
>> in my HEO satellite station for nothing.
>
> Hi Domenico,
>
> I agree with you. I've donated and want P3E as well, but the hams that
> only have Broken handhelds, Dead batteries, and Rubber ducks need a
> satellite too. We must be considerate of those that aren't serious
> about satellite. Those who only want to pass grids and prefer the
> circus clown CB like atmosphere of an FM bird.
>
> 73, KB7ADL
Vince,
That is the most childish bovine crap I have seen in awhile, at
least
equal to any of the circus clown atmosphere you disdain.
P3E is off in the future, I don't even think the sat is close to
ready to launch,
and then you have the launch itself to consider, I want P3E also but I also
understand its not going to be soon.
And yes I have donated to P3E.
On the other hand FOX is NOW we have a means of getting into
space,which
is the biggest hurdle, so it needs funding NOW to get completed and on that
ride.
And yes I have donated to FOX several times, and I don't even get on the
Leo's all that often.
Can LEO's be a zoo at times? sure but so was AO-40 at times also...
I was on AO-40 and remember L band users louder than the beacon, I remember
U band users pumping the AGC and lelia chasing their butt all over the sat.
You don't like LEO's Vince? fine.. then slide over and get the
hell out
of the way because FOX is on the move NOW.
I would prefer to have HEO's and LEO's rather than nothing
and just listen to dead static each day.
Kevin WA6FWF
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:53:24 -0000
From: "Steve Daniels" <steve@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: "'Michael Chen'" <michael.bd5rv@xxxxx.xxx>, "'Trevor .'"
<m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx>
Cc: 'amsat-bb' <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: 145.825 MHz APRS on Katy to Nanjing Balloon
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Is the ISS currently working on 145.825? if not, and it seems it's just on
70cm at the moment can someone request it is turned back on for 2M
Steve Daniels
G6UIM
Torbay Freecycle Moderator
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From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Michael Chen
Sent: 11 February 2012 21:40
To: Trevor .
Cc: amsat-bb
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: 145.825 MHz APRS on Katy to Nanjing Balloon
Well, I live in Nanjing. It's interesting to read this.
Michael Chen, BD5RV/4
AMSAT-China: http://www.camsat.cn
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Trevor . <m5aka@xxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
> The kt5tk-11 balloon will be using the ISS Digipeater frequency of 145.825
MHz while in mid-Atlantic on its journey from Texas to China. See
>
> http://www.uk.amsat.org/4505
>
> Launch date 3pm CST Feb. 11
>
> 73 Trevor M5AKA
>
>
>
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:00:50 -0700
From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
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Hi Kevin!
> ? P3E is off in the future, I don't even think the sat is close to ready to
> launch,
> and then you have the launch itself to consider, I want P3E also but I also
> understand its not going to be soon.
That's been a question of mine, and a question asked of me in the
recent past. When someone asks me "Should I build my satellite
station to work with HEO satellites now?", my answer is usually
"Don't worry about it, until we have one in orbit".
Until that day comes, I'm going to have fun working our current
satellites - in FM, SSB, and occasionally CW. When, or if, an
HEO is launched, then I'll gladly reequip my station to work that
as well.
I remember seeing that at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium last year, the
P3E launch cost was quoted as 10 million euros. One thing I have
never been able to clearly determine is how much of that 10 million
euros has been raised. I know I can buy pixels on that picture that
has been on the AMSAT-DL web page for a long time, but I expect
there has been more raised than just what we see on that picture.
Can anyone connected with AMSAT-DL answer? That would help
to put the P3E fundraising effort into some context.
AMSAT-NA has the PayPal widgets that started out with one that
was for ARISSat-1 and Fox, and now there's a Fox-only widget on
the AMSAT web site and in other places (like my QRZ.com entries
and web page). I know there has been more $$$ donated to
AMSAT than just what shows up on the PayPal widget, and I hope
that combined total is publicized shortly - and then publicized on
a regular basis. The PayPal widget for the Fox project (not the one
that was for ARISSat-1 and Fox) has increased by 1/3 in the past
24 hours since the announcement of the NASA decision.
> ? ?On the other hand FOX is NOW we have a means of getting into space,which
> is the biggest hurdle, so it needs funding NOW to get completed and on that
> ride.
I agree 100%. I've already made a couple of contributions, and I'm
hoping AMSAT is able to deliver Fox-1 to NASA for that launch. :-)
Projects like FUNcube and KiwiSAT have also done a good job of
publicizing what they have been doing and their needs - financial
or otherwise. I've contributed to them, and - in the case of
KiwiSAT - made multiple contributions. I'm all for not putting all of
our eggs in one basket. More satellites would be a good thing.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:28:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "Patrick STODDARD \(WD9EWK/VA7EWK\)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] K7UGA satellite activity starting Sunday evening
(early Monday, UTC)
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Hi!
The Central Arizona DX Association's Arizona Centennial special
event, using Barry Goldwater's former call sign K7UGA, officially
starts on Monday (13 February), UTC time. Since that will be
Sunday evening here in North America, I am planning to work a few
passes tomorrow evening as K7UGA. Tentative plans are for the
following passes from here in DM43:
AO-7 at 0014-0036 UTC (almost directly over the Phoenix area)
VO-52 at 0201-0212 UTC (to the east of Arizona)
AO-7 at 0212-0228 UTC (to the west of Arizona)
VO-52 at 0336-0348 UTC (to the west of Arizona)
and *possibly*:
SO-50 at 0503-0517 UTC (covering much of the USA at this late hour)
I tend to start out about 10 kHz above the center of the SSB/CW
transponders with my small portable station, but may move around
to avoid QRM/QRN or to try making QSOs. Be prepared to tune
around the downlink if I am not around 145.960 MHz USB on AO-7
or 145.910 MHz USB on VO-52.
Due to work commitments, I will not be able to work SO-50 or
AO-27 passes around midday on Monday. I hope to work some
passes Monday evening (Tuesday the 14th, UTC time) and SO-50
and/or AO-27 around midday on Tuesday, since the 14th is
Arizona's statehood day.
I will have better opportunities to work FM passes as K7UGA
starting on Thursday before and during my drive to Yuma for
the Yuma Hamfest/ARRL Southwestern Convention, and at that
event starting on Friday. Please be patient, as I hope
to make time to work many passes on Friday and Saturday from
Yuma.
Please remember that I am *NOT* the QSL manager for K7UGA.
Bob K7BHM is the QSL manager. More information about the
planned K7UGA activity, including when stations will be on
the HF bands and in which modes, can be found at the CADXA
web site http://cadxa.org/
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:49:12 -0500
From: Dee <morsesat@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxxx amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
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Wow,
Here we go again.
I have also donated to both projects. (and I'm retired!?)
Just gave a presentation to a club in NJ. One of the members also
pointed out that there is
A lot of users exchanging info on the FM birds and seems to be pileup
city. I get on most and
get a QSO or 2 and then let the others have at it.
Explaining the difference about LEO, MEO & HEO birds raised eyebrows and
listeners asked about the HEO's and their
Extended orbits usually with an SSB transponder. Everyone was made aware
of their expensive costs to have these come about.
However, they didn't realize that the costs were absorbed by "Donations"
from many hams interested in this end of the hobby.
Of course International agreements became a worldwide avenue of
financial aid to requests. ITAR stopped info sharing and
Dried up collaboration. Attitudes seemed to be "when you launch an HEO,
I'd be interested in supporting this."
No matter how I explained the urgency of hams supporting NOW for future
projects, most seemed deaf to our plea.
Patrick, we must continue to circulate these ideas and promote our
growth so as launches become available and worked to fruition
By our people, we have enough in the kitty to finish a project to meet
them. Let's all stay on the same page.
Congrats to Tony, AA2TX, and his team for long hours of hard work to get
his proposal recognized. Hoo-Rah.
Dee, NB2F
-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx On
Behalf Of Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 8:01 PM
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
Hi Kevin!
> P3E is off in the future, I don't even think the sat is close to
> ready to launch, and then you have the launch itself to consider, I
> want P3E also but I also understand its not going to be soon.
That's been a question of mine, and a question asked of me in the recent
past. When someone asks me "Should I build my satellite station to work
with HEO satellites now?", my answer is usually "Don't worry about it,
until we have one in orbit".
Until that day comes, I'm going to have fun working our current
satellites - in FM, SSB, and occasionally CW. When, or if, an HEO is
launched, then I'll gladly reequip my station to work that as well.
I remember seeing that at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium last year, the P3E
launch cost was quoted as 10 million euros. One thing I have never been
able to clearly determine is how much of that 10 million euros has been
raised. I know I can buy pixels on that picture that has been on the
AMSAT-DL web page for a long time, but I expect there has been more
raised than just what we see on that picture.
Can anyone connected with AMSAT-DL answer? That would help to put the
P3E fundraising effort into some context.
AMSAT-NA has the PayPal widgets that started out with one that was for
ARISSat-1 and Fox, and now there's a Fox-only widget on the AMSAT web
site and in other places (like my QRZ.com entries and web page). I know
there has been more $$$ donated to AMSAT than just what shows up on the
PayPal widget, and I hope that combined total is publicized shortly -
and then publicized on a regular basis. The PayPal widget for the Fox
project (not the one that was for ARISSat-1 and Fox) has increased by
1/3 in the past
24 hours since the announcement of the NASA decision.
> On the other hand FOX is NOW we have a means of getting into
> space,which is the biggest hurdle, so it needs funding NOW to get
> completed and on that ride.
I agree 100%. I've already made a couple of contributions, and I'm
hoping AMSAT is able to deliver Fox-1 to NASA for that launch. :-)
Projects like FUNcube and KiwiSAT have also done a good job of
publicizing what they have been doing and their needs - financial or
otherwise. I've contributed to them, and - in the case of KiwiSAT -
made multiple contributions. I'm all for not putting all of our eggs in
one basket. More satellites would be a good thing.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
_______________________________________________
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program!
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:55:46 -0500
From: Dee <morsesat@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: ans <ans@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: Amsat BB <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>, LEE -ku4os <ku4os@xxx.xx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS 043 Bulletins
Message-ID: <001601cce929$6fe21440$4fa63cc0$@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-043
ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North
America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS 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.
Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:
ans-editor@xxxxx.xxx
In this edition:
* AMSAT Fox-1 Cubesat Selected for NASA ELaNa Launch Collaboration
* Vega Launch on February 13 With Eight Amateur Band Cubesats
* ARISS Contact to Celebrate 50th Anniversary John Glenn Over Perth
* Open Mission Control Software for CubeSat Project Teams
* NASA astronaut Janice Voss, KC5BTK Passes
* SumbandilaSat SO-67 Amateur Transponder Recovery Work in Progress
* AMSAT Notes:
* International Space Station (ARISS) Status Report February 6, 2012
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-043.01
ANS-043 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 043.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
February 12, 2012
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-043.01
AMSAT Fox-1 Cubesat Selected for NASA ELaNa Launch Collaboration
Project ELaNa, NASA's "Educational Launch of NanoSat" managed by the
Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center, announced on
February 10 that the AMSAT Fox-1 cubesat has been selected to join the
program.
NASA will work with AMSAT in a collaborative agreement where NASA will
cover the integration and launch costs of satellites deemed to have
merit in support of their strategic and educational goals.
AMSAT teamed with the ARRL to write and deliver the 159 page educa-
tional proposal to NASA. Letters documenting the importance of AMSAT's
satellites in the education programs at the ARRL and also at the Clay
Center for Science and Technology at the Dexter and Southfield schools
in Brookline, MA, were important parts of our proposal.
AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW said, "The ELaNA Launch opportunity
marks AMSAT's return to space after the conclusion of the successful
ARISSat-1/KEDR flight. We need to get the flight Fox-1, along with an
operational flight backup satellite, built, integrat- ed, tested, and
delivered. Our ability to provide a spacecraft and get it launched is
dependent upon the active support of our donors who wish to see Fox-1
fly."
AMSAT Vice-President of Engineering, Tony Monteiro, AA2TX noted this
will provide a launch opportunity for AMSAT's next generation of FM
repeater satellites with features and operation beyond the experience of
AO-51. AMSAT's Fox-1 Engineering Team is making progress developing the
advanced satellite that will provide these features:
+ Fox-1 is designed to operate in sunlight without batteries once
the battery system fails. This applies lessons learned from AO-51
and ARISSat-1 operations.
+ In case of IHU failure Fox-1 will continue to operate its FM
repeater in a basic, 'zombie sat' mode, so that the repeater
remains on-the-air.
+ Fox-1 is designed as the immediate replacement for AO-51. Its U/V
(Mode B) transponder will make it even easier to work with modest
equipment.
+ From the ground user's perspective, the same FM amateur radio
equipment used for AO-51 may be used for Fox-1.
+ Extending the design, Fox-2 will benefit from the development work
of Fox-1 by adding more sophisticated power management and Software
Defined Transponder (SDX) communications systems.
The Fox-1 Project presents an opportunity to literally put your call-
sign on the Fox hardware. AMSAT is looking for major donations to help
underwrite the cost of solar cells/panels, one of the more significant
expenses of the project.
These solar cells are needed for the flight unit as well as for the a
flight spare. As Fox-1 will have solar cells on all six sides of the
spacecraft and given the relatively small surface area available on each
side (at most 4" by 4" per side), AMSAT needs to invest in high
efficiency solar cells to gain as much power as possible to operate the
spacecraft.
Several opportunities to make your donation to keep amateur radio in
space include:
+ Return the form sent with the letter to reply with your donation
for the Fox-1 Project.
- All donations over $40 will receive a Fox pin.
- Donations of $120 or more qualify you for AMSAT President's Club
+ Call Martha at the AMSAT Office +1-888-FB AMSAT (1-888-322-6728)
+ Paypal donation widget on the main page at: http://www.amsat.org
+ Paypal donation widget for Project Fox at:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fox/
+ You can also go to the Paypal site and send your donation to
martha@xxxxx.xxx.
+ The AMSAT Store: http://www.amsat-na.com/store/categories.php
Project Fox web site provide a good overview of the technical progress
of the new satellite: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fox/
[ANS thanks AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, AMSAT Vice-President
of Engineering, Tony Monteiro, AA2TX and AMSAT's Project Fox Engineering
team for the above information]
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ESA Vega Launch Includes 8 Amateur Band Satellites
Vega is scheduled to launch on February 13, at 1000 UTC with eight
student built amateur radio satellites. Internet video streaming of the
launch will be available at:
http://www.videocorner.tv/index.htm
The launcher will first deploy the main payload LARES, the Laser
relativity Spacecraft and will then make an additional firing of the
final OVUM stage before deploying the secondary cubesat payloads. The
planned timing for these deployments, in order of ejection, are as
follows:
= T0+ 4245.30secs 1st PPOD, with XatCobeo, e-st@xx and Goliat.
= T0+ 4255.30secs 2nd PPOD, with Robusta, MaSat-1 and PW-Sat.
= T0+ 4265.30secs 3rd PPOD, with UniCubeSat.
= T0+ 4275.30secs AlmaSat-1.
The Cubesats will not deploy their antennas until >1800 seconds after
they leave their PODS.It is not known how soon AlmaSat-1 will start
transmitting after deployment.
Vega Launch Cubesat Amateur Band Frequencies:
+ AlmaSat-1 437.465 MHz 1200 bps FSK, 2407.850 MHz
+ E-St@x 437.445 MHz 1200 bps AFSK
+ Goliat 437.485 MHz 1200 bpx AFSK
+ MaSat-1 437.345 MHz GFSK 625/1250 bps, CW
+ PW-Sat 435.020 MHz FM uplink, 145.990 MHz DSB downlink
+ Robusta 437.325 MHz 1200 bps FM telemetry
+ UniCubeSat 437.305 MHz 9600 bps FSK
+ XaTcobeo 437.365 MHz FFSK with AX.25
Links to the home pages of the satellite teams are included on the
http://www.amsat.org page. Extensive coverage of the launch and the
satellites can also be found on the AMSAT-UK web:
http://www.uk.amsat.org/
An ESA video of all of the satellites aboard the Vega Maiden Flight can
be viewed on YouTube at: http://tinyurl.com/ESA-Vega-Cubesats
The university cubesat teams welcome reception reports. All observ- ers
are invited to submit reports via amsat-bb and to also join the CubeSat
Internet Relay Chat channel to pass on their news and com- ments in
realtime. You will need an IRC client such as the ChatZilla addon for
FireFox or mIRC to join the cubesat chat:
1. Connect to the irc.freenode.net server.
2. Once connected to the server the /join #cubesat command will
bring you into the channel.
3. Many users set their chat nickname to "name_callsign".
ChatZilla AddOn for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chatzilla/
mIRC
http://www.mirc.com/
[ANS thanks the CubeSat Teams for the above information]
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ARISS Contact to Celebrate 50th Anniversary John Glenn Over Perth
On the 20th of February 1962 a Mercury-Atlas 6 spacecraft called
"Friendship 7" was launched. In the hot-seat was Astronaut, John Glenn.
The objective was to place a man into earth orbit, observe his reactions
to the space environment and safely return him to earth to a point where
he could be readily found.
During the first orbit of three, the spacecraft came into radio range of
the Muchea Tracking Station where the first Australian space radio
contact was made by Gerry O'Connor who spoke with John Glenn as he
passed overhead.
One of the questions that was posed for this flight was "Can you see the
cities of Earth from space?" To help answer that question, the people of
the City of Perth all turned their lights on as John Glenn flew over.
The answer to the question was a resounding "YES!", and Perth was
nicknamed "The City of Light".
Fifty years later on February 20, 2012 young people from Western
Australia will have the chance to ask a question of an astronaut or
cosmonaut currently residing on the International Space Station.
There will be a live radio and video connection to the space station at
the Northbridge Piazza in Perth, Western Australia. Ten lucky winners of
the student competition, selected from primary and secon- dary schools,
will get to ask questions, and receive their answers in real time as the
space station flies overhead.
>From a technical perspective, ARISS will configure a direct amateur
radio link between the ISS and ham operator, Dick Flagg, AH6NM, in
Honolulu. In Perth, members of the Hills Amateur Radio Group will
provide a phone link between AH6NM and Northbridge Piazza so the stu-
dents can converse with the astronaut. Tony Hutchison, VK5ZAI, ARISS
Mentor for Australia is conducting the behind the scenes preparation.
The event begins at 17:00PM Perth time (0900 UTC) on February 20. The
currently scheduled contact time is approximately at 10:22 UTC, sub-
ject to last minute change depending upon events aboard the ISS or orbit
changes.
In addition to the ARISS contact, web-streaming and other space act-
ivities such as a radio telescope, optical telescopes, museum exhibi-
tions, an address by the Lord Mayor of Perth, a video message from John
Glenn and a presentation by the Western Australia Chief Scientist are
planned.
The press release of the City of Lights ARISS event, issued by the
Government of Western Australia can be read on=line at:
http://tinyurl.com/WA-PressRelease
Web pages with more information of the event can be found at:
http://harg.org.au/ariss/
http://museum.wa.gov.au/city-lights
[ANS thanks Richard, G4TUT and David Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS Public
Relations, Australia ARISS Coordinator Tony Hutchison, VK5ZAI for the
above information]
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Open Mission Control Software for CubeSat Project Teams
CubeSat developers may be interested in learning more about the Open
Mission Control software, an open source, open access software for
monitoring and controlling small spacecraft. The software is designed to
provide an application and framework that can be adapted quickly and
easily to support a variety of spacecraft including CubeSats,
myPocketQubs and NanoLab experiments, and sounding rocket and high
altitude balloon experiments. The team include students, space pro-
fessionals, educators and enthusiasts from around the world, all working
together to build a great mission control application for small
spacecraft projects.
The Open Mission Control framework consists of the application and
graphical user interface which contain the basic structure of the
program, and the Open Mission Control toolbox, which provides a number
of ready to use functions typically required for mission control
applicationa.
The Open Mission Control application and graphical user interface can be
adapted to a project quickly and easily, by populating them with
elements from the Open Mission Control toolbox and other stan- dard
library elements. This approach allows also users with limited
programming experience to create sophisticated mission control soft-
ware by building on a solid basic implementation.
Use and verification.
Designed to work with any spacecraft project, the first flight mis- sion
that is expected to use Open Mission Control is myPocketQub 442.
myPocketQub 442 was selected to fly as a pocket spacecraft attached to
UKube-1, the first United Kingdom Space Agency CubeSat. It is expected
to be the first mission controlled by Open Mission Control and to
demonstrate and verify various use cases:
+ The first use case is for professional monitoring, command and
control of a real spacecraft.
+ The second use case involves schools and universities using Open
Mission Control to upload their virtual payloads for their Open-
Space365 projects, monitor their experiments as they run and down-
load the data for analysis.
+ The third use case involves the use of Open Mission Control as
monitoring software for the various scientific and engineering
sub-payloads that will fly on myPocketQub 442. The students con-
ducting these experiments will use Open Mission Control to access
and store the data from these payload experiments for analysis
and research.
+ The fourth use case is communication with engineering models of
the real spacecraft which will be made available on the Internet.
These engineering models are duplicates of the flight hardware and
allow Open Mission Control to command and monitor them and their
sub-payloads in real time and to simulate different critical mis-
sion phases under real conditions.
Additional information and links are available on the Open Mission
Control webpage at: http://openmissioncontrol.wordpress.com/
[ANS thanks the Open Mission Control Team for the above information]
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NASA astronaut Janice Voss, KC5BTK Passes
NASA astronaut Janice Voss passed away from cancer overnight. One of
only six women who have flown in space five times, Voss' career was
highlighted by her work and dedication to scientific payloads and
exploration. Janice supported SAREX during her flights on the Space
Shuttle. She was a phone-in speaker during one of AMSAT's multi-media
Dayton Forum presentations with Roy Neal as MC. Janice held the callsign
KC5BTK.
Voss began her career with NASA in 1973 while a student at Purdue
University. She returned to NASA in 1977 to work as an instructor,
teaching entry guidance and navigation to space shuttle crews. After
completing her doctorate in 1987, she worked within the aerospace
industry until she was selected as an astronaut in 1990.
Voss' first spaceflight mission was STS-57 in 1993, the first flight of
the Spacehab module. She next flew on STS-63 in 1995, a mission to the
Mir space station, and third flight of Spacehab. She also flew as a
payload commander on STS-83 in 1997 with the Microgravity Science
Laboratory, but the mission was cut short due to problems with one of
the orbiter's three fuel power generation units. Voss, the crew and MSL
flew again as the STS-94 MSL-1 Spacelab mission, focused on materials
and combustion science research in microgravity.
Her last mission was STS-99 in 2000, a flight to the International Space
Station as part of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission which mapped
more than 47 million square miles of the Earth's land surface.
In total, Voss spent more than 49 days in space.
Peggy Whitson, chief of the Astronaut Office said, "By improving the way
scientists are able to analyze their data, and establishing the
experimental methods and hardware necessary to perform these unique
experiments, Janice and her crew ensured that our space station would be
the site of discoveries that we haven't even imagined."
For Voss' complete biography, please visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/voss-jan.html
[ANS thanks Frank Bauer, KA3HDO and SpaceRef.com for the above
information]
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SumbandilaSat SO-67 Amateur Transponder Recovery Work in Progress
It would appear that prior reports on the demise of South Africa's
SumbandilaSat were 'greatly exagerated' (with apologies to author Mark
Twain).
A report on the Southern African AMSAT website says partial recov- ery
is possible for Amateur Radio Operation to possibly resume in March
2012.
"We have not given up on our efforts to get SumbandilaSat working again
even if it is only partially", said Johan Lochner ZR1CBC who is spending
much time on the recovery process and many nights burn- ing the midnight
oil working on new and more intelligent algorithms.
He and his colleagues are making every effort to get the satellite
working again.
SumbandilaSat experienced a corruption in the programme memory of one of
the power switches. This is the interface unit which con- trols a robust
orientation control implementation system which is using output from the
magnetic sensors to point the solar panels to- wards the sun in a safe
mode scenario when for example communica- tions with the ground segment
was not possible for a few days.
The corruption of the program memory prevented the magnetic inter- face
unit from automatically switching on after power-up and thus
preventing access to measurements taken by the magnetometer.
Johann said, "As a result of the malfunction of the magnetic control
unit the satellite started to slowly point away from the sun with
intermittent sun eclipses. When there was no power flowing from the
solar cells the batteries drained and we could not in a safe way
communicate with the satellite, so we backed off. Once we determined
this pattern we stopped communicating with the satellite when we did
not see sufficient charge on the batteries. At other times we had good
communication when could diagnose what was going on. Dur- ing good
communication windows that could last 2 or 3 days we tried to diagnose
the exact nature of the problem in the same way as we had done before
and we started to implement a fix. The particular power switch that
failed was already the redundant one so we were in a worse state than
before."
SumbandilaSat controllers implemented automated ground segment soft-
ware to make contact with the satellite from both SANSA Space Opera-
tions and the Electronic Systems labs at SU. The objective was to
contact the satellite automatically and to try to implement the recovery
procedure and also notify the team if any contact was made.
Johann continued, "By mid-November 2011 we again made contact with
SumbandilaSat and set in place a planned recovery procedure. Within
3-4 days we came to the conclusion that the main battery had failed.
Earlier the intermittent contact was because the battery could not be
fully charged and that satellite power bus was too low for the
processors and transmitter to function. We surmised that during the
month that we had no contact that the battery must have gone open
circuit. With the battery no longer on the power bus, the voltage on the
bus would rise to 28.5 volts and supply enough current to support
operations when SumbandilaSat was in full sunlight."
The SumbandilaSat concludes, "We are determined to get this working and
to maintain the scientific value of the satellite as much as possible.
Johann's focus is now on getting the amateur radio trans- ponder
working, which with the loss of AO-51 will be a great asset to amateur
radio satellite activity. By the end of February we hope to achieve
this!"
Uplink: 145.875 MHz (no tone required)
Downlink: 435.345 MHz
See: http://www.amsatsa.org.za/SumbandilaSat.htm for full coverage of
this news.
[ANS thanks SA AMSAT and Johan Lochner, ZR1CBC for the above
information]
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AMSAT Notes:
AMSAT Fox Project Flyer
Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK has put together a nice 4 page pdf description
of the Fox project. This is available directly from this URL:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fox/AMSAT_Fox-20120206.pdf or the link
can be found midway down the Fox page on the AMSAT Web site.
More detailed information about the Fox project can be found in the Fox
area of the AMSAT Web site.
AMSAT Annual Meeting dates set
The 2012 AMSAT Annual Meeting and Symposium will be held Oct 26-28,2011
at the Holiday Inn Orlando Airport. More details as they become
available.
AMSAT at Dayton 2012
The AMSAT Dayton team is busy preparing for the AMSAT presence at this
years Hamvention - May 18-20, 2012. Same booth spaces next the the ARRL
area, outdoor satellite demonstration area and it looks like the AMSAT
Forum will be Saturday morning. Additional information and web site area
soon.
[ANS Thanks Gould, WA2SXM, for this information]
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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Status Report
February 6, 2012
1. Upcoming School Contacts
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact was
successful for Inuksuk High School, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada on
Wednesday, February 8 at 15:18 UTC via telebridge station AH6NM in
Hawaii. The school has formed a space club through which students are
learning about the ISS via videos, the internet and guest speakers. They
are learning how to track the ISS and are completing space-related
projects. Radio usage and protocol have been discussed. First Air and
the Makivik Corporation are the sponsors that ensure ARISS contacts are
supported in the remote areas of Northern Canada.
Soumuta Elementary School, located in Kagoshima, Japan scheduled for an
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on
Saturday, February 11 at 10:33 UTC was successful. The school was
established in 1972 and has a current enrollment of 479 students.
Students are learning about the mission of the ISS and will experience
amateur radio concepts through their contact.
2. Polish Students Experience Successful ARISS Contact
On Saturday, February 4, students attending the Zespol Szkol nr 8 in
Walbrzych, Poland participated in an Amateur Radio on the International
Space Station (ARISS) contact with Don Pettit, KD5MDT on the ISS. Radio
station W6SRJ in California provided the telebridge connection.
Greetings were exchanged and students were able to get through all the
space-related questions they had prepared. The contact was integrated
into a curriculum covering electronics, microprocessor systems and
English and drew interest from the school's robotics and amateur radio
clubs. Contact audio was fed into EchoLink and IRLP (Internet Radio
Linking Project). Representatives from radio and television stations
provided media coverage.
3. ARISS-U.S. to Review Proposals Submitted
The NASA Teaching From Space office received over 100 inquiries about
the U.S. proposal process for ARISS contacts that will be scheduled
during the July 2012 - January 2013 time frame. Twenty-three schools met
the January 30 deadline and submitted proposals. The next step is for
the U.S. Selection Committee to review the proposals and select the U.S.
schools in about one month. Another window of opportunity for U.S.
schools and organizations to submit proposals will open later in the
year.
4. AMSAT News Service on ARISS
The February 5 AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) News Service
bulletin (ANS-036) included an item about the successful amateur radio
satellite, SuitSat, titled, "Remembering Mr. Smith - SuitSat-1 February
3, 2006." Another piece covered the recent ARISS contact with El Dorado
County students. To view the articles, see:
http://amsat.org/pipermail/ans/2012/000589.html
5. Amateur Radio Newsline Covers ARISS
On February 3, Amateur Radio Newsline posted the winners of the ARISSat
Chicken Little Contest in its report #1799. To read, "Ham Radio in
Space: Winners of ARISSat-1 Chicken Little Contest Announced," see:
ftp://ftp.arnewsline.org/quincy/News/news.txt
In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the
President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors
to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits.
Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
Dee Interdonato, NB2F
Nb2f at amsat dot org
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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:05:01 -0700
From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
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Good evening, Dee!
By the way, I saw your mention in this evening's ANS bulletins
that my Fox flyer is now posted on the Fox web page. I don't
know who put it on the web page, but many thanks to you for
mentioning it - and to whoever put it up there. I also had a
good friend translate that flyer into Spanish. If that doesn't go
up on the web page, I'm happy to e-mail that PDF to anyone
interested in it.
> Wow,
> Here we go again.
><snip>
> ?Attitudes seemed to be "when you launch an HEO,
> I'd be interested in supporting this."
> No matter how I explained the urgency of hams supporting NOW for future
> projects, most seemed deaf to our plea
> Patrick, we must continue to circulate these ideas and promote our
> growth so as launches become available and worked to fruition
> By our people, we have enough in the kitty to finish a project to meet
> them. Let's all stay on the same page.
I'm all for supporting an HEO project like P3E. My comment about
waiting until we have an HEO satellite related to building a station
to work a satellite that - at the moment - is nonexistent, not to the
fundraising effort. I can buy or build what I need to work an HEO
satellite at the appropriate time in the future. At this point, the $$$
I might use to build a bigger satellite station has been used in part
toward satellite projects.
My question about how close AMSAT-DL is to paying for a launch
is still a valid question. It would give me (and others) some idea on
how close AMSAT-DL is to getting that launch. I've heard and read
about P3E for many years, but have no idea how close we really
are to seeing it launched. I'm just wanting to hear how much is in
the "kitty" for P3E. That's why I have been happy to make one or
two contributions a year to KiwiSAT. Those guys have been good
at updating us on their progress, between AMSAT-BB posts and
their web site. I'm hoping we can continue that with Fox-1, as it
is built this year and the fundraising is (hopefully) successful.
> Congrats to Tony, AA2TX, and his team for long hours of hard work to get
> his proposal recognized. ?Hoo-Rah.
Agreed, 100%!
So much work went into that, and I am happy that the hard work
was recognized by NASA in their decision. Now our challenge
is to first get that formal agreement with NASA signed, then to
deliver a satellite for launch.
Time to get ready to work VO-52 outside....
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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