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IMPORT > ANS 27.10.24 03:13l 55 Lines 3241 Bytes #124 (0) @ AMSAT
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Subj: Satellite Shorts From All Over
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+ HADES-D (SO-121) is decaying fast so it will only last a few days.
Current height is near 355 km. Control operators are manually turning on
the internal amplifier, so some passes could be in high power, depending on
the zone. This has to be done each day because the on board computer is
resetting this configuration each 24 hours. (ANS thanks Félix Páez, EA4GQS,
of AMSAT-EA for the above information.)
+ In addition to SO-121 (above), UVSQ-Sat, XW-2D and XW-2B are predicted to
decay from orbit within days or weeks. (ANS thanks AMSAT-AR [
http://lu7aa.org/reenter.asp] for the above information.)
+ The ARRL has released LoTW configuration file version 11.29 adding
support for QSOs via MESAT-1 (as MO-122) and SONATE-2 (as SONATE). (ANS
thanks ARRL for the above information.)
+ FUNcube (AO-73) is now in Autonomous mode, meaning high power telemetry
when in daylight, and transponder in when the satellite is in eclipse.
Controllers are watching the effect on its 11 year old batteries. If the
batteries suffer badly they will revert to Eclipse mode. All telemetry will
be gratefully received â€ö see http://data.amsat-uk.org/ui/fc1-fm for
details. (ANS thanks David Johnson, G4DPZ, Honorable Secretary, AMSAT-UK,
of the FUNcube Team for the above information.)
+ Crew-8 members, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, KCØTOR, Michael
Barratt, KD5MIJ, Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander
Grebenkin, RZ3DSE, all woke up late on Oct. 21, having shifted their sleep
schedules in anticipation of Mondayâ€Ös departure from the International
Space Station. However, they spent the rest of the day continuing their
daily exercise routines and standard housekeeping tasks aboard the orbiting
lab. NASA and SpaceX officials delayed the undocking until late Wednesday,
Oct. 23 due to unfavorable weather conditions near the multiple splashdown
zones off the coast of Florida. Splashdown was early Friday, Oct. 25.
During routine medical assessments on the recovery ship, an additional
evaluation of the crew members was requested out of an abundance of
caution. One crew member remained hospitalized Friday evening. (ANS thanks
NASA for the above information.)
+ NASA will use SpaceXâ€Ös Crew Dragon for its two crew rotation missions to
the International Space Station in 2025 as it continues to evaluate if it
will require Boeing to perform another test flight of its Starliner
spacecraft. In an Oct. 15 statement, NASA said it will use Crew Dragon for
both the Crew-10 mission to the ISS, scheduled for no earlier than February
2025, and the Crew-11 mission scheduled for no earlier than July. Crew-10
will fly NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers along with
astronaut Takuya Onishi from the Japanese space agency JAXA and Roscosmos
cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. NASA has not yet announced the crew for the
Crew-11 mission. (ANS thanks SpaceNews for the above information.)
+ The Mauritius Amateur Radio Society (MARS) portable team, on Oct. 20,
enabled many young Scouts of the Mauritius Scout Association (MSA) to
communicate with other Scouts around the World on QO-100 GEO satellite. See
photos at https://3b8mars.org/2024/10/21/jota-2024/ (ANS thanks Jean Marc
Momple, 3B8DU, for the above information.)
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