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Subj: Satellite Shorts From All Over
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+ The space news website Space Daily carried a full article on Nov. 12
about the 50th anniversary of the launch of amateur radio satellite AO-7.
As noted in anniversary articles by Frank Karnauskas, N1UW, AMSAT Vice
President – Development, that have been published here in the AMSAT News
Service bulletins [*see above for this weeks installment*], AO-7 is the
worlds oldest active satellite. The Space Daily article, by reporter
Clarence Oxford, incorporated a good share of Franks text from ANS issue
#308 published on Nov. 3. (ANS thanks Space Daily for the above
information.)
+ The Space Force wants its next fleet of GPS satellites to be smaller,
cheaper and more resilient and its looking to a mix of commercial and
defense firms to help design those spacecraft. The program, expected to
cost $1 billion over the next five years, comes amid growing concern from
Pentagon and other government leaders about GPS vulnerability. The system,
which guides weapons and helps military units navigate, has been a target
for Russia in its war with Ukraine, using electronic warfare to jam signals
on a regular basis. Users have also reported increased spoofing incidents,
a method of manipulating GPS data to confuse a receiver about its location.
A larger number of small satellites should make it harder for enemies to
target the fleet and will ensure theres a backup capability when they do,
the Space Force says. (ANS thanks Defense News for the above information.)
+ Earlier this month, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin
Universitys Binar Space Program burned up in Earths atmosphere. That was
always going to happen. In fact, Binar means “fireball” in the Noongar
language of the First Nations people of Perth. But these CubeSats, known as
Binar-2, 3, and 4, entered the atmosphere much sooner than originally
planned. They only lasted for two months – a third of what was expected.
Recent high solar activity has been causing an unexpected headache for
satellite operators in the last few years, and its only increasing. (ANS
thanks Science Alert for the above information.)
+ China has taken another step toward its crewed lunar goals by
successfully testing fairing separation for its Long March 10 moon rocket
series. The fairing separation test was conducted recently, according to a
Nov. 20 statement from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology
(CALT). The separation test is one of a number of milestones needed in
order to get the Long March 10 ready for flight, with a first launch to low
earth orbit currently targeted for 2026. China has committed to the goal of
getting a pair of its astronauts onto the lunar surface by 2030. (ANS
thanks Space News for the above information.]
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