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+ The FUNcube Data Warehouse will be going off line on Saturday, August 31,
as it transitions to a new server. The service may be down for about three
days as the team has to migrate the large amount of data collected over 11
years and ensure that the service is running correctly. The dashboards will
catch up if they are left connected, once the service comes on line. The
team will probably turn on the collection service before the UI so that
there is not to much data loss. (ANS thanks Dave Johnson, G4DPZ, of the
FUNcube Team for the above information.)
+ NASA will return Boeings Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch
Wilmore and Suni Williams, KD5PLB, aboard the spacecraft, the agency
announced last week. The uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue
gathering testing data on Starliner during its upcoming flight home, while
also not accepting more risk than necessary for its crew. Wilmore and
Williams, who flew to the International Space Station in June aboard NASAs
Boeing Crew Flight Test, have been busy supporting station research,
maintenance, and Starliner system testing and data analysis, among other
activities. They will continue their work formally as part of the
Expedition 71/72 crew through February 2025, and will fly home aboard a
Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agencys
SpaceX Crew-9 mission. Starliner is expected to depart from the space
station and make a safe, controlled autonomous re-entry and landing in
early September. (ANS thanks NASA for the above information.)
+ NASA astronaut Nick Hague, KG5TMV, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr
Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agencys
SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts
Zena Cardman, KJ5CMN, and Stephanie Wilson, KD5DZE, previously announced as
crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future mission. The updated
crew complement follows NASAs decision to return the agencys Boeing Crew
Flight Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with two unoccupied seats. NASA
astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, KD5PLB, who launched aboard the
Starliner spacecraft in June, will fly home with Hague and Gorbunov in
February 2025. (ANS thanks NASA for the above information.)
+ The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory
(NSF NRAO), and its administrator Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), have
created SuperKnova, an online educational platform that provides inclusive,
equitable access to radio technology learning and training. Thanks to a
generous grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), learners
can now enroll in two self-paced courses to learn the fundamentals of radio
communications. The Technician Amateur Radio License and EMS Course
introduces learners to the electromagnetic spectrum using amateur (ham)
radio as a vehicle. (ANS thanks the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
for the above information.)
+ Alick Gardiner, 2E0HDV, has undertaken a “retro radio” project to utilize
the APRS packet digipeater aboard the International Space Station with
equipment dating back to the 1980s! Alick documents how he resurrected a
Commodore 64 computer and a 30+ year old AEA PK-232 “Pakratt” TNC in his
blog at http://www.alickgardiner.com/c64-packet-radio/ (ANS thanks AMSAT-UK
and Alick Gardiner, 2E0HDV, for the above information.)
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