[ans] ANS-118 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

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Date: April 27th 2013

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-118

The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including 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

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In this edition:

CubeBug-1 Reaches Orbit
Istanbul Technical University's TURKSAT-3USAT Launched
Antares Successfully Launches from Wallops Island, Virginia
PhoneSats Mission Complete
16 Year-old UK student to Work on KickSat Sprite
Merritt Island High School StangSat Team Wins Best Presentation

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-118 01 ANS-118 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 118 01 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD April 28, 2013 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-118 01

Volunteers are needed to help at the AMSAT booth at Dayton *
Steve Belter N9IP, is looking for volunteers to help man the *
AMSAT booth during the 2013 Hamvention If you are willing *
to help at the Hamvention, please send an e-mail by April 30 *
to Steve Belter, n9ip@amsat org *
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Monitor the 'AMSAT at Dayton Hamvention 2013' link on the new *
AMSAT Web Site http://www amsat org for the latest AMSAT at *
Dayton news and developments *

CubeBug-1 Reaches Orbit

CubeBug-1 is the first technology demonstration mission for a new CubeSat platform design (mechanics, hardware and software) intended to be released as Open Source and Open Hardware for its use in Amateur projects, University projects and research labs

The project is sponsored by the Argentinean Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation

Payloads on this first mission include: an ARM based on-board computer a nano-reaction wheel with its driver circuit a low resolution camera all based on COTS components

CubeBug-1 is a 2U CubeSat and uses a 1 watt output AstroDev Lithium Li-1 on 437 445 MHz using 1200 bps AX 25 AFSK FM packet radio, callsign LU1VZ-11 Depending on the mode of the satellite the beacons will be transmitted every 10 to 30 seconds Telemetry information is at http://1 cubebug org/coms/telemetry

The team say Please, if you hear the satellite, lets as know by email to cubebug1@satellogic com If you decode a beacon or save its audio, please please please, share it with us!

After the technology demonstration part of the mission is over, the satellite will enter a mode that will include services to the Amateur radio community, including an AX 25 Packet Radio Digipeater, science data downloads from the payload (including images if possible)

CubeBug-1 launched on a Long March CZ-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Space Center on April 26, 2013 After 816 5 seconds the CubeBug-1 deployed from the rocket Orbital data including TLE is at http://1 cubebug org/orbit

Other satellites on the same launch include NEE-01 Pegasus (910 MHz) and TURKSAT-3USAT (145/435 MHz linear transponder)

Watch a CubeBug-1 video at http://vimeo com/56055215

CubeBug-1 website http://1 cubebug org/

Follow #CubeBug1 on Twitter @CubeBug1 https://twitter com/CubeBug1

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]

Istanbul Technical University's TURKSAT-3USAT Launched

Members of AMSAT-TR (TAMSAT), the Turkish Amateur Satellite Technologies Organisation, have designed and implemented an inverting V/U linear transponder for the satellite to provide amateur radio SSB/CW communications The transponder input is 145 940-145 990 MHz and the output is 435 200-435 250 MHz On 437 225 MHz is either a CW beacon or 9600 baud AFSK

The VHF/UHF transponder and all other subsystems, except the stabilization, are doubled for redundancy Where possible, both COTS systems and in-house development are employed

The power is provided using solar panels and lithium polymer batteries together with super capacitors Satellite stabilization is accomplished using passive magnetic attitude control system with hysteresis rods There is a camera payload to take images of the Earth

TURKSAT-3USAT launched on April 26, 2013 on a CZ-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Space Center into a 680 km Low Earth Orbit (LEO) The satellite has a de-orbiting system which will make it re-enter the atmosphere at the end of its operational life

Article in Google English about the satellite that explains how to use the inverting linear transponder http://tinyurl com/TURKSAT-3USAT-Article

Further information and pictures of the preliminary testing of the V/U transponder are at http://www tamsat org tr/tr/turksat-3usat-is-almost-ready/

Read the paper TURKSAT-3USAT: A 3U Communication CubeSat http://www nanosat jp/images/3rd/pdf/%5BNSS-03-0409%5D_TURKSAT- 3USAT_A_3U_COMMUNICATION pdf

Read more on the TAMSAT website which can be seen in Google English at http://tinyurl com/TurkeyTAMSAT

TURKSAT-3USAT Satellite Fun Club Facebook page https://www facebook com/pages/Turksat3usat-Fun-Club/484648341591111

TAMSAT / AMSAT-TR Facebook https://www facebook com/tamsat amsattr Twitter https://twitter com/tamsat_tr YouTube http://www youtube com/user/tamsatvideo

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]

Antares Successfully Launches from Wallops Island, Virginia

An Antares rocket owned by Orbital Sciences Corp blasted off on a successful test flight Sunday, 21 April, inaugurating a new launch system to resupply the International Space Station

The first launch of the Antares rocket is a major step in a joint venture between Orbital Sciences and NASA to develop two commercial space transportation systems to resupply the space station, replacing much of the cargo-carrying capacity lost when the space shuttle retired in 2011

Sunday's demonstration flight paves the way for another mission this summer, in which Orbital Sciences will launch its second Antares rocket with a Cygnus spacecraft on top on a mission all the way to the space station

If successful, the Cygnus mission this summer will clear the path for at least eight operational cargo runs using the Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo craft

The 13-story rocket lifted off at 5 p m EDT (2100 GMT) from launch pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport - a facility financed by the government of Virginia - and ascended into the sky atop a pillar of bluish golden flame from two main engines

The twin-engine first stage shut down less than four minutes into the mission, releasing the rocket's solid-fueled second stage to propel the booster into orbit

The Castor 30 second stage motor, built by ATK, ignited for a burn lasting two-and-a-half minutes, accelerating the rocket to more than 17,000 mph Engineers declared the rocket reached orbit, and the upper stage deployed a 8,377-pound block of aluminum designed to mimic the mass characteristics of the Cygnus spacecraft, which will take the dummy payload's place on the next Antares launch

The instrumented mass simulator is just dead weight on its own, but a suite of more than 70 accelerometers, thermocouples, thermometers, strain gauges and microphones beamed data back to ground antennas through the rocket's communications radio before it severed ties with the launch vehicle In addition to the Cygnus mass simulator the Antares rocket carried aloft a group of three cubesats known as PhonSats

The rocket reached a near-circular orbit with an average altitude of about 155 miles, or 250 kilometers

[ANS thanks SpaceFlightNow for the above information]

PhoneSats Mission Complete

Since the successful deployment of our three PhoneSats on Sunday, we have already received over 200 packets from Amateur Radio operators around the world! We are sincerely grateful for all of your support and would like to thank you for your key contributions in making this technology demonstration a success The received packets are being processed right now and will be published soon Please keep sending packets so we can follow the status of the satellites for the complete duration of the technology demonstration

As scheduled, Graham and Bell started transmitting picture packets which needed to be stitched to restore the complete Earth picture The reassembled pictures can be seen at http://www phonesat org/pictures php

Saturday 27 April deorbit was announced via Twitter by NASA PhoneSat

[ANS thanks The PhoneSat team for the above information]

16 Year-old UK student to Work on KickSat Sprite

The Yorkshire Post reports that Luke Bussell, who is a Year 11 student at Bootham School and a member of the schools astronomy group, got more than he bargained for when he started doing his research for the annual Society for the History of Astronomy essay prize

Choosing to write about the history of unmanned exploration of Mars, he contacted the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) to quiz their experts in this fascinating field

They were so impressed with the depth of Lukes IT skills that they have recruited him as a software engineer to work on the amateur radio KickSat project, which will the see the design, building and testing of very small spacecraft called Sprites

Luke, who lives near York, said: I did not realise that I would be working on something that might be going into space

Its very exciting

Its good as I am only sixteen I think that my family are quite proud, he added

The KickSat Sprites from both the BIS and London Hackspace are planned to launch, with 198 others, on the ELaNa 5 / CRS 3 mission in 2013

The KickSat Sprite Technical Summary is available at http://www bis-space com/2013/03/09/9301/kicksat-technical-summary

[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA, for the above information]

Merritt Island High School StangSat Team Wins Best Presentation

StangSat presented at the Southeastern VHF Society Conference in Cocoa Beach Presenters, Brian Robusto and Jackson Kinney, did a fabulous job and the StangSat team got a lot of support and advice from the members at the conference They were awarded as Best Presentation earning $350 and over $700 was donated by individuals present

[ANS thanks StangSat Team, for the above information]

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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 addi- tional benefits Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office

Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information

73, This week's ANS Editor, Lee McLamb, KU4OS ku4os at amsat dot org

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