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[ANS] ANS-228 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

2026-08-15T17:12:14Z

AMSAT News Service

ANS-228
August 16, 2026

In this edition:

* Call for Presentations: 44th AMSAT Space Symposium
* AMSAT CubeSatSim Featured in QST Magazine
* More AMSAT Contests and Awards
* Norwegian Amateurs Experiment with Satellite Voice Control
* ARISS Receives Challenger-7 Recognition
* Voting Still in Progress for Board of Directors
* Satellite DXpedition To The Bahamas This Week
* Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for August 14, 2026
* ARISS News
* AMSAT Ambassador Activities
* Satellite Shorts from All Over

The AMSATÂ® News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation.

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Call for Presentations: 44th AMSAT Space Symposium

Do you have a story to tell the amateur satellite community? AMSAT invites proposals for presentations at the 44th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting, to be held October 8-11, 2026, at the Wyndham Jacksonville Hotel & Conference Center in Jacksonville, Florida.

Presentations are welcome on any topic of interest to the amateur satellite community. Suggested subjects include current and future satellite projects such as the GOLF program and the CubeSatSim; ARISS and human spaceflight activities; ground station, antenna, and portable station design; software-defined radio; telemetry collection and analysis; satellite operating techniques and achievements; educational programs and youth outreach; and reports from DXpeditions and roving operations. Whether you have built it, flown it, coded it, taught it, or worked it through a satellite, your fellow attendees want to hear about it.

Prospective presenters should email a tentative presentation title and a brief abstract to symposium [at] amsat.org as soon as possible. Presentation time slots are limited, so early submissions are encouraged, and information on submitting final papers and presentation materials for inclusion in the Symposium Proceedings will be provided to presenters. A digital copy of the Proceedings is included with every Symposium registration.

Symposium presentations begin Friday afternoon, October 9, and continue through Saturday, October 10, leading into the Annual General Meeting. Live streaming will bring the sessions to members unable to attend in person â all the more reason to make sure your work is on the program.

Registration for the Symposium is now open at https://launch.amsat.org/event-6789663, with early bird pricing available through September 8. Hotel reservations at the Wyndham Jacksonville â the property formerly known as the Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Airport/I-95 â may be made through the booking link at https://www.amsat.org/2026-amsat-symposium/ or by phone at 1-800-227-6963 using group code AMS.

[ANS thanks the AMSAT Symposium Team for the above information.]

Registration is Now Open!

AMSAT CubeSatSim Featured in QST Magazine

The AMSAT CubeSatSim, the CubeSat Simulator, is a small, low-cost, spacecraft simulator that serves as a tool for academic education, public demonstrations, and theory and design disciplines. It can be used in a classroom, lab or training setting to introduce the basics of satellite operations, or it can be used to teach STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) exercises.

Â First page of the QST Magazine article by Mark Samis, KD2XS. (Image credit: QST Magazine)

The September issue of QST Magazine has an article about the project. The article âMeet the CubeSatSimâ is written by Mark Samis, KD2XS. Mark is a long-time key contributor to the CubeSatSim Project and is the Project Manager for the ARISS STAR Project.

ARRL members will find the article beginning on page 54 of the September issue, available by logging in on the ARRL site, https://www.arrl.org/qst. By special permission from ARRL and QST, all may read a PDF version of the article on the CubeSatSim project website at: https://CubeSatSim.org/Meet-the-CubeSatSim.pdf.

The CubeSatSim and the low-cost CubeSatSim Lite are available on the AMSAT Store.

[ANS thanks Alan Johnston, KU2Y,Â AMSAT Vice President â Educational Relations, for the above information.]

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More AMSAT Contests and Awards

Steve Greene, KS1G, Earns GridMaster Award #80

For the second week in a row, AMSAT has a new GridMaster. Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards, has announced that Steve Greene, KS1G, of northern Virginia has been awarded GridMaster Award #80, following close behind Adrian, N8AJM, who claimed award #79 just one week earlier.

The GridMaster Award is earned by completing confirmed two-way satellite contacts with operators in all 488 Maidenhead grid squares of the contiguous United States â a feat accomplished by just 80 operators since the award was introduced by the Star Comm Group in 2014. Written confirmations, via QSL card or Logbook of The World, are required for every grid, and all contacts must be made from a single location or from locations within a 200-kilometer circle. With many of the 488 grids home to few or no resident satellite operators, the award is as much a testament to patience as to skill â and to the rovers who venture into rare grids so the chasers can finish the map.

KS1G will be a familiar callsign to many on the birds. A fixture of the northern Virginia satellite scene, Steve has spent years introducing newcomers to the hobby through his âYour First FM Satellite Contactâ presentations at area radio clubs, has captained Field Day satellite operations, and helped put Virginia on the air via satellite as one of the K2B activators during the 13 Colonies special event. It is only fitting that an operator who has helped so many others make their first satellite contact has now confirmed his 488th grid.

In announcing the award, Paige offered his congratulations along with his customary encouragement to the rover community to keep on rovinâ.

Complete details on the GridMaster Award, including rules and the application form, are available at https://www.amsat.org/gridmaster/, and upcoming rover operations â the lifeblood of every GridMaster chase â are listed at https://hams.at.

Congratulations, Steve!

MÃNKCâs portable setup (Photo: Kris Conkas)

Kristijan Conkas, MÃNKC, Earns AMSAT Rover Award #94

The AMSAT Rover Award program is on a roll. Just one week after award #93 went to Brazil, Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards, has announced that AMSAT Rover Award #94 has been earned by Kristijan Conkas, MÃNKC, of the United Kingdom â back-to-back awards spanning two continents, and a reminder that roving is a worldwide pursuit.

A satellite enthusiast, Linux user, and self-described occasional maker, Kristijan is also known to many in the hobby as the author of NKCCluster, a mobile DX cluster client for operators on the go â so it is fitting that his award celebrates operating on the go, too.

The Rover Award recognizes operators who take their satellite stations on the road, and is granted upon accumulating 25 points from grid squares activated outside the roverâs home grid: one point per grid via a single-channel FM transponder, two points via a linear SSB/CW transponder, and three points via a digital transponder, with a bonus point for each grid activated in a state, province, or DX entity other than the roverâs own. Five-point bonuses reward publicizing an activation at least 24 hours in advance â by tagging @amsat or #amsat on social media, or via the AMSAT-BB â and posting photos of the operation afterward, while activating a grid while maritime mobile is worth ten points and a /MM endorsement on the certificate. For European rovers, national borders come thick and fast, and every outing hands fresh grids to chasers across the continent and, on the right pass, well beyond.

In announcing the award, Paige offered his congratulations along with his customary encouragement to rovers everywhere to keep on rovinâ.

Complete rules and application details for the AMSAT Rover Award are available at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-rover-award/, and upcoming rover operations may be found â and publicized â at https://hams.at.

Congratulations, Kristijan!

[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards, for the above information]

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ARISS Receives Challenger-7 Recognition

ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) is honored to receive the prestigious Challenger-7 Recognition, a national honor celebrating organizations whose work reflects the spirit, vision, and values of the Challenger 51-L crew.

âThis recognition is a tribute, not a competition,â says the Challenger Center. âIt honors those who embody the Challenger crewâs values of exploration, learning, and inspiration, while also celebrating trailblazing organizations and programs that will carry this mission forward into the future.â

Nominations from nonprofit national STEM programs that have a national-level impact on STEM learning and other STEM advocates were submitted by members of the broader Challenger Center community, with honorees selected by an appointed committee. The recognitions are part of the Challenger Centerâs 40th Anniversary celebrations.

âThe ARISS team is humbled to receive the Challenger-7 recognition,â said ARISS-USA Executive Director and ARISS International Chair, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO. âWe thank the Challenger Center community for this honor as well as treasure our long-standing partnership with them. The outcomes of our ARISS on-board astronaut experiences emulate the exploration and education spirit of the Challenger crewâto engage and educate our next generation of explorers in STEM while giving them the tools and inspiration to prepare them for future STEM careers.â

Jackie Blumer, KC9LEH, ARISS-USA Associate Director, and Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, ARISS-USA Executive Director and ARISS International Chair,
hold the Challenger-7 Recognition certificate. (Credit, ARISS)

Other awardees this year include AIAA, American Rocketry Challenge, and Janetâs Planet.

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the ISS. In the United States, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), NASAâs Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN) and the ISS National LabâSpace Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org.

[ANS thanks Dave Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS PR Team, for the above information.]

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Norwegian Amateurs Experiment with Satellite Voice Control

Amateur radio operators from the Oslo Group of the Norwegian Radio Relay League (NRRL), using an experimental satellite and homebrew ham equipment, successfully reprogrammed the satellite to respond to voice control.

On July 27, 2026, a verbal command, sent via a 23-centimeter signal from the roof of the Oslo Groupâs club station, was received, transcribed, and executed on board the OPS-SAT PRETTY satellite. The satellite then activated the game DOOM in response, and downloaded images of the game as confirmation. Voice control of a satellite was a reality, performed by radio amateurs in the Oslo Group!

The satellite composed this postcard on board and downlinked it to the ground after launching DOOM on the evening pass, the one commanded by a live human voice. An operator spoke into the microphone: âLIMA ALFA FOUR OSCAR, PRETTY PLAY DOOM DOOM DOOM, PRETTY PLAY DOOM DOOM DOOM.â That is the club call sign for legal identification, then the command twice, with DOOM repeated each time. Printed across the postcard is what the onboard speech-to-text made of it. The model is small enough to fit the satelliteâs limited computer, so the transcription is rough, but the repeated DOOM trigger word still got through. (Image credit: tanagraspace.com)

The spacecraft is operated by Graz University of Technology in Austria and the experimentation is coordinated by the European Space Agencyâs European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.

The OPS-SAT PRETTY is a 3U CubeSat (10 x 10 x 34 cm) with a reconfigurable processing platform that allows a wide range of custom software and firmware experiments, and is tightly connected to an onboard software defined receiver (SDR).

Everyone involved in the experiment agreed that amateur radio infrastructure can support technically meaningful spacecraft experiments when RF design, signal processing, craft software, and disciplined operations are treated as one system.

âFor this satellite, the Satellite Experimental Processing Platform (SEPP) where the experiments run, is connected to an SDR, receive only,â said team member Eskil Hadland, LB6AJ. âAs far as I know, the TMTC (Telemetry and Telecommand) is outside of the SEPP. So I do not believe this satellite will be able to talk back to us. Unlike other satellite operations for amateurs, where you can listen when you are aiming directly, we have been shouting towards the stars, and gotten data back hours later.â

The Project Page at partner Tanagra Space tells the whole story from end to end, with the postcard the satellite composed on board and the gameplay sequence it captured as it flew: https://tanagraspace.com/opssat-pretty-doomed/.

Thanks to the Oslo Group of the Norwegian Radio Relay League for taking time to talk with the ARRL Letter about their accomplishments.

[ANS thanks the ARRL Letter for the above information.]

Voting Still in Progress for Board of Directors

AMSAT members are reminded that voting remains open in the 2026 AMSAT Board of Directors election. Three seats on the Board are being filled this year. The three candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be elected to the Board, while the candidates receiving the next highest vote totals will be named First Alternate and Second Alternate, respectively.

Voting opened on July 15, 2026, and will conclude on September 15, 2026. Election results will be announced no later than September 30, 2026.

Current AMSAT members may review the official candidate statements and cast their ballots on the AMSAT 2026 Board of Directors Election website at https://launch.amsat.org/2026-BoD-Election

Members are encouraged to take a few minutes to review the candidatesâ statements and cast their ballots. Your participation helps shape the future of AMSAT and its mission to Keep Amateur Radio in Space.

[ANS thanks Douglas Tabor, N6UA, AMSAT Secretary, for the above information]

Satellite DXpedition To The Bahamas This Week

Philippe, EA4NF, will be active on FM LEO satellites from the BAHAMAS (Providence Island & Discovery Island) under the callsign C6AUB from August 19 to 23, 2026.
(DXCC : C6 BAHAMAS / GRID : FL15 / IOTA : NA-001)

He will be operating in full-duplex mode using a portable transceiver equipped with his standard Arrow antenna and his whip antenna.

August 19-23, 2026
FM LEO SATELLITES
QSL via LoTW as C6AUB

Keep an eye on Philippeâs Twitter feed for further updates : @EA4NF_SAT

[ANS thanks Philippe Chateau, EA4NF, for the above information.]

Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for August 14, 2026

Two Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps in the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical model of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly updates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. TLE bulletin files are updated daily in the first hour of the UTC day. New bulletin files will be posted immediately after reliable elements become available for new amateur satellites. More information may be found at https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/.

The following satellites have been added to this weekâs AMSAT TLE distribution:
CO-128 (MARMOTSat) NORAD Cat ID 69872

General Perturbations Data Support

AMSAT is pleased to announce that modern forms of what are called General Perturbations data are being disseminated via modern formats including JSON, XML and KVN at https://newark192.amsat.org/gpdata/current/. The reason this change is being made is that we are running out of 5-digit catalog numbers and the TLE format is not viable for satellites launched after July of this year. See https://celestrak.org/NORAD/documentation/gp-data-formats.php for details.

These data are presently considered in beta test for the next two months while hosted on the test server newark192.amsat.org, and we are very open to community feedback at webmaster at amsat.org. Testers may experience outages and errors while we make improvements. We intend to put this into production on our main web server in July as we expect that satellites launched after this summer will require one of the new formats to accommodate longer object numbers. AMSAT will continue to publish TLE bulletins for satellites launched before July 2026 indefinitely.

[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above information.]

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ARISS News

Amateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between amateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The downlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide.

Recently Completed

Challenger Learning Center National Conference, Framingham, MA, telebridge via VK4ISS
The ISS callsign was scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled crewmember was Sophie Adenot KJ5LTN
The ARISS mentor was KA3HDO
Contact was successful: Wed 2026-08-12 16:31:39 UTC 58 degrees max. elevation
Congratulations to the Challenger Learning Center National Conference students, Sophie, mentor KA3HDO, and telebridge VK4ISS!

Australian Air League (AAL), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, telebridge via IK1SLD
The ISS callsign was scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled crewmember was Jack Hathaway KJ5NIV
The ARISS mentor was VK4ISS
Contact was successful: Fri 2026-08-14 10:56:13 UTC 76 degrees max. elevation
Live Stream was at http://www.ariotti.com/ starting about 10-15 min before AOS
Congratulations to the Australian Air League, Jack, mentor VK4ISS, and telebridge IK1SLD!

Many times, a school makes a last-minute decision to do a Livestream or runs into a last-minute glitch requiring a change of the URL, but we at ARISS may not get the URL in time for publication. You can always checkÂ https://live.ariss.org/Â to see if a school is Livestreaming.

As always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios are turned off as part of the safety protocol:

Mon 2026-08-17 19:05 UTC radio power down
Tue 2026-08-18 U.S. Orbital Segment (USOS) EVA (spacewalk by flight engineers Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot, KJ5LTN)
Wed 2026-08-19 10:45 UTC radio power up

The crossband repeater remains configured in the Columbus Module (145.990 MHz up {PL 67} & 437.800 MHz down). If a crewmember decides to pick up the microphone and turn up the volume, you may hear them on the airâso keep listening, as you never know when activity might occur.

Kenwood D710GA in the Zvezda Service Module â Call sign RSÃISS. Please note weâre still in the process of troubleshooting and testing this radio. APRS is currently active on 437.825 MHz. Feel free to check out status reports atÂ https://ariss-usa.org/ARISS_APRS/.

Ham TV is currently transmitting a test signal at 2395.00 MHz.

Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time.

The latest information on the operation mode can be found atÂ https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html

The latest list of frequencies in use can be found atÂ https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html

[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors for the above information]

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AMSAT Ambassador Activities

AMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through amateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests, conventions, maker faires, and other events.

August 28-30, 2026
Wyoming HamCon, ARRL Rocky Mountain Division Convention
Best Western (Downtown)
123 W. E St.
Casper, WY 82601
http://wyohamcon.org/
K0NMR

October 8-11, 2026
44th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Membership Meeting
Wyndham Jacksonville Hotel & Conference Center
14670 Duval Road
Jacksonville, FL 32218
https://www.amsat.org/2026-amsat-symposium/
Registration is Now Open!

Interested in becoming an AMSAT Ambassador? AMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through amateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests, conventions, maker faires, and other events. For more information go to:Â https://www.amsat.org/ambassador/

[ANS thanks Bo Lowrey, W4FCL, Director â AMSAT Ambassador Program, for the above information]

Satellite Shorts from All Over

+ As many may have noticed, UNNE-1B (HADES-E2) was not included in the TR-17 mission. It is now expected to fly on the SpaceX Transporter-18 mission in October. UNNE-1B is a 1.5P PocketQube that uses the same satellite hardware and software as the original UNNE-1 but will be launched on a SpaceX mission instead of the originally planned RFA launch due to delays to the latter. Like UNNE-1, the satellite will provide licensed radio amateurs worldwide with an FM voice transponder and support for FSK-based digital modes. It will also transmit telemetry reporting the satelliteâs status, a CW beacon, and a prerecorded CODEC2 digital voice message. All these functions are implemented using an SDR-based FM/FSK repeater. The FM/FSK repeater will be continuously available and activated by carrier squelch, with no access tone required. As an educational payload, students from Universidad Nebrija (Spain) are developing a small âguessing game.â The satellite will transmit one clue per week as part of its telemetry, and radio amateurs will have to collect all the clues to solve the mystery. Details of the game will be published on the AMSAT-EA and Universidad Nebrija websites, and all transmitted data will be publicly available. (ANS thanks FÃ©lix PÃ¡ez, EA4GQS, president of AMSAT EA, for the information.)

+ HamClock version 4.28 adds direct integration with Hams.at to provide satellite operators with personalized information about upcoming satellite activations. By configuring a Hams.at API key in HamClock, users can receive upcoming pass alerts and additional details tailored to their station and location. The integration includes satellite co-visibility calculations, allowing an operator to determine when both their station and a rover or other station will have the same satellite in view. HamClock can also display probability or match information from Hams.at when evaluating opportunities to contact a rover activating a particular grid square. Other satellite features in HamClock include Doppler tracking, satellite group scheduling for planning passes, and a Sky View mode that displays satellites relative to the stars. Additional information about HamClock, including the Open HamClock Backend project, is available at https://ohb.works/. (ANS thanks Brian Wilkins, KO4AQF, for the above information.)

+Â While expanding InstantTrack to support the modern GP formats would require the source code, AMSAT Executive VP Paul Stoetzer,Â N8HM, asked ChatGPT to develop a patch that allows InstantTrack 1.55 to use Alpha5 TLEs.Â Running the patch utilities requires a DOS install with debug.exe. The patch is available atÂ https://github.com/prstoetzer/InstantTrack-Alpha5-Patch.Â InstantTrack can be downloaded at https://www.mustbeart.com/software/it/getit.html. (ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer,Â N8HM, AMSAT Executive VP, for the above information.)

+ The Federal Communications Commission voted on August 6 to advance a proposal to enable satellites to beam data to consumer and IoT devices already equipped with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips. This includes harnessing the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands commonly used by Wi-Fi routers. The Association for Broadband Without Boundaries, which represents wireless internet service providers, has been urging the FCC to revise the proposal, which tentatively concludes that opening up the spectrum âwill not present an increased harmful interference risk to authorized services.â ARRL, the National Association for Amateur Radio, is also raising concerns, telling the FCC, âAmateur radio terrestrial operations would be uniquely impacted by any interference resulting from adoption of the proposals.â In addition, Intel and Cisco chimed in, urging the FCC to only seek proposals that wonât disrupt access to existing consumer devices and equipment. Nevertheless, the Commission voted unanimously to continue exploring the issue. (ANS thanks PC Magazine and fcc.gov for the above information. Read the full article at https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-plan-to-share-wi-fi-bands-with-satellites-raises-interference-alarms.)

+Â The Department of Transportation is proposing to exempt commercial space launch licensing from many environmental regulations, a move praised by industry but criticized by environmental groups.Â The department announced July 28 its intent to file a proposed rule for public comment that would exempt Federal Aviation Administration licenses for commercial launches and reentries, as well as launch sites, from 13 federal laws and associated regulations. Environmental groups, though, strongly oppose the proposal, noting it would waive the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. (ANS thanks SpaceNews for the above information. Read the full article at https://spacenews.com/proposed-rule-would-exempt-commercial-launch-licensing-from-environmental-regulations/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Top%20Stories%3A%20Transportation%20Department%20proposes%20waiving%20environmental%20regulations%20for%20launches&utm_campaign=SNTW%20-%202026-07-31.)

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73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!

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Mark Johns, KÃJM
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2026-08-13T17:30:54Z

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB26226.1 2Line Orbital Elements 26226.AMSAT

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AMSAT Orbital Elements for Amateur Satellites in TLE Format

From Orbital Analysis Office New England Sci-Tech STEM Education Center Natick MA August 14, 2026 To all radio amateurs

These element sets describe the orbits of various satellites in use by the amateur radio community. For details see: www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-formats/

A daily update of element sets is available at: www.amsat.org/tle/daily-bulletin.txt or without bulletin text: www.amsat.org/tle/dailytle.txt

AO-07 1 07530U 74089B 26225.04079075 -.00000028 00000-0 11278-3 0 9995 2 07530 101.9918 238.8813 0012415 24.5645 46.0266 12.53699076367646 UO-11 1 14781U 84021B 26224.46556728 .00000641 00000-0 70605-4 0 9998 2 14781 97.8109 189.4316 0007769 10.2016 349.9358 14.90914683265513 LO-19 1 20442U 90005G 26225.04313669 .00000026 00000-0 26123-4 0 9991 2 20442 98.8844 248.4120 0012297 43.7480 316.4676 14.34137229910541 AO-27 1 22825U 93061C 26225.12735784 .00000031 00000-0 28825-4 0 9995 2 22825 98.6842 292.5087 0007303 296.7491 63.2944 14.30954934715140 FO-29 1 24278U 96046B 26225.16503428 -.00000028 00000-0 10562-4 0 9993 2 24278 98.5198 66.2267 0348988 308.7057 48.3348 13.53276828480876 GO-32 1 25397U 98043D 26224.96101503 .00000002 00000-0 21237-4 0 9992 2 25397 99.0115 219.1631 0002287 70.3768 289.7657 14.24437855459416 ISS 1 25544U 98067A 26225.14877410 .00003778 00000-0 75606-4 0 9992 2 25544 51.6324 18.1827 0007533 41.6914 318.4648 15.49426097580580 NO-44 1 26931U 01043C 26225.01309130 .00000032 00000-0 42870-4 0 9993 2 26931 67.0501 97.2937 0005675 269.3033 90.7419 14.31974239298583 SO-50 1 27607U 02058C 26224.59410700 .00000423 00000-0 67883-4 0 9994 2 27607 64.5532 314.4492 0073578 252.1254 107.1818 14.83153864272827 CO-55 1 27844U 03031E 26225.00763966 .00000119 00000-0 70538-4 0 9994 2 27844 98.6759 232.8570 0010103 27.5177 332.6535 14.24365847199765 RS-22 1 27939U 03042A 26225.19844420 .00000433 00000-0 74761-4 0 9997 2 27939 98.3477 51.1772 0012557 87.3661 45.6872 14.73556507223949 CO-65 1 32785U 08021C 26225.11683602 .00002069 00000-0 13177-3 0 9999 2 32785 97.8331 207.7555 0008374 183.0549 177.0630 15.09916367993788 CO-66 1 32791U 08021J 26224.96365674 .00009262 00000-0 27930-3 0 9998 2 32791 97.7542 225.6604 0004986 103.4900 256.6898 15.34532591995990 RS-30 1 32953U 08025A 26225.23792063 .00000059 00000-0 35602-3 0 9999 2 32953 82.5080 319.9573 0019695 183.8788 176.2142 12.43182024826788 SRMSAT 1 37841U 11058D 26224.62539733 .00000319 00000-0 29414-4 0 9999 2 37841 19.9722 77.8537 0011778 105.1236 288.2197 14.11585961765808 ZACUBE-1 1 39417U 13066B 26224.45898828 .00002262 00000-0 17640-3 0 9991 2 39417 97.8001 187.0617 0042925 64.1271 296.4370 15.01504644689176 Delfi-N3xt 1 39428U 13066N 26225.18881691 .00003965 00000-0 34237-3 0 9996 2 39428 97.8303 145.4594 0074256 18.5287 341.8611 14.95704193683144 GOMX-1 1 39430U 13066Q 26225.17666611 .00000572 00000-0 93181-4 0 9996 2 39430 97.6453 62.0461 0126732 254.2728 104.4471 14.69599181678280 LO-74 1 39440U 13066AA 26224.32427083 .00001105 00000-0 10592-3 0 9998 2 39440 97.8935 173.5652 0056467 199.6842 160.2199 14.94102927685375 AO-73 1 39444U 13066AE 26224.91964220 .00003597 00000-0 22115-3 0 9997 2 39444 97.8326 197.5931 0036245 13.9685 346.2538 15.10188128688220 DTUSAT-2 1 40030U 14033W 26224.95972086 .00003229 00000-0 17354-3 0 9999 2 40030 98.0894 226.3297 0009075 51.1167 309.0872 15.15666750661284 LILACSAT-2 1 40908U 15049K 26225.12578108 .00010049 00000-0 16114-3 0 9999 2 40908 97.4606 264.1901 0007836 57.3714 302.8294 15.53253407604585 Lapan A3 1 41603U 16040E 26225.23037740 .00001622 00000-0 52457-4 0 9996 2 41603 97.1534 219.5266 0010625 160.3189 199.8466 15.33425310563552 CAS-2T 1 41847U 16066G 26225.16785309 .00000216 00000-0 40384-4 0 9991 2 41847 98.3792 300.2524 0340470 316.8268 40.6680 14.44803936513029 TechnoSat 1 42829U 17042E 26225.02504270 .00001106 00000-0 81445-4 0 9990 2 42829 97.4355 20.5539 0015814 258.5321 101.4130 15.05240690495256 AO-91 1 43017U 17073E 26225.14843726 .00004123 00000-0 17787-3 0 9998 2 43017 97.4621 91.2022 0149832 131.3647 230.0584 15.13434017474000 S-Net D 1 43186U 18014G 26225.19175647 .00002038 00000-0 10615-3 0 9992 2 43186 97.5293 129.6264 0008207 167.9742 192.1688 15.17133753467404 S-Net B 1 43187U 18014H 26225.20435339 .00002219 00000-0 11532-3 0 9992 2 43187 97.5299 129.6272 0009002 164.3764 195.7749 15.17102230467402 S-Net A 1 43188U 18014J 26225.19032414 .00001981 00000-0 10324-3 0 9991 2 43188 97.5311 129.8331 0008839 165.0071 195.1425 15.17141774467403 S-Net C 1 43189U 18014K 26225.01069182 .00002139 00000-0 11132-3 0 9999 2 43189 97.5328 129.7380 0010401 160.1361 200.0279 15.17090905465928 Ten-Koh 1 43677U 18084G 26225.10996472 .00000462 00000-0 39166-4 0 9994 2 43677 98.0739 59.8771 0008416 291.7833 68.2495 15.03131144424719 PO-101 1 43678U 18084H 26225.18374130 .00000522 00000-0 46443-4 0 9997 2 43678 98.1207 63.8979 0010790 347.6778 12.4179 15.00644166424768 QO-100 1 43700U 18090A 26225.14745002 .00000127 00000-0 00000+0 0 9991 2 43700 0.0131 89.5731 0002470 89.6683 221.1825 1.00272111 28249 MinXSS-2 1 43758U 18099A 26225.13850192 .00022657 00000-0 39373-3 0 9990 2 43758 97.4494 303.2449 0007218 66.4747 293.7262 15.50803540422946 AO-95 1 43770U 18099N 26225.14383337 .00005173 00000-0 19302-3 0 9991 2 43770 97.4343 285.2110 0009813 139.2765 220.9209 15.27806508421919 SNUSat 2 1 43782U 18099AA 26225.12790854 .00003571 00000-0 15634-3 0 9992 2 43782 97.4021 277.6540 0011925 96.8043 263.4551 15.22621032421690 SnugLite 1 43784U 18099AC 26225.12634336 .00005028 00000-0 18512-3 0 9993 2 43784 97.3827 278.8773 0004645 93.2741 266.9030 15.28291458422011 ITASat 1 1 43786U 18099AE 26225.12074073 .00002906 00000-0 13905-3 0 9994 2 43786 97.3989 275.5077 0013440 147.3673 212.8395 15.19682995421553 EAGLET 1 1 43790U 18099AJ 26225.12295750 .00001450 00000-0 84916-4 0 9990 2 43790 97.4192 273.2844 0012152 142.3693 217.8391 15.13313017420941 ESEO 1 43792U 18099AL 26225.05235674 .00001281 00000-0 95772-4 0 9997 2 43792 97.3938 260.0005 0012975 135.0385 225.1895 15.04390254420357 JO-97 1 43803U 18099AX 26225.15333069 .00008461 00000-0 24858-3 0 9991 2 43803 97.4092 288.2411 0006913 76.9927 283.2088 15.35353141422365 Suomi 100 1 43804U 18099AY 26225.14115668 .00006057 00000-0 21319-3 0 9992 2 43804 97.4148 285.3581 0011333 82.7454 277.5074 15.29638660422126 ISAT 1 43879U 18111D 26224.58857064 .00118083 00000-0 68163-3 0 9990 2 43879 97.5828 164.6635 0009138 105.4870 254.7406 15.78255449420025 UWE-4 1 43880U 18111E 26224.33035188 .00017288 00000-0 31533-3 0 9996 2 43880 97.5835 155.4491 0009919 112.2334 247.9970 15.49460910419466 Sparrow 1 43881U 18111F 26224.35984473 .01134388 85875-3 98720-3 0 9998 2 43881 97.5966 171.6919 0011674 160.0984 200.0759 16.13273420420287 Prox-1 1 44339U 19036A 26224.93369591 .00005943 00000-0 54688-3 0 9998 2 44339 23.9948 94.8109 0005982 334.7797 25.2411 14.91804474381958 Taurus 1 1 44530U 19059C 26225.19151277 .00001466 00000-0 23898-3 0 9990 2 44530 98.6462 33.5963 0009545 128.8963 231.3095 14.72615854367037 TO-108 1 44881U 19093C 26225.19154211 -.00000255 00000-0 -22662-4 0 9994 2 44881 97.7505 296.0248 0012019 258.9392 101.0472 14.86593302359881 RS-44 1 44909U 19096E 26225.15456900 .00000025 00000-0 55357-4 0 9994 2 44909 82.5231 301.8576 0217592 11.4894 349.1059 12.79748774309630 SALSAT 1 46495U 20068K 26224.97264501 .00003524 00000-0 12216-3 0 9993 2 46495 97.8872 231.5332 0011444 101.8249 258.4274 15.30516899324041 CSS (TIANHE-1) 1 48274U 21035A 26224.98627524 .00000101 00000-0 54127-5 0 9991 2 48274 41.4709 337.2096 0001079 250.4973 109.5748 15.58975796302033 TeikyoSat 4 1 49396U 21102B 26225.05928944 .00000586 00000-0 40091-4 0 9992 2 49396 97.3656 252.3315 0013734 96.6731 263.6062 15.09681864261305 Z-Sat 1 49399U 21102E 26225.19984687 .00001550 00000-0 77762-4 0 9993 2 49399 97.3303 258.7969 0017977 52.1449 308.1409 15.18652811262095 KOSEN 1 1 49402U 21102H 26225.07923571 .00003428 00000-0 12958-3 0 9991 2 49402 97.3152 266.1479 0013551 14.6065 345.5563 15.27565460262709 HO-113 1 50466U 21131B 26225.18563037 .00000213 00000-0 79252-4 0 9994 2 50466 98.4987 317.2671 0002922 294.7769 65.3116 14.41402400243320 SNUGLITE 2 1 52899U 22065F 26224.94848288 .00000373 00000-0 79708-4 0 9993 2 52899 98.2277 9.7050 0007084 195.9435 164.1546 14.64436850219309 UmKA 1 (RS40S) 1 57172U 23091G 26225.19352946 .00002610 00000-0 11944-3 0 9994 2 57172 97.5010 283.6806 0010765 281.4060 78.5966 15.21381656172671 CubeBel-2 (EU11S) 1 57175U 23091K 26225.15515257 .00005689 00000-0 19598-3 0 9991 2 57175 97.5011 288.9204 0007678 270.7423 89.2938 15.30411111173015 RS-38S 1 57189U 23091Z 26225.18301323 .00008414 00000-0 22973-3 0 9996 2 57189 97.5056 295.8682 0006220 212.6470 147.4390 15.37663106173441 SONATE-2 1 59112U 24043Q 26224.93890385 .00024596 00000-0 27231-3 0 9996 2 59112 97.5585 19.0254 0004883 358.4716 1.6526 15.62983909136740 GRBBeta 1 60237U 24128C 26224.95835281 .00001778 00000-0 13141-3 0 9998 2 60237 61.9906 17.0289 0032852 147.1534 213.1610 15.06985335114828 Curium One 1 60242U 24128H 26224.94536855 .00003786 00000-0 22212-3 0 9998 2 60242 61.9798 4.6316 0032128 142.6098 217.7242 15.13243018115046 ROBUSTA-3A 1 60243U 24128J 26224.61235023 .00003988 00000-0 23872-3 0 9993 2 60243 61.9874 8.6019 0033921 139.9575 220.4031 15.12357015114955 CatSat 1 60246U 24125J 26225.14401256 .00049235 00000-0 47793-3 0 9998 2 60246 97.2023 78.6804 0015308 332.4330 27.6117 15.66047862116288 HYPERVIEW-1G (RS66S) 1 61772U 24199AP 26225.16930442 .00919861 48953-3 10017-2 0 9991 2 61772 97.2568 108.7413 0005704 161.9422 198.2066 16.09930842143717 AO-123 1 61781U 24199AY 26225.16602480 .00004012 00000-0 11482-3 0 9998 2 61781 97.2914 93.3287 0015457 102.6078 257.6895 15.36416085142676 LASARsat 1 62391U 24247Q 26225.21100032 .00019761 00000-0 35173-3 0 9992 2 62391 44.9739 300.9321 0009210 335.9817 24.0643 15.49837554 92152 CroCube 1 62394U 24247T 26225.19359152 .00023336 00000-0 37935-3 0 9992 2 62394 44.9708 297.3001 0009326 343.5855 16.4734 15.52291446 92198 JINJUSat 1B 1 63210U 25052A 26224.94908808 .00007827 00000-0 23183-3 0 9992 2 63210 97.3922 121.8273 0001580 192.6789 167.4415 15.35145287 78808 NUSHSAT 1 1 63211U 25052B 26225.15364198 .00010841 00000-0 29158-3 0 9993 2 63211 97.3899 122.8118 0001181 180.4757 179.6487 15.38061227 78895 TEVEL2-4 1 63213U 25052D 26224.61469832 .00009484 00000-0 26881-3 0 9997 2 63213 97.3823 121.1533 0000258 181.1684 178.9560 15.36465403 78771 TEVEL2-5 1 63214U 25052E 26225.16317044 .00009234 00000-0 26343-3 0 9992 2 63214 97.3818 121.6343 0000191 169.5374 190.5874 15.36271000 78857 TEVEL2-6 1 63215U 25052F 26225.17681022 .00009587 00000-0 27372-3 0 9998 2 63215 97.3823 121.6328 0000123 143.4797 216.6455 15.36236286 78854 TEVEL2-1 1 63217U 25052H 26224.64045734 .00008919 00000-0 25981-3 0 9997 2 63217 97.3799 120.6487 0000652 348.5891 11.5338 15.35625124 78756 TEVEL2-3 1 63218U 25052J 26225.15407549 .00009292 00000-0 26989-3 0 9995 2 63218 97.3799 121.1937 0000546 11.1180 349.0075 15.35704012 78839 TEVEL2-2 1 63219U 25052K 26225.16165544 .00008802 00000-0 25625-3 0 9995 2 63219 97.3796 121.1747 0000619 344.5596 15.5629 15.35647483 78839 TEVEL2-9 1 63237U 25052AD 26224.49754874 .00007798 00000-0 24310-3 0 9993 2 63237 97.3861 119.7564 0004084 319.3718 40.7219 15.33513248 78652 TEVEL2-7 1 63238U 25052AE 26224.22371549 .00007094 00000-0 22378-3 0 9990 2 63238 97.3863 119.3736 0004167 319.5254 40.5677 15.33171229 78601 TEVEL2-8 1 63239U 25052AF 26224.42828398 .00007102 00000-0 22410-3 0 9999 2 63239 97.3865 119.5532 0004163 321.3010 38.7933 15.33160958 78631 SPIRONE 1 66657U 25274H 26224.32682208 .00000593 00000-0 61282-4 0 9997 2 66657 97.7466 152.8210 0011866 179.6395 180.4836 14.93741799 38603 K-HERO 1 66660U 25274L 26224.51698127 .00000386 00000-0 41350-4 0 9993 2 66660 97.7476 153.2105 0013555 184.4988 175.6113 14.94143505 38645 SNUGLITE-III DURI 1 66661U 25274M 26224.36974590 .00000582 00000-0 59642-4 0 9999 2 66661 97.7473 153.0860 0014132 186.3468 173.7576 14.94162147 38628 SAKHACUBE-CHOLBON 1 67290U 25313AU 26224.18305422 .00004021 00000-0 16000-3 0 9996 2 67290 97.3909 298.5441 0010147 150.4194 209.7620 15.25798709 34515 RS95S (QMR-KWT-2) 1 67291U 25313AV 26224.43961178 .00006389 00000-0 23904-3 0 9991 2 67291 97.3908 299.1075 0009829 147.6343 212.5501 15.27622910 34572 Ten-Koh2 1 68261U 25241B 26224.92733737 .00003797 00000-0 16587-3 0 9990 2 68261 51.6585 49.4511 0005796 327.0745 32.9872 15.24493510 23565 JACK-002 1 68417U 26067B 26224.45794561 .00002732 00000-0 13003-3 0 9998 2 68417 97.4610 182.3913 0004109 84.4035 275.7668 15.20006428 20494 DISCO 2 1 68431U 26067R 26224.42229791 .00003456 00000-0 16444-3 0 9995 2 68431 97.4640 182.3490 0003592 123.2630 236.8950 15.19829588 20480 HADES-SA (SpinnyONE) 1 68446U 26067AG 26223.85035661 .00008613 00000-0 39340-3 0 9998 2 68446 97.4430 181.3955 0004300 223.2575 136.8323 15.20814752 20386 PARUS-6U1 1 68456U 26067AS 26224.88569338 .00002490 00000-0 12564-3 0 9992 2 68456 97.4595 182.4124 0004246 208.8195 151.2804 15.18042202 20537 SAL-E 1 68458U 26067AU 26224.60461877 .00003031 00000-0 15030-3 0 9996 2 68458 97.4519 182.0448 0004046 221.9782 138.1143 15.18483800 20494 FSI-SAT 2 1 68792U 26088A 26224.98877168 .00001393 00000-0 96472-4 0 9994 2 68792 97.5138 12.8617 0012739 273.6168 86.3603 15.07217231 16841 OrigamiSat 2 1 68795U 26088D 26224.97833292 .00005290 00000-0 33014-3 0 9998 2 68795 97.5129 13.1827 0013895 240.2471 119.7377 15.09849330 16866 ARICA 2 1 68796U 26088E 26224.93740412 .00001527 00000-0 10091-3 0 9995 2 68796 97.5135 13.0688 0014129 240.8392 119.1424 15.08812619 16852 WASEDA-SAT-ZERO-II 1 68797U 26088F 26223.99362700 .00002471 00000-0 15918-3 0 9993 2 68797 97.5124 12.1767 0013978 243.7932 116.1860 15.09182265 16716 MANGARO-II-Piscus 1 68798U 26088G 26224.97725612 .00001630 00000-0 10644-3 0 9995 2 68798 97.5140 13.1804 0017512 244.4535 115.4884 15.09125737 16868 CO-128 1 69872U 26156D 26224.31970089 .00000461 00000-0 52528-4 0 9992 2 69872 97.7482 124.1156 0003799 17.0561 343.0784 14.90756256 5367 MARINA 1 69920U 26156BD 26225.16110436 .00000932 00000-0 97333-4 0 9998 2 69920 97.7490 125.0168 0008566 41.4884 318.6984 14.92051646 5496 IO-86 1 40931U 26199.45381863 .00000000 00000-0 77536-4 0 07 2 40931 6.0006 322.6653 0012733 338.8432 273.6875 14.79294310 03 LILIUM-4
1 71922C 26067AC 26089.50133053 -.00014632 00000+0 -74472-3 0 04 2 71922 97.4497 49.1617 0004341 5.9603 355.7042 15.16896692 16 /EX

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[Keps] Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for 14 August 2026

2026-08-13T17:30:52Z

The following satellites have been added to this weeks AMSAT TLE distribution:

CO-128 NORAD Cat ID 69872

Joe Fitzgerald AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager

[ANS] ANS-221 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

2026-08-08T17:56:41Z

AMSAT News Service

ANS-221
August 9, 2026

In this edition:

* Registration Now Open for the 44th AMSAT Space Symposium
* Voting Still in Progress for Board of Directors
* Jackie Blumer KC9LEH Appointed as ARISS Associate Director
* AMSAT-CA Membership is Open
* AMSAT Contests and Awards
* Astronauts Complete Spacewalk for Solar Array Modifications
* SpaceX Rocket Impact: Lunar Orbiter Captures Aftermath
*Â VUCC Satellite Standings August 2026
* DXCC Satellite Standings August 2026
* Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for August 7, 2026
* ARISS News
* AMSAT Ambassador Activities
* Satellite Shorts from All Over

The AMSATÂ® News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT, 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.

The news feed on https://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.

Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at] amsat.org

You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: https://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/

Registration Now Open for 44th AMSAT Space Symposium

Registration is now open for the 44th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting, coming to Jacksonville, Florida, October 8-11, 2026. This year's gathering will be held at the Wyndham Jacksonville Hotel & Conference Center - the same property previously known as the Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Airport/I-95, rebranded in July 2026 - an easy fly-in location with a free airport shuttle.

Symposium registration is $80 and the Saturday night banquet is $60 through September 8, after which prices rise to $90 and $70, respectively. An all-events package combining the two is also available at $140 early bird or $160 regular. Symposium registration includes admittance to all presentation sessions, the Friday night social and auction, the Sunday morning AMSAT Members Breakfast, and a digital copy of the Symposium Proceedings. Register online at https://launch.amsat.org/event-6789663

The weekend kicks off with the AMSAT Board of Directors meeting on Thursday, October 8, continuing Friday morning. Symposium presentations begin Friday afternoon - with technical sessions planned on the GOLF satellites, the CubeSatSim, ARISS updates, and more - followed by the reception and auction on Friday evening. Presentations continue Saturday morning and afternoon, capped by the Annual General Meeting at 3:00 p.m. and the evening reception and banquet, complete with ham radio door prizes. Live streaming will be available for those unable to attend in person, and a spouse program is planned.

Sunday morning brings the Members Breakfast, followed by optional tours of the USS Orleck, a Gearing-class destroyer that served in the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1982, and the 122-acre Jacksonville Zoo, home to more than 2,000 animals. Tour registration is an expression of interest only, with admission paid at the door - $35.95 for the zoo, and $20 for adults or $15 for seniors, AARP members, and veterans aboard the Orleck.

Hotel reservations at the Wyndham Jacksonville may be made through the booking link on the Symposium page atÂ https://www.amsat.org/2026-amsat-symposium/Â or by phone at 1-800-227-6963 using group code AMS.

Make your plans now to join your fellow AMSAT members in Jacksonville!

[ANS thanks the AMSAT Symposium Team for the above information]

Voting Still in Progress for Board of Directors

Voting opened on July 15, 2026, and will conclude on September 15, 2026. Election results will be announced no later than September 30, 2026.

Current AMSAT members may review the official candidate statements and cast their ballots on the AMSAT 2026 Board of Directors Election website at https://launch.amsat.org/2026-BoD-Election

Members are encouraged to take a few minutes to review the candidates' statements and cast their ballots. Your participation helps shape the future of AMSAT and its mission to Keep Amateur Radio in Space.

[ANS thanks Douglas Tabor, N6UA, AMSAT Secretary, for the above information]

LIMITED TIME OFFER!!!

AMSAT is offering a limited-time promotion for new and renewing members that includes a free digital copy of Getting Started with Amateur Satellites. The promotion is being offered as AMSAT begins the 2026 membership year.

Anyone who joins or renews their AMSAT membership during the promotional period will receive a download link for the latest edition of Getting Started with Amateur Satellites in their membership confirmation email. JOIN TODAY at https://launch.amsat.org/ (Remember! Students join for FREE!)

Jackie Blumer, KC9LEH, Appointed as ARISS Associate Director

Jackie Blumer, KC9LEH, Earth/Space Educator, Associate Director,Â ARISS-USA
[Credit: ARISS-USA]

ARISS-USA is pleased to announce thatÂ Jackie Blumer, KC9LEH, has been appointedÂ Associate Director of ARISS-USA (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station).Â Jackie is a nationally recognized science educator with an emphasis on space education.

In her work as an educator, she has often incorporated amateur radio into her curriculum as a teaching tool. In addition to her many responsibilities at ARISS-USA, Jackie has recently served asÂ Business Development Coordinator andÂ Logistics Manager for ARISS-USA.

In her new position as Associate Director, her focus will be on developing relations with other space-related organizations. She will also be seeking educational opportunities to collaborate on projects in conjunction with the commercial space industry.

Please join us in congratulatingÂ Jackie Blumer, KC9LEH, on her appointment and wishing her continued success in her new role with ARISS-USA.

[ANS thanks Dave Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS PR and media contact for the above information.]

AMSAT-CA Membership is Open

AMSAT-CA Logo [Credit: amsat-ca.org]

The global amateur radio community has expanded with the official formation of AMSAT CANADA (AMSAT-CA), making it the 28th affiliate of the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation.

AMSAT Canada joins this global network to specifically serve Canadian amateur radio operators who share an interest in space communications. More information can be found at https://www.amsat-ca.org/about/.

Building on Canada's rich history of innovation in space and radio science, AMSAT Canada stands ready to contribute to that legacy. The organization's mandate is to promote, develop, and support amateur radio in space, reflecting a long tradition of experimentation, education, and international collaboration.

By uniting together, the organization aims to build a vibrant and enduring Canadian presence in space that:

Inspires new generations
Advances open science
Upholds the spirit of exploration that has always defined amateur radio

Operators and enthusiasts interested in joining the initiative, tracking upcoming projects, or learning more about membership can visit the official website at www.amsat-ca.org.

[ANS thanks Levente Buzas, VA7QF, President of AMSAT Canada for the above information.]

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AMSAT Contests and Awards

Kleibe, PP2KR, Earns AMSAT Rover Award #93

Kleibe, PP2KR [Credit: QRZ.com]

Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards, has announced that Kleibe, PP2KR, of Brazil has been awarded AMSAT Rover Award #93.

Introduced in 2018, the AMSAT Rover Award recognizes the operators who make grid chasing possible in the first place: the ones who pack up their stations and take them somewhere else. The award is granted to stations accumulating 25 points through roving activity, with each grid square activated outside the roverâs home grid earning one point via a single-channel FM transponder, two points via a linear SSB/CW transponder, or three points via a digital transponder such as the ISS packet system. An additional point is added for each grid activated in a state, province, or DX entity outside the roverâs own, and five-point bonuses are available both for publicizing an activation at least 24 hours in advance - via a public social media post tagging @amsat or #amsat, the AMSAT-BB, or this bulletin - and for posting photos of the operation afterward. Braver souls can earn 10 points for activating a grid while operating maritime mobile, which also adds a /MM endorsement to the certificate.

Every rare grid in a chaserâs log is there because someone made the trip, and rover activity from South America is an especially welcome treat for satellite operators throughout the Americas. In announcing the award, Paige offered his congratulations along with his customary encouragement to rovers everywhere to keep on rovinâ.

Complete rules and application information for the AMSAT Rover Award are available at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-rover-award/, and upcoming rover operations may be found - and publicized - atÂ https://hams.at.

Congratulations, Kleibe, and thanks for putting Brazil on the air!

Adrian Mol, N8AJM, Earns GridMaster Award #79

Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards, has announced that Adrian Mol, N8AJM, has been awarded GridMaster Award #79.

The GridMaster Award recognizes radio amateurs worldwide who achieve two-way communication via amateur satellite with operators in all 488 Maidenhead grid squares of the contiguous United States. Contacts must be confirmed in writing, in the form of QSL cards or Logbook of The World confirmations, and must be made from a single location or from locations no more than 200 kilometers apart. Originally created by the Star Comm Group in 2014 and now administered by AMSAT, the GridMaster is widely regarded as one of the most demanding achievements in amateur satellite operating. Unlike open-ended grid chasing, it has a finish line, and reaching it takes years of dedication: many of the 488 grids are sparsely populated or home to no satellite operators at all, meaning nearly every GridMaster owes a debt to the rovers who haul their stations into rare grids so others can complete the map.

That makes this award a particularly fitting one. Mol is no stranger to the other side of the microphone, having appeared on the AMSAT rover pages activating grids for fellow chasers. In announcing the award, Paige offered his congratulations along with his customary encouragement to the rover community to keep on rovin'.

Full details on the GridMaster Award, including rules and the application form, are available atÂ https://www.amsat.org/gridmaster/. Those looking to chase, or activate, needed grids will find upcoming rover operations listed atÂ https://hams.at.

Congratulations, N8AJM, on a truly hard-earned achievement!

[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards,Â for the above information]

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Astronauts Complete Spacewalk for Solar Array Modifications

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon successfully wrapped up a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday, August 6th, 3 p.m. EDT, marking Menon's first career spacewalk and the sixth for Meir.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon [Credit: NASA]

Prior to stepping outside, the NASA astronautsÂ completed hands-on preparations aboard the space station to ensure a smooth operation:

Tool and Gear Configuration: The duo spent time inside the Quest airlock configuring tools and staging their spacesuits.
Procedure Reviews: They worked closely with fellow crew members Jack Hathaway (NASA) and Sophie Adenot (ESA), who reviewed the spacewalking procedures. Hathaway and Adenot also assisted with spacesuit configurations and were assigned to monitor the extravehicular activity from inside while helping Meir and Menon into and out of their suits.

From left, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon work outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk to install hardware for future power system upgrades. [Credit: NASA+]

During the 6-hour, 27-minute excursion, the duo accomplished their primary objectives by preparing the station's 3B power channel. This critical maintenance lays the groundwork for the future installation of new roll-out solar arrays (IROSA), which will supply additional electrical power to the orbiting laboratory. The upgraded power capacity will support vital station systems as well as the future safe, controlled deorbit of the outpost.

Thursday's extravehicular activity marked the 281st spacewalk conducted in support of International Space Station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.

[ANS thanks NASA.gov for the above information]

SpaceX Rocket Impact: Lunar Orbiter Captures Aftermath

The final resting place of a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage has been documented on the lunar surface. On the morning of Wednesday, August 5, 2026, the 8,800-pound (4,000-kilogram) rocket body slammed into the moon at approximately 5,400 mph (8,690 kph), creating a crater estimated to be up to 89 feet (27 meters) wide.

Impact Observations

South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter captured this image of the crater blasted out by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage when it hit the moon on Aug. 5, 2026. [Credit: KARI]

South Koreaâs Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, Danuri, successfully captured images of the impact site. According to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the orbiter began imaging 30 minutes before the collision and performed eight sessions as it passed over the site, securing vital before-and-after data.

Beyond orbital imagery, scientists detected evidence of the impact from Earth:

Plume Detection: Researchers at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, reported measuring a sodium and lithium gas plume spanning several tens of kilometers, which lasted for 5 to 10 minutes following the impact.
Visual Confirmation: Astronomers at the Instituto de AstrofÃsica de AndalucÃa in Spain also captured preliminary video footage of material ejected from the lunar surface at the time of the predicted impact.

Scientific Context

The Falcon 9 upper stage had been orbiting Earth since launching the private robotic landers Blue Ghost and Resilience in January 2025. Because the stage had exhausted most of its fuel to reach a high, moon-crossing orbit, it could not deorbit in Earth's atmosphere. Over time, a combination of solar activity and gravitational forces pushed the stage onto its eventual collision course.

While the impact was not the intended outcome for the rocket, researchers view this as a unique opportunity to study artificial impacts. Data from Danuri will be combined with future observations from NASAâs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to analyze the impact site. Experts hope this research will help clarify the multi-modal hazards posed by space debris to future lunar infrastructure and astronauts, as well as test methods for locating seismic impact events.

For more information, see https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/a-spacex-rocket-just-crashed-into-the-moon-now-the-race-is-on-to-get-a-look-at-the-impact-site and https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/spacex-rockets-impact-crater-on-the-moon-spied-by-korean-lunar-orbiter-photos.

[ANS thanks Space.com Â for the above information]

VUCC Satellite Standings August 2026

VUCC Satellite Award/Endorsement Change Summary for
July 01, 2026 to August 01, 2026.
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PY2PIM                    1310     1354
WI7P                      1104     1106
JS1LQI                     825      876
AC9DX                      725      730
N1AIA                      613      705
JA1GZK                     600      634
JO4JKL                     511      600
W9FF                       558      559
9V1EO                      133      553
HP2VX                      543      552
DL8GAM                     500      529
PY2HZ                      427      505
N6PAZ                      500      503
JI5RPT/1                   300      400
JE2UFF                     334      335
JH0BBE                     324      325
IC8TEM                     147      315
DH0GSU                     250      279
EA4DEI                     250      277
WA8ZID                     233      234
KT8O                       175      201
N9HF                       185      201
NK0S                       175      181
W4XP                       100      126

[ANS thanks Jon Goering, N7AZ for the above information.]

DXCC Satellite Standings August 2026

DXCC Satellite Award/Endorsement Change Summary for
Jul 01, 2026 to Aug 01, 2026.
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YO2CMI                     193      195
HB9RYZ                     175      176
ON4AOI                     167      176
YO2KHK                     168      176
OE6MDF                     169      170
IK1IYU                     153      165
IK4CIE                     157      164
IK0WMJ                     131      159
YO2RR                      150      156
G4BWP                      138      150
DL6JZ                      101      118
CT4NH                      New      116
CT1EEB                     113      115
OH3DP                      110      114
ON4IQ                      107      108
------------------------------------------------------------

Congratulations to the new DXCC satellite holder, CT4NH.

[ANS thanks Jon Goering, N7AZ for the above information.]

Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for August 7, 2026

Two Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps in the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical model of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly updates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. TLE bulletin files are updated daily in the first hour of the UTC day. New bulletin files will be posted immediately after reliable elements become available for new amateur satellites. More information may be found atÂ https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/.

+ The following satellites have been added to this week's AMSAT TLE distribution:

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â CroCube NORAD Cat ID 62394
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â LASARsat NORAD Cat ID 62391
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â MARINA NORAD Cat ID 69920

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â + The following satellite has been removed from this week's AMSAT TLE distribution:

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Cute Â NORAD Cat ID 49263 Â Decayed from orbit on or about 17 July 2026.

General Perturbations Data Support

These data are presently considered in beta test for the next two months while hosted on the test server newark192.amsat.org, and we are very open to community feedback at webmaster [at] amsat.org. Testers may experience outages and errors while we make improvements. We intend to put this into production on our main web server in July as we expect that satellites launched after this summer will require one of the new formats to accommodate longer object numbers. AMSAT will continue to publish TLE bulletins for satellites launched before July 2026 indefinitely.

[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above information.]

ARISS News

Scheduled Contacts

+ Recently Completed

Geneva Christian College, Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia telebridgeÂ via IK1SLD
The ISS callsign was OR4ISS
The scheduled crewmember was Sophie Adenot KJ5LTN
The ARISS mentor was VK4KHZ
Contact was successful: Mon 2026-08-03 10:00:37 UTC 55 deg

Kenya Space Agency (KSA), Nairobi, Kenya, telebridgeÂ via ON4ISS
The ISS callsign was OR4ISS
The scheduled crewmember was Sophie Adenot KJ5LTN
The ARISS mentor was IZ2GOJ
Contact was successful: Wed 2026-08-05 11:38:38 UTC 89 deg

+ Upcoming

Challenger Learning Center National Conference, Framingham, MA, telebridge via VK4ISS
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be Â NA1SS
The scheduled crewmember is Sophie Adenot, KJ5LTN
The ARISS mentor is KA3HDO
Contact is go for: Wed 2026-08-12 16:31:39 UTC 58 deg

Australian Air League (AAL), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, telebridge via IK1SLDÂ
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled crewmember is Jack Hathaway, KJ5NIV
The ARISS mentor is VK4ISS
Contact is go for: Fri 2026-08-14 10:56:13 UTC 76 deg

Many times, a school makes a last-minute decision to do a Livestream or runs into a last-minute glitch requiring a change of the URL, but we at ARISS may not get the URL in time for publication. You can always check https://live.ariss.org/ to see if a school is Livestreaming.

As always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios are turned off as part of the safety protocol.

Ham TV is currently transmitting a test signal at 2395.00 MHz.

Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time.

The latest information on the operating mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html

The latest list of frequencies in use can be found atÂ https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html

[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors for the above information.]

AMSAT Ambassador Activities

AMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through amateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests, conventions, maker fairs, and other events.

AMSAT Ambassador Clint Bradford, K6LCS, says,

âThink a 75-minute presentation on âworking the easy satellitesâ would be appropriate for your club or event? Let me know by emailing me at k6lcsclint@gmail .com or calling me at 909-999-SATS (7287)!â

Clint has NEVER given the exact same show twice: EACH of the 150+ presentations so far has been customized/tailored to their audiences.

Scheduled Events

Northeast HamXposition (HamX) & New England Division ARRL Convention

August 14-16, 2026

Best Western Royal Plaza & Trade Center

181 Boston Post Road W

Marlborough, MA 01752

W1EME, WD4ASW, WB1FJ

https://hamxposition.org

Wyoming HamCon, ARRL Rocky Mountain Division Convention
August 28-30, 2026
Best Western (Downtown)
123 W. E St.
Casper, WY 82601
http://wyohamcon.org/
K0NMR

44th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Membership Meeting
October 8-11, 2026
Wyndham Jacksonville Hotel & Conference Center (rebranded from Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Airport/I-95 in July 2026)
14670 Duval Road
Jacksonville, FL 32218

For more information go to: https://www.amsat.org/ambassador/

[ANS thanks Bo Lowrey, W4FCL, Director â AMSAT Ambassador Program, for the above information.]

Satellite Shorts from All Over

+ The European Space Agency (ESA) is hosting a global livestream for the upcoming total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026, which will cross Greenland, Iceland, Portugal, and Spain.Â Hosted by science communicator Dr. Maggie Aderin alongside ESA experts, the broadcast will air live on ESA Web TV and YouTube from 19:30 to 20:45 CEST, featuring telescope feeds from the Observatorio AstrofÃsico de Javalambre in Teruel, Spain, and live coverage of totality starting at 20:31 CEST.Â Viewers can participate by submitting questions on Bluesky or X using the hashtag #AskESA. ESA also reminds anyone viewing partial phases of the eclipse in person to use certified safety glasses to prevent eye damage.Â Â [ANS thanks the European Space Agency for the above information. Read the full article at https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Total_solar_eclipse_how_to_watch_live_from_home]

+NASA has assigned astronaut Deniz Burnham, AI5RW, to her first mission to the International Space Station, where she will serve as an Expedition 76 flight engineer. She is scheduled to launch in March 2027 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-30 spacecraft alongside cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Konstantin Borisov. The trio will spend approximately seven months aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to support future exploration missions to the Moon and Mars.Â Â [ANS thanks NASA.gov for the above information. Read the full article at https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-assigns-astronaut-deniz-burnham-to-first-space-station-mission/]

+Â Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite early this morning (Aug. 6, 2026) from New Zealand, overcoming a five-week delay following a last-second abort on June 30.Â Liftoff of the Electron rocket, carrying the mission aptly named "The Grain Goddess Provides," occurred at 5:18 a.m. EDT. The vehicle successfully deployed the QPS-SAR-13 (MIKURA-I) spacecraft into an orbit 357 miles (575 kilometers) above Earth.Â Operated by Tokyo-based iQPS, the satellite utilizes high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to capture day-and-night, all-weather imagery. This mission marks the 8th of 15 dedicated launches Rocket Lab is performing to help build iQPS's planned 36-satellite constellation. Overall, it was Rocket Lab's 92nd flight and their 13th of 2026. Â [ANS thanks Space.com for the above information. Read the full article at https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/rocket-lab-launches-japanese-earth-observing-satellite-after-5-week-delay-video-photos]

+ Astronomers have tracked a rare stellar explosion, designated SN 2026gzf, from its initial X-ray shock breakout to its aftermath. First detected in March 2026 by China's Einstein Probe 500 million light-years away, a Carnegie Mellon-led global team used a network of international telescopes to monitor the event in real time.Â Although the explosion closely resembled energetic supernovae typically linked to gamma-ray bursts, follow-up X-ray and radio data revealed no relativistic jets. This unexpected finding suggests the jets were "choked" by the star, proving that massive stars can die through a wider variety of pathways than previously understood. Â [ANS thanks Carnegie Mellon University for the above information. Read the full article at https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2026/august/rare-stellar-explosion-gives-astronomers-a-front-row-seat-to-a-massive-stars-death]

Join AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org/

In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:

Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).
Students enrolled in at least half-time status are eligible for free membership to age 25.
Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.

Contact info [at] amsat.org for additional membership information.

73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!

This week's ANS Editor,

Vidya Gopalakrishnan, K4VGK

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[Keps] orb26219.2l.amsat

2026-08-06T18:02:05Z

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB26219.1 2Line Orbital Elements 26219.AMSAT

QST de W1STR

AMSAT Orbital Elements for Amateur Satellites in TLE Format

From Orbital Analysis Office New England Sci-Tech STEM Education Center Natick MA August 07, 2026 To all radio amateurs

These element sets describe the orbits of various satellites in use by the amateur radio community. For details see: www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-formats/

A daily update of element sets is available at: www.amsat.org/tle/daily-bulletin.txt or without bulletin text: www.amsat.org/tle/dailytle.txt

AO-07 1 07530U 74089B 26218.58654803 -.00000046 00000-0 -28448-6 0 9995 2 07530 101.9914 232.3593 0012491 36.6401 76.2293 12.53698924366830 UO-11 1 14781U 84021B 26218.49238452 .00000861 00000-0 92939-4 0 9993 2 14781 97.8101 183.5204 0008293 28.8957 331.2719 14.90905439264623 LO-19 1 20442U 90005G 26218.55471967 .00000039 00000-0 30716-4 0 9992 2 20442 98.8845 241.7455 0012525 61.4211 298.8232 14.34136212909610 AO-27 1 22825U 93061C 26218.41472839 .00000030 00000-0 28521-4 0 9990 2 22825 98.6848 285.8018 0007529 319.0135 41.0481 14.30953966714186 FO-29 1 24278U 96046B 26218.51114599 -.00000001 00000-0 37369-4 0 9996 2 24278 98.5204 60.4848 0349251 326.0141 31.9060 13.53276409479979 GO-32 1 25397U 98043D 26218.56894478 .00000025 00000-0 31127-4 0 9995 2 25397 99.0106 212.6067 0002366 80.2762 279.8683 14.24437106458506 ISS 1 25544U 98067A 26218.50541180 .00004487 00000-0 88448-4 0 9992 2 25544 51.6323 51.0716 0007293 18.8673 341.2584 15.49364501579552 NO-44 1 26931U 01043C 26218.44770519 .00000038 00000-0 45330-4 0 9995 2 26931 67.0508 114.2756 0005712 268.6635 91.3813 14.31972838297645 SO-50 1 27607U 02058C 26218.59304799 .00000748 00000-0 10568-3 0 9994 2 27607 64.5536 333.0186 0073784 253.2133 106.0869 14.83145941271937 CO-55 1 27844U 03031E 26217.98299386 .00000167 00000-0 91108-4 0 9991 2 27844 98.6755 225.9192 0010470 46.2725 313.9319 14.24363246198760 RS-22 1 27939U 03042A 26218.67137725 .00000366 00000-0 64581-4 0 9999 2 27939 98.3490 44.4638 0012469 106.2671 342.7601 14.73550028222980 CO-65 1 32785U 08021C 26218.75482007 .00003055 00000-0 19270-3 0 9993 2 32785 97.8321 201.2527 0007784 205.6875 154.3967 15.09888667992828 CO-66 1 32791U 08021J 26218.50776776 .00010279 00000-0 31094-3 0 9996 2 32791 97.7548 218.8764 0004821 116.0541 244.1198 15.34399595995008 RS-30 1 32953U 08025A 26218.71919074 .00000047 00000-0 26563-3 0 9990 2 32953 82.5075 324.0110 0019418 198.0922 161.9469 12.43181841825976 SRMSAT 1 37841U 11058D 26218.42905229 .00000342 00000-0 41813-4 0 9990 2 37841 19.9714 115.3605 0011715 37.4615 119.7102 14.11585226764922 ZACUBE-1 1 39417U 13066B 26218.46121844 .00002633 00000-0 20454-3 0 9991 2 39417 97.7988 181.0356 0043348 83.7693 276.8466 15.01475123688275 Delfi-N3xt 1 39428U 13066N 26218.76639937 .00004297 00000-0 37077-3 0 9990 2 39428 97.8296 139.0398 0074796 39.3169 321.3449 14.95651551682189 GOMX-1 1 39430U 13066Q 26218.77644987 .00001003 00000-0 15730-3 0 9999 2 39430 97.6461 56.0485 0126812 275.1188 83.5556 14.69590957677348 LO-74 1 39440U 13066AA 26218.43075241 .00001247 00000-0 11893-3 0 9990 2 39440 97.8927 167.6416 0055910 219.5421 140.1714 14.94090913684498 AO-73 1 39444U 13066AE 26218.16117730 .00004124 00000-0 25315-3 0 9995 2 39444 97.8314 190.6823 0036891 36.3587 324.0137 15.10127543687208 DTUSAT-2 1 40030U 14033W 26217.96161750 .00004505 00000-0 24085-3 0 9997 2 40030 98.0898 218.8774 0009463 71.1834 289.0422 15.15616895660224 LILACSAT-2 1 40908U 15049K 26218.61873116 .00010869 00000-0 17502-3 0 9994 2 40908 97.4614 257.4224 0008416 77.3680 282.8514 15.53106140603577 Lapan A3 1 41603U 16040E 26218.63947313 .00002323 00000-0 74198-4 0 9993 2 41603 97.1525 213.1460 0009882 182.9804 177.1382 15.33402101562542 CAS-2T 1 41847U 16066G 26218.45043102 .00000345 00000-0 58060-4 0 9996 2 41847 98.3796 293.6118 0340869 337.2528 21.3858 14.44799602512054 TechnoSat 1 42829U 17042E 26218.44383807 .00002259 00000-0 16207-3 0 9992 2 42829 97.4346 14.2148 0016116 283.3215 76.6215 15.05220923494260 AO-91 1 43017U 17073E 26218.60262942 .00004311 00000-0 18648-3 0 9992 2 43017 97.4635 84.7905 0149467 153.8629 207.0248 15.13366628473018 S-Net D 1 43186U 18014G 26218.53015831 .00002544 00000-0 13176-3 0 9997 2 43186 97.5299 123.0068 0007523 190.9165 169.1907 15.17102209466392 S-Net B 1 43187U 18014H 26218.54261721 .00002905 00000-0 15008-3 0 9997 2 43187 97.5304 123.0073 0008292 187.1726 172.9390 15.17070890466399 S-Net A 1 43188U 18014J 26218.46280477 .00002546 00000-0 13183-3 0 9991 2 43188 97.5314 123.1465 0008122 187.8596 172.2511 15.17110104466381 S-Net C 1 43189U 18014K 26218.61274256 .00002974 00000-0 15354-3 0 9994 2 43189 97.5331 123.3780 0009716 181.8049 178.3151 15.17061423464957 Ten-Koh 1 43677U 18084G 26218.51962698 .00000732 00000-0 59159-4 0 9998 2 43677 98.0755 53.0083 0008325 318.7756 41.2838 15.03124953423724 PO-101 1 43678U 18084H 26218.58249237 .00001163 00000-0 97152-4 0 9997 2 43678 98.1219 57.0051 0011193 11.3111 348.8361 15.00634602423774 QO-100 1 43700U 18090A 26218.51792012 .00000149 00000-0 00000-0 0 9992 2 43700 0.0076 114.2722 0002584 61.1120 351.9117 1.00273125 28185 MinXSS-2 1 43758U 18099A 26218.16903861 .00024212 00000-0 42573-3 0 9992 2 43758 97.4489 296.0364 0007742 90.8949 269.3189 15.50452147421862 AO-95 1 43770U 18099N 26218.13562440 .00006493 00000-0 24221-3 0 9998 2 43770 97.4346 278.2221 0009249 161.0445 199.1141 15.27720270420842 SNUSat 2 1 43782U 18099AA 26218.62167725 .00004718 00000-0 20591-3 0 9996 2 43782 97.4027 271.2447 0011847 116.3384 243.9070 15.22565010420704 SnugLite 1 43784U 18099AC 26218.57871117 .00006024 00000-0 22175-3 0 9991 2 43784 97.3835 272.3878 0004634 108.0042 252.1703 15.28213862421018 ITASat 1 1 43786U 18099AE 26218.60195596 .00003521 00000-0 16805-3 0 9999 2 43786 97.3995 269.1168 0012862 168.7053 191.4473 15.19638395420560 EAGLET 1 1 43790U 18099AJ 26218.57679806 .00002094 00000-0 12115-3 0 9995 2 43790 97.4197 266.9118 0011578 163.2232 196.9385 15.13285805419953 ESEO 1 43792U 18099AL 26218.60045156 .00000630 00000-0 49234-4 0 9993 2 43792 97.3936 253.8267 0012565 154.5575 205.6272 15.04377464419388 JO-97 1 43803U 18099AX 26218.44015184 .00010043 00000-0 29578-3 0 9993 2 43803 97.4090 281.4930 0007196 95.6445 264.5619 15.35222007421335 Suomi 100 1 43804U 18099AY 26218.14131239 .00007330 00000-0 25817-3 0 9998 2 43804 97.4153 278.3767 0011475 103.9336 256.3182 15.29542106421057 ISAT 1 43879U 18111D 26218.56248183 .00118442 00000-0 72887-3 0 9994 2 43879 97.5821 158.0590 0009419 113.0447 247.1812 15.76804649419072 UWE-4 1 43880U 18111E 26217.74253580 .00023117 00000-0 42492-3 0 9995 2 43880 97.5826 148.5254 0009280 129.7146 230.4924 15.49184586418446 Sparrow 1 43881U 18111F 26218.38454675 .00615570 18012-3 10036-2 0 9998 2 43881 97.6014 164.8326 0011446 150.8180 209.3741 16.03220416419322 Prox-1 1 44339U 19036A 26218.04400439 .00007575 00000-0 70620-3 0 9997 2 44339 23.9937 140.9161 0005928 251.1661 108.8195 14.91715096380923 Taurus 1 1 44530U 19059C 26218.60061654 .00001902 00000-0 30776-3 0 9995 2 44530 98.6467 26.5877 0009320 147.9520 212.2254 14.72581602366060 TO-108 1 44881U 19093C 26218.66253919 .00000084 00000-0 15520-4 0 9996 2 44881 97.7497 289.6580 0012078 283.1542 76.8326 14.86589070358917 RS-44 1 44909U 19096E 26218.58758242 .00000013 00000-0 53220-5 0 9992 2 44909 82.5236 306.2201 0217868 26.8192 334.3978 12.79748764308797 SALSAT 1 46495U 20068K 26218.56538891 .00004433 00000-0 15314-3 0 9999 2 46495 97.8876 224.7266 0011262 121.0750 239.1596 15.30464688323066 CSS (TIANHE-1) 1 48274U 21035A 26218.51587176 .00011813 00000-0 15232-3 0 9995 2 48274 41.4697 16.4750 0001032 270.3877 89.6843 15.58852378301027 TeikyoSat 4 1 49396U 21102B 26218.56371508 .00001376 00000-0 89119-4 0 9990 2 49396 97.3657 246.0886 0013593 116.3342 243.9285 15.09669105260323 Z-Sat 1 49399U 21102E 26218.61080038 .00001977 00000-0 98352-4 0 9990 2 49399 97.3309 252.4068 0018323 73.3321 286.9924 15.18626120261090 KOSEN 1 1 49402U 21102H 26218.59405902 .00004359 00000-0 16426-3 0 9991 2 49402 97.3160 259.7848 0014251 36.4080 323.8125 15.27513611261717 HO-113 1 50466U 21131B 26218.66042471 .00000521 00000-0 17432-3 0 9996 2 50466 98.4977 310.7783 0003163 321.4481 38.6481 14.41400267242380 SNUGLITE 2 1 52899U 22065F 26218.38914072 .00000598 00000-0 12228-3 0 9991 2 52899 98.2267 3.1510 0006639 218.0502 142.0232 14.64430423218344 UmKA 1 (RS40S) 1 57172U 23091G 26218.55050831 .00003037 00000-0 13858-3 0 9994 2 57172 97.5014 277.0617 0011006 307.9424 52.0816 15.21342845171665 CubeBel-2 (EU11S) 1 57175U 23091K 26218.55118888 .00006905 00000-0 23791-3 0 9998 2 57175 97.5014 282.2496 0007746 299.3224 60.7242 15.30322875172008 RS-38S 1 57189U 23091Z 26218.47992751 .00009745 00000-0 26676-3 0 9993 2 57189 97.5055 289.0188 0005673 240.1419 119.9262 15.37536732172418 SONATE-2 1 59112U 24043Q 26218.40785402 .00030801 00000-0 34529-3 0 9998 2 59112 97.5577 12.0483 0005431 24.2348 335.9164 15.62614313135725 GRBBeta 1 60237U 24128C 26218.58840830 .00002495 00000-0 17839-3 0 9991 2 60237 61.9900 39.3903 0033844 145.6965 214.6324 15.06957794113864 Curium One 1 60242U 24128H 26218.60170532 .00004650 00000-0 27005-3 0 9996 2 60242 61.9791 27.1248 0032956 141.8367 218.5072 15.13182215114086 ROBUSTA-3A 1 60243U 24128J 26218.59556486 .00004222 00000-0 25214-3 0 9996 2 60243 61.9869 29.9014 0034790 138.7802 221.5931 15.12300708114043 CatSat 1 60246U 24125J 26218.56116600 .00051081 00000-0 50895-3 0 9991 2 60246 97.2038 71.9463 0016082 359.0117 1.1109 15.65369947115253 HYPERVIEW-1G (RS66S) 1 61772U 24199AP 26218.74790992 .00354991 56115-4 65293-3 0 9995 2 61772 97.2648 101.7221 0006628 148.6435 211.5240 16.01229095142689 AO-123 1 61781U 24199AY 26218.58788417 .00004782 00000-0 13669-3 0 9994 2 61781 97.2932 86.8092 0015154 123.6476 236.6217 15.36358826141667 LASARsat 1 62391U 24247Q 26217.79806333 .00024661 00000-0 44191-3 0 9998 2 62391 44.9745 342.7954 0009785 294.4100 65.5769 15.49513628 91001 CroCube 1 62394U 24247T 26218.56465748 .00026240 00000-0 43076-3 0 9994 2 62394 44.9717 334.8770 0009911 305.7540 54.2430 15.51949976 91165 JINJUSat 1B 1 63210U 25052A 26218.43057675 .00008891 00000-0 26399-3 0 9990 2 63210 97.3930 115.2898 0000913 241.0134 119.1018 15.35025013 77805 NUSHSAT 1 1 63211U 25052B 26218.51727316 .00012138 00000-0 32782-3 0 9998 2 63211 97.3905 116.1296 0000346 232.9457 127.1756 15.37901435 77875 TEVEL2-4 1 63213U 25052D 26218.62279951 .00010220 00000-0 29066-3 0 9990 2 63213 97.3829 115.1412 0000594 6.8402 353.2850 15.36337016 77856 TEVEL2-5 1 63214U 25052E 26218.45397693 .00011014 00000-0 31510-3 0 9995 2 63214 97.3820 114.9041 0000691 10.1385 349.9872 15.36131046 77827 TEVEL2-6 1 63215U 25052F 26218.46746353 .00010698 00000-0 30650-3 0 9999 2 63215 97.3828 114.9025 0000687 22.9371 337.1904 15.36094928 77821 TEVEL2-1 1 63217U 25052H 26218.51496187 .00010098 00000-0 29497-3 0 9995 2 63217 97.3803 114.5121 0001436 10.3246 349.8027 15.35500869 77814 TEVEL2-3 1 63218U 25052J 26218.44241395 .00010324 00000-0 30086-3 0 9995 2 63218 97.3805 114.4686 0001428 22.8102 337.3205 15.35567681 77806 TEVEL2-2 1 63219U 25052K 26218.44975199 .00010514 00000-0 30689-3 0 9992 2 63219 97.3801 114.4503 0001517 9.0599 351.0672 15.35512870 77808 TEVEL2-9 1 63237U 25052AD 26218.62467533 .00008819 00000-0 27549-3 0 9996 2 63237 97.3862 113.8868 0004687 345.3028 14.8077 15.33405296 77754 TEVEL2-7 1 63238U 25052AE 26218.61062058 .00009021 00000-0 28469-3 0 9997 2 63238 97.3865 113.7662 0004838 344.4783 15.6310 15.33070427 77747 TEVEL2-8 1 63239U 25052AF 26217.64026577 .00010981 00000-0 34627-3 0 9996 2 63239 97.3865 112.7721 0004977 349.9084 10.2057 15.33040472 77590 SPIRONE 1 66657U 25274H 26218.76684529 .00001346 00000-0 13237-3 0 9999 2 66657 97.7468 147.3393 0011289 198.7929 161.2876 14.93732882 37771 K-HERO 1 66660U 25274L 26218.35577063 .00001538 00000-0 14892-3 0 9993 2 66660 97.7478 147.1318 0013022 205.6493 154.4083 14.94132795 37729 SNUGLITE-III DURI 1 66661U 25274M 26218.34254372 .00001227 00000-0 11986-3 0 9994 2 66661 97.7473 147.1395 0013670 207.1561 152.8946 14.94150529 37727 SAKHACUBE-CHOLBON 1 67290U 25313AU 26218.14942161 .00006138 00000-0 24318-3 0 9994 2 67290 97.3900 292.5815 0009614 169.9703 190.1729 15.25736298 33598 RS95S (QMR-KWT-2) 1 67291U 25313AV 26217.75804599 .00009436 00000-0 35273-3 0 9999 2 67291 97.3898 292.4865 0009294 169.0510 191.0933 15.27520768 33558 Ten-Koh2 1 68261U 25241B 26218.63410996 .00004171 00000-0 18115-3 0 9996 2 68261 51.6558 79.4336 0005512 304.7357 55.3101 15.24438602 22609 JACK-002 1 68417U 26067B 26218.40139792 .00003390 00000-0 16073-3 0 9996 2 68417 97.4599 176.4010 0004112 96.3845 263.7859 15.19966450 19571 DISCO 2 1 68431U 26067R 26218.43086866 .00004990 00000-0 23632-3 0 9994 2 68431 97.4631 176.4216 0003050 133.9683 226.1804 15.19781180 19578 HADES-SA (SpinnyONE) 1 68446U 26067AG 26217.86266820 .00010089 00000-0 46179-3 0 9993 2 68446 97.4430 175.4798 0003876 255.4969 104.5837 15.20698757 19471 PARUS-6U1 1 68456U 26067AS 26218.42581859 .00003490 00000-0 17495-3 0 9996 2 68456 97.4584 176.0434 0003697 238.5921 121.4952 15.18006095 19557 SAL-E 1 68458U 26067AU 26218.41019024 .00004097 00000-0 20226-3 0 9997 2 68458 97.4507 175.9395 0003634 252.6063 107.4774 15.18437119 19554 FSI-SAT 2 1 68792U 26088A 26218.34980384 .00002474 00000-0 16824-3 0 9995 2 68792 97.5136 6.3801 0012857 298.8346 61.1591 15.07194271 15844 OrigamiSat 2 1 68795U 26088D 26218.35080659 .00006480 00000-0 40433-3 0 9999 2 68795 97.5128 6.6873 0013549 264.9334 95.0349 15.09772608 15867 ARICA 2 1 68796U 26088E 26218.37174731 .00002735 00000-0 17769-3 0 9992 2 68796 97.5119 6.6438 0014149 265.9997 93.9614 15.08782024 15862 WASEDA-SAT-ZERO-II 1 68797U 26088F 26218.35781915 .00003915 00000-0 25010-3 0 9998 2 68797 97.5120 6.6591 0013931 265.3192 94.6446 15.09148357 15861 MANGARO-II-Piscus 1 68798U 26088G 26218.34666750 .00002390 00000-0 15428-3 0 9995 2 68798 97.5134 6.6879 0017341 269.0334 90.8908 15.09103554 15865 MARINA 1 69920U 26156BD 26218.45475072 .00001374 00000-0 14088-3 0 9998 2 69920 97.7497 118.4205 0008882 60.7179 299.4926 14.92035045 4499 IO-86 1 40931U 26199.45381863 .00000000 00000-0 77536-4 0 07 2 40931 6.0006 322.6653 0012733 338.8432 273.6875 14.79294310 03 LILIUM-4
1 71922C 26067AC 26089.50133053 -.00014632 00000+0 -74472-3 0 04 2 71922 97.4497 49.1617 0004341 5.9603 355.7042 15.16896692 16 /EX

[Keps] Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for 07 August 2026

2026-08-06T17:45:58Z

The following satellites have been added to this weeks AMSAT TLE distribution:

CroCube NORAD Cat ID 62394 LASARsat NORAD Cat ID 62391 MARINA NORAD Cat ID 69920

The following satellite has been removed from this weeks AMSAT TLE distribution:

Cute NORAD Cat ID 49263 Decayed from orbit on or about 17 July 2026

Joe Fitzgerald AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager

[ANS] ANS-214 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

2026-08-01T17:23:49Z

AMSAT News Service

ANS-214
August 2, 2026

In this edition:

Expedition 74 Crew Returns to Earth After 241 Days in Space
Voting Continues in 2026 AMSAT Board of Directors Election
MARMOTSat Designated Canada-OSCAR 128 (CO-128)
ARISS Selects 13 U.S. Organizations for Fall 2026âSpring 2027 Contacts
New Tracking Programs Released
HamSCI Meteor Scatter QSO Parties Target the Perseids
IARU Region 1 Conference Papers Address Satellite Spectrum Issues
Recent IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Activity
New Satellite Distance Records Claimed on AO-7, AO-123, and SO-125
Zero Retries Digital Conference 2026 Issues Call for Technical Papers
Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for July 31, 2026
ARISS News
AMSAT Ambassador Activities
Satellite Shorts From All Over

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Expedition 74 Crew Returns to Earth After 241 Days in Space

NASA astronaut Chris Williams, KJ5GEW, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev are safely back on Earth after 241 days in space. The trio landed in their Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft on the Kazakh steppe southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Sunday, July 26, wrapping up their service as members of Expeditions 73 and 74 aboard the International Space Station.

Soyuz MS-28 undocked from the station's Rassvet module shortly after 0700 UTC and descended under parachute to a touchdown at approximately 1026 UTC, about three and a half hours later. Over the course of the mission, the crew orbited the Earth 3,856 times and traveled more than 102 million miles. The spacecraft launched and docked with the station on November 27, 2025 - Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The flight was the first for Williams and Mikaev and the second for Kud-Sverchkov, who has now logged more than 426 days in space.

Before departure, Kud-Sverchkov handed command of the station to NASA astronaut Jessica Meir in a change-of-command ceremony on Saturday, July 25, marking the transition from Expedition 74 to Expedition 75, which formally began at undocking. Seven crew members remain aboard the station.

Amateur radio was part of Williams' final week in orbit. On Friday, July 24, just two days before returning home, he completed an ARISS telebridge contact with students at the Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In keeping with standard safety protocol, the ARISS radios aboard the station were powered down on July 25 in support of the Soyuz undocking, with service scheduled to be restored on July 27.

Following post-landing medical checks, recovery teams transported the crew by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where Williams boarded a NASA aircraft bound for the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

[ANS thanks NASA and Space.com for the above information]

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Anyone who joins or renews their AMSAT membership during the promotional period will receive a download link for the latest edition of Getting Started with Amateur Satellites in their membership confirmation email. JOIN TODAY at https://launch.amsat.org/ (Remember! Students join for FREE!)

Voting Continues in 2026 AMSAT Board of Directors Election

Voting opened on July 15, 2026, and will conclude on September 15, 2026. Election results will be announced no later than September 30, 2026.

Current AMSAT members may review the official candidate statements and cast their ballots on the AMSAT 2026 Board of Directors Election website at https://launch.amsat.org/2026-BoD-Election

[ANS thanks Douglas Tabor, N6UA, AMSAT Secretary, for the above information]

MARMOTSat Designated Canada-OSCAR 128 (CO-128)

On July 7th, 2026, the MARMOTSat satellite was launched on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Developed by the University of Victoria Centre for Aerospace Research, the satellite carries a 2m digipeater and beacon, and a 10m beacon, and DVB-S2 video and ionospheric sounding experiments.

At the request of the University of Victoria Centre for Aerospace Research, AMSAT hereby designates MARMOTSat as Canada-OSCAR 128 (CO-128). We congratulate the University of Victoria Centre for Aerospace Research, thank them for their contribution to the amateur satellite community, and wish them continued success on this and future projects.

CO-128 remains in commissioning following its successful launch. Amateurs interested in assisting with payload commissioning can contact the UVic Propagation Laboratory. Frequency and experiment details are maintained at https://www.propagationlab.ca/satellite/ and https://www.marmotsat.ca. Full experiment schedules are expected later in Q3 2026 once commissioning advances.Â

[ANS thanks Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT President and OSCAR Number Administrator, and the CO-128 team for the above information]

ARISS Selects 13 U.S. Organizations for Fall 2026âSpring 2027 Contacts

ARISS has selected 13 educational organizations across the United States to host scheduled amateur radio contacts with ISS crew members from Fall 2026 through Spring 2027. The selected groups are:

Atrium Health Levine Childrenâs Hospital (Charlotte, NC)
EcoTarium (Worcester, MA)
Challenger Learning Center (Framingham, MA)
Covington High School (Covington, TN)
Robert Crippen Elementary School (Porter, TX)
Paul Duke STEM High School (Norcross, GA)
Lead-Deadwood High School (Lead, SD)
North Augusta High School (North Augusta, SC)
Pinecrest Academy of Northern Nevada (Sparks, NV)
Sarasota Military Academy High School (Sarasota, FL)
Watson B. Duncan Middle School (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)
Woodruff Middle School (Seabrook, NJ)
West Michigan Aviation Academy (Grand Rapids, MI)

Selections were based on proposals that integrate space and communications concepts into the curriculum. Exact contact dates and crew members will be announced closer to the events. Applications remain open through September 30, 2026, for contacts in the first half of 2027. Details are at https://www.ariss.org/.

[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]

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New Tracking Programs Released

Peter Goodhall, MM9SQL, and Carsten Groen, OZ9AAR, have each released tracking software packages this week.

OscarWatch

MM9SQL's OscarWatch Tracker is now officially out of beta with release 1.0.0. This release features comprehensive FlexRadio SmartSDR integration, expanded HF satellite support, smarter dual-radio tuning, and refreshed user interface layouts. The program interfaces with Yaesu GS-232B, SPID, EasyComm, SAEBRTrack or URC rotor controllers and with Peter's Cloudlog logging program.

OscarWatch Tracker now fully supports satellite operations for those using FlexRadio SmartSDR with transverters. The release now includes band & panadapter swapping, independent centering of panadapters, band-specific antenna port mapping adding configurable VHF and UHF antenna routing of RX_A/RX_B and transmit antenna assignments, and mode & CTCSS guard rails for FM passes.

OscarWatch now also includes Icom IC-7300 dual-radio support allowing operators to run AO-07 Mode A with 10m HF downlink tracking on the IC-7300 paired with a separate VHF uplink rig. There is also corrected band coverage fixes for the Icom IC-706 series, including 70cm capability for the IC-706MKIIG. In addition, verified 10m HF downlink capability is now incorporated for the Yaesu FT-817 and FT-818 platforms without software band restrictions.

Smarter dual-radio tuning and rig controls have been added, so that those using an SDR for downlink can now automatically sync a separate uplink radio, mirroring the behavior of single-radio Main/Sub tracking in both Normal and Reverse tracking modes.

Various bug fixes and enhancements for handling of Icom 9700 and Kenwood TS-2000 radios, and cosmetic changes to the on-screen display are also incorporated into this first official release of OscarWatch. The program and complete change log may be downloaded fromÂ https://github.com/magicbug/OscarWatch-Tracker/releases/tag/v1.0.0.

Â OscarWatch Screenshot

SatTrack

OZ9AAR's SatTrack is limited to control of the ICOM IC-9700 and some other ICOM radios like IC-910, IC821H and IC-706. It supports Yaesu GS-232B, PstRotator, or URC rotor controllers, and interfaces with N3FJP's ACLog logging software.

Version 1.0.1.14 now includes support for the new General Perturbations Data in JSON format. There is also an improved internal satellite trajectory/rotor movement planner, for better better utilization of min/max azimuth limits and 180 degree elevation control.

This release also adds a "Simulation" menu that can preview passes and allow the operator to experiment and test the application without moving the antennas. Complete information and program download are available atÂ https://www.moonbounce.dk/hamradio/sattrack.

Both programs are currently free to download with donations to the authors greatly appreciated.

SatTrack Screenshot

[ANS thanks Peter Goodhall, MM9SQL and Carsten Groen, OZ9AAR, for the above information]

HamSCI Meteor Scatter QSO Parties Target the Perseids

The HamSCI citizen-science community is continuing its 2026 series of Meteor Scatter QSO Parties (MSQP), with the Southern Delta Aquariids event running July 29-31 and the marquee Perseids event scheduled for August 12-14. A final 2026 event will coincide with the Geminids meteor shower on December 13-15.

Part special event and part contest, the MSQP aims to generate a large body of contact and reception data to better understand meteor scatter propagation. The effort, originally proposed by HamSCI member McKenzie Denton, KO4GLN, is particularly timely: recent FCC rule changes now permit U.S. amateurs to operate the MSK144 meteor scatter mode on 10 meters, allowing researchers to investigate a key question - which band is better for meteor scatter, 6 meters or 10 meters?

Participation is open to both two-way (transmit and receive) and monitor (receive-only) stations operating from fixed locations. MSK144 is the only mode used, with 50.260 MHz and 28.145 MHz being popular operating frequencies. Stations equipped for both bands are asked to alternate between 6 and 10 meters at 20-minute intervals (xx:00, xx:20, xx:40). Monitor stations should report their decodes via PSKReporter, and all participants are encouraged to submit ADIF logs and WAV recordings of decoded pings after each event to support the research effort. Electronic certificates are planned for participants, and first-time meteor scatter operators are encouraged to self-report their "rookie" status so they can be recognized in the results.

Complete rules and information are available at https://hamsci.org/msqp

[ANS thanks HamSCI and Amateur Radio Newsline for the above information]

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IARU Region 1 Conference Papers Address Satellite Spectrum Issues

Papers for the IARU Region 1 General Conference, being held in Vienna, Austria, September 19-23, 2026, are now available online, and several are of direct interest to the amateur satellite community.

Among the papers in the VHF+ (C5) section is VI26_C5_11, "UHF Spectrum Situation," submitted by the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), which addresses AST SpaceMobile's use of amateur spectrum. In April, the FCC announced that AST SpaceMobile (AST & Science, LLC) will be using the amateur 430 MHz band for 248 satellites in its planned low-Earth-orbit constellation, which aims to provide global cellular broadband communications. Center frequencies are 430.5 MHz, 432.3 MHz, 434.1 MHz, 435.9 MHz, and 439.5 MHz, each with 50 kHz bandwidth.

Another satellite-related paper is VI26_C3_45, the report of the ARSPEX Working Group, a specialised body of IARU Region 1 for Amateur Radio Space EXploration.

The full set of IARU-R1 Conference papers may be found at https://conf.iaru-r1.org/documents/

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]

Recent IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Activity

Every satellite intending to transmit in the amateur-satellite service bands is asked to obtain frequency coordination from the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) before launch. The IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel reviews each application, checks the proposed frequencies against band plans and other coordinated missions, and recommends frequencies intended to minimize mutual interference. The running status of applications - new and updated requests, completed coordinations, and declined requests - is maintained on the AMSAT-UK-hosted status pages at https://iaru.amsat-uk.org/index.php

July proved to be a busy month for new applications. A full review of the panel's status pages at the end of the month shows activity on eight entries, all on the "formally requested" (in process) list: seven applications newly appearing during the month and one update to a pending request. No coordinations were completed during July - the most recent completion on the pages remains VemanaReddySat of India's Vemana Institute of Technology, coordinated June 3 - and no requests were declined, with the declined list unchanged since early February.

Slipper2Sat-2 - Antarikchya Pratisthan Nepal (applied June 16, posted July 2). A 1U CubeSat for disaster assessment whose primary payload is an array of four PNI RM3100 magnetometers intended to detect fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field for earthquake-precursor research, with the measurements downlinked on amateur frequencies for operators, students, and researchers to receive, decode, and upload to a shared community dataset. The satellite also carries near-infrared and RGB cameras for Normalized Difference Water Index analysis of surface water - an onboard AI algorithm filters out cloud-obscured frames, and selected images will be broadcast in roughly 24-hour periods over the amateur downlink - along with an AX.25 digipeater and magnetorquer-based attitude control. The responsible operator is Sajan Duwal, 9N2SJ.
Skylark - Western University Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, London, Ontario (applied July 1). A 3U CubeSat flying under the Canadian Space Agency's CUBICS program, Skylark will collect space-based data on migratory songbirds, waterbirds, and shorebirds by communicating with MOTUS wildlife-tracking transmission units using student-developed amateur radio hardware, extending the MOTUS network while giving students hands-on experience in mission operations and CubeSat design. The spacecraft will carry an AX.25 telemetry beacon receivable by amateurs, and the team plans to collect request messages through a publicly accessible form and transmit them from the satellite at the end of ground station passes as time permits. The responsible operator is Jayshri Sabarinathan, VA3OSR.
UNNE-1B (aka HADES-E2) - AMSAT-EA (applied February 2, updated July 14). The lone update to a pending application this month reflects another launch change: originally manifested on SpaceX's Transporter-17, the 1.5P PocketQube is now planning a ride on Transporter-18 in October 2026, with the launch brokered by UARX. UNNE-1B uses the same hardware and software as the original UNNE-1, which still awaits an RFA launch from the UK, and is intended to replace the FM repeater service of SO-124 and SO-125, both expected to decay, since HADES-SA (SO-127) supports only digital transmissions. The satellite offers an SDR-based V/U FM and FSK repeater, opened by squelch level with no tone required, plus FSK digital modes at 50-1200 bps, telemetry up to 1600 bps, a CW beacon, and a CODEC2 digital voice message. AMSAT-EA has announced operating frequencies of 145.925 MHz up and 436.888 MHz down, matching UNNE-1. An educational payload from Universidad de Nebrija in Madrid will send one clue per week in the telemetry as part of a student-built guessing game for amateurs to solve.

Five more applications were posted on July 27, all submitted within a two-day span:

UTNH-SAJILO-SAT (SanoSat-3) - AMSAT Nepal (applied July 26). The follow-on to SanoSat-1 (Nepal-OSCAR 116) and SanoSat-2, SanoSat-3 keeps the same core mission while swapping the permanent magnet for a magnetorquer-based active detumbling system using the B-dot algorithm. Its primary mission is an amateur digipeater allowing operators to upload short messages for retransmission to all stations in the footprint, joined by a 5-megapixel camera downlinking images as SSDV packets via GFSK, a Morse code identification beacon, and a deployable solar panel demonstration using a custom hinge design. Telemetry and digipeater traffic will be openly available through the SatNOGS network. The responsible operator is Jiten Thapa, 9N1JT.
HADES-L - AMSAT-EA (applied July 26). An experimental 10 x 5 x 5 cm PocketQube averaging just 175 mW of power generation, HADES-L pairs an unusual uplink with a familiar downlink: its communications transponder proposes an uplink at 28.472 MHz USB with 3 kHz bandwidth - the filing notes that a 29 MHz uplink is uncommon in amateur satellite work and is one of the mission's main challenges - or alternatively 145 MHz, with a 436.665 MHz FM downlink and no access tone required. The transponder can carry a single FM voice channel or multiple simultaneous CW, FT4, or FT8 signals, with the first Wednesday of each month reserved for digital-mode experiments, and runs a duty cycle of four minutes on in every twelve. Additional experiments include a CODEC2 digital voice beacon, measurement of 30 MHz noise power in the upper ionosphere to validate the link budget, a radiation-measurement payload, evaluation of an electrically short receiving antenna, and validation of the energy-management scheme that makes it all work on so little power; telemetry runs at 800 bps and an uplink power of about 25 watts is recommended. HADES-L plans to launch with UARX from the United States in October 2026 into a 500 x 600 km, 97-degree orbit alongside UNNE-1B. The responsible operator is Jose Elias Diez, EB1AO.
EagleSat A & B - Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME), India (applied July 26). A pair of 1U CubeSats in the first batch of India's 75 Student Satellites Mission (75SSM), the EagleSats will validate a student-developed CubeSat bus, demonstrate LoRa-based store-and-forward inter-satellite links - on 437.160 MHz between the two spacecraft and on 437.140 MHz with other 75SSM CubeSats - and fly student-designed luminosity sensors and a GNSS receiver feeding the attitude control system. For amateurs, each spacecraft implements a real-time AX.25 digipeater with a 435.170 MHz uplink and 436.547 MHz downlink, plus command-activated Robot36 SSTV demonstrations sent as packetized data over the 9600 bps GFSK downlink, and a beacon on 436.645 MHz invites public reception, with frame format and decoding documentation to be published. Because both satellites share a single ground station at MCEME, only one is commanded into digipeater or SSTV mode at a time. The pair is planning a launch on a Vikram launch vehicle from Sriharikota during September 22-30, 2026, into a 450 km, 60-degree orbit. The responsible operator is Nasser Hussain Dubey, VU3DUB.
HG3PQSAT - Budapest University of Technology and Economics (applied July 27). Set to become the seventh Hungarian amateur and educational satellite built by university students - following Masat-1, SMOG-P, ATL-1, SMOG-1, MRC-100, and NMHH-1 - HG3PQSAT is a 3P PocketQube (5 x 5 x 15 cm) whose entire development team holds amateur licenses. Its payload list is ambitious: attitude control using both electromagnets and switched-reluctance-motor flywheels, a color imaging camera, GMSK digital telemetry beacons at up to 12.5 kbps, and both FSK and LoRa half-duplex repeaters that receive a signal from the ground and retransmit it seconds later on the same frequency, in the style of classic packet radio. The LoRa repeater is designed so amateurs can work it with nothing more than an omnidirectional antenna - no rotator tracking and no Doppler correction - at no more than 100 mW ERP, while the FSK repeater needs only a handheld FM transceiver, a small Yagi, and a laptop sound card running the team's public software. A crossband digital repeater with a 437 MHz uplink and 2400 MHz downlink and an S-band LoRa downlink round out the communications suite, with deployable solar panels keeping it all fed. Deployment through Alba Orbital is planned. The responsible operator is Levente Dudas, HA7WEN.
Solar Flare and Ionosphere Explorer (SoFIE) - Saint Francis University, Pennsylvania (applied July 27). A 3U CubeSat with a citizen-science mission tailor-made for amateurs, SoFIE will investigate how solar flares affect the ionosphere by observing HF radio burst emissions from the Sun while simultaneously collecting ground-based transmissions with a broadband 3-30 MHz receiver. The team is collaborating with the University of Scranton's HamSCI initiative to coordinate transionospheric experiments with amateurs across multiple HF bands, and all HF data collected during the mission will be made freely available to hams through a HamSCI interface. A secondary 9.303 MHz topside-sounding instrument flies under a separate FCC Part 5 experimental license, while the primary links propose a UHF downlink with 9k6 BPSK AX.25 telemetry and a 1 Mbps QPSK S-band downlink. The filing anticipates a NASA launch into a 500 km polar orbit. The responsible operator is Kevin Suresh, KD3DHW.

Developers planning a mission are reminded to request coordination as early in the design process as possible, while frequencies can still be adjusted in response to the panel's recommendations. Application forms and contact information are available at https://www.iaru.org/reference/satellites/, and the coordination status list is at https://iaru.amsat-uk.org/index.php

[ANS thanks the IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel for the above information]

New Satellite Distance Records Claimed on AO-7, AO-123, and SO-125

Three newly claimed marks have been added to the AMSAT Satellite Distance Records, headlined by a new Mode A record on AO-7 set just days before this bulletin went to press - proof that a 51-year-old satellite can still deliver record-book DX.

On Wednesday, July 29, at 20:02 UTC, KE9AJ, operating from EN50fn59 in Illinois, worked DJ8EW in JN58wh92 in Germany through AO-7's Mode A transponder - a 2-meter uplink paired with a 10-meter downlink - at a distance of 7,495 km (4,657 miles). The contact edges the previous Mode A record of 7,454 km, set between VE6WQ and F4DXV on March 23, 2022, by 41 km. Launched on November 15, 1974, AMSAT-OSCAR 7 is the world's oldest active satellite, and its Mode A transponder harks back to the earliest days of the OSCAR program. The new claim gives KE9AJ a share of both AO-7 transponder records - the current Mode B mark of 8,204.592 km was set between F4DXV and KE9AJ on August 10, 2020 - alongside standing records on AO-91, AO-27, and SO-124.

The other two records share a path, and a distance. Operating the Croatian club station 9A1CAL from JN86dm82ud, 9A6WW twice worked A46UNX in Oman, in LL83gg, for contacts spanning 4,419 km (2,746 miles) - first through AO-123 on August 15, 2025, at 18:19 UTC, and again through SO-125 on October 31, 2025, at 20:08 UTC.

The AO-123 contact raises that satellite's record by more than 1,800 km over the previous mark of 2,610 km, set between KK7OVF and WD5GRW in November 2024. ASRTU-OSCAR 123 (ASRTU-1), a joint student project of the Harbin Institute of Technology and Amur State University, was launched on a Soyuz vehicle from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome on November 4, 2024, and carries a V/U FM repeater, a UHF SSDV digital image transmitter, and a 10.5 GHz QPSK image downlink.

The SO-125 contact, meanwhile, is the first documented distance record for that satellite - and one that can no longer be beaten. HADES-ICM, a 1.5P PocketQube from AMSAT-EA measuring just 5 x 5 x 8 cm and weighing 400 grams, was launched on SpaceX's Transporter-13 mission in March 2025 and provided an SDR-based FM voice and FSK digital repeater - 145.875 MHz up, 436.666 MHz down, no tone required, with up to 0.25 watts of downlink power - along with a low-power active graphene radiator experiment from University of Manchester spin-out SmartIR. The satellite re-entered the atmosphere on May 23, 2026, so the Croatia-to-Oman contact, a remarkable haul for a 400-gram QRP satellite, will stand permanently as SO-125's distance record.

The full list of records may be found at https://www.amsat.org/satellite-distance-records/. Operators who complete a contact exceeding a listed mark, or a notable distance on a satellite or transponder not yet documented, are invited to email details to n8hm at arrl.net. Note that only real-time contacts are considered for distance records; QSOs completed across multiple orbits using store-and-forward techniques are not eligible. Distances are calculated using the calculator at k7fry.com/grid for consistency, and separate records may be claimed for each transponder or band combination a satellite supports, such as Mode A and Mode B on AO-7.

[ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, AMSAT Executive Vice President, 9A6WW, and KE9AJ for the above information]

Zero Retries Digital Conference 2026 Issues Call for Technical Papers

Technical papers are being sought for the Proceedings of the second annual Zero Retries Digital Conference (ZRDC) 2026, to be held Friday, October 16, 2026, at the Roundhouse Conference Center in San Ramon, California. The conference coincides with the first day of Pacificon 2026.

Hosted by the Zero Retries newsletter, ZRDC seeks short (typically 5 to 10 pages, with a 12-page limit) but in-depth explanations of a project, experiment, or new technique. A typical paper describes the problem to be solved, how the solution was built and tested, and what was learned, often including diagrams, data, and code. Topic areas include digital satellite communication, software defined radio, digital voice and data systems, mesh and peer-to-peer wireless networking, APRS, LoRa in amateur radio, HF digital modes, AX.25 and other protocols, and more.

Authors do not need to present at the conference to have their papers included in the Proceedings, and authors retain all rights to their work. In addition to the ZRDC archives, papers will be preserved in the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC), a project of the Internet Archive.

The submission deadline is Monday, September 28, 2026, at 23:59 UTC. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via email to zrdcpapers [at] zeroretries.net. Complete details are available at https://www.zeroretries.org/p/conference

[ANS thanks Zero Retries and Amateur Radio Daily for the above information]

Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for July 31, 2026

Two Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps in the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical model of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly updates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. TLE bulletin files are updated daily in the first hour of the UTC day. New bulletin files will be posted immediately after reliable elements become available for new amateur satellites. More information may be found atÂ https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/.

There are no changes to this week's TLE distribution.

General Perturbations Data Support

[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above information]

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ARISS News

Scheduled Contacts

Geneva Christian College, Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia telebridgeÂ via IK1SLD

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled crewmember is Sophie Adenot KJ5LTN
The ARISS mentor is VK4KHZÂ Â

Contact is go for: Mon 2026-08-03 10:00:37 UTC 55 deg

Kenya Space Agency (KSA), Nairobi, Kenya, telebridgeÂ via ON4ISS

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISSÂ
The scheduled crewmember is Sophie Adenot KJ5LTN
The ARISS mentor is IZ2GOJÂ Â

Contact is go for: Wed 2026-08-05 11:38:38 UTC 89 deg

Schedule of radio power downs and power upsÂ

COL=Columbus moduleÂ Â SM=Service Module

Wed 2026-08-05 11:50 UTC - COL radio power down

Wed 2026-08-05 11:55 UTC - SM radio power down

Thu 2026-08-06 - USOS EVA

Fri 2026-08-07 13:45 UTC - COL radio power up

N/A - SM radio power up

As always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios are turned off as part of the safety protocol.

Ham TV is currently transmitting a test signal at 2395.00 MHz.

Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time.

The latest information on the operation mode can be found atÂ https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html

The latest list of frequencies in use can be found atÂ https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html

[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors for the above information]

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AMSAT Ambassador Activities

AMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through amateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests, conventions, maker faires, and other events.

August 14-16, 2026
Northeast HamXposition (HamX) & New England Division ARRL Convention
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Marlborough, MA 01752
W1EME, WD4ASW, WB1FJ
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October 8-11, 2026
44th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Membership Meeting
Crowne Plaza JAX Airport
14670 Duval Road
Jacksonville, FL 32218
Details to follow

[ANS thanks Bo Lowrey, W4FCL, Director â AMSAT Ambassador Program, for the above information]

Satellite Shorts from All Over

+ The annual Colorado 14er Event takes place this weekend, August 1-2, 2026, as amateur radio operators activate summits across Colorado, including the state's famed 14,000-foot peaks. The Summits On The Air (SOTA) activity puts operators in some sought-after mountain grid squares, and satellite operators may find roving activators on the birds during the weekend. Details are available at https://daily.hamweekly.com/2026/06/colorado-14er-event-2026/. (ANS thanks Amateur Radio Daily for the above information)

+ SDRoxide, a new software-defined radio transceiver application featuring a panadapter and dual-VFO operation wrapped in a cyberpunk-styled interface, has been released for macOS, Windows, and Linux. More information is available at https://daily.hamweekly.com/2026/07/sdroxide-sdr-transceiver-panadapter-dual-vfo/. (ANS thanks Amateur Radio Daily for the information)

+ The Russian educational CubeSat UmKA-1 (RS-40S), built by Podolsk School â 29, conducted special transmissions for International Moon Day from July 20â26, 2026. The schedule mixed SSTV (Robot 36 mode on 437.625 MHz FM), audio clips, and text. The event concluded with a short technical broadcast on July 26.Â

+ NASA completed fueling of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as preparations continue for a planned Falcon Heavy launch in late August. Roman will operate from the Sun-Earth L2 point, conducting wide-field infrared surveys supporting research into dark energy, dark matter, exoplanets, and galaxy evolution.Â (ANS thanks NASA for the information)

+ NASA announced that the six-spacecraft SunRISE radio astronomy mission will launch aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy instead of ULA's Vulcan. The mission will study low-frequency solar radio emissions using a distributed space-based interferometer, providing new insights into solar activity and space weather. Â (ANS thanks NASA for the information)

+ Wildfires near Cebreros, Spain, forced precautionary evacuations affecting ESA's deep-space communications station and nearby NASA facilities. Initial reports indicated no major damage to ESA's antenna complex, although inspections were delayed until the area became safe.Â (ANS thanks NASA for the information)

+ Rocket Factory Augsburg continues preparations for the inaugural launch of its RFA ONE launch vehicle from SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland. Amateur satellite enthusiasts continue to monitor the campaign because future RFA missions are expected to carry PocketQube spacecraft serving the amateur satellite community. Launch remains dependent upon completion of static-fire testing and regulatory approvals. (ANS thanks Rocket Factory Augsburg for the information)

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Paul Stoetzer, N8HM
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ALERT: Electron 2 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000 pfu

2026-08-01T10:00:55Z

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3

Serial Number: 3723

Issue Time: 2026 Aug 01 1644 UTC



ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000pfu 
Threshold Reached: 2026 Aug 01 1644 UTC
Station: GOES-19
Comment: Yesterday's max: 1157 pfu

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[Keps] No changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for 31 July 2026

2026-07-30T17:30:59Z

This week there are no additions or deletions to the AMSAT TLE distribution.

ALERT: Electron 2 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000 pfu

2026-07-27T08:01:02Z

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3

Serial Number: 3722

Issue Time: 2026 Jul 27 1453 UTC



CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000pfu
Continuation of Serial Number: 3721
Begin Time: 2026 Jul 26 1534 UTC

Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1063 pfu
Max time: 2026 Jul 27 1445 UTC

ALERT: Electron 2 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000 pfu

2026-07-26T08:40:53Z

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3

Serial Number: 3721

Issue Time: 2026 Jul 26 1535 UTC



ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000pfu 
Threshold Reached: 2026 Jul 26 1534 UTC
Station: GOES-19
Comment: Yesterday's max: 1077 pfu

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[ANS] ANS-228 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

AMSAT News Service

ANS-228August 16, 2026

Call for Presentations: 44th AMSAT Space Symposium

Registration is Now Open!

AMSAT CubeSatSim Featured in QST Magazine

More AMSAT Contests and Awards

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ARISS Receives Challenger-7 Recognition

AMSAT Remove Before Flight Key Tags Now Available Yes, These are the Real Thing!

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Norwegian Amateurs Experiment with Satellite Voice Control

Voting Still in Progress for Board of Directors

Satellite DXpedition To The Bahamas This Week

Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for August 14, 2026

General Perturbations Data Support

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ARISS News

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[Keps] orb26226.2l.amsat

[Keps] Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for 14 August 2026

[ANS] ANS-221 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

AMSAT News Service

ANS-221August 9, 2026

Registration Now Open for 44th AMSAT Space Symposium

Voting Still in Progress for Board of Directors

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Jackie Blumer, KC9LEH, Appointed as ARISS Associate Director

AMSAT-CA Membership is Open

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AMSAT Contests and Awards

Kleibe, PP2KR, Earns AMSAT Rover Award #93

Adrian Mol, N8AJM, Earns GridMaster Award #79

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Astronauts Complete Spacewalk for Solar Array Modifications

SpaceX Rocket Impact: Lunar Orbiter Captures Aftermath

Impact Observations

Scientific Context

VUCC Satellite Standings August 2026

DXCC Satellite Standings August 2026

Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for August 7, 2026

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ARISS News

Scheduled Contacts

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Scheduled Events

Satellite Shorts from All Over

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[Keps] Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for 07 August 2026

[ANS] ANS-214 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

AMSAT News Service

ANS-214August 2, 2026

Expedition 74 Crew Returns to Earth After 241 Days in Space

LIMITED TIME OFFER!!!

Voting Continues in 2026 AMSAT Board of Directors Election

MARMOTSat Designated Canada-OSCAR 128 (CO-128)

ARISS Selects 13 U.S. Organizations for Fall 2026âSpring 2027 Contacts

AMSAT Remove Before Flight Key Tags Now Available Yes, These are the Real Thing!

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New Tracking Programs Released

OscarWatch

SatTrack

HamSCI Meteor Scatter QSO Parties Target the Perseids

IARU Region 1 Conference Papers Address Satellite Spectrum Issues

Recent IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Activity

New Satellite Distance Records Claimed on AO-7, AO-123, and SO-125

Zero Retries Digital Conference 2026 Issues Call for Technical Papers

Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for July 31, 2026

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ARISS News

ANS-228
August 16, 2026

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ANS-221
August 9, 2026

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ANS-214
August 2, 2026

ARISS Selects 13 U.S. Organizations for Fall 2026âSpring 2027 Contacts

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