AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-150

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In this edition: * AMSAT Announces 2010 Space Symposium Will Be Near Chicago * ARISSat-1 Latest Status * Thirteen Original Colonies Satellite Operators Wanted * Museum Ships Weekend Special Event Station KK5W June 5, 2010 * Satellite Shorts From All Over * Launch of Mars500 mission * 2010 AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space Symposium - First Call for papers * ARISS Status - 24 May 2010

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-150 01 AMSAT Announces 2010 Space Symposium Will Be Near Chicago

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 150 01

From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD May 30, 2010 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-150 01

MSAT Announces 2010 Space Symposium Will Be Near Chicago

AMSAT announces the 2010 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting will be held on Friday, October 8 through Sunday, October 10 This year we have selected the Chicago/Elk Grove Holiday Inn which is near O'Hare Airport for the event This is the same hotel that recently has hosted the Central States VHF Conference, Digital Communications Conference and NIDXCC events

All Amateur Radio Operators interested in space communications are invited to participate in the Symposium offerings including:

• Space Symposium with Amateur Satellite Presentations

• Operating Techniques, News, & Plans from the Amateur Satellite World

• Board of Directors Meeting open to AMSAT members

• Meet Board Members and Officers

• Annual General Membership Meeting

• Annual Banquet-Keynote Speaker and Door Prizes

• President's Club Reception

• Area Coordinator's Breakfast

The Chicago/Elk Grove Holiday Inn is located at 1000 Busse Road, Elk Grove, IL (near O'Hare Airport with free hourly shuttles) The room rate and reservation information will be announced shortly

Watch http://www amsat org/amsat-new/symposium/2010/index php for more news as it becomes available

[ANS thanks AMSAT's 2010 Symposium Committee for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-150 02 ARISSat-1 Latest Status

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 150 02 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD May 30, 2010 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-150 02

ARISSat-1 prototype and flight units underwent Thermal/Vacuum testing in Orlando during the last week Prototype ground station software for telemetry collection was tested from a remote site Additional flight unit Thermal/Vacuum testing, Vibration testing and a Phase 3 Safety Review are the next major milestones before shipment to Russia in early July

[ANS Thanks Gould, WA4SXM, for this latest information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-150 03 Thirteen Original Colonies Satellite Operators Wanted

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 150 03 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD May 30, 2010 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-150 03

Thirteen Original Colonies Satellite Operators Wanted

Dave, KB1PVH is heading up organizing a team of satellite operators from each of the original colonies for the 13 Colonies special event on July 4

Dave is looking for is one operator from each of the 13 original col- onies, NY-NJ-RI-GA-PA-NH-SC-VA-CT-DE-MD-NC, I will be MA There is no pressure to work all passes, just do what you can and have fun

Anyone interested in participating is invited to contact Dave via e-mail at kb1pvh@gmail com Additional information on the Special Event can be found at: http://www 13Colonies info/

[ANS thanks Dave, KB1PVH for above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-150 04 Museum Ships Weekend Special Event Station KK5W June 5, 2010

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 150 04 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD May 30, 2010 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-150 04

Museum Ships Weekend Special Event Station KK5W June 5, 2010

The Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club (BVARC) will be participating in the Museum Ships Weekend event on June 5-6, 2010 from Pelican Island (IOTA NA-143) near Galveston, Texas BVARC plans a full 2-day operation and will very likely be the only group in Museum Ships Weekend working OSCAR satellites

It is expected that amateur radio operators will activate amateur radio stations on over 70 ships worldwide during the event The BVARC opera- tion from Seawolf Park will activate both the submarine USS Cavalla and the destroyer escort USS Stewart

The planned operation on OSCAR satellites will take place on Saturday, June 5, 2010 on the 1550 UTC and 1731 UTC passes of SO-50, and on the 1931 UTC pass of AO-27 The call sign will be the BVARC club station KK5W QSL with SASE to KK5W, Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club, PO BOX 2997, Sugar Land, TX 77487-2997

The Museum Ships Team has more information on their website: http://www nj2bb org/museum/index html

Details of the Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club operation are posted at: http://www bvarc org/index php?page=ms

[ANS thanks Allen Mattis, N5AFV for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-150 05 Satellite Shorts From All Over

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 150 05 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD May 30, 2010 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-150 05

Satellite Shorts From All Over

• Toyoshige Kamei JA3SGR has requested reception reports from southern hemisphere stations of the 437 305 MHz beacon on the Amateur Radio satellite Negai launched May 21 Negai was built by students at the Soka University in Tokyo and is in a low inclination 30 degree orbit Reports should be sent to the Soka University kuroki Laboratory via e-mail: kurokilab sokags@gmail com

  Beacon Frequency 437 305 MHz Beacon is CW or FM (AFSK-FM AX25 Protocol) TX power 0 1W CW and 0 4W on FM Packet

  Negai website In Google English including 2 Line Orbital Elements http://tinyurl com/Negai

• Bobby Lacey, KF4GTA was selected to be a part of the NASA STS-132 Tweetup on May 14 He has posted his video of the Atlantis final scheduled launch to the ISS at: http://bit ly/cPnA6o

• A YouTube video shows the mechanism for deploying four solar panels on a 2U CubeSat by using an electric motor: http://tinyurl com/3xzs7oo (via SouthGate ARC)

• Watch Keith Pugh W5IU, and Alan Biddle WA4SCA demonstrate satellite operation on HO-68 at the Dayton Hamvention The YouTube videos can be viewed on the SouthGate site at: http://tinyurl com/39zhje8

• Check out the amazing photo from ESA's Herschel Multi-tiered Extra- galactic Survey (HerMES) Key Project, which studies the evolution of galaxies in the distant, ancient Universe Each of the dots on this photo is a galaxy: http://tinyurl com/2vf92b2 (UniverseToday com)

• John, N4QQ is in PJ2 (Curacao) for an HF contest this weekend, and has his Arrow, and the AMSAT DXpedition loaner D7 with him He plans on being active on the FM satellites Thursday, Friday, and the follow- ing Monday and Tuesday No activity is expected over the weekend John is an experienced satellite operator, but new to the FM satel- lites, so please give him a little room to put a somewhat rare DXCC entity on the air Members of other DXpeditions interested in adding satellite operations to their events should contact Drew via e-mail at ko4ma@amsat org for information on AMSAT's loaner gear

[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-150 06 Launch of Mars500 mission

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 150 06 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD May 30, 2010 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-150 06

On June 3rd, 2010, the Launch of Mars500 mission will begin in Moscow

The first full-duration simulation of a human mission to Mars is about to begin

After closing the hatch, the crew of six will remain in their ‘spacecraft’ for 520 days

The 520-day simulated mission to Mars will start on 3 June, when the isolation facility is sealed and the international crew start their record-breaking experiment

The crew will basically live and work like astronauts on the International Space Station, with maintenance work, scientific experiments and daily exercise They will follow a seven-day week, with two days off, except when special and emergency situations are simulated

Ed Note: Now here is an example of plenty of free time for the Astronauts A 2 4ghz Txmitter and a 1 2ghz RXcvr would go great to occupy their time Maybe Even a spacewalk to put up 2 umbrella type antennas to communicate back to Earth (They could use some short whips or small beams on 2 and 435 for the Earth Bound simulation even talking through AO-51)

There are six crewmembers plus a Russian backup: ESA-selected Diego Urbina (Italian/Colombian, age 27) and Romain Charles (French, 31); Sukhrob Kamolov (32), Alexey Sitev (38), Alexandr Smoleevskiy (33) and Mikhail Sinelnikov (37) from Russia; and Wang Yue (26) from China

Housed in Russia’s Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow, the 550 m³ sealed space mockup includes an interplanetary spaceship, a Mars lander and a martian landscape

[ANS thanks Southgate for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-150 07 2010 AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space Symposium - First Call for papers

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 150 07

From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD May 30, 2010 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-150 07

2010 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting - First Call for papers

This is the first call for papers for the 2010 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting to be held October 8 - 10 at the Chicago/Elk Grove Holiday Inn which is near O'Hare Airport

The Symposium Committee invites proposals for:

• Papers for publication in the Proceedings

• Symposium Presentations

• Poster Presentations

• Equipment and Operating Demonstrations

These can be on any topic of interest to the amateur satellite community We request a tentative title of your presentation as soon as possible, with final copy submitted by September 1, 2010 for inclusion in the printed proceedings

Abstracts and papers should be sent to JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM at k9jkm@comcast net

[ANS thanks AMSAT's 2010 Symposium Committee for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-150 08 ARISS Status - 24 May 2010

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 150 08 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD May 24, 2010 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-150 08

1. School Contacts

The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) in Bayswater, Victoria, Australia was scheduled for an Amateur Radio contact with the International Space Station (ARISS) on Saturday, May 29 at 10:43 UTC via ON4ISS in Belgium The WIA will held a special dinner to celebrate its centenary and has invited students from local schools in Canberra to make an ARISS school contact on that evening It is anticipated that this dinner will be a high key event with Australia wide coverage

Istituto Comprensivo Camaiore - Scuola Secondaria 1° Grado “M Rosi,” Camaiore, Italy has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Saturday, June 5 at 10:21 UTC Students participating in the contact have learned about space science, principles of radio communications and the benefits of space exploration and have prepared to use English in a real life situation

1. ARISS Contact for Pita Kallak School

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact was held

between Pita Kallak School in Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada and on-orbit astronaut Timothy Creamer, KC5WKI on Thursday, May 20 Telebridge station ON4ISS in Belgium provided the connection Some technical difficulties were encountered, but nine questions were answered during the session In preparation for the contact, students learned about the ISS and amateur radio through video,

the internet and guest speakers and created science related projects in the classroom

1. ARISSat Presentation Available for Viewing

Gould Smith, WA4SXM gave a presentation on ARISSat-1 at the Dayton Hamvention, held over the May 14-16 weekend His presentation has been posted to YouTube See: http://www youtube com/watch?v=VEDfSCw6VcU

1. ARRL QST Covers ARISS

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) June QST carried an article by Steve Ford, WB8IMY titled, "Ground Control to Major Tom " The story was about ARISS and making general contacts with the ISS crew members It started off with how ARISS is mainly to enhance youth STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education, but that all amateur radio operators can have an ARISS contact It talked about the types of contacts and included a picture of astronaut Mike Fincke Then it talked about Richard Garriott and his SSTV (Slow Scan Television) The ARRL monthly journal has a circulation of 150,000

1. Astronaut Training Status

Astronaut Don Pettit, KD5MDT had a productive ham radio training session review on May 19 He expects to be active with the amateur radio system while on the ISS and is currently assigned to Expedition 30

1. ARISS Presented at Scout-O-Rama

“Scout-O-Rama” was held over the May 15 weekend in Wheaton, Illinois
ARISS Mentor John Spasojevich set up an exhibit about amateur radio and ARISS at this event

[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]

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In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office

73, This week's ANS Editor, Dee Interdonato, NB2F nb2f at amsat dot org

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