AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-335 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Spa ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB13332.N 2Line Orbital Elements 13332.AMSAT HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX November 28, 2013 BID: ORB13332.N DECODE 2-LINE ELSETS WITH THE FOLLOWING KEY: 1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ 2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM TO ALL R ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB13332.O Orbital Elements 13332.OSCAR HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR OSCAR SATELLITES FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX November 28, 2013 BID: ORB13332.O TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT Satellite: AO-07 Catalog number: 07530 Epoch time: 13332.89938240 Element set: 834 Inclination: 101.4494 deg RA of node: 316.5255 deg Eccentricity: 0.0011807 Arg of perigee: 327.9617 deg Mean anomaly: 064.9184 deg Mean motion: 12.53600424 rev/day Decay rate: -4.9e-07 rev/day^2 Epoch rev: ...Continue Reading

Change of plans ... Last week is thought I would just send a list of KEPs for the all new Dnepr launch satellites in a separate email from the normal KEP distribution. I have decided to put both the DNepr (launched 11-21-2013) and ORS-3 mission (launched 11-19-2013) in the regular KEP distribution. I hope this makes it easier for all concerned. The satellites added this week are as follows: ORS Object A ORS OBJ A Cat #39380 (This is probably STPSAT3) ORS Object B ORS OBJ B Cat #39381 ORS Object C ...Continue Reading

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-328 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Spa ...Continue Reading

At 07:10 UTC on 11-21-2013 Kosmotras launched a Dnepr rockey with 32 satelites on it. All satellites were successfully placed in orbit. Not all of these satellites are of interest to Amateur Satellite enthusiasts. The satellites of interest to Amateur Radio operators are as follows: ICube-1 (Pakistan) FUNcube-1 (AMSAT-UK) CubeBug-2 (Argentina) Delfi-n3Xt (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Triton-1 (Netherlands) Go to http://www.amsat.org/ for more information. Because which object is which satellite wil ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB13325.O Orbital Elements 13325.OSCAR HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR OSCAR SATELLITES FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX November 21, 2013 BID: ORB13325.O TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT Satellite: AO-07 Catalog number: 07530 Epoch time: 13324.20826457 Element set: 828 Inclination: 101.4491 deg RA of node: 308.1397 deg Eccentricity: 0.0011896 Arg of perigee: 345.0267 deg Mean anomaly: 082.1692 deg Mean motion: 12.53599701 rev/day Decay rate: -2.3e-07 rev/day^2 Epoch rev: ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB13325.N 2Line Orbital Elements 13325.AMSAT HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX November 21, 2013 BID: ORB13325.N DECODE 2-LINE ELSETS WITH THE FOLLOWING KEY: 1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ 2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM TO ALL R ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: SUMX01 Serial Number: 95 Issue Time: 2013 Nov 19 1104 UTC SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1 Begin Time: 2013 Nov 19 1014 UTC Maximum Time: 2013 Nov 19 1026 UTC End Time: 2013 Nov 19 1034 UTC X-ray Class: X1.0 Optical Class: sf Location: S14W71 NOAA Scale: R3 - Strong NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Area of impact consists of large portions of the sunlit side of Earth, strongest at the sub-solar point. Rad ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTXMF Serial Number: 204 Issue Time: 2013 Nov 19 1023 UTC ALERT: X-Ray Flux exceeded M5 Threshold Reached: 2013 Nov 19 1022 UTC NOAA Scale: R2 - Moderate NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Area of impact centered on sub-solar point on the sunlit side of Earth. Extent of blackout of HF (high frequency) radio communication dependent upon current X-ray Flux intensity. For real-time information on affected area and ...Continue Reading