June 22nd 2014 PST
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-173 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
June 19th 2014 PST
SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB14170.N 2Line Orbital Elements 14170.AMSAT HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX June 19, 2014 BID: ORB14170.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 RADIO ...Continue Reading
June 19th 2014 PST
SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB14170.O Orbital Elements 14170.OSCAR HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR OSCAR SATELLITES FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX June 19, 2014 BID: ORB14170.O TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT Satellite: AO-07 Catalog number: 07530 Epoch time: 14169.81246832 Element set: 993 Inclination: 101.4707 deg RA of node: 151.5904 deg Eccentricity: 0.0011440 Arg of perigee: 292.8982 deg Mean anomaly: 133.5330 deg Mean motion: 12.53605529 rev/day Decay rate: -2.7e-07 rev/day^2 Epoch rev: ...Continue Reading
June 19th 2014 PST
IFT-1 old Cat # 39577 has been dropped. CO-77 (INVADER) is now Cat # 39577. CO-77 ARTSAT1 INVADER has been recovered and the plan is to setup the digitalker. NOTE: The CO-77 team predicts about one more month before re-entry. See http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=443 A new Dnepr launch has put a "cloud" of 37 individual satellites in orbit. The launch was Thursday 6-19-2014 at 19:11:11 UTC. Since the individual satellites cannot be identified for now, we will wait for identifications to be made. See http://ww ...Continue Reading
June 14th 2014 PST
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-166 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
June 12th 2014 PST
SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB14163.N 2Line Orbital Elements 14163.AMSAT HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX June 12, 2014 BID: ORB14163.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 RADIO ...Continue Reading
June 12th 2014 PST
SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB14163.O Orbital Elements 14163.OSCAR HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR OSCAR SATELLITES FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX June 12, 2014 BID: ORB14163.O TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT Satellite: AO-07 Catalog number: 07530 Epoch time: 14162.86886368 Element set: 987 Inclination: 101.4707 deg RA of node: 144.8755 deg Eccentricity: 0.0011530 Arg of perigee: 307.0687 deg Mean anomaly: 116.5711 deg Mean motion: 12.53605308 rev/day Decay rate: -4.4e-07 rev/day^2 Epoch rev: ...Continue Reading
June 12th 2014 PST
LituaniSAT-1 (Cat # 39569) has been redesignated as LO-78. _______________________________________________ Via the Keps mailing list courtesy of AMSAT-NA http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/keps ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2014 PST
Space Weather Message Code: SUMX01 Serial Number: 102 Issue Time: 2014 Jun 11 0919 UTC SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1 Begin Time: 2014 Jun 11 0859 UTC Maximum Time: 2014 Jun 11 0906 UTC End Time: 2014 Jun 11 0910 UTC X-ray Class: X1.0 Optical Class: 2b Location: S14E68 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. Ra ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2014 PST
Space Weather Message Code: ALTXMF Serial Number: 223 Issue Time: 2014 Jun 11 0908 UTC ALERT: X-Ray Flux exceeded M5 Threshold Reached: 2014 Jun 11 0904 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
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