SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB12264.O Orbital Elements 12264.OSCAR HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR OSCAR SATELLITES FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX September 20, 2012 BID: ORB12264.O TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT Satellite: AO-07 Catalog number: 07530 Epoch time: 12264.59272424 Element set: 485 Inclination: 101.4097 deg RA of node: 258.1445 deg Eccentricity: 0.0012099 Arg of perigee: 094.8200 deg Mean anomaly: 265.4259 deg Mean motion: 12.53591471 rev/day Decay rate: -2.7e-07 rev/day^2 Epoch rev: ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB12264.N 2Line Orbital Elements 12264.AMSAT HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX September 20, 2012 BID: ORB12264.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 ...Continue Reading

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-260 ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS 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. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor@amsat.org In this edition: * Cubesats Deployed From Vandenberg Atlas V Launch * 2012 AMSAT Space Sy ...Continue Reading

This report is organized into three (3) parts. Part 1 (S1) - operational analog amateur satellites Part 2 (S2) - operational digital amateur satellites Part 3 (S3) - non - operational satellites SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-254.S1 WSR 254 Part 1 09/10/2012 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 254.S1 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, September 10, 2012 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-254.S1 PW-Sat Catalog Number: 38083 (?) Launch Date: Febrauary 13, 2012 Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana Status: On Orbit Uplink: 435.020 MHz ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB12257.N 2Line Orbital Elements 12257.AMSAT HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX September 13, 2012 Send SUBSCRIBE KEPS/UNSUBSCRIBE KEPS to majordomo@amsat.org only BID: ORB12257.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-ECCENTRICIT ...Continue Reading

Japan's recently launched PROITERES satellite (Cat# 38756) has been added to this weeks KEPs. _______________________________________________ Via the Keps mailing list courtesy of AMSAT-NA http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/keps ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- The following information is a reminder of your current mailing list subscription: You are subscribed to the following list: [list_name] using the f ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB12257.O Orbital Elements 12257.OSCAR HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR OSCAR SATELLITES FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX September 13, 2012 Send SUBSCRIBE KEPS/UNSUBSCRIBE KEPS to majordomo@amsat.org only BID: ORB12257.O TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT Satellite: AO-07 Catalog number: 07530 Epoch time: 12256.61218065 Element set: 479 Inclination: 101.4099 deg RA of node: 250.4681 deg Eccentricity: 0.0012001 Arg of perigee: 109.6272 deg Mean anomaly: 250.6089 deg Mean motion: 12.5359 ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1956 Issue Time: 2012 Sep 12 1407 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2012 Sep 12 1340 UTC Station: GOES13 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or upda ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1955 Issue Time: 2012 Sep 10 1338 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1954 Begin Time: 2012 Sep 09 1520 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1420 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading

Sorry for the late KEPs this week. My father (90 Years old) is in hospital with pneumonia, but is doing well and will go home next week. I dropped everything to be with him. Japan's PROITERES satellite has been successfully launched from India's ISRO Satish Dhawan Space center on 9-9-12 at 04:23 UTC. I have not seem KEPs for this news satellite, but will keep looking. See http://www.oit.ac.jp/elc/~satellite/index-e.html for details. _______________________________________________ Via the Keps mailing list cour ...Continue Reading