This report is organized into four (4) parts. Part 1 (S1) - operational analog amateur satellites Part 2 (S2) - operational digital amateur satellites Part 3 (S3) - non - operational satellites Part 4 (S4) - deborbited/returned satellites SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-342.S1 WSR 342 Part 1 12/08/2010 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 342.S1 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, December 08, 2010 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-342.S1 HO-68 HOPE-1 (CAS-1)(XW-1) Catalog Number: 36122 Launch Date: December 15, 2009 Status: Operationa ...Continue Reading

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-339 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: * ARISSat Status * UO-11 Report * STRAIGHT KEY NIGHT ON OSCAR 2011 ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB10336.N 2Line Orbital Elements 10336.AMSAT HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX December 2, 2010 Send Subscribe/unsubscribe to KEPS at http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/keps BID: ORB10336.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 ...Continue Reading

Attached is an email from Andrew Glasbrenner (KO4MA) concerning the recent launch from Kodiak in Alaska. I discoverd this too late to put in the KEP distribution this week. The catalog numbers are not correct because Spacetrack had not started tracking them at the time of Andrew's email. You can use the temporary catalog in your program this week. I will sort it out this week for inclusion in the normal KEP distribution. Thanks to Andrew for the "heads up" on this launch. ----- Original Message ----- ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB10336.O Orbital Elements 10336.OSCAR HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR OSCAR SATELLITES FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX December 2, 2010 Send Subscribe/unsubscribe to KEPS at http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/keps BID: ORB10336.O TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT Satellite: AO-07 Catalog number: 07530 Epoch time: 10335.95527358 Element set: 0943 Inclination: 101.3965 deg RA of node: 345.2794 deg Eccentricity: 0.0011746 Arg of perigee: 306.0934 deg Mean anomaly: 053.9048 deg Mean mot ...Continue Reading

This report is organized into four (4) parts. Part 1 (S1) - operational analog amateur satellites Part 2 (S2) - operational digital amateur satellites Part 3 (S3) - non - operational satellites Part 4 (S4) - deborbited/returned satellites SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-334.S1 WSR 334 Part 1 11/30/2010 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 334.S1 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, November 30, 2010 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-334.S1 HO-68 HOPE-1 (CAS-1)(XW-1) Catalog Number: 36122 Launch Date: December 15, 2009 Status: Operationa ...Continue Reading

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-332 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: * FASTRAC Tracking Assistance Requested * Antarctic Satellite Operation ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB10328.N 2Line Orbital Elements 10328.AMSAT HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX November 24, 2010 BID: ORB10328.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 $ORB10328.O Orbital Elements 10328.OSCAR HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR OSCAR SATELLITES FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX November 24, 2010 BID: ORB10328.O TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT Satellite: AO-07 Catalog number: 07530 Epoch time: 10327.89485885 Element set: 0936 Inclination: 101.3972 deg RA of node: 337.5376 deg Eccentricity: 0.0011788 Arg of perigee: 322.1168 deg Mean anomaly: 037.9073 deg Mean motion: 12.53580253 rev/day Decay rate: -2.7e-07 rev/day^2 Epoch rev: ...Continue Reading

This report is organized into four (4) parts. Part 1 (S1) - operational analog amateur satellites Part 2 (S2) - operational digital amateur satellites Part 3 (S3) - non - operational satellites Part 4 (S4) - deborbited/returned satellites SB SAT @ AMSAT W8ISS $WSR-328.S1 WSR 328 Part 1 11/24/2010 AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 328.S1 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, November 24, 2010 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $WSR-328.S1 HO-68 HOPE-1 (CAS-1)(XW-1) Catalog Number: 36122 Launch Date: December 15, 2009 Status: Operationa ...Continue Reading