As announced at the recent AMSAT-UK Colloquium, a ‘Certificate of Achievement’ and/or an amateur radio style ‘QSL’ card are now available online.
Only those who have successfully received telemetry from FUNcube-1 AND uploaded it to the Warehouse are able to download these documents. The place to download them is amsatuk.me.uk, and chose the appropriate link.
AMSAT-NA and AMSAT-DL announce a potential Phase-3E launch opportunity.
Virginia Tech has approached the US Government to fly the Phase 3-E space frame into High Earth Orbit (HEO) in order to support scientific payloads as well as serve as an amateur radio satellite. During the AMSAT-DL Annual Meeting on 4 JUL 15, the AMSAT-DL membership approved the concept, agreeing to allow the Phase 3-E space frame that is currently stored in Germany to be shipped to Virginia Tech in the USA for further construction, testing and preparation for eventual launch to HEO should the US Government formally agree to fund such a mission.
Should the project move forward, AMSAT-NA will apply for frequency coordination from the IARU Satellite Advisor and satellite licensing from the FCC as the satellite’s initial operator.
Stay tuned to the AMSAT-DL Journal, the AMSAT-NA Journal, and the AMSAT-NA News Service for further developments and details as they become known.
ARISS SSTV images were transmitted this weekend from the amateur radio station in the ISS Russian Service Module to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Mission.
40 years ago this week, the historic joint Apollo-Soyuz mission was conducted. Apollo-Soyuz (or Soyuz-Apollo in Russia) represented the first joint USA-Soviet mission and set the stage for follow-on Russia-USA space collaboration on the Space Shuttle, Mir Space Station and the International Space Station.
Below images that where received during the night between the 18th and the 19th of July with a FUNcube Dongle Pro+, SDR# and RX-SSTV.
deOrbitSail is successfully launched and first telemetry data is received. I used the WebSDR in Johannesburg South Africa to receive the first signals and in the second pass over South Africa I was able to decode the 1200bps BPSK signals.
Then at 21:10 UTC deOrbitSail was also in range of my own ground station and I could decode over 39 frames.
I used the following setup: SatPC32, FUNcube Dongle Pro+, SDR#, UZ7HO Sound modem and AGW OnlineKiss. (145.975 USB +/- Doppler)
CAMSAT Announcement, CAS-3A to F becomes XW-2A to F
The soon to be launched six CAMSAT satellites CAS-3A to F have now been named as XW-2 (Hope – 2) amateur satellite system, and correspond to the XW-2A to F.
All the satellites have completed environmental testing, currently being burn-in tests, everything is underway. The satellites will be moved to the launch center in mid-August and launch date has been postponed to early September.
Source: Alan Kung, BA1DU (via Amsat-UK)
Delfi-C3 Telemetry Reception
NEW SERVER SETTINGS (July 2015)
On 8 July 2015, the Delfi-C3 telemetry server will be migrated to a new environment. This also means that the RASCAL server settings need to be changed.
The transition will take place during the 8th of July. On this day both servers will not be offline for 4 -8 hours to be able to migrate the databases. The local repository of the RASCAL telemetry client frames should be sufficient to avoid data loss for the downtime. Our advice is to add the new server as primary/secondary server before the 8th and remove the old server after we have notified that the migration is successful.
New IP: 131.180.122.144
Port: 1099
Source: http://www.delfispace.nl/operations/delfi-c3-telemetry-reception