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ANS 335 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – November 30, 2013:
* November/December 2013 AMSAT Journal is Ready
* Commands for WREN SSTV Released
* FUNcube – AO73 Data Warehouse
* South Africa ZACube-1 Now Named TshepisoSat
* AMSAT in the Press
* AMSAT SKN ON OSCAR 2014 IN MEMORY OF W2LV
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ANS 328 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – Nov.23, 2013:
* A Historic Week for CubeSat Launches
This week has seen the deployment of 64 cubesats, with 35 of the satellites operating on amateur radio frequencies, now orbiting our Earth.
Barry Baines, WD4ASW, President of AMSAT-NA and all of the editors of the AMSAT News Service wish to congratulate all of the teams that have had satellites deployed. May your birds fly high, sing loud, and live long!
I have tried to capture a majority of the events as they have occurred from the newest (at the top) to the oldest (earlier in the week at the bottom). For further information please check the team’s website or better yet, get on the air and work the birds!
* FUNcube-1 spacecraft now named AO-73
* Amateur Radio Satellites Launched Nov 21 on Dnepr
* NASA ELaNa-4 Cubesats Launched Nov 19 with ORS-3 Minotaur from Wallops, VA
* South Africa ZACube-1 Now Named TshepisoSat
* Assistance requested in receiving UNISAT-5 payloads
* Adding new satellites to SatPC32 and Gpredict
* Triton-1 Update November 23
* Delfi-n3Xt Update November 22
* FUNcube-1 (AO-73) Transponder Activation
* FUNcube-1 Transponder in Autonomous Mode
* Satellite TLE Challenge Begins
* FUNcube-1 (AO-73) Transponder Test Saturday November 23
* $50Sat Eagle2 PocketQube Operational
* BBC TV visit FUNcube station at RSGB National Radio Centre
* FUNcube-1 (AO-73): First Transponder Test
* FUNcube-1 (AO-73): First Fitter Message Uploaded
* FUNcube-1 Loud and Clear in Essex
* FUNcube-1 on BBC News
* Florida SwampSat Team Request Assistance
* FUNcube-1 Deployed
* FUNcube-1 Bletchley Park monitoring station ready for launch
* Minotaur-1 Deploys CubeSats
* Triton-1 Update
* FUNcube Dashboard – New Version v806 Released
* Help Track ISS CubeSats
* Delfi-n3Xt Update
* Help needed with the CAPE II satellite
* Dual-Band Slim Jim Antenna for Satellites
* PhoneSat 2.4
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts from All Over
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ANS 321 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – Nov.16, 2013:
* FUNcube-1 Dashboard Software Released
* FUNcube Dashboard/Data Warehouse Registration
* Hector Martinez, CO6CBF/KF5XYV Earns US Technician License
* FUNCube Handbook is Available
* Election Results from AMSAT-India
* ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano Back Home – Made 231 Random QSO’s
* FUNCube PreLaunch Keps
* Crossband Transponders on AMSAT Argentina November 23 Balloon Flight
* Happy Birthday to AO-7!
* KySat-2 Announces Telemetry Dashboard Software and Tracking Aids
* Symposium Photos for Journal Requested by December 1
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
Andrew Williams, artist in residence at the University of Leicester Space Research Centre, has composed a new work that includes sounds from space. For an installation at a recent exhibition,
Andrew Williams gathered sounds and data from space—including recordings made by satellites and long-wave radios.
The sound for the installation comes from two main sources:
* Electrons hitting the Earth’s upper atmosphere – recorded using Long Wave Radio by Cluster II satellite on the 9th of July 2001. The recording is entitled Chorus. The title comes from the brief, rising-frequency tones caused by the impacts of electrons, which sound like a chorus of birds singing.
* A deep pulsing sound emanating from the Sun, recorded by the European Space Agency Soho spacecraft and caused by bubbles emanating from deep within the star.
The unique project involves projecting the sounds through multiple speakers and also features projections of still images and videos on multiple screens.
Here is a sampling of the work:
More about the project:
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ANS 314 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – Nov.9, 2013:
* Maritime Mobile Satellite Operations
* AMSAT Office Status
* AMSAT at the Fort Wayne, TX Hamfest
* 31st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium International Attendance Correction
* FUNcube Handbook Now Available
* 2014 Space Exploration Educators Conference
