22/10/2009
SumbandilaSat Oscar 67
The South African satellite SumbandilaSat has been formally issued with an OSCAR number and is now SO-67
Bill Tynan W3XO issued this statement on behalf of
AMSAT-NA:
I am in receipt of an e-mail sent to the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors by Hans van de Groenendaal, Secretary SA AMSAT.
The e-mail states that the amateur radio payload on SumbandilaSat was developed by SA AMSAT and incorporated by the University of Stellenbosch into the main payload and that the SA AMSAT payload was officially coordinated through IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel with an uplink of 145,880 and downlink of 435,350 MHz.
The e-mail further states that the amateur radio transponder on SumbandilaSat was successfully switched on from the ground by ZS6BPZ during the test phase on Sunday 18 October 2009 and that several QSOs were made through the transponder.
The e-mail also requests that an OSCAR number be allocated to this spacecraft.
Therefore, by the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA President, I hereby designate this latest amateur radio satellite as SumbandilaSat Oscar 67 or SO-67.
On behalf of AMSAT-NA and the world's amateur radio satellite community I congratulate those responsible for building, testing and launching this new satellite.
May it have a long and successful life.
73,
William A. (Bill) Tynan, W3XO
sourse southgate radio club
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Space X and P3E discussions!
Here is "MY" translation of an article from AMSAT-DL web site
http://www.amsat-dl.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=35&It\
emid=97
It was my best way to wished you all a Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2009
with this probably best refreshing news about amateur HEO
satellite in 2008.
SpaceX with AMSAT DL
Written by Peter Gülzow
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
This was the fourth and successful launch of the Falcon-1 rocket on September
29 2008 of the SpaceX program. It is the beginning of a new
era . This first purely privately financed launch using a liquid fuels operated
rocket, which can bring pay loads into a stable earth
orbit.
SpaceX (space exploration Technologies corporation) was created of the
entrepreneur Elon Musk as a privately financed starting up
enterprise for the building of a large extent re-usable two-stage rocket, the
Falcon in June 2002.
On the occasion of the successful launch of the Falcon-1 rocket AMSAT DL
president Peter Gülzow congratulated the SpaceX team and Elon
Musk personally for this huge success. AMSAT DL follow the activities of SpaceX
already for quite some time with large interest, especially
regarding a possible co-operation and launch possibility of the AMSAT P5-A Mars
mission.
On 9 October 2008, a meeting with SpaceX in the central development lab of the
AMSAT DL in Marburg was organized in a relatively short
notice. Jonathan Hofeller of SpaceX was received by AMSAT DL president Peter
Gülzow and Hartmut Pنsler. Professor Dr. Karl Meinzer, project
manager of the P5-A Mars mission were in addition represented, as well as P3-E
project manager Heike Straube. In the process of theses very
detailed discussions it became obvious and again and again clear that the guest
and the hosts of SpaceX and AMSAT share a quite unite and
same philosophy and approach, and it will only lead again and again to success.
Besides it was to be developed it is interesting to see
that Elon Musk has already his own ideas and plans toward Mars and there is here
quite further thing in common in our goals in the present
time. In the further discussion also the technical aspects were discussed
regarding possible launch configurations for AMSAT P3-E and P5-A,
with the appropriate schedules in addition. After an afternoon of very
informative very positive discussions for both sides future further
deepening discussions were agreed upon. Possibly as a result of it also new
perspectives for the AMSAT P3-E and P5-A Mars mission will
arise.
P.S. If AMSAT-NA set aside his Eagle funds towards P3E can we expect to have a
HEO in 2009-2010? It is obvious that our German friends are
in a very advance state of completion for their HEO project. I just hope in a
TRUE amateur radio spirit that all the international AMSAT'S
will regroup and support the AMSAT-DL project. It is no more a question of pride
but a question of survival for the amateur satellite side
of our hobby.
"-"
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE
Skype VE2DWE
www.qsl.net/ve2dwe
WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
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25 Years of Ham Operations in Space
Hello Nader,
I received 2 ISS SSTV images from WB9IVV.
Look: http://iss.ontwikkel.nl
73's Cor PD0RKC
tnx Cor for info
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NAMIBIA SATELLITE OPERATIONS
-----Original Message-----
From: zs-sat-bounces@mailman.qth.net
[mailto:zs-sat-bounces@mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Hal Lund ZS6WB
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:36 AM
To: ZS SAT DIGEST
Subject: [ZS-SAT] NAMIBIA SATELLITE OPERATIONS
We're now down to two weeks before departure on the Namibia VHF DXpedition.
During the past few weeks we've been monitoring the satellites currently
operational and planning our operation so as to make as many satellite
contacts as possible during our stay of approximately 7-16 January 2009.
Satellite operations will be planned for as many passes as possible of AO-7,
FO-29, SO-50, AO-51 and VO-52 with special attention being paid to passes of
AO-7 and FO-29 that provide common windows with South America.
On AO-7 we will normally be operating SSB around a downlink frequency in the
region of 145.950 MHz USB. If there are no SSB caller we will accept calls
and will reply on FM to accommodate operators in South America and Africa
who are not able to make the contact on SSB or CW. In the event of FM
operation please use a FIXED FM uplink frequency of 432.145. At present
plans are only to operate AO-7 Mode B although if time and workload permits
we may also plan to do a limited amount of operation on Mode A.
On FO-29 we will be operating SSB around a nominal downlink frequency of
435.850 MHz USB.
All satellite QSOs will be confirmed and QSLs will be issued for the first
contact on each satellite with each station.
We are looking at the possibility of a special certificate for those
stations contacting us on four or five satellites.
.............................
tnx Hul for info
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Digital simulation of International Space Station
The astronaut Richard Garriott, W5KWQ, used this software from the ISS to help him take pictures of
the earth.
Richard sent some SSTV photos via the screen of the software directly from his Notebook.
The 'Windows on Earth' is an excellent digital simulation that allows exploration of the land from a window on the International Space Station.
You can try it yourself at:
http://winearth.terc.edu/appISSFlight/
sourse
http://www.southgatearc.org/index.htm
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?New Amateur Satellite from KACST
During the last summer I met .Mark Kanawat (N4TPY) from SpaceQuest during a visit to KSA with Dr.Abd Alaziz Alsagir from King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) at shack of Firas HZ1FS at Riyadh city. We had a nice friendly meeting
Dr.Alsagir mentions and discussed the possibility of Adding a FM amateur satellite repeater to
The future planed satellite from KACST
I hope we will have another new Amateur FM Satellite soon from KACST
Here are some photos at the wounderful shack of my friend Firas HZ1FS
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