SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-002.01 AMSAT follows up with FCC on orbital debris rule AMSAT News Service Bulletin 002.01 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. January 2, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-002.01 Dr. Perry Klein, W3PK, AMSAT Vice President, Government Liason reports that AMSAT has filed a "reply to oppositions" as part of the on-going process in the petition for reconsideration on the FCC's IB docket 02-54, Mitigation of Orbital Debris. Six parties filed comments in response to the Petition, but it should be noted that none of them actually opposed the Petition. Those filing comments represeted both individuals as well as organizations such as California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California (Cal Poly) and Project OSCAR. Even though all those filing comments supported AMSAT's petition for reconsideration, AMSAT made use of this procedural opportunity to address issues raised in those comments as well as reinforce AMSAT's original position. AMSAT believes that the revised 97.207(g) as adopted would cause irreparable harm to those responsible for building and funding the many satellite projects currently in design and construction stages which are intended to carry amateur space stations. The full text of all of AMSAT's filings with the FCC can be found at http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/filings/ Perry also notes that Ray Soifer, W2RS was instrumental in both the research and composition of this filing with the FCC. [ANS thanks Perry, W3PK for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-002.02 UCISAT-1 News AMSAT News Service Bulletin 009.02 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. January 9, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-009.02 Fellow AMSAT members and enthusiasts, I am writing today to notify you of an exciting new cubesat project begun at the University of California, Irvine. Our mission: to launch a nano satellite (dubbed UCISAT-1) with an on-board CMOS camera into LEO by October 2005. This project began almost a year ago with a handful of engineers, but has now grown to a group of 20 dedicated team members and 10 major sponsors, including Boeing and Parker Hannifin. When launched, the satellite will transmit scheduled telemetry and imagery at 500 to 1000 mW back to our ground station on the UCI campus. Best of all, if proper authorization is obtained, the satellite operating frequency will be allocated in the UHF Amateur Radio Band! This will give amateur operators the opportunity to experiment with a smaller satellite and intercept imagery in a familiar band. At this moment, the project is moving into its final stage of planning and development before moving to sub-assembly of the actual satellite. A ground station is already in place, and has been used in several successful QSOs on AO-27 and AO-51 with my call, KF6RTB. Although this is a good first step, there are still many more objectives and challenges ahead, and we need your help! The AMSAT Bulletin Board is a fantastic resource, and many of you have already provided us with valuable information thus far. However, we still require additional information and parts, and have a limited budget to work with. So, if anyone has any useful electronics gear, software, or books lying around and would like to donate to the project, please send a reply! I will post a more specific list in the near future. All donors will be recognized on our website, receive frequent status reports by email, and (if located in the area) are welcome to our technical meetings as well (Did I mention tax break??). If there is enough interest, I can also post monthly progress reports on the bulletin board to keep everyone up to speed. For additional information, please visit our new website at www.ucisat.net . Thank you all for time and interest. See you on the Sats! [ANS thanks Matt Bennett, KF6RTB for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-002.03 2005 satellite launch sked AMSAT News Service Bulletin 002.03 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. January 2, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-002.03 Here is the list of 2005 amateur satellite launch schedule to be found on launch schedule web sites. P3E is listed on September on Space Calender. .When asked about the schedule, Peter DB2OS answered: "We do not have any official confirmation yet and I do not know where this entry came from...." P3E launch schedule is not fixed. But I guess the best case is September. ** 2005 amateur satellite launch schedule ** launch satellite launcher ------------------------------------------------------ Feb VUSat PSLV Mar CubeSats *1 Dnepr 1 May SSETI Express Cosmos 3M May 12 PCSat2 *2 Space Shuttle Discovery STS-114 Aug SuitSat ISS EVA Sep P3E Ariane 5 reference - Space Calender by NASA http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/calendar.html See 2005 September. P3E is listed. - Space-Launcer.com by the Orbital Report News Agency http://www.orbireport.com/Log.html - amsat-bb *1 CubeSats: The follwing 14 CubeSats are launced by same launcher. I don't know how many CubeSats operate on amateur satellite band. I only konw the SEEDS. SEEDS has 437.485MHz CW and FM transmitter. SEEDS transmits CW tlm, digital tlm and FM voice messages. 1. ICEcube 1 Cornell University (U.S.) 2. ION University of Illinois (U.S.) 3. Rincon 1 University of Arizona in Tucson (U.S.) 4. ?? The Aerospace Corporation (U.S.) 5. PolySat 1 Cal Poly Aerospace Engineering (U.S.) 6. SEEDS Nihon University (Japan) 7. Ncube Norsk Romsenter (Norway) 8. HAUSat 1 Hankuk Aviation University (South Korea) 9. Merope Montana State University (U.S.) 10. PolySat 2 Cal Poly Aerospace Engineering (U.S.) 11. KUTESat Kansas University (U.S.) 12. Sacred University of Arizona in Tucson (U.S.) 13. Mea Huaka'I University of Hawaii (U.S.) 14. ICEcube 2 Cornell University (U.S.) *2 Before operation, EVA is needed to fix it on ISS See you soon on new birds. Happy New Year!! [ANS thanks Masa, JN1GKZ for the above information] /EX