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*AMSAT *News Service *ANS-186*
*July 5, 2026*
In this edition:
- AMSAT President Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, Featured on Ham Radio
Workbench Podcast
- MarmotSat: Student-Built Canadian CubeSat Brings Open-Source Amateur
Experiments to VHF and 10 Meters
- OSCARLOCATOR Web Generator Turns Live Elements Into Printable Tracking
Sheets
- Recent IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Activity
- Amateur Radio Payloads Aboard SpaceX Transporter-17
- AMSAT at Moon Day, Dallas – Saturday, July 18, 2026
- Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for June 5, 2026
- ARISS News
- AMSAT Ambassador Activities
- Satellite Shorts From All Over
The AMSAT® News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and informat
ion
service of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation.
ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including 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.
The news feed on https://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in
Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.
Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at]
amsat.org
You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service
Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see:
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AMSAT President Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, Featured on Ham Radio Workbench
Podcast
AMSAT President Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, is the featured guest on episode
266 of the Ham Radio Workbench podcast, released June 30, 2026, and
available at https://www.hamradioworkbench.com/podcast.
In a wide-ranging discussion, Glasbrenner talks with the Workbench crew
about AMSAT and amateur radio in space, drawing on the operating and
institutional perspective he brings as AMSAT President. The episode's show
notes point listeners toward a number of accessible on-ramps to satellite
work, including the WA5VJB “Cheap Yagis†wooden-boom antenn
a design, Elk
log-periodic antennas for satellite use, and AMSAT itself at
https://www.amsat.org. The hosts also note that Glasbrenner is interested
in hearing from potential payload providers, and that listeners inspired to
get more involved can inquire about becoming an AMSAT Ambassador.
Recent AMSAT presentations have offered a preview of the themes Glasbrenner
tends to cover. In appearances over the past several months he has
described AMSAT as a volunteer, educational organization dating to 1969,
highlighted the continued operation of AO-7 more than five decades after
launch, and outlined the GOLF-TEE mission — a 3U CubeSat carrying a
30 kHz
linear transponder, a 10 GHz high-speed experimental downlink, and improved
three-axis attitude control. Listeners looking for an approachable
introduction to where AMSAT is headed will find the Workbench episode a
good place to start.
Give it a listen at https://www.hamradioworkbench.com/podcast.
*[ANS thanks the Ham Radio Workbench podcast and Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA,
AMSAT President, for the above information]*
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MarmotSat: Student-Built Canadian CubeSat Brings Open-Source Amateur
Experiments to VHF and 10 Meters
A new student-built CubeSat carrying an unusually varied amateur radio
payload is set to reach orbit this month, and its team is actively inviting
amateurs around the world to take part. MarmotSat, a 3U CubeSat designed
and built in-house by students at the University of Victoria (UVic) Centre
for Aerospace Research (CfAR), is manifested on the SpaceX Transporter-17
rideshare mission, targeted to launch from Space Launch Complex 4E at
Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, no earlier than July 7, 2026, into
a sun-synchronous orbit.
MarmotSat, whose name stands for Mission for Atmospheric Radio Measurements
with Open-source Technology Satellite, measures the standard 3U form factor
of 340 by 100 by 100 mm. It is British Columbiaâ€s submission to the
Canadian Space Agencyâ€s CubeSats Initiative in Canada for STEM (CUB
ICS)
program, and it also features major contributions from volunteers on the
UVic Satellite Design (UVSD) engineering team. The mission has two primary
objectives: to train Highly Qualified Personnel by giving undergraduate and
graduate students hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and
operating a spacecraft; and to support the UVic Propagation Laboratoryâ
€s
research into the structure and composition of the ionosphere. Both the
satellite and its ground station in Victoria were designed, assembled,
tested, and operated by students, with the sole exception of the commercial
CubeSpace attitude determination and control system.
The mission builds directly on the experience of ORCASat, UVicâ€s ea
rlier 2U
CubeSat and British Columbiaâ€s first student-built satellite to rea
ch
orbit. ORCASat, which flew under the Canadian CubeSat Project and deorbited
in July 2023, gave more than 25 full-time co-op students and over 150
part-time student volunteers direct spacecraft experience, and it
flight-qualified the UHF telemetry, tracking and command scheme that
MarmotSat reuses.
A rich amateur payload
For amateurs, the interesting part of MarmotSat is its payload, which marks
the debut of the Modular CubeSat Radio (MCR), an open-source, GNU
Radio-compatible software-defined radio platform developed by the team.
Built around a low-power HF SDR derived from the Hermes Lite 2, the MCR for
this mission includes the SDR, an onboard computer, a camera, HF and VHF RF
front ends, and simple wire antennas: a base-loaded half-wave tape-measure
whip for HF and a half-wave tape-measure dipole for VHF.
The amateur payload supports four distinct experiments, and the team
stresses that it is available to all properly licensed operators worldwide.
Because several functions share the same frequencies, the experiments are
mutually exclusive and never run simultaneously. The published frequencies
are a VHF digipeater uplink and downlink on 145.875 MHz; a CW telemetry
beacon on both 145.875 MHz and 29.410 MHz; and a DVB-S2 digital video
beacon and a linear-frequency-modulation sounding downlink, both on 29.410
MHz in the 10-meter amateur satellite allocation. A separate telemetry,
tracking and command subsystem operates on 436.125 MHz; that UHF link is
kept independent of the amateur payload for reliability and is not intended
for general amateur use, though its telemetry may be receivable in the
Pacific Northwest.
The four amateur experiments give operators a range of ways to participate:
The CW telemetry beacon transmits spacecraft health data on HF and VHF at
15 words per minute, sending the callsign VA7UVS in plain text followed by
encoded telemetry. It can be copied by ear or with digital aids such as CW
Skimmer, and requires only a modest 10-meter or VHF antenna and a
CW-capable receiver or a low-cost SDR.
The VHF digipeater is a two-way store-and-forward and real-time
communication experiment intended to work like the well-known IO-117
(GreenCube) digipeater, but on VHF rather than UHF. The team notes it is
designed to be compatible with the hardware and software amateurs already
use for GreenCube operation.
The DVB-S2 digital video experiment lets amateurs receive live imagery from
the onboard camera as a digital television signal on 10 meters, following
the QO-100 wideband operating conventions. It is a deliberately
challenging, noise-sensitive experiment; the team recommends it only for
operators at quiet rural locations and only on passes above about 35
degrees elevation.
The citizen-science experiment transmits a linear-frequency-modulated
waveform, similar to CODAR, on 10 meters. Amateurs can record these
transionospheric soundings and submit them to a central repository,
contributing to the Propagation Labâ€s study of how the ionosphere
â€s
structure may correlate with terrestrial phenomena including earthquakes
and human-caused climate change.
In keeping with the missionâ€s open-source philosophy, the team has
released
supporting designs and tools to the community, including a 10-meter
turnstile antenna suitable for space reception and a GNU Radio flowgraph
for decoding the DVB-S2 video, with recording-format and data-submission
details for the citizen-science experiment to be published around launch.
Getting involved
The MarmotSat team is inviting experienced stations to help commission the
amateur experiments and is offering selected operators early access to the
payload; amateurs interested in taking part are asked to contact the team
through the UVic Propagation Laboratory with a brief description of their
capabilities. Amateur radio information for the mission, including the
frequency table, equipment recommendations, and experiment details, is
maintained on the Propagation Labâ€s satellite page at
https://www.propagationlab.ca/satellite/, and general mission information
is available at https://www.marmotsat.ca.
As always, amateurs planning to receive MarmotSat should watch for orbital
elements and any updates to the experiment schedule after deployment, which
the team expects to publish once commissioning is complete in the third
quarter of 2026.
*[ANS thanks the University of Victoria Centre for Aerospace Research, the
UVic Propagation Laboratory, and the MarmotSat team for the above
information]*
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OSCARLOCATOR Web Generator Turns Live Elements Into Printable Tracking
Sheets
Following last week's introduction of the browser-based OSCARLOCATOR Web
Simulator, a companion tool is now online that closes the loop between the
on-screen simulator and the classic paper tracker. The OSCARLOCATOR Web
Generator, at https://oscarlocator-pdf.n8hm.radio, produces printable
base-map, range-circle, and path-arc sheets — the physical componen
ts of
the traditional OSCARLOCATOR — as vector PDFs generated entirely in
the
browser.
Like the simulator, the generator is the work of AMSAT Executive Vice
President Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, and produces the same vector output as the
OSCARLOCATOR export in his OrbitDeck
<https://github.com/prstoetzer/OrbitDeck> desktop application. Nothing is
uploaded to a server: the tool fetches only current AMSAT GP orbital
elements and, if the operator asks, their location. It runs offline once
loaded.
*The OSCARLOCATOR Web Generator, showing the station, satellite, and
sheet-option controls on the left and a live preview of the base map for
AO-73 on the right, along with the orbital readout and PDF download and
print controls*
To build a set of sheets, the operator sets a station by Maidenhead grid
square, by latitude and longitude, or via browser geolocation, then selects
a satellite from a list populated automatically from AMSAT's GP element
data. The map projection can be a polar azimuthal-equidistant sheet â€
”
chosen automatically for the northern or southern hemisphere, or forced to
North or South — or a QTH-centered azimuthal map. The output can be
produced as a two-sheet set, pairing a base map with the range circle drawn
at the operator's station plus a separate path-arc transparency, and an
option keeps the overlay transparencies free of text so all the how-to-use
instructions live on the base map. An advanced panel allows manual entry of
orbital elements — inclination, mean motion, eccentricity, argument
of
perigee, and RAAN — for cases where the operator wants to plot a sp
ecific
orbit by hand, and provides an optional CORS-proxy override for fetching
the AMSAT bulletin data.
Coastlines are drawn from Natural Earth 110m data. The sheets must be
printed at 100% / actual size so that the base map and the transparency
overlays register correctly when stacked. The result is a genuine, working
paper tracker keyed to current elements — a satisfying bridge betwe
en the
pre-computer era of satellite operating and modern on-demand data.
The OSCARLOCATOR Web Generator is available now at
https://oscarlocator-pdf.n8hm.radio, and serves as a companion to the
OSCARLOCATOR Simulator at https://oscarlocator.n8hm.radio.
*[ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, AMSAT Executive Vice President, for the
above information]*
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*Recent IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Activity*
Every amateur satellite that expects to transmit in the amateur-satellite
service bands is asked to obtain a frequency coordination from the
International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) before launch. The IARU Satellite
Frequency Coordination Panel reviews each request, checks the proposed
frequencies against existing band plans and other coordinated missions, and
— where the mission fits the definition of the amateur-satellite se
rvice
and names a licensed amateur as the responsible operator — recommen
ds
frequencies intended to minimize mutual interference. The running status of
applications is maintained on the AMSAT-UK-hosted status pages at
https://iaru.amsat-uk.org/index.php, and it is worth a periodic look for
operators who like to know what may be arriving on the bands.
Over roughly the past month the panel's public status list has continued to
turn over, with the two most recently updated entries both coming from
long-running university programs in Europe.
The most recent update, dated June 23, 2026, is UPMSat-3, developed by the
Instituto Universitario de Microgravedad “Ignacio Da Riva†(IDR) of the
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). UPMSat-3 continues a program that
reaches back to UPMSat-1 in 1995 and UPMSat-2 in 2020. The new spacecraft
is a roughly 22-kilogram microsatellite — smaller than its predeces
sors but
a substantial step up in capability — whose primary science mission
is
imaging of the cosmic microwave background, alongside a suite of low-cost
in-orbit technology demonstrations for Spanish companies and research
centers and continued work on attitude determination and control
algorithms. UPMSat-3 has been selected to fly on the Isar Aerospace
Spectrum launcher from Andøya, Norway, and the program continues to bu
ild
hands-on engineering experience for students in UPM's Master's Degree in
Space Systems (MUSE).
The panel's prior update, dated June 4, 2026, is FramSat-1.5, a 3U CubeSat
from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the
student organization Orbit NTNU. FramSat is a scaled evolution of Orbit
NTNU's earlier SelfieSat, and the FramSat effort is closely tied to the
ambition of launching “the first satellite from Norwegian soilâ
€ from the
new spaceport at Andøya. FramSat carries a UHF amateur downlink â€
” SatNOGS
lists a 435.141 MHz 9k6 FSK (AX.25/G3RUH) transmitter marked IARU
coordinated — supporting telemetry and an experimental sun-sensor p
ayload
built by students.
Both missions are representative of the bulk of IARU coordination traffic:
student- and university-led educational spacecraft, most in low Earth
orbit, that give the next generation of engineers direct experience with
spacecraft communications while adding new signals for the amateur
community to hunt. Developers planning a mission are reminded that
coordination should be requested as early in the design process as
possible, while frequencies can still be changed in response to the panel's
recommendations.
Application forms and contact information are available at
https://www.iaru.org/reference/satellites/, and the coordination status
list is at https://iaru.amsat-uk.org/index.php.
*[ANS thanks the IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel for the above
information]*
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Amateur Radio Payloads Aboard SpaceX Transporter-17
SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, July 7, 2026, for the launch of its
Transporter-17 dedicated rideshare mission, with a 95-minute window opening
at 07:10 UTC (12:10 a.m. PDT) from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg
Space Force Base, California. A backup opportunity is available on July 8
at the same time. The Falcon 9 will carry a large collection of small
satellites — deployment provider Exolaunch alone has manifested 49
spacecraft on the flight — into a sun-synchronous orbit, and among
them are
several carrying amateur radio payloads. As with all Transporter missions,
deployments will be spaced out over a period of time after launch rather
than occurring all at once, and it may be days or weeks before individual
satellites are commissioned and heard.
As of this writing the full manifest is still being cataloged by the
amateur community, and operators coordinating reception through the Libre
Space Foundation's SatNOGS network are working to add the new spacecraft
and their transmitters to the SatNOGS database. Amateurs are encouraged to
help by submitting satellite and transmitter suggestions. The confirmed
amateur payloads with IARU-coordinated frequencies are summarized below;
more may be identified as the manifest firms up.
MarmotSat
MarmotSat, the 3U CubeSat built by students at the University of Victoria
Centre for Aerospace Research, is the headline amateur payload on the
flight and is the subject of a separate feature in this issue. It carries
the debut of the open-source Modular CubeSat Radio and supports four
amateur experiments: a VHF digipeater and CW telemetry beacon on 145.875
MHz, a CW telemetry beacon and a DVB-S2 digital video beacon on 29.410 MHz,
and a linear-frequency-modulation ionospheric-sounding downlink on 10
meters for amateur citizen scientists. Its IARU-coordinated downlinks are
29.410 MHz, 145.875 MHz, and 436.125 MHz (TT&C). The team hopes MarmotSat
will become Canada's first official OSCAR-designated satellite. See the
full article elsewhere in this bulletin for details and for how to take
part in commissioning.
Maveric
Maveric is a 3U CubeSat from the University of Southern California's Space
Engineering Research Center, with Anthony Planinac, K6FCF, as the
responsible operator. The satellite carries two identical commercially
available multispectral imagers, each of which will photograph an LCD
screen positioned in front of the camera with the Earth and sky as a
backdrop. The mission's goals are a mix of science and technology
development, including magnetic-field measurements and the testing of new
algorithms for real-time onboard processing of optical imagery.
For amateurs, Maveric uses a 9,600 bps UHF downlink employing GMSK
modulation with Golay framing. The IARU has coordinated a downlink on
437.575 MHz. The satellite is bound for an approximately 590 km polar
orbit. Reception reports and telemetry decodes from the amateur community
are, as always, valuable to the mission team during commissioning.
Other payloads of note
Also aboard Transporter-17 is LabSat IoT, a 34-cm CubeSat developed by the
Faculty of Engineering at the University of Palermo in Argentina, together
with COPITEC and FUNDETEC. LabSat IoT is a technology-demonstration
platform for satellite Internet-of-Things and cellular (NTN) connectivity
to remote areas, using in-flight-reconfigurable software-defined radios.
Its experiments operate in IoT and mobile-satellite bands rather than the
amateur-satellite service, so while it is a noteworthy student-built
spacecraft on the same flight, it is not an amateur radio mission and does
not carry an IARU-coordinated amateur payload.
The mission also includes numerous commercial and government smallsats â
€”
among them Firesat-1, -2, and -3, and a wide range of Earth-observation and
technology-demonstration spacecraft from more than twenty countries â€
” that
do not use amateur frequencies.
Operators wishing to receive the amateur payloads should watch for orbital
elements to be published after deployment and match them to each spacecraft
using the beacon signals. Frequency and status details for coordinated
satellites can be confirmed on the IARU coordination status pages at
https://iaru.amsat-uk.org, and reception can be coordinated through the
SatNOGS network. ANS will report on successful deployments and the opening
of the new satellites' amateur payloads as information becomes available.
*[ANS thanks SpaceX, Exolaunch, the IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination
Panel, the University of Victoria, the University of Southern California,
and the Libre Space Foundation for the above information]*
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AMSAT at Moon Day, Dallas – Saturday, July 18, 2026
AMSAT Ambassador Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, writes:
“Hello AMSATters in and around the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
“We are coming up quickly toward the annual STEM event held by the
Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas Love Field called ‘Moon Day.
†This
year it will be Saturday, July 18th. Hours are from 10 AM to 4 PM. Always
held around the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, it is a fun public
event showcasing astronomy, space science and technology, suitable for
young and old alike. Last year it drew almost 1500 visitors. See
https://flightmuseum.com/events/moonday/ for more information.
“I have been representing AMSAT and amateur radio satellites at Moo
n Day
for many years now. We have an exhibit table right next to the Dallas
Amateur Radio Club where we show off the AMSAT CubeSat Simulator, the Fox
CubeSat engineering model, talk about orbits and footprints and this year,
hope to have materials to hand out for kids from the AMSAT youth
initiative, BuzzSat. Of course we feature the ISS as a great example of
amateur radio in space. The CubeSat Simulator gives the ability to have a
‘Get your picture taken by a satellite†photobooth experien
ce. We also try
to offer several voice satellite passes out in the parking lot to show off
amateur radio space communications.
“Besides all the regular exhibits, attendees can attend various sem
inars
and hear talks by astronauts.
“The museum has wonderful exhibits, including the Apollo 7 command module.
This year there is a new exhibit on the Hindenburg which looks very
interesting.â€
*[ANS thanks Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, AMSAT Ambassador, for the above
information]*
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Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for July 3, 2026
Two Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps
in the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical
model of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly
updates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. TLE bulletin
files are updated daily in the first hour of the UTC day. New bulletin
files will be posted immediately after reliable elements become available
for new amateur satellites. More information may be found at
https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/
<https://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/>.
There are no changes to this week's TLE distribution.
General Perturbations Data Support
AMSAT is pleased to announce that modern forms of what are called General
Perturbations data are being disseminated via modern formats including
JSON, XML and KVN at https://newark192.amsat.org/gpdata/current/. The
reason this change is being made is that we are running out of 5-digit
catalog numbers and the TLE format is not viable for satellites launched
after July of this year. See
https://celestrak.org/NORAD/documentation/gp-data-formats.php for details.
These data are presently considered in beta test for the next two months
while hosted on the test server newark192.amsat.org, and we are very open
to community feedback at webmaster at amsat.org. Testers may experience
outages and errors while we make improvements. We intend to put this into
production on our main web server in July as we expect that satellites
launched after this summer will require one of the new formats to
accommodate longer object numbers. AMSAT will continue to publish TLE
bulletins for satellites launched before July 2026 indefinitely.
*[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the
above information]*
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ARISS News
Amateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between
amateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with
astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The
downlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide.
*No contacts currently scheduled*
Many times, a school makes a last-minute decision to do a Livestream or
runs into a last-minute glitch requiring a change of the URL, but we at
ARISS may not get the URL in time for publication. You can always check
https://live.ariss.org/ to see if a school is Livestreaming.
As always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios
are turned off as part of the safety protocol.
The crossband repeater remains configured in the Columbus Module (145.990
MHz up {PL 67} & 437.800 MHz down). If a crewmember decides to pick up the
microphone and turn up the volume, you may hear them on the air—so keep
listening, as you never know when activity might occur.
Kenwood D710GA in the Zvezda Service Module – Call sign RSØISS
. Please note
weâ€re still in the process of troubleshooting and testing this radi
o. APRS
is currently active on 437.825 MHz. Feel free to check out status reports
at https://ariss-usa.org/ARISS_APRS/.
Ham TV is currently transmitting a test signal at 2395.00 MHz.
Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own
orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed
time.
The latest information on the operation mode can be found at
https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html
The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at
https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html
*[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors
for the above information]*
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AMSAT Ambassador Activities
[image: AMSAT Ambassador News Logo]
AMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through
amateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests,
conventions, maker faires, and other events.
*July 18, 2026*
*Moon Day*Frontiers of Flight Museum
6911 Lemmon Avenue
Dallas, TX 75209
https://flightmuseum.com/events/moonday/
N5HYP
*October 8-11, 2026*
*44th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Membership Meeting*
Crowne Plaza JAX Airport
14670 Duval Road
Jacksonville, FL 32218
Details to follow
Interested in becoming an AMSAT Ambassador? AMSAT Ambassadors provide
presentations, demonstrate communicating through amateur satellites, and
host information tables at club meetings, hamfests, conventions, maker
faires, and other events. For more information go to:
https://www.amsat.org/ambassador/ <https://www.amsat.org/ambassador/>
*[ANS thanks Bo Lowrey, W4FCL, Director – AMSAT Ambassador Program,
for the
above information]*
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Satellite Shorts from All Over
+ AMSAT Field Day 2026 ran June 27–28 alongside the ARRL event. Ope
rators
enjoyed access to more than 10 transponders/repeaters. FM voice limited to
one QSO per bird (including ISS); linear birds (AO-7, RS-44, etc.)
supported multiple contacts. The ISS repeater was noted as one of the
busiest “stations†during Field Day. Many operators reporte
d successful
satellite QSOs. Logs due to KK5DO by July 28. See
https://www.amsat.org/field-day/ for submission details (ANS thanks AMSAT
for the information)
+ Fuji-OSCAR 29 (FO-29 / JAS-2) continues to reward operators during its
extended full-sunlight season. Because the Japanese satellite's onboard
batteries failed years ago, its V/U inverting linear transponder operates
only when the solar panels are illuminated. The current full-sunlight
period runs through mid-November 2026, during which continuous transponder
operation on illuminated passes should be possible. The transponder is
SSB/CW only (uplink 145.900–146.000 MHz LSB, downlink 435.800â€
“435.900 MHz
USB). Operators are reminded to keep uplink power to the minimum needed and
to ensure the downlink signal does not exceed the CW beacon level, so the
limited resource can be shared by as many stations as possible worldwide.
(ANS thanks AMSAT and JARL for the above information)
+ PARUS-T2 and RIDU-Sat 1 launched June 23 at 2125 UTC; both appear dead or
non-functional per latest reports. PARUS-T2 carried APRS on 145.825 MHz.
Other active/testing birds include HADES-SA (SO-127) with SSDV/CODEC2/FSK,
Lilium-4 (APRS + V/U repeater), and RS83S (Lobachevsky) sending images on
436.320 MHz with experimental X-band. Upcoming: UNNE-1B (HADES-E2) targeted
for October 2026 with FM voice, FSK, APRS, and CODEC2 capabilities. (ANS
thanks AMSAT Upcoming Satellites
<https://www.amsat.org/upcoming-satellites/> for the information)
+ NASA astronauts Chris Williams (EV1, red stripes) and Jessica Meir (EV2)
conducted a ~6.5–7 hour spacewalk on June 30 starting ~8:35 a.m. ED
T / 1235
UTC. They successfully replaced a malfunctioning wrist joint on the
Canadarm2 robotic arm (the joint had shown elevated motor current on May
27). This was Williams†second and Meirâ€s fifth spacewalk. Live coverage
was widely available on NASA+, YouTube, and other platforms. Preview
conference held June 25. ARISS systems were powered down around the EVA and
restored July 1. (ANS thanks NASA and ARISS for the information)
+ SpaceX conducted several Falcon 9 Starlink missions in the past week,
including a West Coast launch on June 24 and additional missions on/around
June 28. More launches are scheduled for early July. These continue rapid
expansion of the Starlink broadband constellation. (ANS thanks SpaceX for
the information).
+ A June 24 report highlighted that NASAâ€s aging infrastructure at Kennedy
Space Center and other facilities will require more than $1 billion in
upgrades to safely support the cadence of Artemis lunar missions. The
watchdog emphasized risks to launch schedules and safety if investments are
not made. (ANS thanks Space.com
<https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasas-aging-infrastructure
-cant-handle-artemis-launches-without-usd1-billion-in-upgrades-watchdog-war
ns>
for the information)
+ Astronomers released one of the largest and most detailed images of the
Milky Way yet, containing over 60 million stars and revealing dozens of
exoplanet systems. The image provides unprecedented data for studying
galactic structure and stellar populations. (ANS thanks Space.com
<https://www.space.com/astronomy/galaxies/this-is-the-largest-and-most-deta
iled-image-of-our-milky-way-with-over-60-million-stars-and-50-exoplanet-sys
tems>
for the information)
+ NASA and partners updated the 2026 ISS manifest: Soyuz MS-29 launches
July 14 carrying NASA astronaut Anil Menon and two Roscosmos cosmonauts.
SpaceX Crew-13 moves to mid-September. CRS-35 (SpaceX) and NG CRS-25
targeted for fall/winter with significant cargo including Roll Out Solar
Arrays. (ANS thanks NASA for the information)
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