[amsat-bb] ANS-194 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

2014-07-13 Thread Joseph Spier
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-194 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, 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

Re: [amsat-bb] ao73 sqf file?

2014-07-13 Thread Erich Eichmann
Bob, add the following line to the aux. file AmsatNames.txt and save the change: 39444 13066AE AO-73 The file can be opened and edited from the SatPC32 menu ?, Auxiliary Files. With menu Satellites, Sat Names choose the option Use Amsat Names if Available (default). The program will then

Re: [amsat-bb] Dnepr Upper Stage Apogee

2014-07-13 Thread M5AKA
Thanks Burns, I was completely forgetting the 480 million copper dipoles (Westford Needles) launched into 3500-3800 km orbits. That's a lot of debris. 73 Trevor M5AKA On Sunday, 6 July 2014, 14:03, Burns Fisher bu...@fisher.cc wrote: Trevor, the link that Dan provided defines orbital

[amsat-bb] LO-78 Transponder On

2014-07-13 Thread Paul Stoetzer
LO-78's transponder was reported on during the last pass over North America. I'll be on the next pass at around 1534Z. Hope to hear a few stations! 73, Paul, N8HM ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an

[amsat-bb] LO78 Lituanicasat-1

2014-07-13 Thread PY5LF
Hi Very good signal of LO78 , 17:25 UTC over here , better than ever . 73 PY5LF Luciano Fabricio Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm http://www.qrz.com/db/PY5LF ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA

[amsat-bb] Antares Successfully Launched

2014-07-13 Thread B J
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/july/nasa-cargo-launches-to-space-station-aboard-orbital-sciences-resupply-mission/ http://www.americaspace.com/?p=63987 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/07/13/antares-lifts-off-to-iss/

[amsat-bb] Spacetrack catalog naming of LithunicaSAT-1 (LO-78)

2014-07-13 Thread Kevin M
Hi all, I was checking an online sat tracker to see about upcoming passes and when I went to the bookmark that I saved, it showed the correct sat number (#39569) and displayed the correct track, but it called it Skycube and said it was presently decayed and launched in 1998! I checked a second