From: kd2bd@ka2qhd.DE.COM (John Magliacane)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: * SpaceNews 11-Jan-93 *
Date: 9 Jan 93 00:37:03 GMT
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SB NEWS @ AMSAT $SPC0111
* SpaceNews 11-Jan-93 *

Bulletin ID: $SPC0111


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                        MONDAY JANUARY 11, 1993


SpaceNews originates at KD2BD in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA.  It
is published every week and is made available for unlimited distribution.


* NEWS FROM SPACE *
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Our friends on Space Station Mir send the following greetings to everyone:


                         HELLO FROM MIR-STATION !!!

          WE WILL WORKING ON THE ORBIT UNTIL 1 FEBRUARY NEXT YEAR /1993/
                   AND WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO MEET YOU AGAIN !

                           73 ANATOLY & SERGEY

            *
          *****        Happy NEW YEAR 1993 !!!
         *******
       ***********        With best wishes
            I         Crew #12 of Space Station MIR:
        flight commander - Anatoly Solovyev [U6MIR];
        flight engineer  - Sergey  Avdeyev  [RV3DW on the Earth].


    73  PMS  U6MIR-1  Anatoly & Sergey

[Downloaded from Mir by N6JLH and N8DEU]


* KO-23 OPERATIONS REPORT *
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Report dated 06-Jan-93:

1.General
Last week, the DSPE was ON to test its voice broadcast scheduler.
After the test,  the OBC186 had to reload its S/W because it didn't have
enough memory for other tasks.  During the loading procedure, the loader
S/W loses some memory space possibly due to Single Event Upsets.

The KO-23 control station apologizes for postponing uplink until today.
As its initial check out phase was ending, the controllers will
open the uplink to all amateurs in the world on 15-Jan-93.  This
decision was made to share its responsibility as AMSAT in this week's
groundstation meeting held on 4th of January.

Although the on-board S/W is unstable sometimes, we hope KO-23 could
relieve some of the load of other PACSATs.  On 15-Jan-93, KO-23 will
broadcast its opening message on its downlink using its DSPE payload.

2. EIS
The EIS will start taking pictures again this week, as users explore
the capability of the high resolution Earth imaging camera.

3. DSPE
The voice broadcast scheduler was tested during the last few weeks and it
was successful.  PCM voice data sampled at 8KHz is processed (filtering
and compression) on a PC and coded using the DSPE data format.
This voice file is then transmitted to DSPE on KO-23, then the OBC186
transmits the voice file to the DSPE at the scheduled time.  The DSPE
decompresses its data and sends it to downlink transmitter.

4. CRE
The CRE continues collecting data.

[Info via G7LAZ at HL0ENJ]


* FO-20 STATUS *
================
The latest Mode JA analog transponder schedule from Kazu Sakamoto,
JJ1WTK, at FO-20 mission control is as follows:

09-Jan-93 00:10 UTC -to- 10-Jan-93 00:30 UTC
13-Jan-93 00:35 UTC -to- 14-Jan-93 00:55 UTC
19-Jan-93 23:10 UTC -to- 20-Jan-93 23:45 UTC
26-Jan-93 23:30 UTC -to- 26-Jan-93 23:50 UTC

Mode JD operation will occur continuously Tuesday through Thursday.


* OSCAR SKN *
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Many thanks to all who participated in the 21st annual Straight Key Night
on OSCAR, 1 January 1993.  Please send your nominations for "Best Fist"
worked to W2RS @ WA2SNA.NJ.USA.NA (or, from the UK, to W2RS @ GB7HSN) or
by mail to W2RS at the Callbook address.  Best wishes to all for 1993.

73, Ray W2RS


* STS-54 NEWS *
===============
Here is a set of preliminary launch elements for STS-54 that were
posted to USENET by Mike Hartmann.

STS 54
1 00054E          93013.62838574  .00070000  00000-0  25599-3 0    12
2 00054  28.4620 152.5278 0004400 267.5660  92.4949 15.90925404    21

STS-54 is scheduled for launch at 1352 UTC on Jan. 13, 1993.
These estimated TLEs are consistent with an on-time launch on the
13th and a normal trajectory through the TDRS-F deployment at an
approx. MET of 00/06:14 over the North Pacific on Rev 5.  The
IUS-13 first stage burn would take place at the ascending node of
Rev 6 at approx. MET 00/07:14.  The second stage IUS burn would
take place at the succeeding apogee at approx. MET 00/13:00.

[Info via Gary Morris, KK6YB]


* SAREX IN 1993 *
=================
There will be a total of three Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX)
missions flying in 1993.  Shuttle missions STS-55 (February), STS-56
(March), and STS-57 (April) will all carry Amateur Radio equipment.  A list
of SAREX frequencies for these missions will appear in next week's issue
of SpaceNews.  Stay tuned!

[Info via KD4DLA]


* TNX DE KD2BD *
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N1MDZ  KD4TXZ  N7VCZ  DU9EW  KD9UL  Bob Stetson


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