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*AMSAT *News Service *ANS-214*
*August 23, 2026*
In this edition:
- Menon, Adenot Complete Spacewalk to Remove Failed Station Antenna
- Dr. Carlos Miranda Appointed ARISS-USA Director of Education
- Student-Built JAMX01 and BY70-4 Set for August 25 Launch
- Recent IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Activity
- Petition Seeks Amateur Transponder Aboard Bangladesh Satellite-2
- Huntsville Hamfest Hosts ARRL National Convention This Weekend
- Radio Amateurs Support Earthquake Communications in Indonesia and
Colombia
- AMSAT-UK Announces Colloquium and Gala Dinner Details
- OrbitDeck for iOS Enters Public Beta; Testers Sought
- Juan José Ruiz, HK4X, Earns AMSAT Rover Award #95
- Voting Still in Progress for Board of Directors
- Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for August 21, 2026
- ARISS News
- AMSAT Ambassador Activities
- Satellite Shorts From All Over
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Menon, Adenot Complete Spacewalk to Remove Failed Station Antenna
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, KJ5LTN, ventured
outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, August 18, for U.S.
Spacewalk 97, spending 6 hours and 23 minutes working to remove a failed
Space-to-Ground antenna from the station's Z1 truss segment. The excursion
also carried a historic note: Adenot became the first French woman to
conduct a spacewalk.
The pair switched their suits to battery power at 8:29 a.m. EDT (1229 UTC)
to begin the spacewalk. The Space-to-Ground antenna, a critical link used
to transmit high-rate data between the station and Mission Control in
Houston via NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, had been unable to
track the relay satellites since November. Menon and Adenot completed the
removal of the failed unit and performed a long-duration tie-down of the
antenna on the station's truss structure. Disconnecting electrical cables
and loosening bolts took longer than expected, however, delaying
installation of the replacement antenna, which is now expected to be
completed on a future spacewalk. Near the end of the excursion, the crew
performed cleanup tasks along with an inspection and swap of a portable
foot restraint near the Quest airlock before re-entering the station at
2:52 p.m. EDT (1852 UTC). The station continues to operate with a fully
functional Space-to-Ground antenna in the meantime.
The spacewalk was the 282nd in support of station assembly, maintenance,
and upgrades, the second for Menon, and the first for Adenot. Radio
amateurs will recognize Adenot as a familiar voice on 145.800 MHz - just
six days before stepping outside, she spoke with students at the Challenger
Learning Center National Conference in Framingham, Massachusetts, via
ARISS. In keeping with standard safety protocol, the ARISS radios aboard
the station were powered down on August 17 in support of the spacewalk,
with service scheduled to be restored on August 19 at 10:45 UTC.
*[ANS thanks NASA and Space.com for the above information]*
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Dr. Carlos Miranda Appointed ARISS-USA Director of Education
ARISS-USA announced August 17 that Dr. Carlos Miranda has been appointed
Director of Education for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS-USA).
In the new leadership role, Miranda will help advance ARISS-USA's
educational mission and expand opportunities for students and educators to
engage with amateur radio, space exploration, and the International Space
Station. ARISS-USA said Miranda brings more than 20 years of experience in
formal and informal education, including developing STEM programs, leading
professional development, and creating hands-on learning experiences for
students and educators.
Education is central to the ARISS program, which gives students around the
world opportunities to speak directly with amateur radio-licensed crew
members aboard the International Space Station. The program combines those
contacts with classroom and informal educational activities designed to
introduce students to amateur radio, radio science, spaceflight, and
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
ARISS conducts approximately 60 to 100 special amateur radio contacts each
year between students around the world and crew members aboard the ISS.
Participating schools and educational organizations typically prepare for
contacts through lessons and activities related to communications, orbital
mechanics, space science, and other STEM subjects before students have the
opportunity to ask questions directly of an astronaut or cosmonaut.
ARISS-USA said Miranda's leadership will support its continuing efforts to
inspire the next generation through authentic space-based educational
experiences and the unique opportunities provided by amateur radio.
ARISS is supported internationally by amateur radio organizations and AMSAT
organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Russia,
together with participating space agencies and other partners. Amateur
radio volunteers provide much of the equipment, technical expertise, and
operational support needed to connect students with crew members aboard the
ISS.
The ARISS-USA announcement is available at:
https://ariss-usa.org/ariss-news-release-no-26-49-dr-carlos-miranda-appoint
ed-director-of-education-for-ariss-usa/
Additional information about ARISS and its educational contacts is
available at: https://www.ariss.org/
*[ANS thanks ARISS-USA for the above information]*
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Student-Built JAMX01 and BY70-4 Set for August 25 Launch
Two Chinese science-education satellites carrying amateur radio
communications systems are scheduled for launch from the Taiyuan Satellite
Launch Center on August 25 aboard a Long March 6C rocket.
The first, known as Jing'an Dream Star and carrying the JAMX01 amateur
radio payload, is the result of a multi-year education project involving
students in Shanghai's Jing'an District. The project began in 2019 as an
effort to give students hands-on experience with satellite development,
radio communications, tracking, and spacecraft operations. Students and
teachers are traveling to Taiyuan to participate in tracking and control
activities associated with the mission.
According to the IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination database,
JAMX01 was developed by students from Jing'an District together with
amateur radio participants, with support from the Youngster Activity Center
of Jing'an District, Shanghai. The approximately 50-kilogram microsatellite
will support telemetry, digital image transmissions, and an FM digipeater.
It also carries navigation lights and a kaleidoscope experiment intended
for science-education activities.
The following frequencies have been coordinated for JAMX01:
145.950 MHz - FM digipeater uplink
435.075 MHz - beacon and SSTV downlink
435.175 MHz - FM digipeater downlink
435.500 MHz - telemetry downlink
IARU frequency coordination for JAMX01 was completed on January 6, 2025.
Shanghai officials say the spacecraft is expected to operate at
approximately 500 kilometers altitude. Project organizers also describe
several unusual educational experiments aboard the satellite, including a
system designed to make the spacecraft visible as a flashing point of
light, a kaleidoscope payload, and recorded youth voices for use in
space-based broadcasts.
A second educational microsatellite, BY70-4, also known as 8104, BY-04, and
Harbin MicroSat, is expected to fly on the same launch. The spacecraft was
developed by the LilacSat Team at Harbin Institute of Technology and has a
mass of approximately 18.7 kilograms. SatNOGS lists a high-definition
camera, miniature camera, polarization camera, educational display, and
short-message transponder among its payloads. The miniature camera is
capable of JPEG and SSDV image transmission.
SatNOGS currently lists a UHF telemetry downlink for BY70-4 on 437.443 MHz
using 9600 bps BPSK, with a format compatible with ASRTU-1. The spacecraft
team has said in the Libre Space Community that BY70-4 is intended to share
the frequency coordination previously used by BY70-3, which has reentered.
The public IARU coordination database, however, presently shows the 437.443
MHz coordination under BY70-3 and does not contain a separate BY70-4
record. Operators should therefore watch for any additional coordination or
operating information issued before or after launch.
Information on JAMX01 is available from the IARU Amateur Satellite
Frequency Coordination database at:
https://iaru.amsat-uk.org/formal_detail.php?serialnum09
The Shanghai Jing'an District announcement is available at:
https://www.jingan.gov.cn/sy/004009/004009010/004009010001/20260813/f8989d8
4-fce0-46e6-afba-c4e654267a9d.html
SatNOGS information for BY70-4 is available at:
https://db.satnogs.org/satellite/EMBU-7314-7883-5821-1365/
Launch discussion and spacecraft-team information are available from the
Libre Space Community at:
https://community.libre.space/t/cz-6c-launches-jamx01-2026-08-25-03-30utc/1
5173
*[ANS thanks the Shanghai Jing'an District Government, the IARU Amateur
Satellite Frequency Coordination service, SatNOGS, and members of the Libre
Space Community for the above information]*
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Recent IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Activity
The IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel has had a remarkably busy
August, with five coordinations completed, six new applications posted, and
two requests declined over roughly the past week, according to the panel's
status pages hosted by AMSAT-UK at https://iaru.amsat-uk.org/index.php
Newly Coordinated
+ UPMSat-3 - Instituto Universitario de Microgravedad Ignacio Da Riva,
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain (coordination completed August
10). A 22 kg educational and in-orbit demonstration satellite giving UPM
students hands-on experience across the complete lifecycle of a space
mission. Developed in collaboration with AMSAT-EA and the Amateur Radio
Club of the UPM Telecommunications School (Radio Club EIT, EA4RCT),
UPMSat-3 will demonstrate the in-orbit operation of GENESIS-P, a
miniaturized UHF/VHF amateur transponder intended for PocketQubes and
educational amateur satellite missions. All amateur-related telemetry and
communication protocols will be publicly documented.
+ AYAME - Chiba Institute of Technology and the Government Technology
Agency, Thimphu, Bhutan (coordination completed August 10). A 2U CubeSat
with a full slate of missions, headlined by a worldwide APRS service on
145.825 MHz using 1k2 AFSK that can be activated by ground command for up
to 720 minutes of continuous operation. AYAME also carries a camera that
will image Okinawa using magnetic attitude control, with downlinked photos
published on a website, along with an on-orbit firmware upload and update
demonstration and a hand-built UHF radio experiment.
+ CPSAT - Chosun University, Republic of Korea (coordination completed
August 13). A 3U CubeSat whose primary mission is amateur radio service:
telemetry, a beacon, telecommand operation, and an interactive
communication function that lets licensed amateurs transmit predefined
command messages and receive responses generated by the onboard software,
including educational queries about the project and spacecraft status.
Experimental payloads include optical communication and attitude
determination and control technologies. A downlink on 437.265 MHz and an
uplink on 145.835 MHz have been coordinated, using BPSK at 1k2, 2k4, or 4k8
with AX.25. Launch is planned from the Naro Space Center into an
approximately 540 km Sun-synchronous orbit during Q3 2026.
+ BAMA-2 - UASPACE, The University of Alabama (coordination completed
August 14). A 3U CubeSat set to become the first satellite launched into
orbit from The University of Alabama, BAMA-2 will conduct a flight
demonstration of a drag sail module by rapidly deorbiting itself following
deployment from the ISS, planned via Voyager in April 2027. The mission is
a re-flight of BAMA-1, which failed to reach orbit in 2021, and was
previously coordinated in 2023 before launch delays required resubmission.
A downlink on 437.460 MHz has been coordinated, using 2k4 GMSK with AX.25.
+ Delfi-PRISM - Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
(coordination completed August 17). A 6P PocketQube continuing TU Delft's
long-running Delfi program, PRISM provides end-to-end space systems
education while demonstrating upgrades to the Delfi-PQ heritage bus flown
in 2022. Of particular interest to amateurs is RAMaS, the Radio Amateur
Mailbox in Space: a digital repeater capable of retransmitting ground
messages either instantly or after a pre-determined delay, acting as an
orbiting mailbox that extends the reach of traditional digipeaters beyond
text-only messages. Additional payloads include a student attitude-control
demonstration board and a GNSS receiver for autonomous in-space orbit
determination.
Coordination Declined
+ FramSat-1.5 - Orbit NTNU, Norway. The student organization's 1U CubeSat,
which proposed a UHF downlink using 2FSK at 9k6 and an Isar Aerospace
launch from Andoya in Q4 2026, was declined on August 17. The panel noted
that the mission appears to be a technology demonstration for a commercial
entity rather than an educational or amateur project.
+ Galapagos-UTE - University UTE, Ecuador. The satellite, which collects
background radiation data and carries an ADS-B aircraft-monitoring module
along with SSTV image transmission capability, was launched from Vostochny
on December 28, 2025 - but its coordination request was not filed until
July 8, 2026. The request was declined on August 18, as coordination is not
provided for requests received after launch.
New Applications
Six new coordination requests were posted to the "formally requested" list
in the past two weeks: PVDX from Brown Space Engineering at Brown
University, a 3U CubeSat flight-testing an open-source, low-cost UHF
amateur radio board and displaying student-submitted pixel art on an
external screen photographed against the Earth; MANTIS from Dalhousie
University, a Canadian Space Agency CUBICS mission studying algal bloom
detection with onboard AI image processing; CAPE-Twiggs-1 from the
University of Louisiana Lafayette, a 200-gram picosat proposing LoRa
downlinks on both VHF and UHF; SC-FRYER from Space Concordia at Concordia
University, which plans a GreenCube-style digipeater alongside yeast
biology and AI wildfire-detection payloads; AcubeSAT from the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, a fully open-source 3U CubeSat flying in ESA's
Fly Your Satellite! 3 program; and CHESS Pathfinder 0, the first satellite
from the EPFL Spacecraft Team in Switzerland, carrying a single-photon
avalanche diode camera and proposing a 25 kbps GMSK UHF downlink.
Full details on every request, including complete frequency information,
may be found on the coordination status pages. Developers planning a
mission are reminded to request coordination as early in the design process
as possible - and, as this week's declines illustrate, well before launch.
*[ANS thanks the IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel and AMSAT-UK
for the above information]*
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Petition Seeks Amateur Transponder Aboard Bangladesh Satellite-2
The Amateur Radio Society of Bangladesh (ARSB) is seeking support from the
worldwide amateur community for its application to Bangladesh Satellite
Company Limited (BSCL) requesting the allocation of a dedicated amateur
radio transponder payload aboard Bangladesh Satellite-2.
The society notes that such a transponder would provide an important
platform for amateur radio communication, technical education,
international collaboration, and emergency and disaster communication. The
enormous popularity of the QO-100 geostationary transponder has
demonstrated what a wide-coverage amateur payload can do for
experimentation and training across its footprint, and amateurs across
South Asia and beyond would welcome a similar opportunity.
An international petition of support is being circulated, with signatures
to be submitted to BSCL solely as evidence of amateur radio community
backing for the initiative. By signing, amateurs express their support and
their interest in using the proposed transponder for legitimate,
non-commercial amateur radio activities, including technical
experimentation and emergency communications.
The petition was passed along by Matthias Bopp, DD1US, on behalf of Hasibul
Hasan Seyam, S21HMX. A link to the petition may be found in the AMSAT-UK
story at
https://amsat-uk.org/2026/08/17/petition-for-amateur-transponder-on-banglad
esh-satellite-2/
*[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK, Matthias Bopp, DD1US, and Hasibul Hasan Seyam,
S21HMX, for the above information]*
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Huntsville Hamfest Hosts ARRL National Convention This Weekend
The Rocket City is the center of the amateur radio universe this weekend,
as the Huntsville Hamfest hosts the 2026 ARRL National Convention, August
21-23, in Huntsville, Alabama - the first time the National Convention has
come to Huntsville since 2007.
The convention kicked off Friday, August 21, with a series of day-long ARRL
Training Tracks and a National Convention Luncheon at the Embassy Suites by
Hilton Huntsville, followed by a National Convention Dinner beneath the
full-size Saturn V rocket at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, with proceeds
benefiting the ARRL Education & Technology Program.
Known as "The World's Friendliest Hamfest," the all-indoor, air-conditioned
event continues Saturday, August 22, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and
Sunday, August 23, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Von Braun Center
South Hall, connected by sky bridge to the Embassy Suites. Attendees will
find a large lineup of commercial exhibitors, notable forum presenters, a
flea market, a Youth Lounge with hands-on activities including kit building
and foxhunting, and the W1AW America250 Special Event Station.
The weekend was also the presentation of the Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial
Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award. This year's honoree
hits especially close to home for the satellite community. Carsten
Glasbrenner, KQ4SJM, of Brooksville, Florida, is an accomplished satellite
operator who passed his Technician exam at age 11 and upgraded to General
in May 2024, all at just 14 years old today. Carsten credits his father,
AMSAT President Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, with planting the seeds that grew
into an early interest in amateur radio - and specifically in satellites.
Presented annually to a licensed amateur age 18 or younger in the United
States or Canada who has made significant contributions to the hobby, the
award has traditionally been presented at Huntsville, and the satellite
community could not be prouder to see one of its own receive the honor this
year.
For further details, visit https://www.arrl.org/expo and https://hamfest.or
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