Author: SM0TGU

During the month of October the IARU coordinated frequencies for six
upcoming Amateur Radio satellites:

• OreSat0 (Portland State Aerospace Society at Portland State
  University is a 1U CubeSat. The mission is to provide flight heritage
  to the “OreSat bus”, an open source card-cage based system that is
  ideally suited for education CubeSat projects involving
  interdisciplinary teams of students. Downlinks on UHF using CW
  beacon, 9k6 G3RUH AX25/APRS packet beacon and a 96k GMSK
  engineering downlink. Also downlink on S Band using amateur 802.11b
  DPSK with 11M chip/sec spread and 1 Mbps data rate for bulk mission
  data. Downlinks on 436.500 MHz and 2425.00 MHz have been
  coordinated. Planning a launch with Momentus Space from Cape
  Canaveral in February 2021 into a 450 km polar orbit. More info at:
  http://oresat.org/ and https://github.com/oresat.
• TartanArtibeus-1 (Carnegie Mellon University) is a 1P PocketQube.
  The
  Amateur Radio community globally will be provided with a delay
  ping-back service, allowing Amateurs to send messages, with replies
  from the satellite transmitted later. A UHF downlink using 3kbps FSK
  compatible with RadioHead library. A downlink on 437.170 MHz has
  been coordinated. Planning a SpaceX launch from KSC in December 2020
  into a 550km SSO.
• SATLLA-2 (Ariel University) is a 2P picosat that will take
  low-resolution photos and will broadcast the photos over the Amateur
  Radio with its position in orbit and data from its sensors. UHF and S
  Band downlinks using LORA from 476bps to 9k6 bps. Downlinks on
  437.250 MHz and 2401.000 MHz have been coordinated.Planning a SpaceX
  launch into a 410 km 52 degree orbit in December 2020.
• CSIROSat-1 (University of South Australia & CSIRO) is a 3U CubeSat
  mission that will perform hyperspectral infrared imaging of the earth
  for scientific research purposes. An experimental two-way link for
  Amateur Radio operators to exchange short messages through a
  ‘ping-pong’ arrangement of data exchange is among the several
  communications experiments. Proposing a 9k6 FSK downlink. A downlink
  on 437.315 MHz has been coordinated. Planning a launch from Cape
  Canaveral in March 2021 into an ISS orbit.
• PyCubed-1 (Carnegie Mellon University) is a 1P PocketQube that will
  test a novel 3-axis attitude control system based on magnetic torque
  coils. In addition, it will test new low- power LoRa radios in
  low-Earth orbit which will be of interest to many other Amateur Radio
  small satellite operators. Proposing a 3kbps UHF downlink. A downlink
  on 437.290 MHz has been coordinated. Packets are standard LoRa format
  and are compatible with the RadioHead library. Planning a SpaceX
  launch from KSC into a 550 km SSO in December 2020.
• Grizu-263A (Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University) is a pocketcube
  satellite with a digipeater mode that will allow forwarding of
  received messages back to earth to support communication between
  Amateur Radio operators. Proposing a UHF downlink using 4k8 FSK. A
  downlink on 437.190 MHz has been coordinated. Planning a SpaceX
  launch from Vandenberg into a 500 600 km SSO in December 2020.

Information on these and other upcoming satellites can be found at:
http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/.

[ANS thanks the IARU for the above information.]

The 2020 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting was held via a Zoom Webinar on October 17, 2020 with over 200 AMSAT members in
attendance. If you were not able to attend, a complete replay is
available on the AMSAT YouTube channel:

The YouTube video is divided into chapters to make it easy to find the
specific presentation you are looking for:

0:00:00 Welcome
0:02:07 AMSAT GOLF-TEE System Overview and Development Status
0:43:02 GOLF IHU Coordination
1:19:10 GOLF Downlink Coordination
1:50:15 FUNcube Next
2:13:50 LunART – Luna Amateur Radio Transponder
2:45:35 CatSat HF Experiment Overview
3:13:30 Neutron-1 CubeSat
3:39:58 Progress and Development of Open Source Electric Propulsion
for Nanosats and Picosats
4:15:00 AMSAT Education
5:14:00 ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) /
AREx (Amateur Radio Exploration)
6:14:00 AMSAT Engineering
7:21:16 AMSAT Annual General Meeting

AMSAT members may download the 2020 Symposium Proceedings at
https://launch.amsat.org/Proceedings.

The 2021 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting is expected to be held in the Minneapolis area in October 2021.

[ANS thanks the 2020 AMSAT Symposium Team for the above information]