AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin ANS-033
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Request to Reconsider Decommissioning of IO-117 Under Evaluation by Italian Space AgencyMoments ago, the AMSAT News Service received the following announcement from AMSAT Italia regarding IO-117 (GreenCube):
AMSAT Italia would like to inform the amateur community that its request to the Italian Space Agency, the owner of the GREENCUBE satellite, to reconsider its decision of decommissioning the satellite is under evaluation.
Waiting for its decision, IO-117 is still operational.
The GreenCube satellite was born as a scientific experiment placed in MEO orbit which successfully concluded its mission.
IO-117 is the HAM Radio part of the satellite consisting of a digipeter which was promoted by AMSAT Italia and coordinated by IARU-R1.
At the moment AMSAT Italia is committed to promoting the continuation of the mission for the HAM Radio part of Greencube.
AMSAT Italia BoD
[ANS thanks AMSAT Italia for the above information]
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73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!
This week’s ANS Contributing Editor,
Paul Stoetzer, N8HM
n8hm [at] amsat.org
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You might have heard about it or seen it at Hamvention or Symposium, but the official release of the new Beta CubeSatSim hardware and software is finally here!!
The new beta PCB board set v1.3 is shown in Figure 1, the new board stack is shown in Figure 2, and the new frame and solar panels is in Figure 3.
Figure 1. AMSAT CubeSatSim Beta PCB Board Set. From left to right, battery board, STEM Payload board, and Solar board (the replacement for the Main board)
Figure 2. AMSAT CubeSatSim Beta Board Stack
Figure 3. AMSAT CubSatSim Beta Frame and Solar Panels
Here are some links to information about the Beta release:
The software for the beta release is here: https://CubeSatSim.org/beta
The beta wiki instructions are here: https://CubeSatSim.org/wiki-beta
The beta Bill of Materials (BOM) is here: https://CubeSatSim.org/bom-beta
The beta hardware files are here: https://CubeSatSim.org/hardware-beta
The beta frame STL files for 3D printing are here: https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/tree/beta/hardware/frame/v1.3.2
Information about the latest beta software release is here: https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/releases/tag/v1.3.2
The AMSAT CubeSatSim is a low-cost, fully functional open source model of a CubeSat nano-satellite. It has the following features:
Here is a summary of the changes with the new beta hardware and software:
During this beta period, we ask for your help in testing the new hardware and software and making sure that all the instructions and documentation are accurate. To help with this, I am pleased to announce that past purchasers of the CubeSatSim v1 PCB board sets are eligible for a free beta v1.3.2 set of PCB boards. Just email me ku2y at arrl.net! I will verify the order and ship you a new set of 3 blank boards. The boards will have the surface mount components already mounted. The first one hundred who contact me in the next three months will be eligible to receive them. For other orders, you will be able to choose between the v1 boards or the new beta v1.3.2 boards.
73,
Alan Johnston, PhD
KU2Y
AMSAT Vice President for Educational Relations
P.S. AMSAT has CubeSatSim Loaners available to ship to your event or presentation or STEM outreach activity – just contact me if you have an upcoming event email at ku2y at arrl.net or on social media at @ku2y@mastodon.radio