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+ The AMSAT-UK 2024 Colloquium will take place alongside the RSGB
Convention at Kents Hill Park Conference Centre, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BZ on
the weekend of 12-13 October 2024. Registration for the event is at
https://rsgb.org/main/rsgb-2024-convention/ and a limited number of tickets
for the AMSAT banquet are on sale via the AMSAT-UK Online Shop
https://shop.amsat-uk.org/. Deadline for presentation proposals is imminent
â€ö contact Iain Young, G7III, g7iii@g7iii.net, if you have a presentation
proposal. (ANS thanks Iain Young, G7III, and AMSAT-UK for the above
information.)
+ The FUNcube team are pleased to announce that User Rankings, Realtime
Data, and Whole-Orbit Data (WOD) are all now being displayed in FUNcube
Data Warehouse after the recent disruption. Access the new site at
http://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/. Fitter message display will follow soon
as will be the ability to download WOD files. (ANS thanks Dave Johnson,
G4DPZ, and the FUNcube Team for the above information.)
+ NASA astronaut Don Pettit, KD5MDT, alongside Soyuz commander Alexey
Ovchinin and cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space
Station Wednesday, September 11 after launching aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz
MS-26 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio will
join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, KD5MIJ, Matthew
Dominick, KCØTOR, Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams,
KD5PLB, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin,
and Oleg Kononenko, RN3DX. Expedition 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon
the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko,
completing a six-month stay for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub
and Kononenko. (ANS thanks NASA for the above information.)
+ Registration for the 2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge global hackathon
(October 5-6) is open and challenges are online at
https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/nasa-space-apps-2024/challenges/. (ANS
thanks The Orbital Index and NASA for the above information.)
+ Tracking sleuth Scott Tilley, VE7TIL, has discovered that the orbiter for
Chinaâ€Ös Changâ€Öe-6 lunar sample return mission is now parked at the second
Sun-Earth Lagrange (L2). After delivering the samples to Earth, the orbiter
fired its engines to avoid reentering Earthâ€Ös atmosphere, setting off on a
new trajectory. L2 is located approximately 1.5 million kilometers from
Earth, directly on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. Chinaâ€Ös
space authorities have yet to provide an update on the orbiter and its
plans. However, the Changâ€Öe-6 orbiterâ€Ös voyage fits into a pattern of China
using Changâ€Öe spacecraft for extended missions as tests for future
endeavors. (ANS thanks Space News for the above information.)
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