[amsat-bb] ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14

[Zach Leffke]

Can anyone from the OPS team comment on the specific passes they are 
planning to activate the camera on for Thurs/Fri?  I'm assuming we 
aren't attempting anything in the wee hours when its darker.  My guesses 
are listed below with the date and the rough AOS time (for VT) in UTC:

20180913, 15:11:00 UTC (this one looks like best chance for success with 
a descending pass right along the coast.)
20180913, 16:47:00 UTC (also descending, but with ground track mainly 
through center of North America, might get lucky with a 'side shot')
20180914, 14:51:00 UTC (also looks really good with descending pass 
along the coast)
20180914, 16:25:00 UTC (also mostly over central NA, but a bit shifted 
to the East, maybe a chance of a better 'side shot')


I'm trying to get some students out to the Tracking Station to help out, 
but want to send them confirmed times for the events so they can 
deconflict with their class schedules (I might also be missing some 
meetings for this).


If someone from OPS can confirm (or correct) those times that would be 
great.

Thanks in advance!

-Zach, KJ4QLP

Research Associate
Aerospace Systems Lab
Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Work Phone: 540-231-4174
Cell Phone: 540-808-6305

On 9/11/2018 4:57 PM, Zach Leffke wrote:
> We'll be trying to get things up and running to support this at VT!
>
> Our ground station is basically down at the moment for upgrades (has 
> been for a while, manual operation only on site, no arm chair remote 
> stuff at the moment or full up automation yet hi hi!, but we're slowly 
> working on that!).  We're not sure how bad things will get on those 
> days in SW VA weather wise.  Myself and a colleague (and hopefully a 
> student or two) are planning to MacGyver a few things to support these 
> passes manually from the site to collect as much high speed data as we 
> can weather permitting!  Plan B is a separate setup that may be more 
> 'expeditious' using personal gear, but again....not sure how bad the 
> weather might get.....
>
>
> We'll do our best!  And we heavily encourage others to participate, 
> this could look really cool!  (is this the proof of concept of a 
> satellite arm of SKYWARN....that could be neat....?)
>
>
> 73s,
>
> -Zach, KJ4QLP
>
> Research Associate
> Aerospace Systems Lab
> Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology
> Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
> Work Phone: 540-231-4174
> Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
>
> On 9/11/2018 2:29 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
>> AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN
>> ANS-254.01
>>
>> In this Special Bulletin:
>>
>> * AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
>>
>> SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.01
>> ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
>>
>> AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 254.01
>>  From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
>> DATE September 11, 2018
>> To All RADIO AMATEURS
>> BID: $ANS-254.01
>>
>> AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
>>
>> AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA says that
>> the camera on AO-92 is planned to be used to try to image Hurricane
>> Florence during North American east coast passes on Thursday,
>> September 13, and Friday, September 14.
>>
>> AO-92 will not be in its U/V FM voice transponder operation during
>> these passes. Ground stations should standby and not attempt to access
>> AO-92 during this time. Voice operation will be available later during
>> these days.
>>
>> The high speed image data will be transmitted on the 145.880 MHz 
>> downlink.
>>
>> The image can be captured, decoded, and uploaded to the Fox-1 data
>> warehouse using the FoxTelem v.1.06 software available from AMSAT:
>> http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows
>> http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac
>> http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux
>>
>> [ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, 
>> KO4MA for
>> the above information]
>>
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