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ANS-004 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin: ARISSat-1/KEDR Goes Silent

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 004.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
January 4, 2012
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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Reception reports indicate that ARISSat-1/KEDR has stopped transmitting on Wednesday, January 4, 2012. The last full telemetry captured and reported to the ARISSatTLM web site at 06:02:14 UTC on January 4 were received from ground stations as the satellite passed over Japan.

Topics in this report:
1. Poland Contact Successful
2. ARISS Presentation at Ham Club
3. AMSAT News Service Covers ARISS

1. Poland Contact Successful

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contact
2. Rome Contact Successful
3. ARISS Sets New Events Record
4. ARISS International Teleconference Held
5. Amateur Radio Newsline on ARISS
6. ARRL QST Covers ARISS News

1. Upcoming School Contact

The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft that will carry new Expedition 30 Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko, Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers into space rolled out to the launch pad Monday at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch is scheduled for Wednesday at 8:16 a.m. EST, with NASA TV coverage beginning at 7:30 a.m. The Soyuz will dock to the International Space Station Friday morning.

› Watch NASA TV at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Topics in this report:
1. Kobe, Japan Contact Successful
2. New Proposal Cycle for ARISS-US Contacts
3. ARISS-U.S. Proposal Process Makes the News
4. AMSAT News Service Covers ARISS
5. Amateur Radio Newsline on ARISS
6. ARISS Status on Social Media

1. Kobe, Japan Contact Successful

Aboard the International Space Station Monday, Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineer Anton Shkaplerov checked out the Crew Medical Restraint System (CMRS). The board-like CMRS can be secured to the station structure to provide a patient restraint surface for performing emergency medical procedures. This checkout serves as part of Crew Medical Officer proficiency training as well as maintenance on the CMRS.

Topics in this report:
1. Canadian School Contact Successful
2. New Proposal Cycle for ARISS-US Contacts
3. AMSAT News Service Covers ARISS
4. Amateur Radio Newsline on ARISS
5. Astronaut Training Status

1. Canadian School Contact Successful

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank worked with the Preliminary Advanced Colloids Experiment-2, or PACE-2, on Monday. Housed in the Fluids Integrated Rack, PACE-2 studies the effects of vibration on particles suspended in fluid in the space environment. This work aids in the development and optimization of crew procedures for the future Advanced Colloids Experiment, also known as ACE.

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contact
2. New Proposal Cycle for ARISS-US Contacts
3. AMSAT News Service Covers ARISS
4. Amateur Radio Newsline Covers ARISS

1. Upcoming School Contact

This weekend's Plasma Thrust space experiment using Amateur Radio has been postponed until after the delivery of a new rig next April.