AMSAT News Service ANS-221 August 9, 2026 In this edition: * Registration Now Open for the 44th AMSAT Space Symposium...
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Solar activity has been at low levels, with occasional B-class flaring and isolated low-level C-class flares observed. The largest event...
Since the first V2 rocket sailed above the Kármán line back in 1944 and right up until the modern era,...
Solar activity has remained at low levels. Region 4494 exhibited decay in its trailing spots as its flare activity subsided....
AMSAT News Service ANS-214August 2, 2026 In this edition: Expedition 74 Crew Returns to Earth After 241 Days in Space...
In April 2010 a communications satellite called Galaxy 15 stopped taking commands and wandered off down the geostationary arc, transponders...
The Federal Communications Commission voted July 22 to push satellite operators out of more C-band spectrum for a 5G auction...
The Kuwaiti satellite QMR-KWT-2 will transmit special SSTV images celebrating the 5 year launch anniversary of the QMR-KWT-1 satellite. QMR-KWT...
Launched in 2014, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft completed its primary asteroid sample return mission all the way back in 2020. But...
AMSAT News Service ANS-207 July 26, 2026 In this edition: * HamGPT Launches Personal AI Copilot for Amateur Radio *...
Solar activity has remained at low levels, with an occasionallow-level C-class flaring observed, including a C3.3/Sf flare on July15 from...
AMSAT News Service ANS-200 July 19, 2026 In this edition: * Voting Now Underway in 2026 AMSAT Board of Directors...
Some breaking news from geostationary orbit, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that its newest Geostationary...
AMSAT News Service ANS-193July 12, 2026 In this edition: May/June 2026 issue of The AMSAT Journal is now available AMSAT-UK...
AMSAT News Service ANS-186July 5, 2026 In this edition: AMSAT President Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, Featured on Ham Radio Workbench Podcast...
AMSAT News Service ANS-179 June 28, 2026 In this edition: * Classic OSCARLOCATOR Returns as Browser-Based Tracking Simulator * Katalyst...
One of the fun aspects of astrophysics is that much of it involves phenomena which you cannot exactly study from...
There was a particularly tense moment aboard the International Space Station earlier this month, with NASA directing their astronauts to...
AMSAT News Service ANS-172 June 21, 2026 In this edition: * 2026 AMSAT Field Day Next Weekend! * 2026 AMSAT...
Even if you’re not normally interested in what’s happening in low Earth orbit, you probably heard that last week NASA...
We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine purposes. But, of course, the...
If you are an American of a certain age, you know the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, beating...
Solar activity has been at low levels this past week with most of the C-level activity originating from Region 4465,...
June 14, 2026 In this edition: Last Call – Candidate Nominations for 2026 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Due June...
When the Artemis lunar program was first conceived, the third mission would have seen astronauts step foot on the Moon...
