In this edition: FO-29 Operating Schedule for February 2026 ESA-Led CCSDS Competition Registration Now Open Feature Story Editors & Video...
Space
Solar activity reached moderate levels with two M-class flaresearlier this week. The first flares occurred on January 21 in regions...
What can one expect from 3D printing an 8″ Newtonian telescope? shares her thoughts after doing exactly that. The performance...
Space telescopes are all the rage, and rightfully so. The images they take are spectacular, and they’ve greatly increased what...
Over the course of its nearly 30 years in orbit, the International Space Station has played host to more “firsts”...
AMSAT News Service ANS-018 January 18, 2026 In this edition: November/December 2025 Issue of The AMSAT Journal Now Available REMINDER:...
For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is...
AMSAT News Service ANS-011 January 11, 2026 In this edition: * NASA Ends Crew 11 Mission Due To ‘Medical Concern’...
Geomagnetic field activity is likely to reach G1 (Minor) geomagneticstorm levels on January 13 and 14, and then from January...
NASA will bring Crew-11 astronauts back to Earth from the International Space Station on Saturday, weeks earlier than planned, due to a medical...
AMSAT News Service ANS-004 January 4, 2026 In this edition: * AMSAT Membership Now Includes “Getting Started with Amateur Satellites”...
The January 2, 2026, report from Spaceweather.com has updateddetails about the Coronal Mass Ejections predicted to hit the Earthon January...
Looking up at the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise will reveal a fairly staggering amount of satellites...
AMSAT-Francophone has posted information about an SSTV event sponsored by Space-π. The event will transmit SSTV images from the UMKA-1...
In this edition: CubeSatSim Kits Now Available Youth on the Air Camp 2026 Applications Open AMSAT Youth Initiative: “Satellites and...
Solar activity has been at low levels with only a few C1 flares fromRegion 4307. Slight growth and consolidation were...
AMSAT News Service ANS-355 December 21, 2025 In this edition: W2RS Memorial AMSAT CW Activity Day to be Held January...
When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December...
Solar activity reached high levels this past week when Region 4299produced an M1.1 (R1/Minor) flare on December 6. Shortly after,...
AMSAT News Service ANS-348 December 14, 2025 In this edition: * Soyuz Crew Lands Ending Eight-Month Space Research Journey * Satellites...
The first HamTV transmission from the International Space Station (ISS) since 2018 occurred on October 18, 2025. As part of...
On November 14, 2025, we reported something no natural comet has ever demonstrated: a narrow-band absorption signature emitted by 3I/ATLAS at...
AMSAT News Service ANS-341 December 7, 2025 In this edition: * KSLV-II Mission Deploys 13 Satellites, Including New Amateur Radio...
ARISS has announced an SSTV event that will be active through December 13th. Rather than transmitting images via the International...
Solar activity was at low levels this past week with only C classflares. Region 4294 remains the largest region on...
