Launched in 1976, LAGEOS-1 (LAser GEOdynamic Satellite) is unusual in that it contains no instrumentation, no electronics, no power supply,...
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AMSAT News Service ANS-270September 27, 2026 In this edition: ARISS SSTV Series 33 to Feature Student Education Images October 2-6...
Solar activity is likely to continue at low levels with isolated tooccasional C-class flare activity, along with a slight chance...
In 2014, a spacecraft launched before the first Space Shuttle flight was approaching Earth for the first time in decades....
AMSAT News Service ANS-263September 20, 2026 In this edition: * AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results* Call for Presentations: 44th AMSAT...
The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot of things...
RSGB Board Director and Board Liaison for ARISS Patrick Wood, 2E0IFB is calling on radio amateurs to support World Space...
AMSAT News Service ANS-256 September 13, 2026 In this edition: * Frank Hoonhaut, KJ7DZ, Sweeps AMSAT Award Ladder * AMSAT...
had always wanted to own a nice telescope, but found that budget would not stretch to anything above a cheap...
AMSAT News Service ANS-249 September 6, 2026 In this edition: * AMSAT Board Election Voting Deadline Approaches * ARISS Announces...
Aside from global access to cat videos, the presence of thousands of Starlink broadband internet access satellites in LEO has...
After the little Mars helicopter Ingenuity blew everyone away with its performance, it was clear that a future Mars mission...
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station programme is an opportunity for educational organisations to host an amateur radio...
If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race...
August 30,2026 In this edition: ARISS Proposal Window Open Now through September 30, 2026 AMSAT Board of Directors Voting Ends...
In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described as r-...
AMSAT News Service ANS-214August 23, 2026 In this edition: Menon, Adenot Complete Spacewalk to Remove Failed Station Antenna Dr. Carlos...
In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning...
08/17/2026 Weekly Highlights and Forecast, August 17, 2026, by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center:Solar activity ranged from very low to...
LEO.space brings satellite tracking, orbital data, amateur radio resources, space weather and educational tools together in one free, easy-to-use destination...
AMSAT Canada (AMSAT-CA) has begun offering membership options to further its mission to support amateur radio in space. Those interested...
AMSAT News Service ANS-228August 16, 2026 In this edition: * Call for Presentations: 44th AMSAT Space Symposium* AMSAT CubeSatSim Featured...
ARISS, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, has been honored with the prestigious Challenger-7 Recognition, a national honor celebrating...
Letting go is hard, especially when it concerns an irreplaceable space probe like the two Voyagers. Fortunately JPL engineers have...
There will be a partial solar eclipse on Wednesday, 12 August 2026, and the RSGB Propagation Studies Committee (PSC) would...
