ASRTU-1 is a 12U CubeSat designed through a collaboration between Chinese and Russian students from the Harbin Institute of Technology....
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In this edition: * AMSAT OSCAR-7 50th Anniversary – A Testbed for Saving Lives * Another Batch of CubeSatSim Kits...
Only five new sunspot groups emerged this week. First was onNovember 7, next on November 9, two more on November...
A microsatellite jointly developed by Chinese and Russian universities was successfully launched on Tuesday morning from Blagoveshchensk, Russia, representing a...
AMSAT News Service ANS-315 November 10, 2024 In this edition: Celebrating AO-7: First Earth-Space-Space-Earth Relay Communications September/October 2024 Issue of...
SSTV images will be transmitted from the International Space Station between November 11th and 18th. The images will feature activities...
LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, has been launched into space on the 31st SpaceX International Space Station resupply mission on November...
Presentations from the 42nd AMSAT Space Symposium have been published to YouTube. Presentations from day 1 are available here. Presentations...
Designed by radio amateurs, AO-7 launched in November of 1974 and is now marking 50 years in orbit. The satellite...
In this edition: AMSAT AO-7 to Celebrate 50th Anniversary AMSAT 42nd Space Symposium Presentations Now Available Back to Basics: What...
There’s no shortage of movies, TV shows, and books that show a dystopian future with corporations run amok in outer...
How it started versus how it’s going for astronaut Nick Hague with ISS Ham Radio on the space station. Since November 2000,...
China has a space station — it’s called Tiangong, the first module was launched in 2021, and it’s all going...
Solar activity increased this week. Average daily sunspot number went from 127.7 to 197.4 and average solar flux from 170.5...
In an age where our gadgets allow us to explore the cosmos, we stumbled upon sounds from a future past:...
We hate to admit it, but whenever we see an article about either Voyager spacecraft, our thoughts immediately turn to...
For Sandra Giordano, failure was not an option. The longtime educator already lost her school — she was not about...
In this edition: * AMSAT Board of Directors Elects Officers * 42nd Annual AMSAT Space Symposium Held in Tampa *...
The Intelsat 33e satellite has broken up in geostationary orbit (GEO) and lost power, ceasing communications services for customers across...
In a joint statement on Oct. 15th, NASA and NOAA announced that Solar Maximum is underway. If you saw last...
In this edition: * 42nd Annual AMSAT Space Symposium to Proceed After Hurricane Milton * 2024 AMSAT-UK Colloquium: A Weekend...
As hackers, we’re always pulling stuff apart—sometimes just to see what it’s like inside. Most of us have seen the...
Average daily sunspot numbers changed from 160 to 129.3 and averagedaily solar flux from 261.3 to 194.3. Geomagnetic numbers werehigher,...
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler made groundbreaking contributions to physics, and has a fantastic writeup about the man. He was undeniably...
Visualization of the Sun-Earth Lagrange points. Orbital mechanics is a fun subject, as it involves a lot of seemingly empty...
