In a joint statement on Oct. 15th, NASA and NOAA announced that Solar Maximum is underway. If you saw last...
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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...
ARISS is requesting US educators to submit proposals for upcoming amateur radio contact opportunities with the International Space Station. Program...
Thanks to Carl, K9LA for contributing to this week's bulletin. "SUBJ: ASWFC GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE WARNING ISSUED AT 2220 UTC/10 OCTOBER...
AMSAT News Service ANS-287 October 13, 2024 In this edition: Status Note – 42nd Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual...
For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include...
What a difference a week makes when it comes to HF propagation! This last week has been characterised by solar...
Down here at the bottom of our ocean of air, it’s easy to get complacent about the hazards our universe...
The International Space Station (ISS) might not be breaking news, but this February, National Geographic released a documentary that dives...
The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source...
In this edition: MESAT1 Designated MESAT1-OSCAR 122 (MO-122) ARISS Slow Scan TV Transmissions Begin Tuesday SDRplay Announces the nRSP-ST Networked...
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin ANS-276 October 2, 2024 In this edition: MESAT1 Designated MESAT1-OSCAR 122 (MO-122) The AMSAT News...
ARISS will be conducting Expedition 72 - Series 21 SSTV Experiment from the International Space Station October 8th through 14th....
ASWFC GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE WARNING ISSUED AT 0042UT/04 OCTOBER 2024 BY THE AUSTRALIAN SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING CENTRE. Two coronal mass ejections...
In this edition: * AMSAT-UK to Provide FUNcube Lite Payload for Jovian-1 Satellite * AMSAT-EA HADES-R and HADES-ICM planned for...
The ‘Sombrero Potential’ as seen with the Higgs mechanism. One of the exciting aspects of some fields of physics is...
In this edition: * Registration Continues for the 42nd Annual AMSAT Space Symposium * AMSAT Symposium Call for Papers *...
Solar activity was quiet over the past week, but geomagnetic numberswere way, way up. Average daily sunspot numbers dropped from...
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin ANS-260 September 16, 2024 In this edition: Results of the 2024 AMSAT Board of Directors...
NASA’s ACS3 (Advanced Composite Solar Sail System) is currently fully deployed in low Earth orbit, and stargazers can spot it...
After 47 years it’s little wonder that the hydrazine-powered thrusters of the Voyager 1, used to orient the spacecraft in...
