On December 14, China launched an experimental, reusable spaceplane into low Earth orbit, the Spaceship third trip to space. China is tight-lipped...
Space
In this edition: * ARISS Marks 40th Anniversary of STS-9 with Special Slow Scan Television Event * HADES-D Satellite: Successful...
The UK Meteor Beacon project is now in its second phase, and both phases have been supported by the RSGB...
"GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE WARNING ISSUED AT 0132 UTC ON 15 DECEMBER 2023 BY THE AUSTRALIAN SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING CENTRE. "Two predominately...
Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object from Earth, is sending back a repetitive jumble of 1s and 0s that...
Harborcreek High School students got to chat in real time with astronauts at the International Space Station, using equipment they...
ARRL celebrates the success of an ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology graduate. The skills learned in the Teachers Institute (TI) have led...
Hundreds of amateurs participated in the HamSCI event by getting on the air. Combining their data with contacts from other...
In this edition: * Proposal Submitted to ESA for Geostationary Microwave Amateur Payload * ARISS Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Owen...
Amateur Radio Satellites and Systems - Canada (AMSAT-CA) has officially been incorporated to support amateur radio in space. Over the next...
There are a bunch of ways to estimate the age of a radio amateur, by the letters in their callsign,...
Sustained radio emissions originating from high over a sunspot are getting researchers thinking in new directions. Unlike solar radio bursts —...
In this edition: * Update on AMSAT’s Participation in ESA Geostationary Project * September/October 2023 Edition of The AMSAT Journal...
"GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE WARNING 23/74 ISSUED AT 2321UT/29 NOVEMBER 2023 BY THE AUSTRALIAN SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING CENTRE. "Several CMEs are expected...
Geomagnetic conditions were very quiet last weekend, good conditionsfor the ARRL Phone Sweepstakes. But there was much more geomagneticactivity toward...
In this edition: * Happy 10th Birthday FUNcube-1 (AO-73) * AMSAT Servers Back In Service After Brief Outage * HERON...
In this edition: * 2023 AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting Proceedings Now Available * SpaceX Launches Ninth Rideshare...
"ASWFC GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE WARNING ISSUED AT 2306 UTC 16 NOVEMBER 2023 BY THE AUSTRALIAN SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING CENTRE."Two recent CMEs...
In this edition: * Trends in Propulsion Systems for Small Satellites * FO-99 Re-enters * URESAT-1 Designated Spain-OSCAR 120 (SO-120)...
In this edition: * AMSAT Member and University of Louisiana Apply for ELaNa Grant * Delfi-C3 – DO64 Deorbiting Soon...
A parabolic antenna is a simple enough device, a curved reflector designed to focus all the radiation from the direction...
The Earth’s ionosphere is the ionized upper part of the atmosphere, and it’s also the most dynamic as it swells...
Astronaut Owen Garriott, amateur radio callsign W5LFL, pioneered amateur radio communication from space on his STS-9 Space Shuttle Columbia flight,...
In this edition: * 41st AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting YouTube Videos Available * ARISS Announces 40th Anniversary...
The 41st AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting lifts off at 1:00pm Central Daylight Time / 18:00 UTC on...