AMSAT News ServiceANS-334November 30, 2025 In this edition: Registration is open for the 2025–2026 European Astro Pi Challenge Optical Communications...
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AMSAT reports that AO-73, also known as FUNcube-1, has reached its 12th birthday. On November 21, 2013 FUNcube-1 (AO-73) was...
AMSAT News Service ANS-327 November 23, 2025 In this edition: September/October 2025 Edition of The AMSAT Journal Now Available New AMSAT CubeSatSim...
Solar activity has remained low this past week. The largest flarewas a C9.9 on November 19 from a region just...
AN INTENSE GROUND LEVEL EVENT--FIRST RESULTS: A week after the Veteran's Day solar storm, researchers in the UK are releasing their...
By Cale Mooth K4HCK You might not know it, but plans are currently in progress to launch a geostationary amateur...
We’ve all seen spectacular pictures of space, and it’s easy to assume that’s how it looks to the naked eye...
AMSAT News Service ANS-320 November 16, 2025 In this edition: * BOTAN Digipeater Schedule a Challenge for U.S. Hams *...
There were two nights of visible aurora throughout the continentalUS and dead HF bands due to a severe geomagnetic storm...
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) will mark two major milestones this month with a special Slow Scan...
Solar activity has reached high levels due to a pair of X-classflares. The first was an X1.8 on November 4 from...
AMSAT News Service ANS-313 November 9, 2025 In this edition: * SpaceX Bandwagon-4 Mission Places CEVROSAT-1 in Orbit with Rideshare...
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) was the first educational payload on the International Space Station (ISS). As...
November 2, 2025 In this edition: * AMSAT Receives Two ARDC Grants for Youth Initiative Program * Alan Johnston, KU2Y,...
Solar activity has decreased to very low levels. Region 4266exhibited signs of slight development as it gained asymmetricpenumbra surrounding its...
Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one...
It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to...
AMSAT News Service ANS-299 October 26, 2025 In this edition: * AMSAT President Outlines Future Directions * Symposium Videos Available on...
A satellite, LES-1, designed to support military needs and communication, was launched into orbit in February 1965, but it shut down its...
AMSAT News Service ANS-292 October 19, 2025 In this edition: * AMSAT Board of Directors Elects Officers * AMSAT Symposium...
Researchers from four universities, including New Jersey Institute of Technology, are expanding a network of ham radio operators in North...
You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? suggests a telescope. The modest instrument...
Region AR4246 underwent significant evolution, growing in overall size while gaining multiple new spots. Subsequently, AR4246 was the main provider...
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin ANS-289 October 16, 2025 In this edition: AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Livestream...
In 1969 the UK launched Skynet-1A, a military communications satellite placed in orbit above the east coast of Africa in order to...
