On Wednesday, March 26, around 2130 UTC a Major Storm occurred. Atone point, the Planetary A Index was 49, and...
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On December 17, 2024, at 1:49 p.m. EST, students at Sally Ride Elementary School in Orlando, Florida, made live radio...
March 23, 2025 In this edition: * January/February 2025 Issue of The AMSAT Journal is Now Available * Fram2Ham SSTV...
Open Research Institute (ORI) has begun an ambitious effort to bounce radio signals off Venus and back to Earth. A...
Solar activity reached moderate levels due to an isolated M1.5/1nflare on March 19 at 2040 UTC from Region AR4031. Regions...
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander’s first look at the solar eclipse as it began to emerge from its Mare Crisium landing...
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at minor storm levels for March 18, and then from March 27 and...
ANS-075, March 16, 2025 In this edition: * Amateur Satellites Finally Launch After Delays * NASA’s SPHEREx, PUNCH Missions Launch...
SpaceX secured permission March 7 to provide direct-to-smartphone satellite services at higher power levels to improve connectivity beyond the reach...
The International Space Station (ISS) is currently scheduled for retirement in 2030, but Elon Musk has called for an earlier...
Something that you generally don’t expect as a North-America-based enthusiast, is to listen in on Russian military communications during their...
AMSAT NEWS SERVICEANS-068In this edition:Another Batch of CubeSatSim Kits Available Soon in AMSAT Store GOLF-TEE Advances: Flight Software and Bus...
As part of the payloads on the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 (BGM1) that recently touched down on the Moon,...
Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how...
Spaceweather.com is reporting "A Hole In The Sun's Atmosphere" thatshould reach Earth on March 9 and 10. Solar activity has...
In late January 2025, 17 students and staff members from Las Animas High School (LAHS) in Colorado visited the Deep...
In this edition: * Amateur Satellites Scheduled for Launch This Week * Nine New TEVEL Satellites Scheduled for Launch *...
AMSAT has designated the recently launched HADES-R as Spain-OSCAR 124 (SO-124). The satellite features an FM repeater and is now...
A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) associated with a filament eruptionbecame visible on February 26 at 1448 UTC. Model analysisdetermined this...
In this edition: * HADES-R FM Repeater Activated and Designated Spain-OSCAR 124 (SO-124) * ARISS Completes Successful FRAM2Ham Simulation Event...
In all likelihood, asteroid 2024 YR4 will slip silently past the Earth. Based on the data we have so far,...
AMSAT News Service ANS-047 February 16, 2025 In this edition: HB9RG Trophy Competition – March 3 – 16, 2025 Current...
NOAA reports a G1 (Minor) geomagnetic Storm Watch has been issuedfor 14 Feb, 2025. A coronal hole high speed stream...
When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could...
In preparation for an upcoming mission to transmit SSTV images from a Space-X Dragon capsule later this spring, a simulation...
