AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
ANS-289
October 16, 2025
In this edition:
- AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Livestream Available
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AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Livestream Available
The 2025 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting begins at 1:00pm MST / 2000 UTC on October 17, 2025. A livestream will be made available of the presentations on AMSAT’s YouTube channel.
Day 1 will be streamed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAC9_Uh2ys4
Day 2 will be streamed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0K9cHCz9Fw
The schedule of presentations is below:
Friday, October 17*
| Start | Speaker | Topic |
| 1:00 PM | Introduction/Announcements | |
| 1:05 PM | AMSAT President | Welcome |
| 1:15 PM | Cameron Castillo, KJ7ILB | ASCENT Team Propulsion |
| 1:45 PM | Jim McCullers, WA4CWI | Oscar to OsTrax |
| 2:15 PM | Andrew Robinson, KA3WDW | FoxPlus Mechanical Layout & Design |
| 3:00 PM | Heimir Thor Sverrisson, W1ANT | Extending Command and Control for GOLF |
| 3:30 PM | Frank Bauer, KA3HDO | ARISS |
| 4:00 PM | Frank Karnauskas, N1UW | Youth Initiative |
| 4:30 PM | Jim White, WD0E | ARDC |
Saturday, October 18*
| Start | Speaker | Topic |
| 8:00 AM | Alan Johnston, KU2Y | CubeSatSim Update & Demonstration |
| 9:00 AM | Agastya Bose, KJ5MSH | CubeSatSim |
| 9:15 AM | Larry Ryan, W7DGP | CubeSatSim |
| 9:30 AM | Frederic Raab, KK6NOW | Bridging Orbit and Classroom: SatNOGS/CubeSatSim |
| 10:15 AM | Burns Fisher, WB1FJ | Telemetry for FoxPlus & GOLF CubeSats |
| 10:45 AM | Burns Fisher, WB1FJ | A New Use for Fox & MESAT-1 Whole Orbit Data Algorithm |
| 11:15 AM | Kipton Moravec, AE5IB | GOLF-TEE Electrical Power Supply (EPS) |
| 1:00 PM | Jerry Buxton, N0JY | Engineering / GOLF-TEE Update |
| 2:00 PM | Mike Moore, K4MVM | FoxPlus Update |
| 2:30 PM | AMSAT President | Annual General Meeting |
* All times are Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7). Arizona does not observe Daylight Savings Time.
[ANS thanks the AMSAT Symposium Team for the above information]
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This week’s ANS Contributing Editor,
Paul Stoetzer, N8HM
n8hm [at] arrl.net
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