Joe Spier, K6WAO, President For me, the past two months have been fairly intense. I attended the Duke City Hamfest in New Mexico, visited Gordon West in Costa Mesa, drove to Virginia and flew to Heathrow to be at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium in Milton Keynes, England, returned to Maryland for the ARISS-I Conference, spent a … Read more
July/August 2018 Joe Spier, K6WAO, President The main news for AMSAT that came out of Hamvention this year was the announcement of this year’s 36th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting to be held Friday through Sunday, November 2-4, 2018, in Huntsville, Alabama. The location will be at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, … Read more
On the 03:25 UTC pass on January 26, 2018, AMSAT Vice President – Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY, announced that AO-92 had been commissioned and formally turned the satellite over to AMSAT Operations. AMSAT Vice President – Operations Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, then declared that AO-92 was now open for amateur use. Audio of the handover and … Read more
Introduction AMSAT’s next Fox-1 satellite, Fox-1D, is scheduled for launch on January 12, 2018 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. Fox-1D will launch as part of the PSLV-C40 mission on board a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with a Cartosat-2 series imaging satellite for the Indian government and 29 other payloads. ISRO’s mission brochure … Read more