The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program is seeking proposals from US schools, museums, science centers, and community youth organizations to host Amateur Radio contacts in 2018 with a crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The deadline to submit proposals is November 15. Contacts would be scheduled between July 1 and December 31, 2018.
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At the 36th annual ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), held September 15–17 this year in St. Louis, HamSCI members presented preliminary evidence that the August 21 solar eclipse had a significant effect on HF propagation. The DCC is geared toward technically minded Amateur Radio operators who specialize in building and designing hardware and software to support digital communication and radio.
The 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Oct 27-29 in Reno
We are happy to announce that the 15th Annual CubeSat Developer’s Workshop will take place from April 30th to May 2nd, 2018 at the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Performing Arts Center
A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close yesterday, as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet
Earth is entering a stream of high-speed solar wind flowing from a hole in the sun’s atmosphere
The AMSATSA Kletskous transponder will be flown on the next BACAR flight, which is now scheduled for 21 October 2017 to coincide with the JOTA and CQ Hou Koers weekend
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is on final approach to Saturn, following confirmation by mission navigators that it is on course to dive into the planet’s atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15
After a 6-hour flight, astronauts Mark Vande Hei, KG5GNP, and Joe Acaba, KE5DAR, and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin arrived at the International Space Station on September 12. The trio launched aboard the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from Kazakhstan, orbited Earth four times, and then docked at the space station. The hatches between the spacecraft and station opened early on September 13.
The arrival o…
Original ArticleAfter a six-hour flight, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Joe Acaba, KE5DAR and Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos arrived at the International Space Station at 10:55 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 12, where they will continue important scientific research
Forty years after they left Earth, the Voyager twin spacecraft are still chugging along, logging 35,000 miles an hour as they zoom farther and farther into the cosmos
September 14 is the last day for the discounted price to register for the 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium which will be held on Friday through Sunday, Oct 27, 28, 29, 2017 in Reno, Nevada at the Silver Legacy Resort, 407 N Virginia Street, in Downtown, Reno