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02/11/2012 | NASA Selects AMSAT Fox Satellite to Join Program
NASA has selected AMSAT's Fox satellite to be a part its Educational Launch of Nanosat program
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10/13/2011 | AMSAT to Celebrate 50 Years in Space at Annual Space Symposium
The AMSAT 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held on Friday, November 4-6 in San Jose, California. This year’s Symposium coincides with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of OSCAR 1, the first Amateur Radio satellite. The Symposium will feature prese
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09/28/2011 | AMSAT Sponsors ARISSat-1 Re-entry Contest
AMSAT Secretary Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, said the ARISSat-1 Team is still looking for entries in the Chicken Little Contest. This is your opportunity to calculate or guess when ARISSat-1 falls out of orbit. This is defined as the time it crosses an altitude o
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08/03/2011 | ARISSat-1 Finally Deployed from ISS
After a delay of almost four hours, cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, RU3DIS, and Alexander Samokutyaev, successfully deployed Amateur Radio’s newest satellite: ARISSat-1/KEDR. The deployment -- originally scheduled to occur at 1457 UTC on Wednesday, August 3 --
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05/06/2011 | Surfin’: Two Weeks ’til DaytonThis week, Surfin’ gets ready for the Dayton Hamvention.
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10/26/2010 | ARISSat-1 “Suits Up” for February 2011 Launch
Earlier this year, astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS) had to discard two surplus Orlan space suits. With the loss of the suits, those involved with AMSAT and Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) were at a loss.
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12/30/2009 | Youth@HamRadio.Fun: A Bird's Eye ViewThe mystery of space and weightlessness is one that inspires the imagination. The dream of conquering what lies beyond our atmosphere spans generations. It is that mystique and dream that has driven many dedicated Amateur Radio operators and science enthu
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12/21/2009 | Chinese Satellite XW-1 Receives OSCAR Designation
Less than one week after China’s first Amateur Radio satellite -- XW-1 -- was successfully launched, AMSAT has designated it Hope-OSCAR 68, or HO-68. “Amateur Radio Operators around the world have received beacon sig
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