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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 263.05
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
September 18, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS BID:
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** On Saturday, September 11, astronaut Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, became
the first International Space Station crew member to contact all
seven of the world's continents via Amateur Radio. Fincke worked
KC4AAC at Antarctica's Palmer Research Station for his last contact--
a bonus continent not required to earn the International Amateur
Radio Union's Worked All Continents award. -ARRLWeb
** Web metrics suggest that the software giant's Internet Explorer
has been losing a significant number of users in the past nine months
to open-source browser Mozilla and its offspring, Firefox. The gains
for the two browsers, which are both produced by the Mozilla
Foundation, are most noticeable at Web sites popular among geek-chic
early adopters. W3Schools.com, a Web development tutorial site, found
that 18 percent of its visitors in September used Mozilla-based
browsers, compared with 8 percent in January. Internet Explorer use
dropped to 75 percent from 84 percent in the same period. --CNET
** When the Ariane 5 ECA qualification flight lifts off in October,
one of the 'passengers' will be 33.5 litres of water. Onboard will be
the experimental Sloshsat-FLEVO satellite, designed to help European
scientists find out more about the movement of water in microgravity
and its effects on satellites. Sloshsat-FLEVO is aptly named: slosh
for the movement of water, sat for satellite and FLEVO, the project's
acronym: Facility for Liquid Experimentation and Verification in
Orbit. Flevo is also the name of the latest province in the
Netherlands to be reclaimed from the sea, and one of the sites of the
Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), the main contractor for
this project. The cube-shaped Sloshsat-FLEVO is a mini satellite with
a mass of just 129 kg. It will be launched on top of the cylinder-
shaped Maqsat-B2 structure and placed in the lower passenger position
under the Ariane 5 fairing. --ESA
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