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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 272.01 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. SEPTEMBER 29, 2002
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-272.01
** A new AMSAT Net for beginners, which started on July 17th and has been
held weekly is on Wednesday nights 7 pm to 8:30 pm PDT (this is Thursday
0200-0330 UTC). You can join the net via the internet by connecting to node
"925", the Western reflector in Las Vegas NV. (http://www.irlp.net)
You can also check-in via 20 Meters on 14.282 MHz for those who do not yet
have IRLP in their area. More information is available on-line at:
http://www.w6fog.com/ . Neil is happy to announce that the net has brought
53 new satellite operators up on the satellites in the 7 weeks the net has
been running. -- Neil W6FOG
** The US Naval Academy's PCsat (NO-44) entered full sun this past week and
has been usable on ALL passes day and night. Everyone is welcome to
digipeat UI packets via W3ADO-1 on 145.825 up and down. As the eclipse
cycle repeats PCsat will return back to midday and afternoon passes only
until one day her batteries will eventually fail. -- Bob WB4APR
** The ARRL Certification and Continuing Education program offers the ARRL
Satellite Communications course (EC-007). More information is available on
the ARRL Certification and Continuing Education Web page at
http://www.arrl.org/cce . -- ARRL
** For those with access to NASA TV the docking of the Progress 9 to
ISS/Zvezda live coverage of its arrival will begin at 12:30 p.m. EDT.
Progress 9 is scheduled to dock at 1:07 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 29. -- NASA
** Here's one to check out for the next shuttle launch. Try watching the
webcam mounted on the external fuel tank:
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/sts112/020912shuttlecam/ -- Alan ZL2VAL
** Russian businessman Serguey Polonsky may become the next space tourist
after the Russian Space Agency found him fit to make the trip, Ria Novosti
reported last week. US boy band heartthrob Lance Bass will resume his space
training which was interrupted earlier this month after the pop idol's
sponsors failed to pay his dues, Russian space officials said. --SpaceDaily
** India's first meteorological satellite, METSAT, was successfully switched
on from Master Control Facility at Hassan on September 19, 2002. The first
full-frame image was of earth in the visible spectral band. It showed the
full earth disc and the adjoining deep space. --SpaceDaily
** A 150-ton magnet developed in part by MIT engineers is pulling the world
closer to nuclear fusion as a potential source of energy. The ultimate goal
of the project is a magnet weighing 925 tons that in turn, will be part of
a total magnet system weighing some 10,000 tons. During a test run the
overall device produced a magnetic field of 13 tesla (about 260 thousand
times more powerful than the Earth's magnetic field) with a stored energy of
640 megajoules at a current of 46,000 amperes. -- SpaceDaily
** Move over WWV. The NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Frequency Standards team has
developed and installed a new trapped ion atomic clock for the U.S. Naval
Observatory in Washington. These recent JPL innovations result in a clock
with an effective stability that is equivalent to about one minute in
10 billion years - the approximate age of the universe. --NASA/JPL
[ANS thanks JoAnne Maenpaa WB9JEJ for the above information.]
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