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Subj: AMSAT-UK at The Space Technology Education Confere
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 142.07
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
May 22, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-142.07
The Space Technology Education Conference (STEC2005) took place at Aarlborg
university in northern Denmark over the 6-8th of April and consisted of
various keynote presentations and over 40 technical workshops. Over one
hundred university students attended from many European countries and many
came as a result of direct ESA sponsorship that they received having
submitted papers to ESA for assessment. There was an exhibition and display
area and one evening was spent performing seriously detailed checks on the
specific gravity of the various Danish beers.
The organisation at Aarlborg rested upon a team of students and was largely
members of the Groundstation and OBC teams that have been formed for the
SSETI Express project. This was done very well and during the conference we
even got to see the "control room" for SSETI Express.
Two members from AMSAT-UK had attended the 2004 conference and decided that
AMSAT needed some more robust representation than last year so we were
delighted when Jan King, VK4GEY/W3GEY, agreed to do a keynote on "The
lessons we have learnt over 50 Oscars" - this was well received and he was
also able to briefly introduce his new suite of link/power/mass budget
spreadsheets. These are, without doubt, wonderful tools for satellite
developers to use to verify their own calculations in these vital areas of
system design. Presently his presentation and these spreadsheets can be
downloaded from http://lmts.epfl.ch/page10433.html.
Graham Shirville, G3VZV, was also able to give a short presentation on the
IARU Satellite Coordination Group and described the process that has to be
followed to ensure that the right sort of satellites use "our" allocations
and what else has to be done in addition.
In addition Ib, OZ1MY, the Chairman of AMSAT-OZ, was also in attendance and
as he is already known to a good number of the student fraternity in Denmark
this was especially helpful. He provided some AO-51 demonstrations and
helped Jim, G3WGM, setup and man the AMSAT stand in the exhibition arena.
We were also asked to chair the "Communications" technical workshop during
the Conference where a number of RF associated papers were presented.
Other keynote presentations included one from Prof Bob Twiggs - the father
of the cubesat family and also licensed as KE6QMD so there was a
considerable amount of AMSAT input.
This was a great event that enabled these enthusiastic students to learn
about the AMSAT experience and skills and for us to be able to discuss with
them their ideas and problems. We have a lot to offer them and their
enthusiasm lays the ground for the future generation of amateur satellite
builders.
One of the projects described during the Conference is called Delfi-C3 and
is a triple cubesat i.e. 300x100x100mm. This project comes from the
University of Delft in the Netherlands and will hopefully include a U/V
linear transponder as part of its payload. See
http://www.delfic3.tudelft.nl/ for full details.
A number of the speakers at STEC2005 have expressed a desire to attend our
AMSAT-UK Colloquium in July and to give us updated presentations on their
projects so the interaction is set to continue in a positive way.
[ANS thanks Graham, G3VZV for the above information]
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