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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 005.12 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. JANUARY 5, 2002
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** A new $6 million dollar radio Voice of International Asia broadcast
center has been officially opened on Australia's Sunshine Coast. The studio
originates mainly programming for transmission on shortwave. It uses the
former Radio Australia transmitters near Darwin in VK8 and the footprint
covers one-third of the globe. --Newsline
** In celebration of the100th Anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's First
Wireless transmission between the United States and Europe, The Marconi
Radio Club, W1AA, and the Marconi Cape Cod Memorial Radio Club, KM1CC,
will operate a Special Event station from January 11-19 at the former Coast
Guard station at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, Massachusetts, from near the
site
of the original Marconi 1903 Station. From 9:00 a.m. to5:00 p.m. each day.
--Arthur, N1ORC
** China successfully launched its fourth Shenzhou test spacecraft from the
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province. Xinhua news agency said
the spacecraft was launched at 00:40 am (1640 GMT Sunday, Dec. 28) and
entered its preset orbit. --SpaceDaily
** A Russian Proton rocket carrying a Canadian telecoms satellite blasted
off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome Russian agencies here reported.
The launch of the 3,670-kilogram Nimiq-2 satellite, belonging to the
Canadian company Telesat, took place at 2316 GMT Sunday, Dec
8. --SpaceDaily
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