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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 019.06 From AMSAT HQ
Silver Spring, MD. January 19, 2002
To All Radio Amateurs
BID: $ANS-019.06
** Federal Communications Commission has launched a simplified version of
its Electronic Comment Filing System or ECFS. To access ECFS Express,
users need only click on the "File Comments" logo found on the front page of
the FCC's Web site at www.fcc.gov --Newsline
** A broadcast tower almost a half mile high to replace the structure lost
when terrorists felled New York's World Trade Center could rise across the
Hudson river in New Jersey. If constructed the new tower would not only
become the world's tallest free-standing structure. It would also be the
worlds tallest broadcast tower built at near sea level. --Newsline
** Another would-be tallest man-made structure could soon be towering over
the Australian outback. By 2006, the Australian power company EnviroMission
Ltd hopes to build a 3,300 foot high solar tower in southwest New South
Wales state. The 200 megawatt solar generating station will cost nearly $563
million dollars to build and will be the width to a football
field. --Newsline
** Currently, the world's tallest free-standing structure is the Canadian
National Tower in Toronto. Its about 1650 feet high. -- Newsline
** China plans to launch its first manned space mission in October in the
quest to become the third country to send a human into orbit. --SpaceDaily
** The Space Shuttle Columbia blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on
Thursday in what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration called "a
perfect launch" at 10:39am (1539 GMT). The shuttle and its seven person
crew are on a 16-day mission dedicated to bio-science. Landing is currently
schedule for 01 Feb, 08:53am (1353 GMT). --SpaceDaily
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