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Subj: News in Brief for This Week
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To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 040.06 From AMSAT HQ
Silver Spring, MD. February 9, 2003
To All Radio Amateurs
BID: $ANS-040.06
** There is a very active joint effort by RACES and SKYWARN to aid
government agencies (FBI, NASA, etc) with the identification, GPS
location cataloging and recovery of space shuttle components. Some of
the activities being conducted over the W5NAC repeater in Nacogdoches
TX. You can monitor the activity using Echolink's EDU_NET conference.
-- Rick, W2GPS
** The Intelsat 907 satellite was integrated atop its Ariane 4 in the
launch zone, marking the final major step in the vehicle's build-up. Liftoff
of Flight 159 is on schedule for the early morning hours of February 12.
--SpaceDaily
** Working in collaboration with David Altman, currently president of
Space Propulsion Group, and Brian Cantwell, a professor at Stanford, Arif
Karabeyoglu figured out a way to make paraffin burn three times faster than
had ever been achieved before--fast enough to serve as rocket
uel. --SpaceDaily
** Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego and its
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Eureka-based Silicon Defense, the
University of California, Berkeley, and the nonprofit International Computer
Science Institute in Berkeley, found that the Sapphire worm doubled its
numbers every 8.5 seconds during the explosive first minute of its attack.
Within 10 minutes of debuting at 5:30 a.m. (UTC) Jan. 25 (9:30 p.m. PST,
Jan. 24) the worm was observed to have infected more than 75,000 vulnerable
hosts. --SpaceDaily
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