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Subj: This Week's News in Brief
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 096.09 From AMSAT HQ
Silver Spring, MD. April 6, 2003
To All Radio Amateurs
BID: $ANS-096.09
** Each year, Amateur Radio Newsline join forces with Vertex-Standard
and C-Q Magazine to honor the accomplishments of a young radio
amateur who has contributed in some special way to the hobby or to
society through the hobby. A nominee must be age 18 or younger, hold any
class of Amateur Radio license issued by the FCC and live in the contiguous
48 states. --Newsline
** University of Rochester may let you outpace a beam a beam of light by
putting your foot down on the gas pedal. At 127 miles per hour, the light in
the new device travels more than 5 million times slower than normal as it
passes through a ruby just a few centimeters long. --SpaceDaily
** A Japanese H-2A rocket carrying the nation's first spy satellites lifted
off successfully on Friday, 28 March 2003, in southwestern Japan. "The
rocket was launched at 10:27 am (0127 GMT)," said Yoshihiro Nakamura,
spokesman for the National Space Development Agency. --SpaceDaily
** A Boeing Delta II rocket successfully deployed a Global Positioning
System satellite Monday, 31 March 2003, for the U.S. Air Force. GPS IIR-9
was launched aboard a Delta II launch vehicle from Space Launch Complex 17A,
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. --SpaceDaily
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