Recent News
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05/30/2015 | Delayed Return of Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF, Set for June 11
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF, now on an International Space Station duty tour that has been extended by about a month, will return to Earth on June 11.
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05/29/2015 | LightSail CubeSat Stops Transmitting
The Planetary Society is blaming a software glitch for causing its LightSail-A CubeSat to go dark.
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05/29/2015 | The K7RA Solar Update
Solar flux continues its downward trend
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05/28/2015 | Radio Call Saves SOTA Climber Following Fall
A Littleton, Colorado, radio amateur and mountaineer was happy to have his hand-held transceiver along on May 17 after he slipped and fell from an icy ledge while snowshoeing.
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05/28/2015 | Hams Invited to Test APRS on Duchifat-1 CubeSat
The Herzliya Science Center is inviting stations with the ability to send compressed APRS packets to take part in testing the Duchifat-1 CubeSat, launched almost 1 year ago by high school students in Israel.
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05/28/2015 | Sarah Brightman Spaceflight Postponed
British singer Sarah Brightman has announced that she is postponing plans to go into space as a paying guest aboard the International Space Station.
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05/28/2015 | USNA APRS/PSK31 CubeSats Offer Something Different
The APRS/PSK31-equipped US Naval Academy satellites appear to be operating, with one exception, according to Bob Bruninga, WB4APR.
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05/28/2015 | Fourteen US Schools/Groups on List to Host Ham Contacts with Space Station
Fourteen of the schools and organizations that submitted proposals to host Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contacts are moving into the final stage of the selection process.
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