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David Bowman, G0MRF, and Graham Shirville, G3VZV, will travel to St.
Johns, Newfoundland May 15-19, 2024 in an attempt to operate QO-100 from
below the horizon and claim trophies sponsored by AMSAT-UK and the British
Amateur Television Club for the first QO-100 QSOs from North America.
AMSAT-UK and BATC posed the challenge
https://amsat-uk.org/2022/11/01/making-qo-100-contacts-from-north-america-a-new-challenge/
in 2022. The trophies have so far gone unclaimed, though successful below
horizon operation on QO-100 has occurred from Indonesia. (ANS thanks David
Bowman, G0MRF, for the above information)
Members of the AMSAT Engineering team attended the CubeSat Developer's
Workshop in San Luis Obispo, CA this past week. The workshop offered an
opportunity for AMSAT Engineers to network with other CubeSat developers
and learn about the most recent developments in space technology as applied
to CubeSats.
The U.S. space agency says its Voyager-1 probe is once again sending
usable information back to Earth after months of spouting gibberish. The
46-year-old NASA spacecraft is humanity's most distant object. A computer
fault stopped it returning readable data in November but engineers have now
fixed this. For the moment, Voyager is sending back only health data about
its onboard systems, but further work should get the scientific instruments
back online. Voyager-1 is more than 24 billion km (15 billion miles) away,
so distant, its radio messages take a full 22.5 hours to reach us. (ANS
thanks BBC News for the above information.)
In Colorado Springs, Colorado, students at the Thrive Home School Academy
https://www.thrivehsa.org/ (THSA), along with students at Stratton
Meadows Elementary (SME), were able to have a space chat with NASA
astronaut and mission specialist Jeanette "Jo" Epps, KF5QNU, on board the
International Space Station (ISS) on April 22, 2024. At the time of the
contact Epps, a member of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission, was on her 47th day of
the 180-day mission. (ANS thanks the ARRL Letter
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2024-04-25 for the above
information.)
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