AMSAT & ISS amateur radio news

September 22, 2013 TopSpacer

Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS.

ANS 265 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – Sept. 13, 2013:
* 2013 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Election Results Announced
* Final Call for Papers for the 2013 AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space Symposium
* NASA Internship Opportunities for Spring 2014
* PSK-31 Transponder Needed for Launch Opportunity
* Dutch Amateur Radio Satellite User Day – September 28, 2013
* AMSAT-DL Satellite Symposium October 5
* AMSAT-SM compares FUNcube Dongle Pro+ and RTL SDR’s
* Australian ham radio BLUEsat satellite in the press
* Canadian ConSat-1 CubeSat
* ISS Ham Video launch campaign
* Amateur Radio in Space: Radio Amateurs Headed to, Return From ISS
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

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Science and Technology, Space Arts, Space Music

A Bohemian Rhapsody to String Theory

September 22, 2013 TopSpacer

Physics grad student Timonthy Blais created the first viral video on the subject of string theory with the release last week of his amazing one man cover of Queen’s classic Bohemian Rhapsody : Canadian Physics Student’s Rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody Goes Viral – @pritheworld

DIY space, Education, Space participation

Democratizing space – the cost to put experiments into space is dropping

September 22, 2013 TopSpacer

Opportunities for students to put experiments into space, both suborbital and orbital, are growing as costs for spaceflight fall: Got $5,000? Do A Science Experiment In Space: Space is becoming democratized. No matter how silly or smart your science is, you can soon pay to launch it to the stars – Co.Exist

Asteroids & Comets, General, The Moon

Misc: Chinese lunar lander preped; Late Veneer or not; Better NEO finding; More bucks for VASIMR documentary

September 22, 2013 TopSpacer

A diverse array of unconnected items that have built up in my posting queue:

The Chinese preparations for their first lunar lander is progressing towards a launch this year: Chang’e-3 lunar probe sent to launch site – China.org.cn
Clues to how the early earth was formed come from gold in the crust and in meteorites but they don’t settle the argument in favor of the “Late Veneer” model: Does gold come from outer space? – BBC
The rate at which small asteroids are discovered may soon shoot up, so to speak: “Synthetic Tracking” Set to Revolutionise Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery — The Physics arXiv Blog
Ad Astra Rocket Company raised more than twice the target for its crowdfunding campaign to pay for development of a high production quality documentary video to explain its VASIMR propulsion technology: Animating VASIMR®: The Future of Spaceflight by Ad Astra Rocket Company — Kickstarte