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Amateur/Student Satellite, Space Radio

AMSAT & ISS amateur radio news

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 090 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – March 30, 2013:

* Schedule of AMSAT Activities at Dayton Hamvention
* AMSAT/TAPR Banquet Speaker: Bruce Perens, K6BP
* AMSAT Store Now Selling Tickets for AMSAT/TAPR Friday Night Banquet
* “Dayton Only” Special Deals at the AMSAT Store
* Google Earth Satellite Tracker Software Rollout for Demo and Testing
* AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2013 Announced for July 19-21
* South Africa AMSAT Space Symposium to Feature Interesting Topics
* VO-52 HAMSAT Transponder User Feedback Requested
* Cubesat Launches Planned for April
* ARISS School Contacts This Week
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

Activism, Space Systems, SpaceCasts

Spacevidcast 6.09: XCOR’s new piston rocket engine

Spacevidcast posts the latest live episode, which included guest Andrew Nelson from XCOR Aerospace who talked about the tests of their piston rocket engine, the Lynx suborbital spaceplane and other topics: XCOR’s new Piston Rocket Engine – 6.09 – Spacevidcast

Activism, Contests and Games

Google Lunar X PRIZE summit + Inspiration Mars is an inspirational effort

Perhaps we will find out next week if any of the Google Lunar X PRIZE teams actually have the funding to buy a rocket ride to the Moon; time is getting short to get there in time : GLXP Update: Big Summit Set for Next Week – Parabolic Arc

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Jim Banke believes Inspiration Mars is well worth getting inspired about: My advice: Get inspired by Inspiration Mars – Orbital Inclinations.

Activism, General, SpaceCasts

Spacecasts: Bob Zimmerman on JBS, Hotel Mars with comets, Bruce Cordell and waves of the future

Bob Zimmerman spoke on the John Batchelor Show on the Thursday program about the following topics:

1. Three astronauts on the way to ISS.
2. Musk confirms that SpaceX will do tests of a powered return of its first stage on future Falcon 9 launches.
3. Sequestration and big science (see the post on Behind-the-Black)
4. The ice ages and CO2: In the past temperature changes caused changes in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, rather than CO2 causing changes to the climate’s temperature.

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Alan Hale of The Earthrise Institute and co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995, talked on the Hotel Mars segment of the John Batchelor Show on Wednesday about Comet PANSTARRS and other comets in the sky this year: The John Batchelor Show “Hotel Mars,” Wednesday, 3-27-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.

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Bruce Cordell of 21st Century Waves spoke on the Space Show on Friday about “space trends for 2013 and the coming period of Ebullience for grand space projects” : Dr. Bruce Cordell, Friday, 3-29-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog