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 356 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – December 21, 2013:
* Saudisat 1C, SO-50, Eleven Years in Orbit
* NASA Space Life Sciences Training Program Applications Open
* ISS Cooling Pump Repair Delays Cubesat Missions
* Delfi-N3XT Update
* AMSAT SKN on OSCAR 2014 in Memory of W2LV
* Satellite Shorts
Yet another selection of space policy/politics links:
A couple of recent Space Show episodes with space policy
Update:
Speaking of space models, Alan Boyle of MSNBC posted this today – Twitter / b0yle:
WANT! RT @gdora10: Revell 1/144 Space Ship Twd & Whiteknighttwd 入荷発売中！ pic.twitter.com/ajb54rYpUt
I’ve mentioned previously that the Mars Curiosity rover LEGO model designed by Stephen Pakbaz , who had worked as an engineer on the real Curiosity rover at JPL, would become a commercial product from LEGO. The project was part of the LEGO® CUUSOO hobbyists program, which has seen some of their other models become production products for LEGO as well.
This past week LEGO announced that the model will hit the store shelves on January 1st:
Here’s a video interview with Stephen:
http://youtu.be/mmH_Gh1lRCo
The University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USCRPL) team in September launched their 4-meter, 136 kilogram Traveler 1 rocket from the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada : Young Rocketeers Reach for Space – IEEE Spectrum.
The rocket exploded a few seconds after liftoff but the launch was a step in the right direction for the program.
USC Rocket Lab Launches Traveler 1 from USC Viterbi on Vimeo.