Satellite Shorts From All Over

• Eric, W4OTN, AMSAT Area Coordinator for Southeastern Virginia is proposing creating a Satellite Islands on the Air (IOTA) award. He is currently in the process of collecting comments to support his request to the IOTA Board. If you are interested in supporting this new award please submit your comments to Eric via:
  http://eric-sparks.blogspot.com/2007/08/official-iota-satellite-award-petition.html
• Ed, WA4SWJ Editor of The AMSAT Journal reported this week that the July/August issue of the Journal was uploaded to the printer on August 28. This issue should be on its way to your mailbox shortly.
• Information about an ESA student project with a 30 kilometre tether which will perform a deorbit manoeuvre of a capsule is now availableon-line at http://www.yes2.info/. This is scheduled to fly in late September. The tether is expected to be visible over parts of Africa the Middle East, South America (below 55°S), Antarctic Peninsula (above 82°S), and Eastern Russia and western Alaska (above 170°E).
• The Smallsat conference held in August published the abstracts from the papers presented including one by Kyle Leveque KG6TXT`on GENSO - the Global Educational Network for Satellite Operators. He will be presenting a further update on this network at the AMSAT Symposium in October. See http://www.smallsat.org/tech-sessions for more information.
• The presentation slides from the CalPoly Summer Workshop are available at http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/pages/workshops/2007-summer-workshop.php. Included is an update on the Delfi-C3 sunlight only U/V transponder mission due for launch from India later this year.
• The ARRL Great Lakes Division Convention is being held on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at the Sheraton Independence Hotel in Independence, Ohio. This is near Cleveland. Jim Sanford, WB4GCS will be making a presentation on AMSAT’s Eagle Satellite. More information about the convention can be found at: http://www.2007gldc.org/.

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