[amsat-bb] SATCHAT NET!

2012-04-27 Thread Vincent, K9TSU
HI all, I want to take a few minutes and bore you with some changes to the Satchat I host on the *AMSAT* EchoLink server. Changes: Well, it's been a successful idea! A great place for the sat. ops. to talk to eachother. I have began questioning if it being a directed net slows it down. I think it

[amsat-bb] AO-51-SO-50

2012-04-27 Thread Kevin Deane
I remember someone saying something about the old earlybird AO-51 passess and that now all we have at night is SO-50... I was thinking of staying up late this weekend to see if there might be some earlybirds on the 50??? I do not have all that great a station and no rotator as of yet but if th

[amsat-bb] Updated Coverage for NASA/SpaceX Launch and Mission to Station

2012-04-27 Thread Clint Bradford
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-078 UPDATED COVERAGE FOR NASA/SPACEX LAUNCH AND MISSION TO STATION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The second SpaceX demonstration launch for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) has been rescheduled for a liftoff on Monday, May 7. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket

[amsat-bb] ‘Kinect’ STRaND-2 at UK Space Agency Conference + Skylon

2012-04-27 Thread Trevor .
STRaND-2 proposes to use the Lidar system, as used in the Kinect games controller, for the docking of nanosats. http://www.uk.amsat.org/6795 #Skylon an unpiloted, reusable spaceplane being developed by the UK company Reaction Engines Limited (REL) should be featured on the BBC 6pm and 10pm Ne