[amsat-bb] AO-7B Follow Up - Good News

2012-07-31 Thread John Papay
Yesterday, 30 July 2012, on the 19, 21 and 23utc passes AO-7 was in Mode B and performing like it used to. It obviously had more power and although you could make it FM, the bird handled it with grace. It was workable to the north of my qth over the NWT which is not usually the case. Let's

[amsat-bb] NASA News - Mars Science Laboratory Landing Toolkit

2012-07-31 Thread JoAnne Maenpaa
Hello Everyone, Here is some additional Mars Landing news which is probably more useful now rather than waiting for the next weekend AMSAT News Service cycle ... NASA is offering a web page with the Mars Science Laboratory Landing Toolkit http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/msl_landing.cfm