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01/20/2011 | NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators’ Aid to Listen for Nanosatellite’s Beacon Signal
On Wednesday, January 19 at 1630 UTC, engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology Satellite (FASTSAT). According to NASA, the ejection
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![Attending the ARISS meeting at W1AW were (L–R) Mark Steiner, K3MS; Debra Johnson, K1DMJ; Cynthia McArthur, Deborah Brown-Biggs, Barry Baines, WD4ASW; Mark Severance, N5XWF; Rosalie White, K1STO; Ed Pritchard, and Dewey Rykard, KI4RGD. [N1BKE photo]](/img/122x89/News/News_Only/_DSC00827.JPG)
11/22/2010 | ARISS Aiming to Raise Its Educational Profile
Meeting at ARRL HQ Brings Changes to ARISS Program
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08/04/2010 | Greenville Elementary School HamsFourth grade students have eyes on the sky and Technician tickets are the prize.
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07/16/2010 | Eavesdropping on Apollo 11A ham receives Apollo 11 transmissions.
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12/19/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
Sunspot activity continued this week; new group 1035 emerged December 14, following group 1034 that appeared December 9. Daily sunspot numbers since December 9 through December 17 have been 13, 13, 13, 12, 14, 28, 38, 30 and 24. Solar flux values have bee
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12/15/2009 | Students and Teachers Invited to "Fly a File" on ARISSat-1
On February 3, 2006, cosmonaut Valery Ivanovich Tokarev hand-launched the Amateur Radio satellite SuitSat-1 from the International Space Station during an extra vehicular activity (EVA), NASA's term for a spacewalk. A discarded Russian ORLAN spacesuit, Su
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11/06/2009 | Idaho School Incorporates ARISS into Curriculum
With more than 500 Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contacts conducted, thousands of students have experienced intriguing science and technology lessons -- plus the thrill of speaking with an astronaut who was on the International
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10/30/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
Well, what a week it has been. The solar flux hit 82.3 on Tuesday, the highest recording yet since the first-observed "new cycle sunspot" in January 2008, the "official" visual start of Solar Cycle 24. Even as I write this, the flux is
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