Recent News
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06/01/2015 | It's Alive! LightSail Spacecraft Restored After Being Silenced by Software Issue
After going silent for a few days, The Planetary Society’s LightSail™ spacecraft has resumed transmitting.
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06/01/2015 | WX4NHC Reports It’s Ready for Hurricane Season
WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, reports that it’s tested and ready for the 2015 Hurricane Season, which begins June 1 and continues through November.
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06/01/2015 | HEX-BEAM® Manufacturer Traffie Technologies Shutting Down
Traffie Technologies, the Massachusetts-based family business that has pioneered and manufactured the HEX-BEAM line of rotatable wire beams, is closing its doors.
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05/30/2015 | Delayed Return of Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF, Set for June 11
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF, now on an International Space Station duty tour that has been extended by about a month, will return to Earth on June 11.
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05/29/2015 | LightSail CubeSat Stops Transmitting
The Planetary Society is blaming a software glitch for causing its LightSail-A CubeSat to go dark.
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05/29/2015 | The K7RA Solar Update
Solar flux continues its downward trend
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05/28/2015 | Radio Call Saves SOTA Climber Following Fall
A Littleton, Colorado, radio amateur and mountaineer was happy to have his hand-held transceiver along on May 17 after he slipped and fell from an icy ledge while snowshoeing.
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05/28/2015 | Hams Invited to Test APRS on Duchifat-1 CubeSat
The Herzliya Science Center is inviting stations with the ability to send compressed APRS packets to take part in testing the Duchifat-1 CubeSat, launched almost 1 year ago by high school students in Israel.
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