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AMSAT 2020 Symposium now online

Posted: 25 Oct 2020 11:09 AM PDT
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The 38th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting was held online
on October 17, 2020. Im kinda bummed about this because I just joined
AMSAT, but somehow, I managed to miss this event. Fortunately, the
symposium was recorded and is now online, and Ive been enjoying watching
the video (see below).

The video includes updates on AMSAT projects and presentations on amateur
satellite technology. For details on presenter names and presentation
titles, visit the AMSAT website. AMSAT members can access the Symposium
Proceedings on the AMSAT website as well. (The proceedings for all the
AMSAT Symposiums are available there as well, but you do have to be an
AMSAT member.)

Heres a list of the different presentations on the video and the times at
which they start:

0:00:00 Welcome
0:02:07 AMSAT GOLF-TEE System Overview and Development Status
0:43:02 GOLF IHU Coordination
1:19:10 GOLF Downlink Coordination
1:50:15 FUNcube Next
2:13:50 LunART Luna Amateur Radio Transponder
2:45:35 CatSat HF Experiment Overview
3:13:30 Neutron-1 CubeSat
3:39:58 Progress and Development of Open Source Electric Propulsion for
Nanosats and Picosats
4:15:00 AMSAT Education
5:14:00 ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) / AREx
(Amateur Radio Exploration)
6:14:00 AMSAT Engineering
7:21:16 AMSAT Annual General Meeting


So far, Ive only watched the GOLF-TEE System Overview and the AMSAT
Education presentation. They were both interesting and Im looking forward
to watching the others.

I really hadnt been keeping up with AMSAT lately, so the the presentation
on the GOLF project was definitely news to me. GOLF is an ambitious project
aimed at sending up high Earth orbit (HEO) satellites. GOLF is short for
“Greater Orbits Larger (user communication) Footprints.” This is really
pretty exciting stuff.

Watching these presentations really gives one an appreciation for the work
that goes into the design of these satellites and the technical skills and
dedication of the hams working on these projects. These guys are not
getting paid to do any of this work, and as Eric Skoog, K1TVV, the GOLF
System Engineer said in his presentation, Space is hard.

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