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*AMSAT News Service* *ANS-263*
*September 20, 2026*
In this edition:
* AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results
* Call for Presentations: 44th AMSAT Space Symposium
* AO-7 Again Captures Attention
* Binar-567 CubeSat Trio Prepared for Launch
* LEO.space Free Platform for Tracking Satellites
* NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots ‘Once-in-Century’ Crate
r
* Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for Sept. 18, 2026
* Three U.S. Schools Moved Forward in ARISS Selection Process
* ARISS News
* AMSAT Ambassador Activities
* Satellite Shorts from All Over
The AMSAT® News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and informat
ion
service of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation.
ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on
the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an
active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through
analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.
The news feed on https://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in
Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.
*Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at]
amsat.org <http://amsat.org>*
You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service
Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see:
https://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/
------------------------------
AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results
The following were elected to the three expiring seats of the Board of
Directors:
- Paul Stoetzer
- Rich Gopstein
- Mark Hammond
The following were elected as noted:
- Douglas Tabor, First Alternate
- Bruce Paige, Second Alternate
On September 16, 2026, Barry Baines formally tendered his resignation from
the Board for personal reasons.
The Board officially consists of the following 7 members:
- Jerry Buxton
- Drew Glasbrenner
- Rich Gopstein
- Mark Hammond
- Frank Karnauskas
- Paul Stoetzer
- Douglas Tabor
By my hand on September 19, 2026,
Douglas Tabor
AMSAT Secretary
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Call for Presentations: 44th AMSAT Space Symposium
Do you have a story to tell the amateur satellite community? AMSAT invites
proposals for presentations at the 44th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual
General Meeting, to be held October 8-11, 2026, at the Wyndham Jacksonville
Hotel & Conference Center in Jacksonville, Florida.
Presentations are welcome on any topic of interest to the amateur satellite
community. Suggested subjects include current and future satellite projects
such as the GOLF program and the CubeSatSim; ARISS and human spaceflight
activities; ground station, antenna, and portable station design;
software-defined radio; telemetry collection and analysis; satellite
operating techniques and achievements; educational programs and youth
outreach; and reports from DXpeditions and roving operations. Whether you
have built it, flown it, coded it, taught it, or worked it through a
satellite, your fellow attendees want to hear about it.
Prospective presenters should email a tentative presentation title and a
brief abstract to symposium [at] amsat.org as soon as possible.
Presentation time slots are limited, so early submissions are encouraged,
and information on submitting final papers and presentation materials for
inclusion in the Symposium Proceedings will be provided to presenters. A
digital copy of the Proceedings is included with every Symposium
registration.
Symposium presentations begin Friday afternoon, October 9, and continue
through Saturday, October 10, leading into the Annual General Meeting. Live
all the more reason to make sure your work is on the program.
Registration for the Symposium is now open at
https://launch.amsat.org/event-6789663, with early bird pricing available
be made through the booking link at
https://www.amsat.org/2026-amsat-symposium/ or by phone at 1-800-227-6963
<(800)%20227-6963> using group code AMS.
*[ANS thanks the AMSAT Symposium Team for the above information.]*
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*Registration is Now Open!* <https://launch.amsat.org/event-6789663>
<https://www.amsat.org/2026-amsat-symposium/>
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AO-7 Again Captures Attention
AMSAT OSCAR 7, the amateur satellite launched in 1974 but operational yet
today, has once again gained the attention of the media. Historians and
fans of space lore have often focused on the story of AO-7, one of the
oldest — if not *the* oldest — satellite of any type to rem
ain in operation
a half century after its commissioning. Yet another space journalist has
discovered the story and published an article about our venerable repeater
in the sky.
Lachlan Brown, Editor-in-Chief and a Co-Publisher of *Space Daily*, an
online technical news outlet that has published continuously since 1995,
posted a new article on September 17 that recounts the history of the
satellite. The full article is available at
https://spacedaily.com/t-ao-7-amateur-radio-satellite-returned-after-21-yea
rs/
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