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SSETI Express Data Competition

Following last month's delay to the launch of SSETI Express it has been announced by the launch team, currently in Moscow, that the ESA sponsored competition will have a new closing date of 1st Feb 2006.

SSETI Express is scheduled to lift off from Plesetsk in northern Russia on 27th October at 06.52 UTC.

The winner will be whoever submits the largest number of valid telemetry payload packets to SSETI Express Mission Control by 00:00 of 1 February 2006.

The prize is an invitation to the three-day STEC06 (Space Technology Education Conference) conference and exhibition, to be held in Germany in spring 2006, as well as a private visit and tour of ESA's Spacecraft Operations
Centre (ESOC) near Darmstadt Germany.

Full details are available at the SSETI Express mission pages. Mission Website http://sseti.gte.tuwien.ac.at/WSW4/MOPWS/index.php



AMSAT-UK produce a quarterly newsletter "Oscar News" which is full of Amateur Satellite information.
For membership details contact the secretary Jim Heck
Tel: +44 (0)1258 453959
E-mail: g3wgm@amsat.org
Website: http://www.uk.amsat.org/
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