Satellite news in brief

• Information about an ESA student project with a 30 kilometre tether which will perform a deorbit manoeuvre of a capsule is now available on-line at http://www.yes2.info/.
Watch this video simulation.

This is scheduled to fly in late September. The tether is expected to be visible over parts of Africa, the Middle East, South America (below 55°S), Antarctic Peninsula (above 82°S), and Eastern Russia and western Alaska (above 170°E).

• The Smallsat conference held in August published the abstracts from the papers presented including one by Kyle Leveque KG6TXT`on GENSO - the Global Educational Network for Satellite Operators. He will be presenting a further update on this network at the AMSAT Symposium in October. See http://www.smallsat.org/tech-sessions for more information.

• The presentation slides from the CalPoly Summer Workshop are available at
http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/pages/workshops/2007-summer-workshop.php. Included is an update on the Delfi-C3 sunlight only U/V transponder mission due for launch from India later this year.

• The ARRL Great Lakes Division Convention is being held on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at the Sheraton Independence Hotel in Independence, Ohio. This is near Cleveland. Jim Sanford, WB4GCS will be making a presentation on AMSAT's Eagle Satellite. More information about the convention can be found at: http://www.2007gldc.org/.

JoAnne, K9JKM