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Updates
Latest news and announcements from AMSAT-CA
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Starting Your Satellite Journey: Downloading Weather Images from Space
Ever looked up and wondered what Earth looks like from space, right now? With just a few accessible tools, you can receive live imagery from orbiting weather satellites. This isn’t just a cool trick. It’s one of the best ways to begin exploring satellite communications and radio science.
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UHF Spectrum Encroachment
The 435-438 MHz UHF Amateur satellite allocation is a global workhorse of the Amateur-satellite service. As shown in the figure below, it is second only to the commercial (non-Amateur) UHF spectrum in terms of utilization by nanosatellites (CubeSats) only.
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CUBICS Critical Design Review
CUBICS is a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) initiative that provides professors in post-secondary institutions with an opportunity to engage their students in an end-to-end space mission adapted to their needs and their level of comfort, expertise and readiness. Selected teams have the unique opportunity to design, build, test, launch and operate their own miniature satellite called a CubeSat. This program is a follow-up to the highly successful Canadian CubeSat Project (CCP), another CSA initiative between 2018 and 2023, which has seen the launch of 15 such satellites built by universities across Canada.
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Canada-Wide Science Fair 2025
The Canada-Wide Science Fair was held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 31 to June 7, 2025. Hundreds of high school students presented their science projects. On June 5 and 6 was the STEM expo where the Radio Amateurs of Canada had a booth, where AMSAT-CA was a participant.
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ESA North America/EU GEO Position Paper
Idea to develop QO-100 like Amateur payload for GEO orbit with North American coverage First proposed by Frank Zeppenfeldt PD0AP in 2023.
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QO-100 North America Challenge
First QO-100 activation from Newfoundland by founding president Stefan VE4SW and board member John VE1CWJ. Featured in September-October edition of the Canadian Amateur.