10 Nov
2009
10 Nov
'09
1:25 p.m.
JoAnne covered a lot of ground. We are also working at having presences at CubeSat and related meetings where many graduate and undergraduate students are present. W5DID's initiative to institute a reduced rate for students in AMSAT membership is a recognition of the need to attract, and keep, new members whose careers will be in space science and technology. Reaching out works both ways. It gets them interested in communications, not just telemetry, and will make it easy to integrate communications packages in research satellites.
We amateurs need to connect with, mentor to and volunteer for cube sat and pico sat efforts that are being initiated at the university level.
Yep, we are doing that.
Alan WA4SCA