I would be very interested to read and study a webpage detailing the history of the different satellites. There's sure no shortage of content! With so many hams having 'hands-on' experiences to be shared, as well as reams of technial data which sometimes only exists in the brains of living hame today, it could be of incalculable benefit to future satellite builders who can learn from the successes, and no-less-importantly the failures experienced by these programmes! These mailing-list messages and the archives which appear on google-searches have been my source for such information thus far, but it leaves much to be desired for sure. I've noted that when reading inquiries from come recent cube-sat builders, easy access to such a history could lead to larger steps in innovation, and prevention of repeat-failures.

Auke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hammond" marklhammond@gmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:12 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Guess who turns 19 tomorrow??

Guess who turns 19 tomorrow (January 22, 2009)?

AO-16, DO-17, WO-18, and LO-19!

Happy Birthday to our Microsats.

73,

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