Hello Ryan -- Did you look on the AMSAT site -- "New to Satellites" section ==> http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/information/faqs/

The second link on that page is a nice presentation by Emily Clarke ==> http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/information/faqs/Intro_sats.pdf

There is also a nice history of amateur satellites ==> http://www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/Hamsats/HamsatsBasics.html

(this link and many others are in the Resource Guide ) ==> http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/information/faqs/resguide.pdf

have fun!

73, Bruce WA3SWJ

At 03:03 PM 3/8/2008, ryan woods wrote:

hello all this is Ryan kd8atf my sister is doing a history project on how ham radio satellites communicate and my dad n3aas and I have both look and really cant find any thing so I was wondering if their was some one who could help us. also i was looking a the Delfi-C3 amsat page and up at the top of the page it says decay date 31 December, 1969 whats up with that. also whats the lates news on ao-40 73 for now kd8atf

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