Inside the Current Issue

• Apogee View - AMSAT President Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, reports from a busy week on the road, including a day at the Huntsville Hamfest and two days spreading the AMSAT message at the Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City, where the conversations ranged from launch providers to high schools - and included an introduction to the new president of AMSAT-Canada.
• Educational Relations Update - Alan Johnston, KU2Y, on the CubeSatSim's feature in the September issue of QST, a preview of the upcoming v2.3 software release, and the CubeSatSim loaner program for educators, along with a sidebar Quick Update on FoxPlus-A testing.
• AO-7's 24-Hour Mode Timer: What the AMSAT Status Reports Reveal During Continuous Sunlight - Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, mines nearly 1,500 AMSAT Satellite Status API reports from this summer's illumination season to ask a simple question of a 51-year-old spacecraft: how well is its onboard mode timer really behaving?
• Public STEM Events and AMSAT's "BuzzSat" Resources - AMSAT Ambassador Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, shares his approach to engaging the non-ham public at Dallas's Moon Day, from CubeSatSim demos and live SSTV to the new BuzzSat.com youth outreach materials, with ready-to-use handouts for other Ambassadors.
• AMSAT Field Day 2026 Results - Bruce Paige, KK5DO, delivers his annual roundup of AMSAT Field Day, complete with the final standings, station stories, and the traditional visits from Murphy, followed by a 20-photo Field Day Gallery with scenes from sites across North America.