[amsat-bb] Soaring Upward to HEO

[Paul Stoetzer]

The past five years rank with the best in AMSAT's history and we are poised
for much more success in the future. We have launched four satellites and a
fifth is complete and awaiting launch. We have partnered with university
groups to place amateur transponders on their satellites. We are on a path
back to HEO through our GOLF program with the first two satellites in this
series, GOLF-TEE and GOLF-1, selected for launch opportunities. We continue
to support amateur radio on human spaceflight through ARISS and AREx. Our
CubeSat Simulator project has been very successful in promoting AMSAT's
mission of educational outreach. Due to these successes, membership numbers
and revenue continue to increase after a long period of decline from the
late 1990s. After falling to around 3,000 members in the early part of last
decade, we are now up to about 4,000 members. Additionally, activity on the
amateur satellites has increased considerably over the past several years.

In addition to satellite projects, we have launched a new, modern
membership portal. Our members now have access to all issues of The AMSAT
Journal from 2014 to the present and all of the AMSAT Symposium Proceedings
since 1986 through this portal. More publications are coming soon. We have
also modernized and revitalized the field program with our new AMSAT
Ambassador program.

If you want us to continue on the journey Upward to HEO, vote for Dr. Mark
Hammond, N8MH, Bruce Paige, KK5DO, and myself.

73,

Paul, N8HM
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