Launch Date Decision Nears

The two-day flight readiness review for mission STS-115 begins today at
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Following the conclusion of the
review on Wednesday, officials will host a news conference to announce
the targeted launch date for STS-115.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/48hour/msg08175.html

From SAREX:
All,

The ARISS team has been quite engaged with Pavel Vinogradov as he continues
the testing and verification of the SSTV system on ISS. We expect this to
continue over the next few weeks.

Those active on the bands have noticed that the Kenwood radio system has
been up and down over the past week or so. This is expected to continue as
Pavel checks out the SSTV software, configures and optimizes the radio, and
performs the integration checks necessary to make the SSTV system as
autonomous as possible. Since this is a "spare time" activity for Pavel,
please bear with us as we go through this aspect of system setup. It is

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