Archive - Feb 2003 - Story
February 9th
HAMS ASSIST IN SEARCH FOR COLUMBIA DEBRIS
The ARRL Letter from The American Radio Relay League report that in Texas this week, Amateur Radio Emergency Service and SKYWARN volunteers have been assisting federal, state and local officials and relief organizations in their search for shuttle Columbia debris and remains of the crew members
AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY MOURNS LOSS OF COLUMBIA ASTRONAUTS
The ARRL Letter from The American Radio Relay League reports that the flags of the United States, the ARRL and the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) are flying at half staff at ARRL Headquarters as the Amateur Radio community has joined the rest of the world in mourning the loss of the seven shuttle Columbia astronauts.
February 8th
ARLS005 ARISS contact delayed
Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
An ARISS contact set for February 6 with students at a high school in Germany was postponed, although the contact schedule is expected to resume later this month.
"The German school QSO was postponed because of the Columbia accident.....
February 7th
Shuttle Fleet Grounded
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, for his part stressed that the independent Columbia Accident Investigation Board would have the final word as to when the space shuttle fleet, grounded since February 1, would fly again.
full story at SpaceDaily.Com
February 6th
Space Shuttle Risk Assesment Report Available Online
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is again making available a report commissioned by NASA about the risk to space shuttles from damage to the spacecraft's protective tiles.
KD7TYN is the new call for Mattie
ISS FanClub has probably the youngest general class license holder ever (6 years old).
Mattie, KD7TYN (IFC #897) was previously KD7SDF .
On the ARRL website you can find a nice writeup about her story.
Congratulations Mattie from the IFC Staff
KALPANA-1 Satellite
The METSAT launched by ISRO on 2 Sept 2002 will be named as Kalpana-1 in memory of late Ms Kalpana Chawla who was killed in the recent ill fated Columbia accident.
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February 5th
Challenging year to build Jules Verne
31 January 2003
Today, about 90 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) spaceship that is to fly towards the International Space Station (ISS) in September 2004, is already built.
Columbia's trail of debris may have begun in California
Get the full story at SpaceDaily.Com
STS-107 Status Report #22 - Feb. 4, 2003
Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
As NASA paused to pay tribute to Columbia's astronauts, the agency reported making "considerable progress" in recovering debris from the Space Shuttle and analyzing data in the search for clues to what caused the orbiter to breakup 16 minutes before its landing last Saturday.