In one of its first official duties since taking up residence on the International Space Station, the crew of Expedition Six helps light up the holiday season by taking part in a New York tradition that dates back to the 1930s.

Hello Fans,

this afternoon (UTC) all Internet lines in Italy were down for a very serious problem. Now seems Telecom technicians in Rome solved the failure so the ISS FanClub is ready again.

Sorry for the inconvenience... It isn't depending from us :(

The ISS FanClub Staff

Here is a very interesting link found in a comment wrote by an ISS FanClub Member, Russ KA2PGJ.
This is a versatile 3 element 2 meter beam, lightweight, easy to carry and has flexible elements that will bend and then come right back into position.
You can find complete dimensions and a description of how to build this antenna.

2 Meter Beam with Flexible Elements

A robot arm made in China is trying to earn a placement on the International Space Station (ISS) and participate in the construction of the large multinational orbiting outpost.....

Due to a problem, images 800x600 and 1024x768 about Crew 5 greetings were ready to download only on BMP format and not on JPG as prepared.

Now you can get a good version of these files.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

The ISS FanClub Staff

During latest 12 hours we had the real time map server down. Probably due to a problem near our provider. Now all seems solved and the server is operative as always and keplers about ISS orbit are updated after yesterday's reboost. The jet firings (45 minutes) increased the station's total altitude by about 6 ¼ miles.

The ISS FanClub Staff

A huge European satellite that was left adrift in space after a failed launch by a Russian rocket is now in a stable low-earth orbit, its operator, SES Astra, said on Thursday. Astra 1K is in a circular orbit at an altitude of 290 kilometersmiles), "where it can be safely sustained to allow the engineering teams to assess.....

NASA deleted this feature from the spaceflight.nasa.gov website.

We don't know if it is only to upgrade the tour with latest modules, but we have on our server this tour.

We have adjusted links to our portal system and the Virtual Tour is online again.

Try and please report any problem. Thanks.

IK1SLD for the ISS FanClub Staff

A European telecommunications satellite failed to reach orbit after its launch from Kazakhstan on a Russian-made rocket Tuesday, calling both the huge commercial venture and Russian space capabilities into question.

We have received several requests about statistics on the number of ISS FanClub Members and Countries.
In this moment we haven't implemented that, but in these days I have prepared manually a report about all registered Fans.
Total is 620 from 46 Countries actually.

You can find this graph at Statistics Nov. 26, 2002

IK1SLD for the ISS FanClub Staff