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AMSAT-UK to Test Super Black Paint on CubeSat
June 23, 2025AMSAT-UK will partner with Surrey NanoSystems and a number of universities including University of Surrey to test a special black paint on an upcoming CubeSat deployment. When applied to a surface, the super black paint, Vantablack, is designed to absorb 98% of light. The goal of the partnership is to demonstrate potential solutions to reducing light pollution as it relates to astronomy.
This high level of light absorption makes the coated surfaces appear extremely dark, helping to minimise the unwanted brightness from satellites that can disrupt the work of stargazers.
The Jovian-1 CubeSat mission containing this experiment is scheduled to launch in 2026. More information will be available at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium taking place in October.
Source: AMSAT open_in_new
Logbook of The World Moves to the Cloud
June 22, 2025ARRL announced this week that Logbook of The World (LoTW) will receive much needed technical upgrades including a move to a cloud computing platform. In addition to upgrades to the operating system and database that the service relies on, the entire product will move to the cloud. LoTW currently resides on physical hardware at ARRL HQ. A move to a proper datacenter will provide protections from both physical and network based security risks.
As a part of the ongoing modernization of the ARRL systems infrastructure, LoTW will be receiving major upgrades to the operating system it is running on, the relational database system it uses to store and access logbook and awards data, and server hosting, where it will be fully migrated to the cloud.
The cloud migration will require LoTW to be offline June 27th through July 2nd.
Source: ARRL open_in_new
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