The 2020 Virtual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday, October 17th from 9:00am CDT – 5:00pm CDT (UTC -5). Symposium presentations will be a combination of pre-recorded video segments along with a question and answer sessions held via a Zoom meeting.
The Symposium will be made available for free live on AMSAT’s YouTube channel.
Registered attendees will receive a digital copy of the AMSAT Symposium Proceedings and will be entitled to join the Zoom meeting. Only registered attendees will be able to participate in the question and answer sessions. Registered attendees will also be entered into prize drawings. Registration is free and available only for AMSAT members. Registration will close on Friday, October 16th at 5:00pm CDT.
Proposals for papers and Symposium presentations are invited on any topic of interest to the amateur satellite community. We request a tentative title of your presentation as soon as possible.
Final papers for the Symposium Proceedings must be submitted by October 5, 2020 to Dan Schultz, N8FGV, [email protected].
Symposium presentations should be limited to 15 minutes of pre-recorded video. Video presentations must be submitted by October 10, 2020 to Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, [email protected]. We ask that presenters be available to take questions via Zoom following the airing of their pre-recorded video.
Tentative Schedule
| Time | Topic |
| 9:00am CDT | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15am CDT – 12:45pm CDT | General Presentations |
| 1:00pm CDT – 2:00pm CDT | AMSAT Education / CubeSat Simulator |
| 2:00pm CDT – 3:00pm CDT | ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) / AREx (Amateur Radio Exploration) |
| 3:00pm CDT – 4:00pm CDT | AMSAT Engineering |
| 4:00pm CDT – 5:00pm CDT | 2020 AMSAT Annual General Meeting |