ISWI Newsletter - Vol.11 No.08
14 June 2019

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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

[1] "Eastern Africa Global Navigation Satellite Systems and Space Weather Capacity Building Workshop" Pwani University, Kenya, 13÷17 May 2019 (read it)

[2] Singthong Khamone Abstract, Space Weather effects to Satellite Communications (read it)

[3] Mission Idea Contest #6 (read it)

[4] Report on 2019 AFRICAN GEOPHYSICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE ON SPACE WEATHER 25÷28 March 2019, Cairo, Egypt -- (read it)

[1] "Eastern Africa Global Navigation Satellite Systems and Space Weather Capacity Building Workshop" Pwani University, Kenya, 13÷17 May 2019

Please find attached the report about "Eastern Africa Global Navigation Satellite Systems and Space Weather Capacity Building Workshop" held in Pwani University from 13 to 17 May 2019.

Read the whole Report  

Send by Claudio Cesaroni

[2] Singthong Khamone Abstract, Space Weather effects to Satellite Communications

The Satellites in space have 3 types of the Earth orbital slots:
1. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) has the distance from the Earth surface 500-1,600 km;
2. Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) has the distance from the Earth surface between 10,000 km-20,000 km;
3. Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) has the distance from the Earth surface about 35,800 km.
…

Please see: 

Send by G. Maeda

[3] Mission Idea Contest #6

MIC6 is organized in cooperation with ICE Cubes and Space BD to utilize the ISS experiment modules, Columbus of ESA and Kibo of JAXA.

See  

Send by Rei Kawashima

[4] Report on 2019 AFRICAN GEOPHYSICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE ON SPACE WEATHER 25÷28 March 2019, Cairo, Egypt

A short report from the host:

The African Geophysical Society AGS formally established on 2012 during the first Chapman Conference on Space Weather in Africa, organized by the American Geophysical Union AGU at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This year it was held in Cairo, Egypt from 25-28 March 2019. The workshop was attended by 80 participants: South Africa - 6, Japan - 1, Algeria - 1, Sudan - 2, USA - 2, France - 1, UK - 1, Kenya -1, Korea -1, Saudi Arabia -1, China -2, Norway -1, Egypt -60.

See the full report: 

Send by Ayman Mahrous

Attachments:

(1) Report on Workshop in Kenya 13÷17, 2019  (1 806KB, 23 pages)

(2) Abstract Space Weather effects to Satellite Communications  (82KB, one page)

(3) Poster Mission Idea Contest   (2 408KB, one page)

(4) Report on Workshop in Egypt 25÷28 March 2019, Cairo  (657KB, one page)

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