AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-162

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• 38th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Moving to Virtual Event

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38th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Moving to Virtual Event

The 38th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting in- person event scheduled to be held in Bloomington, Minnesota has been canceled The event will be shifted to a virtual, online platform This comes after a decision made between AMSAT's Senior Leadership and Board of Directors in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic While AMSAT recognizes the national challenges related to recent events in Minneapolis, they have no bearing on the Symposium decision whatsoever We anticipate holding 2021's Annual Space Symposium at the previously announced 2020 venue

The in-person event was scheduled to occur Friday, October 16th - Sunday, October 18th As the 2020 virtual event plans are developed, they will be announced via the usual AMSAT channels

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This week's ANS Contributing Editor,

Paul Stoetzer, N8HM n8hm at amsat dot org

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