Last year in late 2006, AMSAT-NA and the Hawk Institute for Space Sciences (HISS) begantalking about cooperative activities. HISS is my employer in Pocomoke, MD and a non-profitdivision of the Maryland Hawk Corporation, which is affiliated with the University of MarylandEastern Shore (UMES). HISS was planning a new facility, and of course AMSAT has beenconsidering lab possibilities for the upcoming Eagle amateur satellite project. This led to theagreement that HISS will offer space in the new HISS facility for AMSAT’s lab. In exchange,HISS can also use AMSAT resources like the clean room for their own projects on a spaceavailablebasis. A marriage is born! The announcement of the signing of the Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) with between AMSAT and HISS, and separately between AMSAT andUMES was on the AMSAT website and publicized in the AMSAT Journal.
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