It gives me a great deal ofpleasure to welcome you to Atlanta and to the nineteenthAM SAT Space Symposium. Since we last met in Portland Maine many thingshave happened which affect AMSAT as follows.At our Board of Directors meeting in October 2000, the need for a new satelliteprogram was first discussed, and it was agreed that the BoD would meet again inFebruary 2001 to start the process by trying to define the satellites capabilities.In November 2000, P3D was launched on Ariane 507 with a perfect trajectory.Our first notification of any trouble, with the re-named AO-40, was when the 70CMS beacon failed to transmit.
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