Orbit Magazine issues 91-100

 

Astro Space Stamp Society

 ORBIT is the official quarterly publication of The Society, full of illustrations and informative space stamp and space cover articles, postal auctions, space news, and a new issues guide.


Orbit Magazine issues 91-100


Orbit Issue 91 - Published October 2011

Contents Orbit 91
Fifty Years ago - Vostok 2
Moon-waling into History
The Naming of Craters - Mercury
A Brief History of Ozone-Monitoring Satellites and Instruments
The Modern Flying Dutchman
Ancient and Modern - Space Probes, Projects and Programmes
Gagarin 50 Issues
US Space Cover Collector's Handbook
Spacecraft Launch Sites
Titov - the Back Story
How Romania has Celebrated Spaceflight
From Magnet to Multi-Media

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Orbit Issue 92 - Published January 2012

Contents Orbit 92
Fifty Years ago - Mercury 7
Prague's Astronomical Orloj
The Naming of Craters - Venus
Andriyan Gregoryevitch Nikolayev (1929-2004)
New Jodrell Bank Stamp
Ancient and Modern - Space Probes, Projects and Programmes
Un-manned Satellites on Postage Stamps 36
Apollo 11 Insurance Covers
Al-Sufi's Book of the Fixed Stars
Conquerors of the Cosmos Obelisk
From Magnet to Multi-Media
Little Known Apollo Flights

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Orbit Issue 93 - Published March 2012

Contents Orbit 93
Fifty Years ago - Mercury 7 - Part 2
Apollo 16 : April 1972 Retrospect
The Naming of Craters - Mars
Harvey Duncan (1935-2012)
Un-manned Satellites on Postage Stamps 39
Italy and the Shuttle :1 - Spacelab
Birds Legs, Stuffy Noses and Puffy Faces - part 1
A Pathfinder in South Africa
The First Man on the Moon
Tartu Club Space Covers

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Orbit Issue 94 - Published June 2012

Contents Orbit 94
The Paisley Rocketeers
The Naming of Asteroids
Italy and the Shuttle :2 - Spacelab
Swim suits, Golf clubs and Cordless tools
Shuttle Story : 2010/11 STS 133, STS 134, STS 135
Ancient and Modern - Space Probes, Projects and Programmes
ATV - a challenging new topic for Astrophilately collectors
A French Golden Jubilee
Classic Soviet Astrophilately - Cosmonautics day 1962 issues
From Magnet to Multi-Media

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Orbit Issue 95 - Published October 2012

Contents Orbit 95 
Apollo 17: December 1972 Retrospect
Standard Baikonur Cosmodrome Postmarks
The Naming of the Jovian Moons
Ancient and Modern - Space Probes, Projects and Programmes
The First Official Baikonur Postmark
The Baikonur-Karaganda Fakes
Hello Again Hong Kong
From a Tropical Xmas to a Space Sheet
Fifty Years Ago - Mercury 8
The Passing of Legends
Space Shuttle-related Satellites

Orbit Issue 96 - Published January 2013

Contents Orbit 96 
Royal Mail's 2012 Space Science Set
Neil Armstrong: reluctant, modest Hero Who inspired two generations with "one small step"
Travelling In A Time Machine
Soyuz Flights to the ISS
Our New "Chairman Emeritus" Thank You Margaret !! 
Stamp Story in Singapore 
The Naming of Saturn's Moons
Let's Celebrate 25 years of the A.S.S.S.-born in 1988 
Spacelab: the Italian bridge towards ISS
Armstrong Memorial Issue Design Error
Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) - on 500+ stamps

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Orbit Issue 97 - Published March 2013

Contents Orbit 97
2013 - Year of the Aurora
IGY Cover Study Uncovers Issue date Error
Fifty Years Ago - Mercury 9
The Blue Marble Image of the Earth
Mars A Second Earth? 
Conjugating the Magnetosphere with ARAKS
Let's Celebrate 25 years of the A.S.S.S. - born in 1988
Twenty Years of Italians in Space
The Naming of the Uranian Moons
Something Special from Czechoslovakia
The Mission that Failed
Belgian FDC travelled to the International Space Station


Orbit Issue 98 - Published June 2013

Contents Orbit 98
Photographer Identified - and a new Aurora Sheet
Fifty Years ago - The flight of Valentina Tereshkova
Anticipating Spaceflight
Symbolic Remote Sensing of the Earth from Space
Royal Mail Celebrates 50 Years of Time Travelling Dr Who
The Museum That Rose From Its Ashes
Let's Celebrate 25 years of the A.S.S.S. - born in 1988
The Hunt For A Space Monument
The Naming of the Neptune's Moons
Classical Constellations
SKYLAB : 40 years on
MASAT 1 - Hungary`s First Satellite 

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Orbit Issue 99 - Published October 2013

Contents Orbit 99
UFOs: Fact or Fantasy? 
Headline News and (sadly) News To Come
Discovery OV-103 A short history
The Syncom Publicity Image and the Early Syncom Satellites
The Ties that Bind me to my Hobby
Shenzhou 8—Tiangong 1– Shenzhou 9 Covers
A World Wonder In a Small Dutch Town
Classical Constellations
Constellations Mini-sheet #3 issued by Japan
Poland's Contributions to Astrophilately
Tereshkova not as hot at 50 as she was at 40
Jersey Goes Large on issues for new Superman film

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Orbit Issue 100 - Published January 2014

Contents Orbit 100
Ian and Margaret Toast our 100th Issue
Doctors in Space
An Unsung Success - the International Space Station
Orbit 100 - A personal view on Astrophilately, Present and Past
An Astronaut's Tale
Tereshkova Celebrated in Japan
Forty Years ago - First simultaneous Spaceflights by USSR and USA
The Illustrations of China's Astronautic Themed Postmarks
South Africa's role in Astronomy
Space Related Issues from Mozambique






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