Below are a list of past news events and announcements.

• 05/05/00 - Opal has been designated by the AMSAT as OPAL OSCAR - 38 (OO-38). All the Jawsat related payloads have been assigned numbers. We are the only payload still functional. We're continuing to monitor bus performance and testbed characterists.
• 05/05/00 - Picosatellite operations summary.
• 03/29/00 - Opal ops update.
• 03/08/00 - Opal ops update.
• 02/24/00 - Opal ops update.
• 02/24/00 - Picosatellite mission summary.
• 02/18/00 PM - Opal update.
• 02/12/00 PM - Opal update. Thelma and Louise successfully launched!
• 02/11/00 PM - Pico firing saves Opal! Battery temperature issue resolved (possibly only temporarily). See update.
• 02/11/00 AM - JAK and STENSAT confirmed ejection. Possible battery temperature issue. See update.
• 02/10/00 - Interesting article on the picos from the San Jose Mercury News. Check out other articles in our news section.
• 02/08/00 - The smallest satellites ever have been successfully deployed! On Sunday evening, the Aerospace picosatellites were launched from the OPAL mothership. More details here. The remaining picos will be launched ASAP.
• 02/07/00 - Operations update.
• 02/03/00 - Operations update. Opal is looking good. Its sensitive to Doppler shift which makes it tricky to talk to. We've used SRI's 150 foot radio dish to talk to Opal these past two days have received excellent vehicle data.
• 01/31/00 05:58:00 PT- Contact was made for the first time at SSDL's ground station. We even managed to download some data files. We were able to connect only about three minutes during the middle of the twelve minute pass. This seems to indicate that our station is lacking power and/or pointing incorrectly. These issues wil be resolved soon. Check out the voltage plot and the current plot that were downloaded.
• 01/30/00 16:13:00 PST - The first full contact was made with Opal! Jean-Louis F6AGR from Paris, France, made the first connect and downloaded a brief telemetry. The Opal bus (the satellite primary systems) look execellent: battery voltages are nominal, temperatures are withing range, and currents are also nominal. We'll be trying this evening to download more detailed data. Details from Jean-Louis' contact are here.
• 01/29/00 AM- Still in vehicle checkout phase. Having difficulty receiving/transmitting to Opal at SSDL ground station. Seems to be a ground station issue. Opal's beacon is being heard by HAMs around the world. That's a very good sign. See ops page for more info.
• 01/27/00 05:39:00 PT- Operations update.
• 01/27/00 - Launch was a success! Latest keps. More to follow soon.
• 01/24/00 - Launch update.
• 01/21/00 - Launch update.
• 01/19/00 - Due to a delay in getting replacement batteries for the rocket, the probable launch date is now Jan 26 or 27.
• 01/17/00 - Launch update.
• 01/14/00 - The launch was aborted twice on Friday, January 14. The problems were not major rocket issues and the launch will be re-scheduled as soon as possible. More information to follow soon.
• 01/11/00 - Weekly update.
• 01/11/00 - The official Minotaur launch press release has been published.
• 01/07/00 - Student operators are needed for the Aerospace picosats. If you're interested, more info s found here.
• 01/05/00 - Weekly update.
• 12/06/99 - Check out pictures of the rocket taken by Brian Underhill from ASU during the launch operations dress rehearsal.
• 12/03/99 - The launch has been delayed. See the update.
• 11/30/99 - The latest launch information is found here. 
• 11/29/99 - Weekly update.
• 11/15/99 - Weekly update.
• 10/28/99 - The payloads are attached to the rocket! Check out the pictures.
• 10/25/99 - More pictures from Opal testing in May have been added to the gallery. 
• 10/15/99 - Weekly update.
• 10/14/99 - Artemis makes it into EE Times.
• 10/14/99 - Check out Opal in the news.
• 10/01/99 - Weekly update.
• 09/20/99- Pictures from Opal testing after Jawsat vibe are now in the photo gallery.
• 09/17/99 - Weekly update.
• 09/10/99 - Weekly update.
• 08/20/99 - Weekly update.
• 08/10/99 - More integration pictures have been posted. Check out the photogallery. 
• 08/06/99 - Weekly update.
• 07/02/99 - Weber has put a camera their clean room.  Check out the JAWSATcam remote at http://cast.weber.edu/jw/.
• 07/02/99 - Weekly update.
• 06/18/99 - Weekly update.
• 06/11/99 - Weekly update.
• 06/11/99 - Pictures from Opal deliery are now available for viewing in the Photo Gallery.
• 06/08/99 - Pictures from picosatellite integration are now available for viewing in the Photo Gallery.
• 05/28/99 - An Aerospace presentation has been added to the site showing detailed information on their picosatellite.  It can be found here.
• 05/14/99 - OPAL delivered to Weber State for final integration!
• 03/12/99 - A new picosatellite team has been added to the OPAL satellite.  Check out STENSAT, a picosatellite built by HAMs from Goddard.
• 02/03/99 - The CDR was a success today. Representatives from the Air Force, TRW, Lockheed, Aerospace, Frost and Sullivan, Orbital Sciences, and CAST/OSSS where there to participate. The slides from the presentation can be found here.
• 02/01/99 - The Opal design team will hold a critical design review on February 3 from 1-6pm in Durand Room 250. The public is welcome to attend any or all of the meeting. The agenda is online. 
• 12/17/98 - Santa Clara University's Artemis picosatellite team is featured in an ABCNews.com Science feature.
• 11/20/98 - The OPAL structure with mass models and the launch interface successfully passed a shake test.  Results will be posted soon.  And check out the photos.
• 11/05/98 - OPAL team members traveled to UTah last week for the JAWSAT/OSP Payload Integration Working Group (PIWG) to discuss launch integration issues.  Action items have been posted.
• 10/08/98 - The OPAL web pages have taken on a new look.  The old pages can still be found here.