by Peter Goodhall | Mar 3, 2017 | Daily Updates
The Nayif-1 (EO-88) CubeSat has now been in orbit for more than two weeks and all systems continue to operate nominally. The power budget is positive, the spin/tumble rate is acceptably low, on board temperatures are perfectly okay and, importantly, the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 27, 2017 | Daily Updates
OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan W3XO has announced that the Nayif-1 CubeSat has met all the requirements necessary to be issued with an OSCAR number. In accordance with the request sent to the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors for an OSCAR number for the UAE CubeSat,...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 27, 2017 | Daily Updates
Weather permitting there will be a 434 MHz pico balloon launched from Bristol on Tuesday, February 28 at 0830 GMT. Richard Meadows M0SBU from University of Bristol Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (UBSEDS) writes: This launch is using a 1.5m...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 25, 2017 | Daily Updates
The National newspaper reports a message by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, is being beamed across the world from space as the first to be transmitted by the UAE’s Nayif-1 satellite. The National says: Nayif-1 was launched February 15...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 20, 2017 | Daily Updates
The CRS-10 mission carrying vital amateur radio equipment to the International Space Station launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1439 UT on Sunday, February 19, 2017. Frank Bauer KA3HDO, ARISS International Chair and AMSAT-NA V.P. for Human Spaceflight Programs...
