by Peter Goodhall | May 31, 2016 | Daily Updates
Issue 214 of the AMSAT-UK amateur radio satellite publication OSCAR News was released on May 30, 2016. E-members can download it here. The paper edition is usually posted 2-3 weeks after publication of the electronic issue. In this issue: • OSCAR 1 • Es’hail 2 – the...
by Peter Goodhall | May 30, 2016 | Daily Updates
Pete M0PSX had the opportunity to talk about the ARISS school contacts and amateur radio during a radio show aired on Basildon Hospital Radio and community station Gateway FM. The interview was broadcast on 1287 AM, 97.8 FM, via the patient bedside system at Basildon...
by Peter Goodhall | May 30, 2016 | Daily Updates
Carole Cadwalladr writes in The Observer newspaper for Sunday, May 29 about the amateur radio contact between students at The King’s School GB1OSM, Ottery St Mary, Devon and Tim Peake GB1SS on the International Space Station. She says: A huge team of volunteers...
by Peter Goodhall | May 29, 2016 | Daily Updates
On May 19, 2016, students from Robertsville Middle School, Oak Ridge, Tennessee visited Marshall Space Flight Center and presented their CubeSat project results to NASA engineers. NASA Explores says: They had been tasked to design a 1U CubeSat with a deployable door...
by Peter Goodhall | May 27, 2016 | Daily Updates
On April 21, 2016, ESA’s Education Office set a challenge for the worldwide radio amateur community to start listening out for three new orbiting CubeSats. The results have now been released. ESA’s Education Office published the transmission frequencies of the...
