by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2016 | Daily Updates
The launch of the Es’Hail-2 satellite into a geostationary orbit at 25.5 degrees East is planned for the 3rd quarter of 2017. The coverage area of the amateur radio Narrowband (NB) and Wideband (WB) transponders should extend from Brazil to Thailand. Es’hail 2 will...
by Peter Goodhall | May 19, 2016 | Daily Updates
On May 20, 1991 Britain’s first astronaut Helen Sharman GB1MIR arrived on the Mir Space Station. She launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on May 18, 1991 arriving at the space station 2 days later. During her 6 day stay on Mir she used amateur radio to linkup...
by Peter Goodhall | May 18, 2016 | Daily Updates
James Coxon M6JCX reports he is hoping to launch a UKHASnet node from East Anglia this weekend. On the UKHAS Google Group he writes: I’ve put together a GPS enabled, temperature controlled node AJ2 which will be launched on a latex balloon (rather than pico)....
by Peter Goodhall | May 17, 2016 | Daily Updates
ÑUSAT-1, carrying an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder and a 436 MHz telemetry beacon, was launched May 30, 2016 at 0317 UT on a CZ-4B rocket from Taiyuan into 500 km 97 degree inclination polar orbit. With ÑUSAT-1 on the launch was its sister satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | May 16, 2016 | Daily Updates
Monday, May 16, 2016 saw the deployment of five CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads. UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI / GB1SS deployed the first two satellites MinXSS-1 and CADRE from the Japanese ISS Kibo module at 1005 UT. The Slow Scan Television (SSTV) satellite...
