ISS school contact – how to get involved

The first UK school amateur radio contact by astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 0847 GMT with students at Sandringham School, St. Albans. The contact will be Web Streamed – Schedule You...

Tim Peake Sandringham School Contact

The first UK school amateur radio contact by astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 0847 GMT with students at Sandringham School, St. Albans in Hertfordshire. The school will use the call sign...

Another EO-79 Transponder Activation

The EO-79 CubeSat SSB/CW transponder will be active from Monday, December 28 until Thursday, December 31. The first activation has shown the transponder uplink is about 12 kHz higher than expected. The suggested frequencies to try are now: Uplink: 435.047-435.077 MHz...

ESA – Year in Images

ESA has released a selection of favourite images from 2015, they include International Space Station astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF and Tim Peake KG5BVI / GB1SS. The images can be downloaded in high resolution by clicking on the “Access the...