by Peter Goodhall | Sep 25, 2015 | Daily Updates
Wei Mingchuan, BG2BHC, reports that the amateur radio FM voice transponder on the LilacSat-2 satellite should now be activated on a regular basis. LilacSat-2 is scheduled to switch on the FM transponder for 24 hours at about 2200 UT each Monday, Wednesday and Friday....
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 24, 2015 | Daily Updates
The AAUSAT-5 amateur radio CubeSat built by students at the University of Aalborg, Denmark is planned to be released from the International Space Station sometime in the week of October 5. The European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting radio amateurs to listen out for...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 23, 2015 | Daily Updates
Chris Thompson G0KLA reports on the AMSAT Bulletin Board that the telemetry decoder software for the Fox FM transponder CubeSats is now available for download. At the time of writing Fox-1A was scheduled to be launched on Ocober 8, 2015 with Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 22, 2015 | Daily Updates
Andrew Garratt M0NRD plans to launch Pinky Pig into near-space along with several 434 MHz transmitters on Saturday, September 26 from the National Hamfest at the Newark Showground. The launch had been planned for Friday but the weather has forced the postponement. If...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 20, 2015 | Daily Updates
Nine XW-2/CAS-3 amateur radio satellites were successfully launched on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 23:01:14 UT on Beijing’s new Chang Zheng 6 (CZ-6) rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) in Shanxi. Six satellites (designated XW-2A to XW-2F) carry...
