UWE-3 Status Report

The UWE-3 team have provided an update on investigations into a recent communications anomaly on the CubeSat After the communication anomaly and the autonomous recovery of UWE-3 two weeks ago we uploaded an extended software to the OBC to analyse the event in detail....

School plans 2am balloon launch

Students at Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall plan to launch the Sun Chaser 2 balloon (434.448 MHz USB) to capture images of the sunrise on Saturday, July 11. Depending on altitude the signals from the balloon may have a range of up to 800 km, potentially...

Phase 4 Spacecraft Frequencies

  At the Hamfest event at Friedrichshafen held during last weekend, more information was provided about the exciting new Phase 4 amateur satellites presently under construction.   P4A – This is a hosted payload on the geostationary spacecraft Es’hailSat 2....

$50SAT 19 months in Space and still working

Michael Kirkhart KD8QBA provides an update on the $50SAT amateur radio spacecraft which measures just 5x5x7.5 cm. Sunday, June 21, 2015 marked the 19 month anniversary of the launch of $50SAT/MO-76/Eagle-2.  The good news is it still operating.  The bad news is the...

Essex STEM Balloons Launched

On Monday, June 29, 2015 three high altitude balloons from Essex schools and colleges transmitted Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV) in the 434 MHz band. The balloons, part of the educational Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) initiative, were taken...