by Peter Goodhall | May 19, 2015 | Daily Updates
Duchifat-1, the Israeli high school students 1U CubeSat launched June 19, 2014, is ready for its first public tests. People with the ability to send Compressed APRS location packets are invited to join the tests. The satellite will collect these packets worldwide...
by Peter Goodhall | May 19, 2015 | Daily Updates
Dava Newman KB1HIK started her official duties as NASA’s new deputy administrator on Monday at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. Newman was nominated in January by President Obama, confirmed by the Senate in April and sworn in on Friday, May 15. The deputy...
by Peter Goodhall | May 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
The free Southend Raspberry Jam #6 event on May 30 will feature amateur radio and the International Space Station (ISS). Entrants and winners of the Astro Pi competition will discuss their entries, with a recap of the competition before doing the coding later on....
by Peter Goodhall | May 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
At 1250 GMT on May 18, 1991 Helen Sharman GB1MIR became the United Kingdom’s first astronaut when she blasted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on her way to the Mir space station. Read more at...
by Peter Goodhall | May 17, 2015 | Daily Updates
On Sunday, May 17 the BBC TV technology show Click broadcast a report on Essex Star Wars enthusiasts who flew an X-Wing in near-space. The balloon was launched on April 21, 2015 and reached an altitude of 36,190m before bursting and returning to Earth, landing in a...
