by Peter Goodhall | Apr 20, 2015 | Daily Updates
The 2015 CubeSat Workshop took place on Wednesday, April 1 at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Videos of the presentations are now available on YouTube. Among the presenters were representatives of two UK space companies, Tom Walkinshaw of Alba Orbital and...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
Anatoly Zak reports on the maneuvers of Cosmos-2504 whose signals were detected by a Dutch amateur radio enthusiast Cees Bassa. Cosmos-2504 was launched on March 31, 2015, at 16:47:56 Moscow Time from Site 133 in Plesetsk. Just hours later it was noted it was...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
The request to power up the Ham Video system was added to the crew task list on April 16. That means, that crew is invited to activate Ham Video as a free time activity. No precise day/time for this activity is fixed. Please monitor the 2395 MHz at 2.0 Ms/s frequency...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 17, 2015 | Daily Updates
It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that I have just learnt of the passing of our dear friend Clive Wallis, G3CWV on 27th March 2015. Clive has been a very staunch supporter of AMSAT from the very early days. Many will recall his intense interest and...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
FUNcube-1 (AO-73) is again transmitting telemetry. A restart took place during the 0930 UT pass over Europe. The CubeSat had stopped transmitting at around 2018 UT on Wednesday, April 15. The team is still investigating the situation, but have concluded from earlier...
