by Peter Goodhall | Feb 3, 2015 | Daily Updates
Nico Janssen PA0DLO reports that the Iranian Fajr satellite has an amateur radio band downlink on 437.538 MHz. UPDATE from Gunters Space page: On February 26 Fajr re-entered Earth’s atmosphere after 23.8 days in orbit apparently without using the cold-gas...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 2, 2015 | Daily Updates
Since the temporary end of UWE-3 operations two months ago we received great support from the HAM community all over the world observing the health state of our satellite. For this reason and this reason alone we can say today UWE-3 is still experiencing a very good...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 31, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Russian ARISS team on the International Space Station started the Slow Scan TV (SSTV) experiment, using the call sign RS0ISS, on 145.800 MHz FM at 1000 UT on Saturday, January 31. Initially there was an issue with the transmissions, Paulo PV8DX in Brazil reported...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 31, 2015 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, January 31 the CubeSats FIREBIRD-2, GRIFEX and ExoCube carrying amateur radio payloads were successfully launched on a Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base The GEO-CAPE ROIC In-Flight Performance Experiment (GRIFEX) is a 3U CubeSat developed by...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 29, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Russian ARISS team members plan to activate the amateur radio Slow Scan TV (SSTV) experiment on 145.800 MHz FM from the International Space Station (ISS) during this weekend. Continuous SSTV operation is planned from 1000 UT on Saturday, January 31 until 2130 UT...
