by Peter Goodhall | Oct 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
The 4M amateur radio payload with a WSJT JT65B 145.980 MHz beacon was launched on Thursday, October 23 at 1759 UT. The Chang’e-5-T1 mission 4M payload launched on the Chang Zheng CZ-3C/G2 rocket from the LC2 launch complex at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center,...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Coventry Telegraph newspaper reports on students at Warwick University who are building their own satellite WUSAT-2. Lucy Lynch writes that eight engineering students are designing their own satellite which will be sent into space. In February or March 2015 they...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
The LituanicaSAT team has announced on Facebook that the LituanicaSAT-2 CubeSat will be coming soon. It is hoped the CubeSat will be among 50 satellites launched in the 1st quarter of 2016 on the Ukrainian Cyclone 4 launcher from the Alcantara launch site built by...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 22, 2014 | Daily Updates
The RSGB report that on October 9, 2014 Ofcom confirmed that the callsign GB1SS will be made available for issue to UK astronauts who wish to operate from the ISS. In May 1991 the first UK astronaut Helen Sharman GB1MIR talked to radio amateurs around the world from...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
UK Full licence holders can now apply for their NoV to use 146 MHz. You just need to fill in your details on the RSGB NoV page and you will be instantly emailed a link to the PDF of your NoV certificate. The NoV’s currently being issued have an expiry date of...
