by Peter Goodhall | Sep 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
On Saturday, September 6, at 1000 GMT Paulo PV8DX emailed the news that the International Space Station (ISS) Slow Scan Television (SSTV) on 145.800 MHz FM had been active again. At the end of the passage (ISS) in northern Brazil where I live. I heard the sound of...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
Sarah Brightman hopes to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 10 day mission in September 2015. If the launch were to take place as expected she would become the UK’s second astronaut, the first was Helen Sharman GB1MIR on May 18, 1991. Tim...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 2, 2014 | Daily Updates
BBC News reports on last weekend’s successful Electromagnetic Field EMF 2014 event held near Bletchley, Milton Keynes. The three day event attracted nearly three times as many people as the previous event held in 2012. Of those attending 75 were children under...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 1, 2014 | Daily Updates
Beijing plans to launch a Lunar spacecraft on a journey lasting 196 hours that should take it around the Moon before returning and re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. It will carry a 14 kg payload known as 4M-LXS which was developed at LuxSpace. The launch is...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 1, 2014 | Daily Updates
A Japanese news report says the asteroid mission Hayabusa 2, planned to launch November 30, 2014 at 0424 UT (1324 JST) on a H-IIA rocket, will also carry the amateur radio satellite Abyss 2 / Shin’en 2. Another amateur radio satellite ARTSAT2:DESPATCH will also...
