by Peter Goodhall | May 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Friday, July 4, the Whitton Amateur Radio Group (WARG) will be hosting a presentation by David Bowman G0MRF on the subject of the FUNcube satellite. David is a member of the AMSAT-UK team behind the successful development and launch of the amateur radio FUNcube-1...
by Peter Goodhall | May 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
Delfi Nanosatellite Program Manager, Jasper Bouwmeester PC4JB, has announced that the team plan to activate the Delfi-n3Xt satellite’s 2405 MHz downlink on May 13-17, 2014. Dear all, It has been a while since you heard from us. We are still having problems to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team have received confirmation that UKube-1, which is hosting the FUNcube-2 payload, remains scheduled for a Soyuz launch on June 19. The team do not, as yet, have any lift-off times or TLE’s for this launch but we will make these available as soon as...
by Peter Goodhall | May 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
A solar-powered foil party balloon, B-47, transmitting telemetry on 434.500 MHz USB using the amateur radio data mode Contestia 8/250 was launched on Monday, April 28, 2014 from Silverstone in the UK by radio amateur Leo Bodnar M0XER. The balloon’s eight-day...
by Peter Goodhall | May 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK Space Agency has launched a competition for school children between the ages of 7 and 14 to design a British-inspired, balanced and exciting meal for UK ESA astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI to eat during his 6 month mission to the International Space Station (ISS)....
