by Peter Goodhall | May 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
The QB50 project has reached another crucial milestone. The first two QB50 satellites have been delivered for shipment to the launch site after a successful flight acceptance test campaign. The satellites will form the QB50 Precursor mission that seeks to de-risk and...
by Peter Goodhall | May 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
UK ESA astronaut Tim Peake took the opportunity to sit his Technician amateur radio exam at the end of April while he was in Houston for astronaut training. He has now been issued the amateur radio callsign KG5BVI. At the beginning of March Tim gave a presentation to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 3, 2014 | Daily Updates
An unexpected reset of the master clock on KickSat may mean that the deployment of the 104 Sprite satellites will not take place before the KickSat CubeSat burns up in the atmosphere. Radio amateur Zac Manchester KD2BHC has posted this update: First off, I’d...
by Peter Goodhall | May 2, 2014 | Daily Updates
Delfi-C3 (DO-64) has celebrated its 6th birthday on April 28, 2014. The spacecraft is still operational, telemetry only, on 145.870 MHz USB Delfi-C3 has exceeded its mission lifetime by six times now, and on-board telemetry still does not indicate degradation in...
by Peter Goodhall | May 2, 2014 | Daily Updates
In October 2013 Celebrity TV chef Heston Blumenthal visited radio amateur David Akerman M0RPI to fly a potato to near-space on a high altitude balloon as part of his TV show Heston’s Great British Food. Dave says: “It started with a call from a TV...
