by Peter Goodhall | Mar 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
Samudra Haque N3RDX is involved in developing a Micro-Cathode Arc Thruster (μCAT) propulsion system for CubeSats. The Micropropulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MpNL, http://www.mpnl.seas.gwu.edu/), of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, of...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK CubeSat Weekend, taking place at Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell Didcot, will allow members of the public to work together to design, build and balloon launch a flight ready CubeSat engineering model, and a flight model suitable for launch into low...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
OSCAR-11 (AKA UoSAT-2 and UO-11) celebrated its 30th birthday in space on 01 March! It was designed, built and launched within a period of six months, using commercially available ‘off the shelf’ components (COTS). Once again, congratulations to Professor...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Bob Twiggs KE6QMD is interviewed by Stephen Clark in Spaceflight Now. Read the interview at http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1403/08cubesats/ The team behind the recently launched $50sat PocketQube programmed the satellite’s FM CW beacon to send...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateurs have received signals over a distance of 43 million km from the NASA ISEE-3 / ICE deep space probe which was retired from service in 1997. AMSAT-DL have released this statement: On March 1st and 2nd, 2014 radio amateurs were able to detect the beacon...
