by Peter Goodhall | Mar 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio ZACUBE-1 satellite, launched with FUNcube-1 on November 21, 2013, recently had two close encounters with space debris. The ZACUBE-1 team have issued this press release: Week nine of the year will go down as quite an eventful week for ZACUBE-1...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
Last weekend FUNcube-1 (AO-73) reached the milestone of having been in space for 100 days – actually that should be clarified to mean “terrestrial” days as the spacecraft itself has been subjected to more than 1500 day/night cycles during this time. We are very...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
UoSAT-OSCAR-11 has now been in orbit for 30 years and remarkably its signal on 145.826 MHz FM (AFSK 1200 bps ASCII) is still being received. UoSAT-2, also known as UoSAT-OSCAR-11 or UO-11, was the second satellite designed and built by a team of engineers at the...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
The new Galileo GPS system that broadcasts across 1260-1300 MHz has resulted in the closure of a German ATV repeater. The DARC report the Munich ATV repeater DB0QI has been closed down due to it jamming the Galileo Satnav Control Centre. DB0QI was located 18 km from...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
The ARRL report when Ron Williams, N9UIK, and his team of “astronauts” head to “Mars” this spring, they’ll be taking Amateur Radio along, just as NASA space travelers have done. Williams is part of Mission 2 (of four) in the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and...
