by Peter Goodhall | Feb 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
The ARTSAT INVADER CubeSat, callsign JQ1ZKK, and six other amateur radio satellites were on the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 23 (H-IIA F23) along with the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core observatory satellite. The launch took place from the Yoshinobu Launch...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
NASA reports that on Thursday, February 20, 2014, International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA worked in the Japanese Kibo laboratory to prepare the second batch of NanoRacks CubeSats for their deployment beginning next Tuesday. He opened the inner...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
The $50sat PocketQube satellite team, AB2S, KD8QBA and GW7HPW, are celebrating 90 days in orbit by proposing a technical challenge to all interested radio amateurs. $50sat is capable of responding to uplink command packets. There are three open packets: • Test packet...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
Delfi Nanosatellite Program Manager, Jasper Bouwmeester PC4JB, has announced results of the first test of the Delfi-n3Xt CubeSat 435/145 MHz linear transponder that were carried out on February 20. Dear all, Today we did a first transponder test. We could hear the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
According to NanoRacks the deployment of the second batch of CubeSats from the International Space Station (ISS) will commence at 1700 UT on Tuesday, February 25, 2014. The CubeSats deployments were streamed live at http://m.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-streamEarlier...
