by Peter Goodhall | Jan 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Thursday, January 9 at 1807 UT an Antares rocket launched the Cygnus freighter carrying a cargo of CubeSats to the International Space Station. There are four amateur radio CubeSats LituanicaSat-1, LitSat-1, ArduSat-2 and UAPSat-1. Also onboard is the 915 MHz...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
The high radiation level from recent solar eruptions has resulted in a planned launch of amateur radio CubeSats being postponed. NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility say: Early on Wednesday, January 8 the Antares launch team decided to scrub the launch attempt due to...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
UNSA-SAT1 hopes to be the first CubeSat to make use of the 3400 MHz ITU Amateur-Satellite Service allocation. Built by students at the Instituto Astronómico y Aeroespacial Pedro Paulet in Peru, UNSA-SAT1 is a 2U spacecraft (20x10x10cm) which will be part of the QB50...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
The January 2014 issue of SatMagazine features the UKube-1 CubeSat built at Clyde Space in Glasgow. UKube-1 carries an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW communications and should launch later this year. The magazine also covers some of the many...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 3, 2014 | Daily Updates
As promised, we are making the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) CubeSat High Resolution Data available for download from the Data Warehouse. It contains Hi-Res data generated every hour, on the hour for the 60 minutes preceding the extract. Please note that unlike the Whole Orbit...
