by Peter Goodhall | Dec 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Nico Janssen PA0DLO has posted a summary of the presently known IDs for the satellites that were launched on the Yasny Dnepr on November 21. Further Doppler measurements show that TshepisoSat (aka ZACube-1) is object 39417...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
Roland PY4ZBZ reports that the CAPE-2 amateur radio CubeSat responded to a “Send Text to Speech” command with “Hello P Y 4 Z B Z” in the voice of Darth Vader. Listen to the recording at http://tinyurl.com/PY4ZBZ-Cape-2-Darth-Vader AMSAT...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
Ten year-old radio amateurs Maribel Laguna KK6IGY and Laisha Vergara KK6HZH hope to link up with the International Space Station next year. The San Bernardino Sun newspaper reports both are students at the Dorothy Grant Elementary School in Fontana. The school has a...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
TshepisoSat was built at the French South African Institute of Technology (F’SATI), at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and launched on a Dnepr from Dombarovsky near Yasny on November 21, 2013. The CPUT-F’SATI blog says: Earlier this week a quick...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
The first novel to find inspiration from Cubesats and the new wave of personal spacecraft – such as the Sprites – has been published and is available from Amazon and Createspace. In ‘A Pyramid of Tiny Skulls’, the story is this: “On the...
