by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
16 year-old Rebecca Rubsamen KJ6TWM led the amateur radio contact between students at Rancho Romero Elementary School and astronaut Mike Hopkins KF5LJG on the International Space Station. The Contra Costa Times newspaper reports: “This is going to be the biggest...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
In advance of the FUNcube-1 launch next week on November 21 at 07:10:11 UT, this first release of the FUNcube Dashboard User Interface software is now available for download here: http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard This software, when...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 13, 2013 | Daily Updates
In his blog Nader Omer ST2NH notes the large number of satellites carrying amateur radio payloads that are expected to be launched in the next two weeks. There will be an estimated 34 new satellite downlinks to be received with two of the satellites also providing...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
KySat-2 (K2) is a 1U CubeSat to fulfill the education and public outreach mission of the original KySat-1 CubeSat that was lost during a launch vehicle failure of ELaNa I and accompanying NASA GLORY mission. It has the call sign KK4AJJ and plans to launch along with...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
Thanks to Pierluigi Poggi IW4BLG the FUNcube-1 handbook is now available in Italian, and thanks to Christophe Mercier of AMSAT-Francophone it is also available in French. The handbook provides an initial introduction to the project overall and the FUNcube-1 spacecraft...
