by Peter Goodhall | Sep 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Jonathan Trappe KJ4GQV attempted to cross the Atlantic in a cluster balloon carrying beacons on 14.0956 MHz and 144.390 MHz. At around 1200 UT on Thursday, September 12, 2013 Jonathan KJ4GQV took to the air from Caribou in Maine in a lifeboat suspended...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
The LitSat-1 CubeSat plans to carry a linear transponder and an AX.25 packet radio transceiver. It is hoped that LitSat-1 will be among the CubeSats sent by Nanoracks LLC to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX CRS-3 mission in January 2014. It will be...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
Ham Video Commissioning preparation is progressing. An EST (Experiment Sequence Test) has been performed August 28-29 and Simulations tests were done September 5-6, 2013. The EST consisted of a series of tests, mainly of the ground segment. For the Commissioning, the...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Sky and Telescope magazine and the Standard-Examiner both carry articles about CubeSats . The Standard-Examiner reports Utah State University (USU) is conducting research on an inflatable plastic boom that can unfurl once the satellite, about 10 cm square, is...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
The solar powered pico balloons B-11 and B-12 were launched by Leo Bodnar from Silverstone, UK on September 1 and 2 respectively. As of 1238 UT on Monday, September 9 both balloons were still in the air transmitting the amateur radio DominoEX16 data mode on 434.500...
