by Peter Goodhall | Sep 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
LunarSail is an Open-Source Cubesat and Solar Sail Lunar Orbiter project. Matthew Travis used Kickstarter to raise funds and comfortably exceeded his target of $11,00 by getting pledges for $15,817. The team say “LunarSail’s computer is based on the Raspberry...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Late Sunday afternoon, September 1, Leo Bodnar launched a long-duration pico balloon running DominoEX 16 on 434.500 MHz USB. It is expected to travel across Europe. The balloon was launched from Silverstone and aims to test some solar power modes and check for...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 30, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL are delighted to be able to announce that they have been advised that the launch date for FUNcube-1 is now expected to be late November 2013. The date is still subject to final approval by the authorities. The FUNcube project started back in 2009...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
The CEPT SE24 Short Range Devices meeting M72 took place in Vienna on August 26-27, 2013. The meeting discussed the use of the frequency bands 5350-5470 MHz and 5725-5925 MHz (‘WAS/RLAN extension bands’) for wireless access systems including radio local...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
AX.25 packet radio is currently the most popular data protocol for use in CubeSats. Radio amateur Alejandro Santos LU4EXT is developing extmodem an open source APRS compatible AX.25 packet radio modem. It is currently capable of both sending and receive packets at...
