by Peter Goodhall | Jul 10, 2020 | Daily Updates
The European Space Agency (ESA) website has published a proposal by radio amateurs from AMSAT-DL for LunART (Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder): a Communications Platform on the Large European Lander to support communication and payload experiments. Peter Gülzow DB2OS...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 9, 2020 | Daily Updates
Nature carries an article about the spacecraft Longjiang-2 / Lunar-OSCAR 94 (LO-94), built by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology, that carried the first Amateur Radio communication system to operate in lunar orbit. As a part of China’s Chang’e-4 lunar far...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 8, 2020 | Daily Updates
The space agency ESA has released a video ‘How to get pictures from the International Space Station via Amateur Radio’ along with a collection of Tutorial videos explaining how to receive ISS Slow Scan TV (SSTV) pictures for different computers and mobile...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 7, 2020 | Daily Updates
Sasha M6IOR and Sophie M6NYX have made available a Guide for the reception of NOAA satellite images using software defined radio on Windows or MacOS. The guide suggests a few ways to receive an Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) from active National Oceanic and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 3, 2020 | Daily Updates
E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the June 2020 edition of OSCAR News, issue 230, here. The paper edition edition will be sent to postal members and should arrive in the next 2-3 weeks. In this issue: • From the Secretary’s Keyboard • Meetings & Events •...
