by Peter Goodhall | May 24, 2013 | Daily Updates
A Small Satellite Developer Workshop featuring Amateur Radio is taking place July 8-13 in Chennai, India. The amateur radio segment is being conducted by the National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR). Other topics include • Software Designed Receiver • Basics of...
by Peter Goodhall | May 23, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Satellite Applications Catapult is hosting a Satellite Applications Hackathon event on the weekend of June 8-9, 2013. It will take place at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. The two-day ‘technology development’ event is part of a series of activities to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 23, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC News is reporting that at 0538 UT on Thursday, May 23 Ecuador’s new NEE-01 Pegasus 910 MHz CubeSat collided with debris from a S14 Soviet rocket launched in 1985. The satellite was some 1,500 km east of Madagascar at the time. Pegasus, launched less than a...
by Peter Goodhall | May 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
Grupo de Radioaficionados para Operaciones Satelitales (GROS) Coordinator Raydel Espinet CM2ESP comments on the use of amateur radio satellites for emergency communications and describes how an amateur satellite was used in a Civil Defense exercise on May 18-19, 2013....
by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2013 | Daily Updates
The first picture taken by the amateur radio CubeSat ESTCube-1 in space has been released. ESTCube-1 was launched from Kourou in the Caribbean on May 7 at 0206 UT on an ESA Vega rocket into a 704 km orbit. The hard work of the first two weeks has paid off and the CAM...