by Peter Goodhall | Mar 20, 2013 | Daily Updates
The KiwiSAT website reports that all hardware is complete and the KiwiSAT micro-satellite is operational. Final integration to launch ready awaits completion of command and control testing. They say software is being developed and launch negotiation is underway in New...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this article Adam Laurie from London describes how he used his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF Software Defined Radio (SDR) to decode the signal from a 433.920 MHz doorbell. Read the article at...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO is interviewed on pages 32-34 of the March-May 2013 issue of the free UK magazine for the Aviation, Defence, Security and Space industries ADS Advance. You can read the March-May 2013 issue online or download it as a PDF file at...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC News report that the European Space Agency (ESA) is turning to owners of terrestrial robot aircraft to aid those that journey into space. The agency has released an App that makes use of the cameras on the Parrot drone to simulate docking with a virtual space...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
These video shows CubeSat deployment experiments carried out in a weightless environment on the “Vomit Comet” aircraft by students from the University of Texas. The team write: Nanosatellites are becoming increasingly common in the aerospace industry due...
