by Peter Goodhall | Mar 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
TechNewsDaily contributor Rachel Kaufman interviewed James Cutler KF6RFX about two CubeSats that aim to travel into interplanetary space. The two Interplanetary NanoSpacecraft Pathfinder In Relevant Environment (INSPIRE) satellites measure just 10x10x30 cm and each...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
The IARU amateur radio satellite frequency coordination panel has announced the frequencies for the OSSI-1 CubeSat developed by Hojun Song DS1SBO. Artist and radio amateur Hojun Song DS1SBO has spent 7 years developing his Open Source Satellite Initiative satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
Several CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads are planned to launch on the Antares-110 mission in April. On the CubeSat mailing list Jason Andrews President and CEO of both Spaceflight Inc and Andrews Space posted: Spaceflight Inc recently completed CubeSat...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Alan WA4SCA has posted information from Space Track of the object-satellite pairings for the PSLV-C20 launch that carried the UK smartphone satellite STRaND-1 into space. He writes: JSpOC [Joint Space Operations Center] has named the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
Roland Zurmely PY4ZBZ in Brazil has received the 437.568 MHz telemetry signal from the STRaND-1 smartphone satellite launched on Monday, February 25. See his STRaND-1 telemetry page in Google English at http://tinyurl.com/cf8l8n4 Page in Portugese...
