by Peter Goodhall | Feb 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
In the coming months meetings will take place in both IARU Region 1 and Region 2 to discuss HF and VHF bandplans. The IARU Region 1 2013 Interim Meeting in Vienna April 19-21 will be discussing two proposals relating to the Amateur-Satellite Service: VIE13_C4_02...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this video Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO talks about STRaND-1 which aims to be the world’s first smartphone satellite in space. STRaND-1 a UK mission, jointly developed by the University of Surrey’s Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this video Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO talks about STRaND-1 which aims to be the world’s first smartphone satellite in space. STRaND-1 a UK mission, jointly developed by the University of Surrey’s Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
This HD video, made by Sylvain Draux F0FVK, features the amateur radio satellite Fuji-OSCAR-29 (JAS-2). The video was shown at the Amateur Radio Fair held in Pordenone, Italy on November 17-18, 2012. The 50kg satellite FO-29 was launched on August 17, 1996 from the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
The BBC report that the world’s first “smartphone-sat” STRaND-1 is ready to launch at the end of February. The satellite was built in Guildford by volunteers from the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in their...
