by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
The January issue of the free publication SatMagazine features an article on the UK Space Agency’s first satellite UKube-1. It will carry an amateur radio subsystem and a launch on a Soyuz rocket is planned for the 3rd quarter of 2013. The article on page 6...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC TV have been filming at the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) for an item on the STRaND-1 CubeSat mission for Stargazing Live. Volunteers from the SSC and SSTL built STRaND-1 in their spare time. The STRaND-1 spacecraft will...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
On December 22 members of AMSAT-DL succeeded in receiving 18 images from the 5840 MHz high-speed downlink of the amateur radio satellite FITSat-1. In total 22 images were transmitted in the test and 18 were received at the amateur radio facility at Bochum. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
Further transmissions from the optical LED beacon on the amateur radio CubeSat FITSAT-1 are planned for January 10-15. Weather permitting the satellite beacon should be visible using binoculars.2013, Flashing LED Schedule (times GMT): 10th Jan. 23:57:30 –...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Did you ever wonder how Nanosatellites are being launched ? Well, Meidad Pariente has edited a video produced by the Aalto-1 team that explains how such a task is performed. Both the edited and original videos are shown. Aalto-1 is a student CubeSat project of Aalto...
