by Peter Goodhall | Mar 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
Space station 03 April at 08:15 UTC St Anthony’s Parish Primary School, Canberra, Australia – Dan Burbank, KC5ZSX Telebridge station VK5ZAI in Australia will call NA1SS at approximately 08:15 UTC. St Anthony’s School is located in the...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
Astrobiology magazine posts a piece on the success of NASA’s O/OREOS mission that points out that serious science can be accomplished by tiny spacecraft: ‘The full success of the O/OREOS mission demonstrates convincingly that cubesats can be...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur and ISS astronaut Don Pettit KD5MDT describes how he succeeded in receiving signals on a frequency of 650 THz. Flashing the International Space Station with beams of light as it passes overhead had never been successfully done—until now. It sounds...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
One of AMSAT’s most important, admired and well loved members, Dick Daniels, W4PUJ, died on February 14, 2012. He lost his battle with lung cancer, diagnosed only at Christmas time 2011. Dick achieved so much working for AMSAT that it is virtually impossible to...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
TechEdSat will be deployed from the International Space Station (ISS). It is a 1U CubeSat that will demonstrate Plug and Play power architecture and two way communication via the satellite phone/data networks Iridium and Orbcomm. UPDATE: The plan to transmit from...
