by Peter Goodhall | Feb 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
Poland… CubeSat’s Journey Starts. PW-Sat was successfully deployed on orbit. This first Polish satellite, built by students, was successfully launched by the new European rocket Vega. This marks the end of the preparation stage for the PW-Sat project and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 31, 2012 | Daily Updates
A time-lapse video is available of the first Vega launch campaign that began November 7, 2011 at the ESA Spaceport in Kourou. Vega will carry eight student built amateur radio satellites. This time-lapse shows the full assembly of the first Vega launcher at the launch...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
The ARRL have released an English translation of an article about the pioneering amateur radio satellite OSCAR-1 A new, highly informative article on how the world’s first Amateur Radio satellite, OSCAR-1, came to be designed, built and launched has been posted...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Jan 25-31 printed edition of Electronics Weekly (circulation 36,400) carries an article on the AMSAT-UK FUNcube amateur radio satellite. The article, titled “Schools’ communications satellite to put the fun back into science lessons”, appears on...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the University of Tsukuba are working on the ITF-1 (YUI) CubeSat project that is planned to be launched on a H-IIA rocket in the fiscal year 2013. The orbit will be 400 by 350km with an inclination of 65 degrees. The formal name ITF-1 comes from the...
