by Peter Goodhall | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Europe has named Thursday 9 February as the day it intends to launch its new Vega rocket for the very first time. The 30m-tall vehicle has been developed to take payloads up to 1.5 tonnes into a polar orbit, and will fly from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 13, 2011 | Daily Updates
The CubeSTAR amateur radio satellite being built by students at the University of Oslo features on page 2 of the December 14 issue of Electronics Weekly. CubeSTAR is a project which aims to improve and support future space weather monitoring. Its scientific purpose is...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 11, 2011 | Daily Updates
Students at the Donald P. Sutherland Elementary School used Ham Radio to talk to the ISS, a student said the experience “was amazing. It was awesome. It was the best experience of my life.” Fourteen youngsters, representing grades Kindergarten through...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 19, 2011 | Daily Updates
Indian NOAA APT images Mahesh Vhatkay VU2IIA has used his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle SDR to receive weather satellite images of the Indian sub-continent. As well as the FUNcube Dongle software defined radio his station comprised a QFH antenna with 137 MHz preamp...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 12, 2011 | Daily Updates
Nasa says chances of its dead 20-year-old satellite, due to fall to Earth later this month, hitting anyone are 3,200-1 Nasa says one of its dead satellites will soon fall to Earth but there is very little chance that it will hit anyone. The space agency does...
