by Peter Goodhall | Jan 17, 2018 | Daily Updates
The 2U CubeSat Zhou Enlai 周恩来 developed with primary and middle school students was launched at 04:12 UT on Friday, January 19, 2018. 26 delegates from the satellite development student team in Huai’an who helped develop the CubeSat were at the Jiuquan Satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 15, 2018 | Daily Updates
The time when AO-73 enters continuous sunlight, for the first time, is fast approaching. Current estimates show that this will commence on February 6th and last through until March 13th. Obviously, the autonomous switching system that the spacecraft has been using to...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 13, 2018 | Daily Updates
CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads were among the 31 satellites successfully launched on January 12 at 0359 UT on the ISRO PSLV-C40 mission from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. Two of the CubeSats, Fox-1D and PicSat, carry amateur radio FM...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 10, 2018 | Daily Updates
The PicSat 3U CubeSat carrying an amateur radio 145/435 MHz FM transponder is planned to launch into Earth orbit on January 12, 2018. The launch will be streamed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEcE7-odCo The primary mission is to study the star Beta...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 6, 2018 | Daily Updates
BBC TV’s Great British Railway Journeys is expected to show former MP for Enfield Southgate, Michael Portillo, using 5.6 GHz amateur radio to bounce a signal off the surface of the moon. In 2017, a team led by Noel Matthews G8GTZ and Brian Coleman G4NNS made...
