by m0xtd | Dec 21, 2011 | Daily Updates
The rocket carrying Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko RN3DX, Nasa astronaut Don Pettit KD5MDT and the European Space Agency’s Andre Kuipers PI9ISS lifted off under freezing conditions at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. [youtube...
by m0xtd | Dec 20, 2011 | Daily Updates
The Polish amateur radio satellite PW-SAT built by students at the Warsaw University of Technology was featured on BRITE TV. The Internet TV channel BRITE TV, covers the construction of the first Polish scientific satellites BRITE-PL 1 – Lem and BRITE-PL 2...
by m0xtd | Dec 19, 2011 | Daily Updates
Bill Dzurilla, NZ5N demonstrates how to use the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle to receive signals that have been bounced off the surface of the Moon. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac3jDILGKmg]
by m0xtd | Dec 19, 2011 | Daily Updates
Hector Luiz Martinez CO6CBF was interviewed on Cuban TV about his amateur radio satellite operating. Hector, CO6CBF, got his first license at the age of 11 and has been licensed for 11 years. He first became interested in satellites when he heard about the deployment...
by m0xtd | Dec 18, 2011 | Daily Updates
A video has been released of the contact between ISS commander Daniel C. Burbank KC5ZSX and students at Hirano Elementary school, Kobe City. Watch ARISS ham radio contact with Hirano branch of Kobe Youth Nurturing Council, Kobe-city [youtube...