by m0xtd | Nov 15, 2011 | Daily Updates
An exciting spectrogram trace is revealed in the blog about the United Kingdom’s Prospero X-3 satellite that celebrated 40 years in orbit last month. Prospero X-3 was the UK’s first satellite to be put into orbit by a UK-built rocket, Black Arrow. The launch...
by m0xtd | 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 m0xtd | Nov 9, 2011 | Daily Updates
In his blog Nader ST2NH describes how to receive the 437.505 MHz LSB data telemetry from the Explorer-1[PRIME] (E-1P) Amateur Radio CubeSat. His step by step guide showing how to set up MiXW and the E-1P Telemetry Decoder software can be read here Watch Nader’s...
by m0xtd | Nov 9, 2011 | Daily Updates
Now that the submissions are complete for the Chicken Little Contest, AMSAT is announcing a new contest: Catch the Last ARISSat-1 Telemetry. With luck, we will have real time data to go along with the final reentry. While telemetry sent by e-mail is valuable and...
by m0xtd | Nov 8, 2011 | Daily Updates
OSCAR Number Administrator, Bill Tynan, W3XO reports that he has advised J. M. Wersinger, PhD, KI4YAU, Professor Emeritus and Director of Auburn University’s Student Space Program, that following the successful NASA ELaNa III launch on October 28, 2011 of...
