UKube-1 final design approved

The UK space Agency and Astrium have just approved the final design of UKube-1 – the UK’s first CubeSat mission. On Thursday and Friday last week (3rd and 4th November 2011), a young team of engineers from Clyde Space presented their final design to a team of experts...

OSCAR 1 Video

A prototype of the first Amateur Radio satellite OSCAR 1 has been on display at the AMSAT symposium in San Jose.  OSCAR-1 was launched nearly 50 years ago on December 12, 1961 and its beacon sent the letters HI on 144.9830 MHz CW. Bob Allison, WB1GCM of ARRL’s...

CubeSat UHF Downlink Frequencies Chart

Christophe has produced a handy chart showing the CubeSat UHF downlink frequencies. http://cubesat.free.fr/IMG//pdf/Cubesat_-_frequence_bande_U.pdf CubeSat France in Google English http://tinyurl.com/CubeSatfFrance

Astronaut Julie Payette Interviewed

In a recent podcast Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS) member Pete Sipple 2E0PSL asked NASA astronaut Julie Payette about the Amateur Radio station on the ISS. Julie Payette was a flight engineer on two ISS missions, STS-96 and STS-127, and her answer can be...

AMSAT-NA AGM Available on EchoLink

The 2011 AMSAT-NA Annual General Meeting will be broadcast on EchoLink node 101377 on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 beginning about 2215 UTC. The Annual Meeting is being held in conjunction with the AMSAT Symposium in San Jose, CA from Nov. 4-5, 2011 and is scheduled to last...