by m0xtd | Sep 7, 2011 | Daily Updates
The International Amateur Radio Union satellite frequency coordination panel has agreed a frequency of 437.575 MHz for the UK satellite STRaND-1. STRaND-1 will carry an Android Smartphone and plans to use data rates of 9k6 or 19k2 bps for the AX.25 packet radio...
by m0xtd | Sep 5, 2011 | Daily Updates
40 years ago the United Kingdom’s first satellite launched on a UK built rocket went into space and now a team from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey are attempting to revive it. The Prospero spacecraft was launched by a Black Arrow rocket on...
by m0xtd | Sep 5, 2011 | Daily Updates
The G5RV Cup for Space Communications has been awarded to Paul Robinson 2E1EUB by RSGB President Dave Wilson M0OBW. The cup is awarded for advances in space communication and the presentation took place at the Telford Hamfest on Sunday, September 4. Paul was nominated...
by m0xtd | Sep 5, 2011 | Daily Updates
by Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Sep 05, 2011 Civilian government agencies are expected to procure more satellites for operational missions in Earth observation, meteorology, navigation, and communications. In most countries, communications satellites (comsat) are...
by m0xtd | Sep 5, 2011 | Daily Updates
John Heath G7HIA has written an article about amateur radio space communications for the October edition of the British Interplanetary Society magazine Spaceflight. The Spaceflight description says: “Radio amateurs have always been keen to exploit new means of...
