by m0xtd | Aug 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI used amateur radio to speak to Scouts at Space Jam 6 in Rantoul, Illinois. The Space Jamboree Workshop is the Midwest’s largest technology oriented gathering of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Scouts from all over the United States...
by m0xtd | Aug 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device, designed by Paulo Lozano, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, bears little resemblance to today’s bulky satellite engines, which are laden with...
by m0xtd | Aug 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dr Lucie Green from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory will be giving a talk about the Sun to the Reading and District Amateur Radio Club on Thursday, September 27 at 7:30 pm. The talk takes place at Lecture Theatre 109, Palmer Building, White Nights Campus,...
by m0xtd | Aug 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
Mal VK2MALhas produced a video showing reception, using a handheld, of SSB signals from the amateur radio satellite VO-52. In this video I am using the Kenwood TH-F7E & Arrow LEO antenna to receive VO52, a SSB Amateur Satellite. In the first part of the video you...
by m0xtd | Aug 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Max Valier satellite is a 15 kg amateur radio microsat planned for launch into a 700 km Sun Synchronous Orbit from Plesetsk. The first mission is educational and involves two Technical High Schools (TFO) in South Tyrol, Italy. Its aim is to demonstrate the...
