by m0xtd | Aug 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
ESA’s Education Office is inviting the CubeSat community to send their notifications of interest for a new initiative involving the development of educational picosatellites and the provision of deployers and launch services. The call closes on 7 September 2012....
by m0xtd | Aug 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video presentation describes a CubeSat with an Ion Drive that in 2013 could travel to the Moon. With a grant from the Vermont Space Grant Consortium, a part of the NASA Space Grant program, a group of students from four Vermont colleges and universities, are...
by m0xtd | Aug 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
Prior to the Curiosity Mars landing this morning Aug 6, The Canberra Times interviewed radio amateur Len Ricardo VK1ALR, operations manager at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, who will be providing a communications link for the Mars Curiosity Rover. Len...
by m0xtd | Aug 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Monday, August 6 UT to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation. The Mars Science...
by m0xtd | Aug 4, 2012 | Daily Updates
Space Jam 6 at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, Illinois, USA – Akihiko Hoshide, KE5DNI Sunday, August 5, 2012. Station WB9SA in Illinois, USA will call NA1SS at approximately 10:06 UT. Space Jam 6 is a Boy Scout and Girl Scout weekend event that...
