by m0xtd | Jul 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
PC World magazine reports that a fundraising campaign for the satellite, SkyCube, launched on Kickstarter last weekend (July 14) with the goal of raising US$82,500. Kickstarter is an online service popular with entrepreneurs and startups for raising money. The article...
by m0xtd | Jul 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
A Chinese rocket due to launch in the 2nd quarter of 2013 will carry CubeSat NEE-01 Pegasus from Ecuador. The NEE-01 Pegasus engineering team was led by Cmdr. Ronnie Nader, Ecuador’s first astronaut. The tiny 1U CubeSat (10cm cube) has a large fold-out solar...
by m0xtd | Jul 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
Since the defenceWeb article was written it is believed ZACUBE-1 and ZACUBE-2 have changed designation and the references to the 3U Cubesat ZACUBE-1 should instead read ZACUBE-2. Students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) have been building an...
by m0xtd | Jul 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
International Space Station Flight Engineer Joe Acaba KE5DAR used amateur radio to speak with high school students participating in a summer program called Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars, or WISH. The students, selected from across the country, were...
by m0xtd | Jul 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Planetary Society’s amateur radio spacecraft Lightsail-1 carries a 32m square metre solar sail demonstration. After launch LightSail-1 will spend a few weeks in orbit during which the team will check out the subsystems. The side panels will then be...
