by m0xtd | Jun 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio CubeSat F-1 built by students at the FPT University in Hanoi, Vietnam has now been delivered to the Tsukuba Space Center in Japan. F-1 and the other four CubeSats (RAIKO, WE WISH, FITSAT-1 and TechEdSat) will be integrated with the small satellite...
by m0xtd | Jun 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
NanoSatisfi founder Peter Platzer appeared on the Japanese NASDAQ TV feed to talk about the ArduSat satellite. ArduSat is an open-source arduino-based nanosatellite. It will have an extensive sensor-suite onboard and will allow users to upload their own code and run...
by m0xtd | Jun 22, 2012 | Daily Updates
Built by students at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) the amateur radio satellite HORYU-2 was launched on May 17 at 1639 UT. Radio amateurs from around the world sent in telemetry and the winner with the most points has been announced as Yoshitomo Iji JA6PL...
by m0xtd | Jun 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
The crew of STS-56 made numerous amateur radio contacts to schools around the world using the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment II (SAREX II), including brief radio contact with the Russian Mir space station, the first such contact between Shuttle and Mir using amateur...
by m0xtd | Jun 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Feb. 3, 2006, astronauts tossed an old spacesuit off the International Space Station. Inside was an amateur radio transmitter, a temperature sensor and some batteries. The suit was a DIY satellite. It circled the Earth twice, repeating a greeting recorded in...
