by m0xtd | May 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
Korean artist Hojun Song DS1SBO has made available videos showing the construction of his satellite OSSI. In addition to radio communications (145 MHz uplink, 435 MHz downlink) OSSI is fitted with LED’s that can flash in Morse Code and is also flying...
by m0xtd | May 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
The UK’s Alpha team from Bearsden Academy in Glasgow were awarded first place in the second European CanSat Competition. 14 secondary school teams, from different ESA member states, participated in the finals of the competition at the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway....
by m0xtd | May 5, 2012 | Daily Updates
The second U.S. Air Force Advanced Extreme High Frequency (AEHF) communications spacecraft was successfully launched into a super synchronous transfer orbit May 4 atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 531 rocket. Liftoff of the 197 ft. tall 2.7 million...
by m0xtd | May 5, 2012 | Daily Updates
Andy Thomas G0SFJ was invited to attend the ISS Symposium 2012, organised by ESA and DLR in Berlin on May 2-4. This is his personal reflection of the event. Official highlights are on their own website, Twitter, YouTube etc. It’s impossible to single out any...
by m0xtd | May 5, 2012 | Daily Updates
watch?v=gVCiDziXLWc This video demonstrates the AMSAT-UK FUNcube dongle pro receiving CW signals from PRISM. The You Tube video has the following comment by the publisher “I was only using a vertical VHF/UHF antenna hooked up to the FUNcube Dongle Pro. Software...
