by m0xtd | Apr 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the Naval Postgraduate School have developed an auxiliary payload platform that will permit the launch of as many as 24 cubesats at a time. AMSAT News Service reports that the NPS CubeSat Launcher is designed to release satellites one at a time by opening...
by m0xtd | Apr 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
On the anniversary of the launch of Ariel-1, April 26, the UK Space Agency and the Science Museum co-hosted a two-day conference celebrating 50 years of the UK in space. It brought together those who started the UK on the road to being a world-renowned centre for...
by m0xtd | Apr 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
The United Kingdom sent up its first satellite 50 years ago when Ariel 1 launched on April 26, 1962. To celebrate the occassion BBC News interviewed radio amateur Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO. The launch of the joint UK/US satellite Ariel-1, also known as UK-1, made the...
by m0xtd | Apr 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
We are pleased to announce very successful contact of Balaklava school (Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine) with International Space Station. More than 100 children came to take part of the evening event on April 11, 2012 in Balaklava – very unique place with interesting...
by m0xtd | Apr 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
A new ESA nanosat aiming for a 2015 launch plans to provide a platform to test software in space. Space software rarely runs the latest operating systems, languages or interfaces. It is selected for its proven, rock-solid reliability rather than its use of the latest...
