by m0xtd | Oct 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
When the FITSAT-1 CubeSat was deployed from the International Space Station on October 4 it took a picture using the on-board camera. On Friday, October 19 UT, the team successfully downloaded the picture using the high-speed 115.2 kbps data transmitter on 5840.0 MHz....
by m0xtd | Oct 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Friday, October 19, after some final testing and characterisation checks completed at the facilities of ISIS BV in Delft, AMSAT-UK handed over the set of three PCBs that form the FUNcube-2 subsystem on the UKube-1 spacecraft to Clyde Space Ltd in Glasgow. Clyde...
by m0xtd | Oct 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
Raydel Espinet CM2ESP reports the first national meeting of the Cuban amateur radio satellite group will take place November 8-11 and special event station T47G will be on the air, on both HF and the satellites, during the event. With great pleasure, on behalf of the...
by m0xtd | Oct 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
CAMSAT are building two micro-satellites CAS-2A1 and CAS-2A2 to be combined into a binary star system for amateur radio communication and education. There will be a radio link between two satellites when the satellites are in suitable positions in their orbits, so...
by m0xtd | Oct 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video by radio amateur Tetsurou Satou JA0CAW shows reception in Japan of the 5840.0 MHz downlink from the FITSAT-1 (aka NIWAKA) CubeSat that was deployed from the ISS on October 4. He used a 38cm dish with a down-converter to an IF of 1284 MHz, a BGA2717 LNA and...
