T40IARU Cuba on Satellites Saturday, April 21

Cuba’s recently founded amateur radio satellite group “Grupo de Radioaficionados para Operaciones Satelitales” (GROS) held three successful activities last weekend commemorating the first human manned spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin, the inaugural launch...

ISS Amateur Radio contact with Scouts

An International Space Station school contact took place between astronaut Dan Burbank KC5ZSX and Japanese Scouts on April 14, 2012. The Scouts were from Troop 2nd & 3rd Iruma Group, Saitama Scout Council Scout Association Of Japan, Iruma and used the callsign...

Invader CubeSat – A Student Art Satellite

ARTSAT PROJECT-1: INVADER is an amateur radio “Art Satellite” currently being developed as a part of the “ARTSAT: Art and Satellite Project” which aims at a practical use of a satellite for art and design. Invader is a 1U CubeSat being...

Student HRBE Amateur Radio CubeSat in SatMagazine

The student built Hiscock Radiation Belt Explorer (HRBE) amateur radio CubeSat formerly known as Explorer-1 [PRIME] is featured on page 10 of the April issue of SatMagazine. In the article SatMagazine says: The Montana State University (MSU) satellite that rode into...