by m0xtd | Mar 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
Videos have been released by the Thailand Amateur Satellite group TAMSAT showing their successful amateur radio balloon flight call sign HS1JAN-11 on March 18. Watch the launch of MSBSAT-2 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQyw13VMjhA] Watch MSBAT-2 at 30km and...
by m0xtd | Mar 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Wednesday, March 21, students at Salem Elementary in Apex came together in the school’s multipurpose room for a once-in-a-lifetime event. WRAL TV news reports that fourteen students, six of them winners of the school’s science fair a few weeks earlier,...
by m0xtd | Mar 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
When we first founded TAMSAT, Association of Amateur Satellite Technologies approximately two years ago, we have made a big commitment. Our commitment was to develop technology in Turkey, not any technology, but a complex one related to space systems. I am sure during...
by m0xtd | Mar 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio STRaND-1 smartphone CubeSat is a joint project between SSTL and the Surrey Space Centre (SSC). It’s not only its smartphone that makes it exceptional. Engineers at the Surrey Space Centre have also developed a unique mass and power saving plasma...
by m0xtd | Mar 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
They are constantly circling hundreds of miles above our heads, driving our daily lives – yet we barely give satellites a second thought. Satellite engineer Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock Ph.D., MBE wants to change all that. She wants to make us realise and appreciate...
