by m0xtd | Feb 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
One of AMSAT’s most important, admired and well loved members, Dick Daniels, W4PUJ, died on February 14, 2012. He lost his battle with lung cancer, diagnosed only at Christmas time 2011. Dick achieved so much working for AMSAT that it is virtually impossible to...
by m0xtd | Feb 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio satellite Dove-1 (145.825 MHz AX.25 FM) was originally planned to launch on the Antares launcher on February 28 but reports indicate it may be Fall before it is launched. Space.com reports that on February 21 Orbital Sciences Corporation announced a...
by m0xtd | Feb 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
Vietnamese students have produced a video about their amateur radio CubeSat F-1, callsign XV1VN. The F-1 is an educational CubeSat to be launched in the summer of 2012. It will carry a low resolution C328 camera with 640×480 resolution and two Yaesu VX-3R...
by m0xtd | Feb 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
TechEdSat will be deployed from the International Space Station (ISS). It is a 1U CubeSat that will demonstrate Plug and Play power architecture and two way communication via the satellite phone/data networks Iridium and Orbcomm. UPDATE: The plan to transmit from...
by m0xtd | Feb 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
Sabrina Corpino, Team Leader of the E-St@r CubeSat project, is interviewed by ASI TV about the CubeSat that was launched on February 13. Watch E-St@r – L’intervista [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fXbRqtl-nI] E-ST@R...
