AMSAT-UK Satellite Talk at Telford

Paul Robinson 2E1EUB will be guest speaker at the Telford and District Amateur Radio Society (TDARS) on Wednesday, March 21, where he will give a talk about amateur radio satellites. In 2011 the RSGB awarded Paul the prestigious Louis Varney Cup for Advances in Space...

Nano and picosatellite resolution at WRC-12

Wouter Jan Ubbels PE4WJ provides an update regarding the attendance by ISIS at the World Radiocommunication Conference. At the conference, ISIS has managed to write a last-minute resolution which was submitted by a group of countries, led by The Netherlands. The aim...

New MO-72 Decode Software

The students who developed the amateur radio satellite MO-72 (Masat-1) have announced that new telemetry decode software is available. Changes in this new release include: – “Offline” label removed, the status of the automatic packet reporting is displayed...

ARISS educative contact planned with Italian school

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contact has been planned with participants at 1° Circolo Didattico Nicola Fornelli, Bitonto, Italy on 24 Feb. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 14:01 UTC. The duration of the contact is...

MASAT-1 designated MagyarSat-OSCAR-72 (MO-72)

OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO reports, “Congratulations on the successful launch of the MaSat-1 Cubesat that the team at Budapest University of Technology and Economics have been responsible for designing, building and testing. “Since you...