by m0xtd | Feb 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
The first qualification Vega flight from the space center at Kourou in the Caribbean is scheduled to take place on February 13 and a video showing the payloads is now available. Watch Arianespace [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLWyGsNfO8] Frequencies and...
by m0xtd | Feb 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
NASA is seeking proposals for flight demonstrations of small satellite technologies with the goal of increasing the technical capabilities and range of uses for this emerging category of spacecraft. Small satellites typically weigh less than 400 pounds (180 kg) and...
by m0xtd | Feb 5, 2012 | Daily Updates
In this video Foundation holder Andreas Kellner VK4FHAW from Queensland works an amateur radio satellite using his homebrew LEO satellite system. Watch Leo_0001.wmv [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-nBYvPYOy4] Read John Heath G7HIA’s article ‘Getting started...
by m0xtd | Feb 5, 2012 | Daily Updates
Andras Gschwindt HA5WH is requesting Radio Amateurs to send reports of telemetry data from the Hungarian student satellite Masat-1 due to be launched on February 13. Andras HA5WH, head of the student group that made the first Hungarian CubeSat, Masat-1, says: Masat-1...
by m0xtd | Feb 5, 2012 | Daily Updates
Members of UKSEDS are developing an amateur radio satellite payload called myPocketQub442 (437.425-437.525 MHz) that will fly on the UKube-1 satellite towards the end of the year. UKSEDS is a space enthusiast organisation for both school and university students....
