by m0xtd | Jan 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Winter issue of OSCAR News has been posted to members. In this issue: – It all started here – 50 years ago! – UKube-1 Update – Clive Wallis G3CWV column – RSGB Spectrum Forum Meeting Nov 2011 – FUNcube Report – Utility of...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Zac Manchester KD2BHC is an engineer at Cornell University in the Space Systems Design Studio who has created the Sprite – a “cracker-sized” satellite that changes the dynamics of the economics and thus the accessibility of spacecraft by several orders of...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Bob McGwier N4HY has made available an extensive collection of amateur radio satellite pictures available for download on smugmug.com. The pictures range from the early 1960’s with OSCAR’s 1, 2, 3 etc to the more recent Eagle and SuitSat. You can view the...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the Institute of Space Technology (IST) have been building Pakistan’s first CubeSat ICUBE-1. Like a number of new CubeSats its communications subsystem is capable of acting as an “AO-16 mode” FM to DSB transponder. The IARU amateur...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Europe has named Thursday 9 February as the day it intends to launch its new Vega rocket for the very first time. The 30m-tall vehicle has been developed to take payloads up to 1.5 tonnes into a polar orbit, and will fly from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The...
