UK NanoSat Weekend

Would you like to build your own satellite? Would you like to do that in a single weekend…and fly it too? The Satellite Applications Catapult has developed a build-your-own satellite kit. Over the course of a weekend you will assemble, test and program your own...

Amateur Radio and ISS on ABC radio show

On Thursday, August 20, Onno VK6FLAB was interviewed by Gillian O’Shaughnessy for the ABC 720 Breakfast Show to talk about Amateur Radio after a UK based radio ham, Adrian 2E0SDR, managed a contact with the ISS from his garden shed. Read the ABC 720 Blog Post...

IARU Coordination of Satellite Frequencies

The IARU have announced they are committed to only coordinate satellite frequencies within the internationally aligned IARU band plans. The two metre amateur band is one of the most popular and populated bands in all the spectrum allocated to the amateur and amateur...

Danish CubeSats head for ISS

Two CubeSats built in Denmark, GomX-3 and AAUSat-5, are on their way to the International Space Station. Japan’s fifth H-II Transfer Vehicle blasted off from Tanegashima Space Center on Wednesday, August 19 at 1150 UT. The HTV-5 is expected to arrive at the ISS...

School students decode ISS images

Students at Sree Narayana Trust Higher Secondary School returned to the classroom during their holidays to receive amateur radio Slow Scan Television from the International Space Station. The special ISS transmissions were made in July to commemorate the 40th...