by Peter Goodhall | Jun 15, 2015 | Daily Updates
The first Brazilian CubeSat, NanosatC-BR1, is experiencing battery issues for the last several months and it now seldom emits a beacon in CW on 145.865 MHz. For some time, Paulo PV8DX, was able to detect a beacon signal when the satellite was over the Caribbean sea...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 11, 2015 | Daily Updates
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF along with Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts landed safely on Thursday, June 11 in Kazakhstan after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station (ISS) at 1020 UT in a Soyuz TMA-15M...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 11, 2015 | Daily Updates
On Thursday, June 11, BBC TV News featured radio amateur Dr Chris Bridges 2E0OBC who was explaining about the FUNcube-1 CubeSat and FUNcube Dongle SDR at the Goonhilly Space Operations training event. Twenty-four delegates from across Europe and the United States are...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Dr David Morgan 2W0CXV has published an article about the possibility of the generation of Very Low Frequency (VLF) emissions in the range 1 to 10 kHz by an ionised meteor trail. He used a FUNcube Dongle SDR as part of the equipment for his experiments....
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
An image taken by the LightSail CubeSat and downloaded on 437.435 MHz 9600 bps AX.25 packet radio has confirmed the deployment of its Solar Sail. Bill Nye “The Science Guy” @BillNye tweeted – This just in: a complete image of #LightSail in space!...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 7, 2015 | Daily Updates
The following message has been sent by the OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan W3XO to Bob Bruninga WB4APR and the team at the US Naval Academy. You have requested OSCAR numbers for BRICsat and PSAT built by you and your associates at the U.S. Naval Academy. From...
