by Peter Goodhall | Jan 13, 2015 | Daily Updates
Sarah Brightman hopes to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 10 day mission on September 1, 2015. If the launch were to take place as expected she would become the UK’s second astronaut, the first was Helen Sharman GB1MIR on May 18, 1991. Tim...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 11, 2015 | Daily Updates
OGMS-SA is a 3U CubeSat being developed by students at the Paris-Est Creteil University as part of the QB50 constellation. The purposes of this CubeSat include upper atmosphere science; radio communication experiments; technology demonstrator; education, training and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 11, 2015 | Daily Updates
William A. (Bill) Tynan, W3XO, OSCAR Number Administrator has conferred on Shin’en2 the designation Fuji OSCAR-82 or FO-82. In reply to Seiji Fukushima’s, JH6RTO, request for an OSCAR number, Bill said, “I along with all in AMSAT-NA and the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 10, 2015 | Daily Updates
David Bowman G0MRF will be giving a presentation titled ‘A Beginners Guide to Amateur Satellites’ at the Sutton & Cheam Radio Society (SCRS) on Thursday, January 15 at 8 pm, visitors are welcome. The SCRS newsletter says: Last February, we had an...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 5, 2015 | Daily Updates
Limited testing of the FUNcube-2 435/145 MHz linear transponder on the UKube-1 spacecraft has been undertaken during the recent holiday period. This testing has shown that the transponder is able to work effectively and that it is capable of a similar performance to...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 3, 2015 | Daily Updates
Tama Art University Ground Station has decided to conclude attempts to receive the ARTSAT2:DESPATCH spacecraft, amateur radio callsign JQ1ZNN. One month has past since Deep Space Sculpture “ARTSAT2:DESPATCH(FO-81)” was put into an Earth-escape orbit as a...
