by Peter Goodhall | Oct 10, 2021 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-EA is already working on the mission of what will be the first satellite of URE (Spain’s national amateur radio society), URESAT-1. A translation of post by URE says: At the IberRadio Fair, held in September, the possible functionalities that this...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 8, 2021 | Daily Updates
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 6, 2021 | Daily Updates
UoSAT-OSCAR-9 (UoSAT-1), developed at the University of Surrey by Martin Sweeting G3YJO and his team, was launched into orbit 40 years ago on October 6, 1981. UoSAT-1 was the first modern microsatellite with in-orbit re-programmable computers and its signals were...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 4, 2021 | Daily Updates
At 11:12:33 GMT on Tuesday, October 12, students at Newbury’s Mary Hare School for deaf children will be using amateur radio to talk to astronaut Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Mark will be using the ISS callsign NA1SS and...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 2, 2021 | Daily Updates
It is expected four CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads will be deployed on the morning of Wednesday, October 6. You can watch live at these URL’s: #1 0855-0945 GMT Binar-1, Maya-3, Maya-4 #2 1035-1105 GMT CUAVA-1 On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Masa JN1GKZ...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 28, 2021 | Daily Updates
Yasutaka Narusawa JR2XEA of the Komaki Amateur SATCOM Club reports the satellite Z-Sat is now planned to launch on an Epsilon rocket at 00:51:21-00:55:16 GMT on Thursday, October 7. It will be sending CW on 145.875 MHz. On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Yasutaka JR2XEA...
