by Peter Goodhall | Jul 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
The July/August 2014 issue of the free professional publication SatMagazine features TechDemoSat, UKube-1 with FUNcube-2 boards, DX-1 and the publication OSCAR News produced quarterly by AMSAT-UK. OSCAR News is edited by Jim Heck G3WGM and Graham Shirville G3VZV. On...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
ISIS have been selected by SpaceFlight Inc. to provide QuadPack nanosatellite dispensers for the 2015 SHERPA launch. They will provide the capacity to deploy 84 3U CubeSats. Future SHERPA launches aim to go to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). Following next year’s...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
Pupils at Wirral Grammar School for Girls are planning to launch a High Altitude Balloon equipped with 434 MHz telemetry and Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV) transmitters. The launch is planned for Wednesday, July 16 at around 11:00 BST from Middletown Hill near...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
The free BYOB CubeSat Day takes place in the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford on Friday, July 25. The day will include ad-hoc tours to SSC’s cleanroom, ground–station, and new CubeSat experimentation facilities. Following on from the success of...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
David Bowman G0MRF describes the coverage area that might be provided by an amateur radio Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite (MEOSAT). He suggests there is a region of space that would be optimum for such satellites. The Van Allen radiation belts are separated into...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
CubeSail is an exciting, ground-breaking educational satellite project at the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) that hopes to launch into a 680 km Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) from India in December 2014. A key feature is the deployment of a 25 square metre sail structure,...
