by Peter Goodhall | May 27, 2014 | Daily Updates
Organizer Sotira Trifourki reports on the planned Synergy-Space Meetups in the Manchester area. She says: We are putting together a regular meetup group to start making the CubeSats and Space Telescope’s for our forthcoming missions to the Moon with Team SYNERGY...
by Peter Goodhall | May 26, 2014 | Daily Updates
The South African CPUT TshepisoSAT team were invited to give a mission update at the SA AMSAT‘s Space Symposium on Saturday, May 24, 2014 at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria. The event was well attended and even had representatives from SANSA in attendance....
by Peter Goodhall | May 25, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team have received confirmation that UKube-1, which is hosting the FUNcube-2 payload, is now scheduled for a Soyuz-2-1b Fregat-M launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Saturday, June 28 with the following day as a back-up. The launch time has been quoted...
by Peter Goodhall | May 24, 2014 | Daily Updates
The key Ofcom public consultation to give radio amateurs temporary access to 146 to 147 MHz closes at the end of Monday, May 26. You can let Ofcom know your view on this by filling in the simple online question form at...
by Peter Goodhall | May 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Surrey Electronics and Amateur Radio Society (EARS) 434 MHz balloon flight was the top news story on the front page of the Surrey Advertiser newspaper. On Sunday, May 4, the Surrey EARS team launched a High Altitude Balloon from Cambridgeshire carrying University...
by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
The IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel has announced frequencies for the Shin’en2 linear transponder. Shin’en2 is a 17 kg satellite measuring 490×490×475 mm built by students at Kagoshima University in Japan which will carry a 145 to 435...
