by Peter Goodhall | May 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Thursday, May 15, the BBC Radio 4 Today show featured an item on the recently launched 437 MHz Sprite satellites and the new Pocket Spacecraft being developed by a UK radio amateur. The tiny Sprite satellites, measuring 3x3cm and just a few millimetres thick,...
by Peter Goodhall | May 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
Dr. Aaron Knoll and Dr. Christopher Bridges M6OBC from the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey talk to Space Boffins’s Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham about the exciting VR2Space project. They also discuss the STRaND-1 (437.568 MHz) CubeSat and the...
by Peter Goodhall | May 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
The LituanicaSAT-1 team have provided a further update on their CubeSat which was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on February 28. Dear radio amateurs, As most of you have already noticed, since May 12 the satellite has been set up to nominal...
by Peter Goodhall | May 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK Department for Education (DfE) has selected the Horizon balloon project to feature in the department’s #yourlife campaign to promote Maths and Science. Pupils at Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall built the Gagarin payload which transmitted FSK...
by Peter Goodhall | May 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
This video shows Simon 2E0HTS carrying out a signal test on the FUNcube-1 AO-73 CubeSat, he gets a good signal back from the satellite. During weekday daylight hours the satellite is in Educational Mode transmitting a strong telemetry signal with science data for...
by Peter Goodhall | May 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Friday, July 4, the Whitton Amateur Radio Group (WARG) will be hosting a presentation by David Bowman G0MRF on the subject of the FUNcube satellite. David is a member of the AMSAT-UK team behind the successful development and launch of the amateur radio FUNcube-1...
