by Peter Goodhall | Mar 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK CubeSat Weekend, taking place at Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell Didcot, will allow members of the public to work together to design, build and balloon launch a flight ready CubeSat engineering model, and a flight model suitable for launch into low...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
OSCAR-11 (AKA UoSAT-2 and UO-11) celebrated its 30th birthday in space on 01 March! It was designed, built and launched within a period of six months, using commercially available ‘off the shelf’ components (COTS). Once again, congratulations to Professor...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Bob Twiggs KE6QMD is interviewed by Stephen Clark in Spaceflight Now. Read the interview at http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1403/08cubesats/ The team behind the recently launched $50sat PocketQube programmed the satellite’s FM CW beacon to send...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateurs have received signals over a distance of 43 million km from the NASA ISEE-3 / ICE deep space probe which was retired from service in 1997. AMSAT-DL have released this statement: On March 1st and 2nd, 2014 radio amateurs were able to detect the beacon...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
The 435/145 MHz SSB/CW linear transponder on the Lithuanian amateur radio CubeSat LitSat-1, call sign LY1LS, was successfully tested on Sunday, March 9. LitSat-1 was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, February 28 at 0730 UT by astronaut...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
Nico Janssen PA0DLO reports the process of producing Object ID’s for newly launched satellites has changed recently. Writing on the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) he says: It seems that the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) has changed some of their...
