by Peter Goodhall | Mar 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, March 8 test transmissions were made on 2422.0 MHz using the HamTV equipment on the International Space Station (ISS). The Digital TV signal was successfully received and web streamed to a global audience via the Britsh Amateur Television Club (BATC)...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
Researchers from the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey have launched a unique campaign that will enable the public to ‘travel’ to space for the cost of a pair of trainers. Virtual Ride to Space will use cutting-edge virtual technology and a specially designed...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Ham Video transmitter was installed in the Columbus module of the International Space Station (ISS) on March 6, 2014 at approximately 10.00 UT. The transmitter was powered on briefly and all control LEDs were nominal. Ham Video is declared ready for Commissioning....
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio ZACUBE-1 satellite, launched with FUNcube-1 on November 21, 2013, recently had two close encounters with space debris. The ZACUBE-1 team have issued this press release: Week nine of the year will go down as quite an eventful week for ZACUBE-1...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
Last weekend FUNcube-1 (AO-73) reached the milestone of having been in space for 100 days – actually that should be clarified to mean “terrestrial” days as the spacecraft itself has been subjected to more than 1500 day/night cycles during this time. We are very...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
UoSAT-OSCAR-11 has now been in orbit for 30 years and remarkably its signal on 145.826 MHz FM (AFSK 1200 bps ASCII) is still being received. UoSAT-2, also known as UoSAT-OSCAR-11 or UO-11, was the second satellite designed and built by a team of engineers at the...
