by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
The EQUiSat CubeSat will have an LED beacon visible to the naked eye at night and will transmit data about its health and position. EQUiSat, being built by a team of students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has been cleared for launch. NASA has...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
Michael Kirkhart KD8QBA provides this update on the $50SAT PocketQube which transmits on 437.505 MHz (+/-9 kHz Doppler shift). The TLEs on the Dropbox have been updated to reflect the latest element set available from Celestrak. This probably is not necessary, as many...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 astronaut Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA successfully deployed the first of the 33 CubeSats that were launched from the Wallops Flight Facility, VA to the International Space Station (ISS) in the Cygnus freighter on January 9. The first two of the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
There are new launch dates for both SpaceX CRS-3 launching from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the Soyuz-2.1b, Fregat-M which will be launching from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. On his website Mineo Wakita JE9PEL provides the following information: SpaceX...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
Jonathan’s Space Report (JSR) has been covering robotic and human spaceflight activity for 25 years. In the latest issue UK born Jonathan McDowell writes: The first issue of JSR was sent to an internal email distribution at my then and current place of work, the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
A post on the Planetary Society website wonders if radio amateurs will be able to pick up the signal from ISEE-3/ICE as it passes Earth. Emily Lakdawalla says: The International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3), a spacecraft that was launched in 1978 to study Earth’s...
