by Peter Goodhall | Feb 1, 2014 | Daily Updates
Founded in 1975 AMSAT-UK is a voluntary organisation that supports the design and building of equipment for amateur radio satellites. AMSAT-UK initially produced a short bulletin called OSCAR News to give members advice on amateur satellite communications. Since those...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 1, 2014 | Daily Updates
Mineo Wakita JE9PEL has posted details on the AMSAT Bulletin Board of the deployments of amateur satellites by the Japanese Space Agency JAXA planned for later this month. Satellite Uplink Downlink Beacon Mode [JAXA ISS KIBO Robot Arm, Feb 6,...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 31, 2014 | Daily Updates
Four amateur radio CubeSats, LituanicaSat-1, LitSat-1, ArduSat-2 and UAPSat-1 are on the International Space Station (ISS) awaiting deployment currently planned for February 6, 2014. Additionally there is SkyCube-1 which transmits on 915 MHz which is an amateur band...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 31, 2014 | Daily Updates
A team of University of Warwick engineering students are designing and building a CubeSat WUSAT2 which will be launched 100 km into space in 2015. The third and fourth-year engineering students beat off stiff competition from undergraduate, post-graduate and PhD teams...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 30, 2014 | Daily Updates
The ARRL report the FCC has invited comments by February 18 on the latest batch of draft recommendations of its Advisory Committee for World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-2015). At its January 27 meeting, the Advisory Committee (WAC) approved draft...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 29, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team have made a few changes to the way Fitter Messages are handled / displayed on the Data Warehouse: – Only the last 7 days of fitter messages are displayed (list is truncated at midnight UT, each day) – To help the command stations, the...
