by Peter Goodhall | Jan 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
James Miller G3RUH reports reception of the Rosetta spacecraft signal at a distance of 805 million km from Earth using the 20 metre dish at the Bochum amateur radio facility On the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) James Miller G3RUH writes: Just a quick note about...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 22, 2014 | Daily Updates
Michael Kirkhart KD8QBA reminds us that the PocketQube $50SAT has now been operating for two months. He writes: It has now been 2 months since the launch of $50SAT into its 625 km (approximate) sun-synchronous orbit, and as of this morning [Tuesday January 21], it is...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
University of Sheffield astrophysics student and UKSEDS member, Gillian Finnerty, has made it through to the next round of selection for the first human mission to Mars. ITV news report she is one of just 40 from the UK who have been chosen to go through to the next...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 19, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Jonathan Oxer VK3FADO gave this Keynote presentation on the latest developments in the ArduSat CubeSat project to the 2014 Linux conference in Perth, Western Australia. Jon has been hacking on both hardware and software since he was a little tacker. Most...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
A new FUNcube guide developed by ARRL Education & Technology Program (ETP) Director Mark Spencer, WA8SME, aims to maximize the educational focus of the tiny FUNcube-1 (AO-73) satellite. Spencer’s Pragmatic Guide for Using the FUNcube (AO-73) Materials Science...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
Jan Stupl provides an update on PhoneSat 2.4 which was part of the ORS3 / Elana 4 launch from the Wallops Flight Facility on November 19, 2013. By now there are TLEs at space-track for all 29 objects of that launch (NORAD ID 39380 – 39409), but only five of...
