by Peter Goodhall | Jan 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team were interested to know the trend of the number of uploads to the warehouse since launch, we thought we would share our findings. We have been consistently getting more than 5000 raw packets per day and the trend is increasing, thanks folks! The plan...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
Understanding orbits can be called the key to understanding satellites. These videos by Nanosatisfi cover many facts about orbits. Watch Coding For Space – Orbits 1 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGAmYLlWj2c&w=560&h=315] This second video about...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
A Dnepr carrying the 310 kg Spanish imaging minisatellite Deimos-2 along with 20 other satellites is expected to launch from Dombarovsky near Yasny in April/May. The satellites will be deployed in a 600 km orbit. Information on Russian space launches can be found on...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
New Electronics has a feature on the UK CubeSat programme and UKube-1 which it says should be launched from Kazakhstan on March 27, 2014. Caroline Harper is a programme manager at the UK Space Agency and one programme that comes under her wing is UKube-1. CubeSats can...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube Data Warehouse is now producing .csv files containing Realtime data channels for the AO-73 CubeSat. The data is produced every hour, on the hour and contains 3000 rows, starting 250 minutes before the last record in the database. As we do not have...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
Students and researchers at the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) in the University of Surrey, Guilford, are developing the 3U CubeSat Deorbitsail. It is planned to launch on a Dnepr rocket into a 600 km Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The aims of the mission are: (1) Deploy a large...
