by Peter Goodhall | Jan 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
The January 2014 issue of SatMagazine features the UKube-1 CubeSat built at Clyde Space in Glasgow. UKube-1 carries an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW communications and should launch later this year. The magazine also covers some of the many...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 3, 2014 | Daily Updates
As promised, we are making the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) CubeSat High Resolution Data available for download from the Data Warehouse. It contains Hi-Res data generated every hour, on the hour for the 60 minutes preceding the extract. Please note that unlike the Whole Orbit...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 3, 2014 | Daily Updates
E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the PDF of the Winter edition of the OSCAR News magazine here (as well as previous 2013 and 2012 issues). The paper edition should be posted to members soon. In this issue • FUNcube-1 Operations Report • FunCube Dongle Pro+ V2.0...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 2, 2014 | Daily Updates
Yahoo News have published an interview with entrepreneur Tom Walkinshaw, 24, who is opening a ‘DIY space kit shop’. He hopes it will start a new, “DIY space race” with satellites available for as little as £12,000 ($18,000) which rises to £20,000 ($30,000)...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this video Travis Goodspeed KK4VCZ describes his Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tracking system to the 30th Chaos Computer Congress which took place December 27-30, 2013 at the Congress Center Hamburg in Germany. The YouTube description reads: Satellites in Low...
