by Peter Goodhall | Dec 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
December 20, 2013 will be the 11th birthday of the amateur radio satellite SO-50. Now known as SO-50, Saudisat 1C is a Saudi Arabian satellite about 25 cm cubed that was launched by a Dnepr rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 17:00 UT on December 20, 2002. SO-50...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
The ARRL report Expedition 38 Astronauts Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG, and Rick Mastracchio, KC5ZTE, will leave the confines of the International Space Station (ISS) December 21, 23, and 25 to repair a faulty cooling system pump. The malfunction has already caused the...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
In The Register Lester Haines interviews radio amateur Daniel Richman M0ZDR (ex-M6DRX) about the impressive Cambridge University Space Flight (CUSF) Landing Predictor. Rob Anderson wrote the original landing predictor for High Altitude Balloons in 2008. Since then...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Nico Janssen PA0DLO has posted a summary of the presently known IDs for the satellites that were launched on the Yasny Dnepr on November 21. Further Doppler measurements show that TshepisoSat (aka ZACube-1) is object 39417...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
Roland PY4ZBZ reports that the CAPE-2 amateur radio CubeSat responded to a “Send Text to Speech” command with “Hello P Y 4 Z B Z” in the voice of Darth Vader. Listen to the recording at http://tinyurl.com/PY4ZBZ-Cape-2-Darth-Vader AMSAT...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
Ten year-old radio amateurs Maribel Laguna KK6IGY and Laisha Vergara KK6HZH hope to link up with the International Space Station next year. The San Bernardino Sun newspaper reports both are students at the Dorothy Grant Elementary School in Fontana. The school has a...
