by Peter Goodhall | Dec 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
TshepisoSat was built at the French South African Institute of Technology (F’SATI), at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and launched on a Dnepr from Dombarovsky near Yasny on November 21, 2013. The CPUT-F’SATI blog says: Earlier this week a quick...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
The first novel to find inspiration from Cubesats and the new wave of personal spacecraft – such as the Sprites – has been published and is available from Amazon and Createspace. In ‘A Pyramid of Tiny Skulls’, the story is this: “On the...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
Jason Rexroat KK4AJE of the University of Kentucky KySat-2 team brings news of the latest version of the amateur radio ground station telemetry decoder software. We really appreciate everyone using our ground station software to decode KySat-2 packets! We are...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Warwick University Satellite Team (WUSAT) have won a place on the sub-orbital Rocket Experiments for University Students REXUS 1718 campaign. The team say: We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in our bid for a slot on the REXUS 1718 campaign!...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
UKube-1 left Clyde Space in Glasgow on its way to Baikonur in Kazakhstan on December 12, 2013. The 3U CubeSat carries a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards (FUNcube-2) to provide an Educational beacon and a 435/145 MHz linear transponder for amateur radio SSB/CW...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Peruvian CubeSat PUCP-SAT-1 (145.840 MHz AX.25 FM) was carried by the microsatellite UNISAT-5 which was launched on a Dnepr on November 21, 2013. When in orbit UNISAT-5 deployed PUCP-SAT-1 and Neilsao Vilchez reports PUCP-SAT-1 has in turn deployed an even smaller...
