by Peter Goodhall | Dec 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Data Warehouse now provides the facility to download FUNcube-1 (AO-73) Whole Orbit Data (WOD) as a .csv file. The file is produced at 23:59 every day and contains data for the preceding 24 hours. It contains all the channels shown on the WOD graph, which shows the...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
The January 2014 edition of QST contains an article by ARRL Education and Technology Program Coordinator Mark Spencer WA8SME on a portable azimuth and elevation rotator system for tracking satellites called WRAPS. WRAPS stands for Wobbler RadFxSat Antenna Pointing...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
When NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a boost in speed of more than 7.3 kilometers per second, which set it on course for a July 4, 2016, rendezvous with Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.During the flyby,...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
The 2U ESTELLE will accommodate the QB50 scientific payload and an experimental miniaturized cold gas thruster module with four thrusters and 50 grams of fuel. This mission is a partnership between Estonia, Sweden, Latvia and Slovenia. The general hardware design will...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
In a post on the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Andy Thomas G0SFJ informs us of a presentation on Tuesday, December 10 regarding the amateur radio “Say Hi to Juno” project. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting Science from Juno’s Earth Flyby Tuesday, 10...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
The $50SAT team is asking for help in capturing telemetry from the amateur radio 1.5U PocketQube satellite $50SAT on 437.505 MHz (+/-9 kHz Doppler shift) CW. We are trying to determine the charging characteristics of the power system. The three team members all live...
