by Peter Goodhall | Nov 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
The KN-SAT Cubesat team at the University of Khartoum (UofK), Sudan, have successfully completed the design and development of the Prototype-2. This has been a result of hard work and dedication throughout the last year.Dr. Sharief F Babikir writes: “I must...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Barcelona Moon Google X-Price team is looking for secondary payloads to take on their trip to the Moon planned for June 2015. These documents provide some details on this opportunity (1.35m Euros/kg). You can contact the Barcelona Moon team directly if you are...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
The payload of the Indian amateur radio APRS balloon launched on October 13, 2013 has been successfully retrieved. The balloon payload was returned to Dhruva Space on November 3 during Diwali (Festival of Lights). The balloon had been launched from the Indian...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
Students at the Tama Art University are planning to send a sculpture ARTSAT2 DESPATCH along with an amateur radio payload into deep space. The ARTSAT2 Deep Space sculpture “DESPATCH” is planned to launch in mid 2014 on a H-IIA rocket with the asteroid explorer...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK has announced a new FUNcube Forum to cater for the two FUNcube payloads that will be launched in the coming months. FUNcube-1 is a complete educational single CubeSat project with the goal of enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
The latest news about the launch date and time has just been confirmed by Kosmotras. The launch date of RS-20B rocket (Dnepr) with a group of satellites (DubaiSat-2 cluster mission) from Dombarovsky missile area (Yasny Launch Base) has been established for November...