KN-SAT Prototype-2

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...

Lunar Mission Looking for Payloads

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...

Diwali Return for APRS Balloon Payload

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...

Art and Ham Radio in Deep Space

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...

FUNcube Forum

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...

FUNcube-1 Launch: Date and time confirmed

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...