by Peter Goodhall | Sep 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
The LitSat-1 CubeSat plans to carry a linear transponder and an AX.25 packet radio transceiver. It is hoped that LitSat-1 will be among the CubeSats sent by Nanoracks LLC to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX CRS-3 mission in January 2014. It will be...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
Ham Video Commissioning preparation is progressing. An EST (Experiment Sequence Test) has been performed August 28-29 and Simulations tests were done September 5-6, 2013. The EST consisted of a series of tests, mainly of the ground segment. For the Commissioning, the...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Sky and Telescope magazine and the Standard-Examiner both carry articles about CubeSats . The Standard-Examiner reports Utah State University (USU) is conducting research on an inflatable plastic boom that can unfurl once the satellite, about 10 cm square, is...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
The solar powered pico balloons B-11 and B-12 were launched by Leo Bodnar from Silverstone, UK on September 1 and 2 respectively. As of 1238 UT on Monday, September 9 both balloons were still in the air transmitting the amateur radio DominoEX16 data mode on 434.500...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
The UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference took place at the University of Greenwich, London on Saturday, September 7. The conference attracted those interested in learning about building and flying High Altitude Balloons or in tracking their 434 MHz signals. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
MIT report researchers led by Alessandra Babuscia have developed a new design of antenna for small satellites known as CubeSats. Due the their small size CubeSats have been restricted to small monopole or dipole antennas. Such low gain omni-directional antennas have...
