by Peter Goodhall | Jul 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC News is reporting that the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat UKube-1, being built by Clyde Space in Glasgow, may launch in late October 2013. Clyde Space Senior Systems Engineer Steve Greenland will be giving a presentation on UKube-1 to the AMSAT-UK...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
The National Institute of Amateur Radio was involved in the Small Satellite Developer Workshop held July 8-13, 2013 at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, in Kancheepuram. The event was organized by Dhruva Space, a Bangalore based Small Satellite and High...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
The members of Team STRATODEAN, Cassie Phelps and Mark Ireland, will be giving a web streamed presentation on their High Altitude Balloon project to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium on Saturday, July 20. The event takes place at the Holiday Inn, Guildford,...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
As part of the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium there will be two opportunities to visit the satellite facilities at the Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) Kepler building. Visit # 1 – Friday, July 19 at 5 PM Visit # 2 – Sat, July 20 at 9...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 13, 2013 | Daily Updates
The South African Radio League (SARL) has issued the following bulletin about the company SunSpace which developed out of the Stellenbosch University SUNSAT OSCAR-35 project and was responsible for building the SumbandilaSat OSCAR-67 satellite. Both SUNSAT and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
Henk Hamoen PA3GUO used his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle Software Defined Radio (FCD SDR) to show the variations in signal strength between the two amateur radio stations on-board the International Space Station (ISS). The amateur radio station in the Russian Service...