by Peter Goodhall | May 23, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC News is reporting that at 0538 UT on Thursday, May 23 Ecuador’s new NEE-01 Pegasus 910 MHz CubeSat collided with debris from a S14 Soviet rocket launched in 1985. The satellite was some 1,500 km east of Madagascar at the time. Pegasus, launched less than a...
by Peter Goodhall | May 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
Grupo de Radioaficionados para Operaciones Satelitales (GROS) Coordinator Raydel Espinet CM2ESP comments on the use of amateur radio satellites for emergency communications and describes how an amateur satellite was used in a Civil Defense exercise on May 18-19, 2013....
by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2013 | Daily Updates
The first picture taken by the amateur radio CubeSat ESTCube-1 in space has been released. ESTCube-1 was launched from Kourou in the Caribbean on May 7 at 0206 UT on an ESA Vega rocket into a 704 km orbit. The hard work of the first two weeks has paid off and the CAM...
by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC News reports that fifteen-year-old Abby Harrison is training to be an astronaut and has set herself the goal of being the first person to reach Mars. “I remember looking up at the night sky when I was five-years-old and thinking that I wanted to go to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 20, 2013 | Daily Updates
NEE-01 Pegasus (Pegaso) the first of two HD TV CubeSats built in Ecuador launched on a CZ-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Space Center on Friday, April 26 at 0413 UT. The 1U CubeSat (10x10x10 cm) was built in Ecuador and carries a 0.9 watt output 720p HD TV transmitter on...
by Peter Goodhall | May 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Guardian newspaper reports that Major Tim Peake has been selected to fly a five-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. Tim Peake, from Salisbury in Wiltshire, was chosen for astronaut training in 2009 from 8,400 applicants. Since then he...
