by Peter Goodhall | May 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
Fifteen-year-old Abigail Harrison has a big dream, to be the first astronaut to Mars. She is currently using the crowd funding website RocketHub to raise money to fund a trip to Baikonur in Kazhakstan to watch her mentor, Astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP, blast-off to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT has sold the popular G6LVB Tracker (as seen in photo)for several years.This year, we will have a new version which replaces the amber LCD display with an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display. The new display offers a high visibility contrast with a wide...
by Peter Goodhall | May 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
The UK communications regulator Ofcom has published a call for inputs relating to spectrum use by licence exempt devices in the 2.4 GHz band. 2400-2450 MHz is an ITU Amateur and Amateur Satellite Service allocation. The Ofcom announcement says: This band is close to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
Mike Rupprecht DK3WN reports receiving a good signal from the amateur radio microsatellite UoSAT-OSCAR-11 on 145.826 MHz FM (AFSK 1200 bps ASCII), see his blog at http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=33395 UoSAT-2, also known as UoSAT-OSCAR-11 or UO-11, was the second satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | May 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
UKSEDS report that last Sunday, members of Imperial College Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (ICSEDS) traveled to Elsworth, Cambridgeshire, for their first launch trip. The aim was to launch two 434 MHz High Altitude Balloons (HABs) and several...
by Peter Goodhall | May 6, 2013 | Daily Updates
Estonia’s first CubeSat ESTCube-1, amateur radio callsign ES5E, was launched from Kourou in the Caribbean on May 7 at 0206 UT on an ESA Vega rocket into a 704 km orbit. Also on the same launch were Vietnam’s VNREDSat-1A and ESA’s Proba‑V satellites.This...
