by Peter Goodhall | Apr 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
The OSSI-1, BEESAT-2, BEESAT-3 and SOMP amateur radio CubeSats lifted off on a Soyuz-2-1a with research satellites Bion-M1, AIST and Dove-2 from Launch Complex 31 at Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Friday, April 19 at 1000 UT. The OSSI-1 CubeSat was deployed from its Pod on...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
Soyuz-2-1a is planned to launch Friday, April 19, 2013 at 1000 UT from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Among the satellites it will carry are four CubeSats with amateur radio payloads, OSSI-1, BEESAT-2, BEESAT-3 and SOMP. Unusually the CubeSats will not be deployed straight...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
The planned launch of the Antares rocket carrying three CubeSats with amateur radio payloads has been postponed.Space Flight Now report the countdown for the launch of the first Antares rocket was halted with 12 minutes on the clock after a second stage umbilical...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
The launch of Antares carrying three CubeSats with amateur radio payloads is expected to take place on Wednesday, April 17. ANS reports that three PhoneSat cubesats will be aboard the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares(TM) rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
Radio hams Professor Sharlene Katz, WB6FFE and Professor James Flynn, WB9AWX have received $25,000 from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a CubeSat project. There is also an award of $30,000 for the project listed by The University Corporation. The Daily Sundial...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
CanSats are tiny satellites, built to fit in the same space as a soda-can. UNISEC is running a training program in Japan later this year, to train people on how to build and teach building of these ingenious devices. Watch The 2nd CanSat Leader Training Program...
