by Peter Goodhall | Apr 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
The April 2013 issue of the RocketSTEM Media Foundation Magazine is now available online. April’s issue will give you interesting facts about Mars Curiosity, Skylab and Yuri Gagarin and much more. Pages 48-49 cover Yuri’s Night which takes place April 12....
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
Yuri’s Night is a celebration of humanity’s achievements in space, with hundreds of parties and events held around the world each April. Yuri’s Night was first held on April 12, 2001, on the 40th anniversary of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space and the...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
Florida Today reports that for three years Merritt Island High School students have been working on building a CubeSat. Affectionately referred to as the “StangSat” — after Merritt Island High’s nickname, the Mustangs — a handful of Merritt Island High students and...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, April 6 students from the University of Warwick sent a CubeSat 30km into the stratosphere. Starting from near Welshpool, the CubeSat travelled high into the stratosphere, to over 30km above the Earth’s surface, where the balloon popped and a...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
In Aviation Week Michael Mecham reports the world’s university students come to work at Ames, which takes a leadership role in several areas for NASA, including smallsats, astrobiology and super computing. “We have lots of internationals,” says NASA Ames Research...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
As part of the FUNcube project we now need to urgently decide which is going to be the best type of antenna to propose for use at schools and colleges to receive the 145MHz downlink signals from both FUNcube-1 and FUNcube-2 on UKube after launch. Both spacecraft will...
