by Peter Goodhall | Apr 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
NextGen CubeSat Project, a presentation prepared by Alex Harvilchuck N3NP and presented by Dr. Charles Westgate WC2R during the AMSAT Forum at the 2010 Dayton Hamvention. Watch NextGen CubeSat Project [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBMsvHitJtM] See other...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Clive G7SVI reports that G100RSGB should be active on the amateur radio satellites on Thursday, April 4. The Flight Refueling Amateur Radio Society will be hosting the RSGB Centenary Call G100RSGB from their club house at Merley, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 3DA and should...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
The European Interparliamentary Space Conference (EISC) workshop on small, micro, nano and CubeSat missions took place on March 25 in Redu, Belgium. AMSAT Belgium and the UBA took advantage of the opportunity to demonstrate the engineering model of the AMSAT-UK...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Hector, CO6CBF is looking for stations in the West of the UK on the amateur radio satellite FO-29. Currently FO-29 is in apogee and has a big footprint which allow mutual visibility during a couple of minutes between Cuba and UK. I can work the satellite until LOS and...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
8000x-1 will be the first cubesat to fully implement mobilephone technology within a 1U (10×10×10 cm) cubesat. Due for launch later this month, 8000x-1 will be fully controlled by the mobile phones OBC, “Loof Prial” the project sponsores aim to release an...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 31, 2013 | Daily Updates
On March 25, using the Thornton Middle School Wireless Technology Club callsign KF5NZD, students from Thornton Middle School in Katy, Texas contacted the International Space Station (ISS). They used ham radio to speak to ISS Commander Chris Hadfield VA3OOG who was...
