by Peter Goodhall | Mar 25, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Dnepr rocket is a converted ICBM used for launching satellites into orbit, operated by launch service provider ISC Kosmotras. The first launch, on April 21, 1999, successfully placed UoSAT-12, a 350 kg demonstration mini-satellite, into a 650 km circular Low Earth...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 25, 2013 | Daily Updates
Members and non-members are invited to a BIS KickSat 437 MHz Sprite satellite programming and planning day. The event takes place on March 30, 2013, 11am-4pm at 27/29 South Lambeth Road, London, SW8 1SZ and has these aims: • Developer kit: setup and programming tests...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 24, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this video Patrick Stoddard WD9EWK shows that high power isn’t needed to work the satellites. On Saturday, March 9. 2013, at 1636 UT at the Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in Tempe, Arizona (grid DM43al) he showed you can work F)-29 using just 5 watts...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
The French language version of the European Space Agency (ESA) website reports the latest in the series of comic books about the Adventures of Tania in Space was published on March 22, 2013. ESA report that as well as the adventures of Tania the 176 page publication...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
Surrey Space Centre report that the STRAND-1 satellite is healthy but they have had new ground station teething problems. That has diverted effort and delayed the eagerly awaited switch-on of the Google Nexus One smartphone carried by the CubeSat. The team are...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Student Oxygen Measurement Project (SOMP) is a cubesat developed by students of the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, organized in the Students’ Research Group for Spacecraft Engineering in Dresden (STARD). SOMP will be a standard sized single CubeSat...
