by Peter Goodhall | Mar 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
These video shows CubeSat deployment experiments carried out in a weightless environment on the “Vomit Comet” aircraft by students from the University of Texas. The team write: Nanosatellites are becoming increasingly common in the aerospace industry due...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Register reports that the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team will be working with radio amateur Paul Shackleton G7ALW. The report by Lester Haines says Paul G7ALW will be working on the Vulture 2 spaceplane. Laying out his electronics credentials,...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Public Notice to provide guidance concerning FCC licensing of spectrum for use by small satellites, including satellites that fall within the categories of pico-satellites, nano-satellites and cubesats. The advent...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
NASA EDGE talks to NASA about how they’re helping students and professionals launch their own mini satellites known as CubeSats. The CubeSat Launch Initiative provides new opportunities for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics by helping people...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
Estonia’s first CubeSat ESTCube-1, amateur radio callsign ES5E/S, is planning to launch from Kourou in the Caribbean in the Spring on an ESA VEGA rocket. Built by students at the University of Tartu ESTCube-1 the main mission of the satellite is to test electric...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
Never before have images of Slime Mold growth been transmitted from space using amateur radio but students from Teikyo University plan to do just that with their TeikyoSat-3 satellite. The TeikyoSat-3 team say “A slime mold is a microbe without a brain, its...
