by Peter Goodhall | Feb 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Arirang, a TV station in Korea, has broadcast an English language TV news item about CubeSats that features a brief clip of the AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 CubeSat. FUNcube-1 is planned to launch in 2013 and will provide an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder for...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Arirang, a TV station in Korea, has broadcast an English language TV news item about CubeSats that features a brief clip of the AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 CubeSat. FUNcube-1 is planned to launch in 2013 and will provide an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder for...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
This video shows the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat UKube-1 which is being built by Clyde Space. It is slated to launch in the 1st quarter of 2013 on a Soyuz-2 along with TechDemoSat-1. UKube-1 will carry a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards to provide an amateur...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this video Surrey Space Centre’s Dr. Peter Shaw talks us through the anatomy of the highly advanced UK CubeSat STRaND-1. The innovative amateur radio STRaND-1 CubeSat aims to carry a NEXUS Android Smartphone into space to demonstrate the feasibility of using...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 31, 2013 | Daily Updates
It is understood that the ISS amateur radio SpEx Shadow-Beacon experiment is planned to take place February 1-3 and 8-10. The timetable is here. The Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TSNIIMASH) in Russia is conducting a series of space plasma experiments...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
The UK Space Agency’s first Cube UKube-1, which is being built by Clyde Space, featured in The Herald on Monday, January 28. UKube-1 will carry a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards to provide an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder and a 1200 bps BPSK beacon...