by Peter Goodhall | Jan 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
’Fly Your Satellite!’ is an exciting new initiative from the European Space Agency (ESA) Education and Knowledge Management Office. It is focused on CubeSat projects run by university students and builds on the successful ‘CubeSats for the Vega Maiden Flight’ pilot...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 27, 2013 | Daily Updates
EregbuSAT is a CubeSat prototype that is being developed by the Postgraduate students of the African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in English (ARCSSTE-E) to simulate the communication (send and receive data) between a Satellite and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
Tom Doyle W9KE has made available the amateur radio Satellite Explorer app for Windows 8 devices. Satellite Explorer is a Windows 8 app that runs on Intel based tablets, laptops and desktops as well as Windows RT tablets like the Microsoft Surface. It is available in...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
Paulo PV8DX made this video of a CW contact with Joe EI5EV over a distance of 7383 km using the amateur radio satellite OSCAR 7. Although OSCAR 7 is over 38 years old and it’s solar panels have been severely degraded by radiation it still provides some excellent...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 23, 2013 | Daily Updates
Scotland seems to be taking advantage of the expanding satellite and space market with several new companies involved in CubeSat development. Glasgow’s Clyde Space, who are developing the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat UKube-1, has already established a...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 23, 2013 | Daily Updates
An innovative CubeSat Pulsed Plasma Thruster (PPT) was shown at the UK CubeSat Community Workshop attended by AMSAT-UK. The event was organized by the UK Space Agency (UKSA). Produced by the Southampton based company Mars Space Ltd the unit is claimed to be capable of...
