by Peter Goodhall | Jan 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
Glasgow based Alba Orbital, who aim to use CubeSats for Space Burials, have got through to the national round of a major start-up competition. They now need your help to go one better and win £1000 for their Space Start-up. There is a 1 minute elevator pitch video on...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
SA AMSAT has decided to accelerate their CubeSat project, named KLETSkous and expect to have the first prototype version of the 435/145 MHz linear transponder and control system on the table for testing by end February. “One of the reasons to speed up...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
Graeme 2I0WGM and Philip MI0VIM got some publicity for the Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club by submitting a picture received from a BBC balloon on 434.650 MHz. It was a BBC Stargazing Live experiment to send a balloon to the stratosphere that would tweet data from near...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
The January issue of the free publication SatMagazine features an article on the UK Space Agency’s first satellite UKube-1. It will carry an amateur radio subsystem and a launch on a Soyuz rocket is planned for the 3rd quarter of 2013. The article on page 6...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC TV have been filming at the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) for an item on the STRaND-1 CubeSat mission for Stargazing Live. Volunteers from the SSC and SSTL built STRaND-1 in their spare time. The STRaND-1 spacecraft will...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
On December 22 members of AMSAT-DL succeeded in receiving 18 images from the 5840 MHz high-speed downlink of the amateur radio satellite FITSat-1. In total 22 images were transmitted in the test and 18 were received at the amateur radio facility at Bochum. The...
