by Peter Goodhall | Dec 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-DL President Peter Guelzow DB2OS gave a presentation about the AMSAT P3E and P5 missions at the Qatar international amateur radio festival at the Al Rayyan Theatre in Souq Waqif. The Qatar Peninsular newspaper reports the Qatar Amateur Radio Society (QARS), are...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK member Ken Eaton GW1FKY reports that he has received a QSL card confirming his reception of FITSAT-1. On December 13 at 22:10:30 GMT FITSAT-1 will be using its optical LED beacon to flash a message in Morse Code over the British Isles and Europe which, cloud...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
A test of the FITSAT-1 LED optical beacon that took place on December 11 GMT over Japan was successful. On December 13 at 22:10:30 GMT FITSAT-1 will be using its optical LED beacon to flash a message in Morse Code over the British Isles and Europe which, cloud...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
The FSpace team of young engineers and students at the FPT University have successfully launched and recovered a High Altitude Balloon that carried an amateur radio APRS payload on 145.980 MHz. This was the first high altitude balloon experiment in Vietnam. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Alaska Research CubeSat (ARC-1) will be the first satellite designed, built, tested, and operated by students from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). This satellite is designed as both an educational tool and a platform to facilitate rapid development of...