by m0xtd | Sep 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
Ethiopian Amateur Radio Society Chairman Sid May ET3SID / AB3OZ / G4CTQ passed away September 25. Sid had recently contacted AMSAT-UK regarding an amateur radio CubeSat project he planned to start in Ethiopia. He had been looking forward to attending the National...
by m0xtd | Sep 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
UKube-1 – the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat mission – has ‘booked’ its journey into space on a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket. The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrone in Kazakhstan is expected to take place in March 2013. UKube-1 carries an amateur radio 435/145 MHz...
by m0xtd | Sep 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
AMSAT has received the sad news on the passing of John Beanland, G3BVU. John was an avid AMSAT member and helped man the AMSAT booth at the Boxboro Hamfest over the years. His friends remember John to be outgoing and enthusiastic about amateur radio in space. AMSAT...
by m0xtd | Sep 22, 2012 | Daily Updates
Mike Rupprecht DK3WN continues his investigation to match the NORAD Two-Line Element Sets for Objects D to K to the CubeSats that were deployed by the NROL-36 mission on September 13. Read the results in his Satellite Blog at...
by m0xtd | Sep 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
KickSat is an amateur radio CubeSat technology demonstration mission designed to demonstrate the deployment and operation of prototype Sprite “ChipSats” (femtosatellites) developed at Cornell University by Zac Manchester KD2BHC. It plans to launch on ELaNa-5 / CRS-3...
by m0xtd | Sep 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
BUAA-SAT is a university micro-satellite project developed by the students of Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics). It carries an amateur radio 435/145 MHz FM voice transponder. The satellite has a mass of 30kg, dimensions of...
