by m0xtd | Aug 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dr Lucie Green from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory will be giving a talk about the Sun to the Reading and District Amateur Radio Club on Thursday, September 27 at 7:30 pm. The talk takes place at Lecture Theatre 109, Palmer Building, White Nights Campus,...
by m0xtd | Aug 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
Mal VK2MALhas produced a video showing reception, using a handheld, of SSB signals from the amateur radio satellite VO-52. In this video I am using the Kenwood TH-F7E & Arrow LEO antenna to receive VO52, a SSB Amateur Satellite. In the first part of the video you...
by m0xtd | Aug 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Max Valier satellite is a 15 kg amateur radio microsat planned for launch into a 700 km Sun Synchronous Orbit from Plesetsk. The first mission is educational and involves two Technical High Schools (TFO) in South Tyrol, Italy. Its aim is to demonstrate the...
by m0xtd | Aug 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
POPSAT-HIP1 is a 3U amateur radio CubeSat developed in Singapore. It aims to demonstrate the functionality of a high resolution optical payload and attitude control propulsion system. It will operate a 437.405 MHz downlink with 1k2-9k6 data using CCSDS format. A...
by m0xtd | Aug 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
In this 20 minute video Korean artist Hojun Song DS1SBO and Donghee Park describe the Open Source Satellite Initiative amateur radio CubeSat OSSI-1. OSSI-1 plans to launch on a Soyuz-2-1b rocket from the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan along with the Bion-M1...
by m0xtd | Aug 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
George Boorer ZL3PN has been interviewed on Radio New Zealand because his name and amateur radio callsign is encoded on a chip aboard the Mars Rover Curiosity. The Radio New Zealand interview follows hard on the heels of an interview George gave to his local newspaper...
