by m0xtd | Jul 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
The UAHuntsville Space Hardware Club is a University of Alabama in Huntsville student organization. They conceptualize, design, build, test and fly flight hardware for high altitude balloons, the CubeSat platform, and the CanSat competition. The aims of their...
by m0xtd | Jul 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut of British nationality Tim Peake is encouraging school children to get fit and stay active at the Farnborough International Airshow this week. Budding young astronauts aged 8 to 13 from across the UK are invited to take part in...
by m0xtd | Jul 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
The HTV-3 cargo vessel carrying five CubeSats blasted off on an H-IIB rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center on Saturday, July 21 at 02:06 UT on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). On July 27 it is scheduled to arrive at the ISS where it will be...
by m0xtd | Jul 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Ali Guarneros Luna KJ6TVO features in an SJSU Today article. She is part of an SJSU student team that worked on the cube satellite TechEdSat, one of five CubeSats being transported to the International Space Station. Ali was born in Mexico City and now...
by m0xtd | Jul 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video covers the basics of satellite tracking using the free Orbitron software. Watch Introduction to satellite tracking and listening part 1 of 2 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrhmFD6o758] Watch Introduction to satellite tracking and listening part 2...
by m0xtd | Jul 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
‘CubeSat’ will help solve mysteries of terrestrial gamma ray flashes, 1,000 times more powerful than ‘northern lights’ NSF’s Therese Moretto Jorgensen explains what CubeSats tell us about the atmosphere. Credit: National Science...