by m0xtd | Jul 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
Southern Stars Group LLC, the company responsible for the popular SkySafari apps for iOS, Android and Mac OS X, is thinking a little bigger with its next project. The publicly funded SkyCube is a miniature CubeSat satellite that will orbit the planet, transmitting...
by m0xtd | Jul 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dave Akerman M6RPI has used a Raspberry Pi computer board as the flight computer on a High Altitude Balloon (HAB) and sent back live images from near space at an altitude of almost 40 km. The balloon, appropriately called PIE1, was launched from Brightwalton, in...
by m0xtd | Jul 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
PC World magazine reports that a fundraising campaign for the satellite, SkyCube, launched on Kickstarter last weekend (July 14) with the goal of raising US$82,500. Kickstarter is an online service popular with entrepreneurs and startups for raising money. The article...
by m0xtd | Jul 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
A Chinese rocket due to launch in the 2nd quarter of 2013 will carry CubeSat NEE-01 Pegasus from Ecuador. The NEE-01 Pegasus engineering team was led by Cmdr. Ronnie Nader, Ecuador’s first astronaut. The tiny 1U CubeSat (10cm cube) has a large fold-out solar...
by m0xtd | Jul 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
Since the defenceWeb article was written it is believed ZACUBE-1 and ZACUBE-2 have changed designation and the references to the 3U Cubesat ZACUBE-1 should instead read ZACUBE-2. Students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) have been building an...
by m0xtd | Jul 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
International Space Station Flight Engineer Joe Acaba KE5DAR used amateur radio to speak with high school students participating in a summer program called Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars, or WISH. The students, selected from across the country, were...
