by m0xtd | Jul 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Planetary Society’s amateur radio spacecraft Lightsail-1 carries a 32m square metre solar sail demonstration. After launch LightSail-1 will spend a few weeks in orbit during which the team will check out the subsystems. The side panels will then be...
by m0xtd | Jul 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
Always keen to promote Amateur Radio in Essex, Pete M0PSX from Essex Ham was given the opportunity to join presenter Scott Ross on Phoenix FM in Brentwood to discuss the hobby. During the interview Pete took the opportunity to briefly plug the amateur radio...
by m0xtd | Jul 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
ARRL report that NASA will televise the launch and docking of the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for 8:40 PM (CDT) Saturday, July 14 (0140 UT, Sunday, July 15). NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams, KD5PLB, along with Russian...
by m0xtd | Jul 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK Membership. There has never been a more exciting time for you to join one of the UK’s largest group of people who have an interest in Amateur radio satellites/space activities from all around the world. AMSAT-UK has an ever growing membership base from...
by m0xtd | Jul 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students from Middlesex University Robotics department obtained their Foundation Licences after a Verulam Amateur Radio Club (VARC) course and went on to win UAVforge. The amateur radio Foundation training course was part of the preparations by members of the HALO...
by m0xtd | Jul 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Vietnamese TV station VTV1 broadcast a news story about the amateur radio CubeSat F-1, callsign XV1VN, due to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 21. The broadcast shows students from the FPT University in Hanoi who are involved in the...
