by m0xtd | Jun 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
SA AMSAT say there is still a recovery opportunity for the amateur radio satellite SumbandilaSat (SO-67). The team at SunSpace are still incrementally reading back the program code from the nine power modules in an effort to determine the extent of the corruption....
by m0xtd | Jun 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
Outside of ITU Region 1, the Amateur Satellite Service has a 9cm band allocation of 3.400 GHz – 3.410 GHz on a non-interfering basis. No current satellites are active on this frequency range at present. The new band plan reserves allocations for EME and amateur...
by m0xtd | Jun 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dayton 2012 presentation by Mark Hammond N8MH describing the different roles and opportunities for Technical Mentors and Ground Station operators to play in an ARISS contact with the International Space Station. Watch ARISS and Ham Radio Opportunities by N8MH Dayton...
by m0xtd | Jun 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle “KOUNOTORI” (HTV) is an unmanned transfer vehicle which can carry amateur radio CubeSats along with food, clothes and equipment needed for experiments in the International Space Station (ISS). “KOUNOTORI 3”...
by m0xtd | Jun 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Amateur Radio CubeSat FITSAT-1 will carry an Optical Communications experiment that aims to write Morse Code across the night sky. This innovative satellite also plans to transmit 115.2 kbps digital data in the Amateur Satellite Service 5.8 GHz band using a...
by m0xtd | Jun 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at Montana Sate University (MSU) are planning to build their new amateur radio satellite PrintSat with nano-carbon-impregnated plastic using a 3D printer. David Klumpar KD7MFJ of MSU said 3D printing “will further lower the costs and speed the development of...
