by m0xtd | May 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students working on the Aalto-1 CubeSat have released two new videos. In the first video Systems Engineer Antti Kestilä gives a brief introduction to the amateur radio VHF/UHF ground station on the roof of ELEC building at Aalto University Otaniemi campus. The second...
by m0xtd | May 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
Time Magazine reports that unlike the massive NASA Kepler probe the next mission to search for new planets will be a tiny CubeSat called ExoplanetSat. Time says: What makes ExoplanetSat even more un-NASA-like is that it began as a class project — although admittedly,...
by m0xtd | May 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
An interview given to Tom Nardi by Gregor Jehle (Hadez) of the Stuttgart Hackerspace was recently published on The Powerbase site. In the interview Hadez discusses his ideas for distributed satellite ground station network and the creation of a Hackerspace Global...
by m0xtd | May 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
Global voting started yesterday, May 9, for the International Space Apps Challenge! The Space Apps Challenge fosters innovation by providing a platform for citizens from around the world to work together to solve current challenges relevant to both space exploration...
by m0xtd | May 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
The ARRL report that NASA will televise the launch and docking of the next mission, carrying three radio amateurs to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for May 14. NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba, KE5DAR, and his two Russian crewmates, Soyuz Commander...
by m0xtd | May 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT Forum at the 2012 Dayton Hamvention will be on Saturday morning May 19 from 11:15 to 13:30 in Forum Room 5. The moderator will be Alan Biddle, WA4SCA The speakers will be: Barry Baines, WD4ASW; AMSAT Status Report...
