by m0xtd | Mar 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced the launch of five amateur radio satellites on two launches taking place in May and July. The first H-IIA launch takes place on May 17, 1639-1642 UT and will carry the amateur radio satellite HORYU-2 The...
by m0xtd | Mar 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
Roke Manor Research Ltd’s (Roke) Gioconda industry consortium has been awarded a contract to deliver a major element of the UK MoD’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s ‘Smallsat’ CubeSat Research Programme. A CubeSat is a...
by m0xtd | Mar 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
Astrobiology magazine posts a piece on the success of NASA’s O/OREOS mission that points out that serious science can be accomplished by tiny spacecraft: ‘The full success of the O/OREOS mission demonstrates convincingly that cubesats can be...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
Astrobiology magazine posts a piece on the success of NASA’s O/OREOS mission that points out that serious science can be accomplished by tiny spacecraft: ‘The full success of the O/OREOS mission demonstrates convincingly that cubesats can be...
by m0xtd | Mar 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
On 21 and 22 March 2012 (Wednesday, Thursday) we will switch the satellite to silent mode again as a repetition of the last silent mode data aquisition. In silent mode, all RF transmission of the satellite is turned off, the satellite is only on reception. After these...
by m0xtd | Mar 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
The BBC report that the first satellite to be built in Scotland is due to be launched next year. BBC News say UKube-1 is being built at the West of Scotland Science Park in Maryhill, Glasgow and is expected to enter orbit in 2013. UKube-1 systems engineer Steve...
