New Horizons Stamp Drive

As fast as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is heading toward Pluto, the drive to honor this historic exploration of the ninth planet is speeding toward its finish. Less than a week remains to put your name on the petition supporting an effort for the U.S. Postal...

The Hindu – Hams Engineering Success

The Hindu newspaper reports on K. G. Girish Babu VU2KGB who uses computerised antenna design for VHF and UHF wireless communication. He helped his son Rahul make an antenna, the largest in India, which can track amateur radio satellites. He says he also designed and...

Connecting Students with Space

The GENSO project features in an article in the February 2012 edition of the free magazine ESA Bulletin. GENSO is a worldwide network of education and amateur radio ground stations linked together via the internet. Student satellite teams can normally only gather...

Astronaut's Flashing Success

Radio amateur and ISS astronaut Don Pettit KD5MDT describes how he succeeded in receiving signals on a frequency of 650 THz. Flashing the International Space Station with beams of light as it passes overhead had never been successfully done—until now. It sounds...

Astronaut’s Flashing Success

Radio amateur and ISS astronaut Don Pettit KD5MDT describes how he succeeded in receiving signals on a frequency of 650 THz. Flashing the International Space Station with beams of light as it passes overhead had never been successfully done—until now. It sounds...