by m0xtd | Jan 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the University of Liege are hoping their D-Star GMSK satellite OUFTI-1 will be launched towards the end of this year. An update on the satellite is published in the January 2012 issue of the OUFTI-1 newsletter at...
by m0xtd | Jan 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
Matthias, DD1US, would like to draw your attention to a collection of audio recordings, the ‘Sounds From Space’ collection on his website at http://www.dd1us.de. This features a collection which has also a section dedicated to recordings of amateur radio...
by m0xtd | Jan 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the University of Vigo have built Xatcobeo a CubeSat that carries a Software Defined Radio (SDR) and a solar panel deployment mechanism. A launch on an ESA Vega rocket in February is planned. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUmLhA7ioE] The IARU...
by m0xtd | Jan 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube amateur radio satellite project is featured on the website of Electronics Weekly. The printed version of the publication (circulation 36,400) is due out on Wednesday, January 18. Read the article ‘Radio hams seal launch deal for FUNcube...
by m0xtd | Jan 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Winter issue of OSCAR News has been posted to members. In this issue: – It all started here – 50 years ago! – UKube-1 Update – Clive Wallis G3CWV column – RSGB Spectrum Forum Meeting Nov 2011 – FUNcube Report – Utility of...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Zac Manchester KD2BHC is an engineer at Cornell University in the Space Systems Design Studio who has created the Sprite – a “cracker-sized” satellite that changes the dynamics of the economics and thus the accessibility of spacecraft by several orders of...
