by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Bob McGwier N4HY has made available an extensive collection of amateur radio satellite pictures available for download on smugmug.com. The pictures range from the early 1960’s with OSCAR’s 1, 2, 3 etc to the more recent Eagle and SuitSat. You can view the...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the Institute of Space Technology (IST) have been building Pakistan’s first CubeSat ICUBE-1. Like a number of new CubeSats its communications subsystem is capable of acting as an “AO-16 mode” FM to DSB transponder. The IARU amateur...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Europe has named Thursday 9 February as the day it intends to launch its new Vega rocket for the very first time. The 30m-tall vehicle has been developed to take payloads up to 1.5 tonnes into a polar orbit, and will fly from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Europe has named Thursday 9 February as the day it intends to launch its new Vega rocket for the very first time. The 30m-tall vehicle has been developed to take payloads up to 1.5 tonnes into a polar orbit, and will fly from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The...
by m0xtd | Jan 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
Towards the end of 2012, a tiny satellite the shape of a cd rack will be blasted into space on top of a converted intercontinental ballistic missile, then be hurled into orbit by a spring-loaded pod. Although dwarfed by communications and military satellites, the...
by m0xtd | Jan 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
During the summer a number of UK institutions currently active or interested in space biomedicine research and education formally agreed to collaborate in order to identify and pursue a national strategy for space biomedicine research and development. “UK...
