by m0xtd | Jan 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
The International Space Station ARISS contact planned with Atheneum in Borgloon, Belgium On Friday January 13, 2012 at approximately 12:36 UTC , which is 13.36 CEWT, an educational ARISS contact is planned with students at Atheneum Borgloon in Belgium....
by m0xtd | Jan 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
ESA has changed the launch date of Vega, carrying 8 amateur radio satellites, to Thursday, February 9. Vega will launch from the ESA launch site at Kourou in the Caribbean. It will carry 7 amateur radio Cubesats and an amateur radio Microsatellite called ALMASat. Many...
by m0xtd | Jan 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
The student satellite project is organized at Department for Electronics and Telecomunications (IET). Our aim is to design, build, test and launch a double CubeSat by 2014. Most of the work is carried out by students from several departments and study programs, such...
by m0xtd | Jan 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video, shot in Descartes High School, shows the school’s contact with astronaut Dan Burbank KC5ZSX who was onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Watch Contact ARISS – F6KRK – Montigny-Le-Bretonneux – 09 Janvier 2012 [youtube...
by m0xtd | Jan 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Monday, January 9, Edmund 2E0MDO received the International Space Station (ISS) using a Baofeng UV-3R hand-held with its supplied antenna. He has made a video to show how you can hear the ISS with simple equipment. He writes: Continuing the theme of receiving the...
by m0xtd | Jan 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
A new National Space Academy has been launched…. ….to help boost the size and quality of the U.K.’s science and engineering expertise. Supported by Inmarsat, the academy aims to create a network of outstanding teachers and space scientists. The...
