by m0xtd | Dec 23, 2011 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT bulletin board Masa JN1GKZ reports that the December 23 command test on the 15 year old amateur radio satellite FO-29 was successful. FO-29 has been inoperative due to eclipse length and the poor condition of the batteries. It carries a 100 kHz wide...
by m0xtd | Dec 23, 2011 | Daily Updates
The first student built amateur radio CubeSats to be sponsored by ESA’s Education Office have passed their Final Acceptance Review and have been declared ready for launch on board the maiden flight of Vega, the new ESA launcher. The launch window for this historic...
by m0xtd | Dec 23, 2011 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1 may have only a few more days to live before it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere. Ken GW1FKY reports it’s putting out a strong signal in the early evening. On the AMSAT bulletin board Ken writes: I again monitored and...
by m0xtd | Dec 21, 2011 | Daily Updates
The rocket carrying Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko RN3DX, Nasa astronaut Don Pettit KD5MDT and the European Space Agency’s Andre Kuipers PI9ISS lifted off under freezing conditions at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. [youtube...
by m0xtd | Dec 20, 2011 | Daily Updates
The Polish amateur radio satellite PW-SAT built by students at the Warsaw University of Technology was featured on BRITE TV. The Internet TV channel BRITE TV, covers the construction of the first Polish scientific satellites BRITE-PL 1 – Lem and BRITE-PL 2...
by m0xtd | Dec 19, 2011 | Daily Updates
Bill Dzurilla, NZ5N demonstrates how to use the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle to receive signals that have been bounced off the surface of the Moon. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac3jDILGKmg]
