by m0xtd | Sep 11, 2011 | Daily Updates
Australian student and foundation radio amateur Mark Jessop VK5FDRK, who was staying in the United Kingdom, acheived a new record when his balloon reached a height of 40,575 metres. It was launched from Cambridge and carried a 434.650 MHz transmitter, . Mark VK5FDRK...
by m0xtd | Sep 11, 2011 | Daily Updates
Registration open for 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium AMSAT announces the 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held on Friday, November 4th through Sunday, November 6th in San Jose, CA. Our annual gathering will feature: + Space Symposium with Amateur Satellite Presentations...
by m0xtd | Sep 9, 2011 | Daily Updates
Would you like to win a trip to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas? The UK Space Design Competition gives you and your friends the opportunity to do just that! Supported by the Space Science and Engineering Foundation and the UK Space Agency, the...
by m0xtd | Sep 8, 2011 | Daily Updates
October 28, 2011 will be the 40th anniversary of the historic launch of Prospero the UK’s first satellite to be launched on the Black Arrow rocket. A description of the Prospero satellite and its experiments written in 1975 can be downloaded here Pictures of the...
by m0xtd | Sep 7, 2011 | Daily Updates
The International Amateur Radio Union satellite frequency coordination panel has agreed a frequency of 437.575 MHz for the UK satellite STRaND-1. STRaND-1 will carry an Android Smartphone and plans to use data rates of 9k6 or 19k2 bps for the AX.25 packet radio...
by m0xtd | Sep 5, 2011 | Daily Updates
40 years ago the United Kingdom’s first satellite launched on a UK built rocket went into space and now a team from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey are attempting to revive it. The Prospero spacecraft was launched by a Black Arrow rocket on...
