by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2018 | Daily Updates
Spaceflight’s SSO-A SmallSat Express mission, carrying many amateur radio satellites, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 18:34 GMT on Monday, December 3. Watch the launch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq8kS6UoOrQ 64 small satellites...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 9, 2018 | Daily Updates
AMSAT is counting down to the launch of the next Fox-1 satellite, Fox-1Cliff. The launch of Spaceflight’s SSO-A SmallSat Express mission, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base is scheduled for 18:31:47 GMT on Monday, December 3. It is planned to...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 5, 2018 | Daily Updates
The geostationary satellite Es’hail-2 carrying amateur radio transponders launched from Kennedy Space Center at 2046 GMT on Thursday, November 15 and was successfully deployed 32 minutes later. A pre-launch static fire test had been carried out November 12....
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 2, 2018 | Daily Updates
Videos of the presentations given at the 2018 William A. Tynan W3XO Memorial Space Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday/Saturday November 2/3 are now available Schedule of symposium presentations https://www.amsat.org/call-for-papers/ Watch Friday, November 2...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 31, 2018 | Daily Updates
For easier navigation of US FCC Satellite related filings Luke Rehmann has built an RSS feed of the FCC’s ELS and IBFS systems. The FCC Experimental Licensing System provides companies with temporary authorization to conduct temporary experimental wireless...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 29, 2018 | Daily Updates
The Bank of Lithuania (Lietuvos bankas) has released a commemorative gold 5 Euro coin featuring the amateur radio satellites LituanicaSAT-1 (LO-78) and LitSAT-1. The two CubeSats were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on January 9, 2014 and deployed...
