by Peter Goodhall | Mar 28, 2017 | Daily Updates
Atsushi Yasuda JI1OEH reports the ITF-2 (YUI-2) CubeSat entered normal operation phase on March 25 JST, it was deployed from the ISS on January 16, 2017. Update: ITF-2 was giving the OSCAR number Tsukuba-OSCAR 89 (TO-89). Telemetry information and messages will be...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 14, 2017 | Daily Updates
The ARISS team took a giant step closer to flying the new ARISS Interoperable Radio System to the International Space Station, having met a major milestone. Lou McFadin, W5DID, and Kerry Banke, N6IZW, travelled to the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas,...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 13, 2017 | Daily Updates
Nico PA0DLO reports the CAS-4A and CAS-4B amateur radio linear transponder payloads were carried on the Earth imaging microsatellites OVS 1A and OVS 1B which were launched at 0300 UT on Thursday, June 15, 2017. CAMSAT News Release CAS-4A and CAS-4B Satellites from...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 3, 2017 | Daily Updates
The Nayif-1 (EO-88) CubeSat has now been in orbit for more than two weeks and all systems continue to operate nominally. The power budget is positive, the spin/tumble rate is acceptably low, on board temperatures are perfectly okay and, importantly, the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 27, 2017 | Daily Updates
OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan W3XO has announced that the Nayif-1 CubeSat has met all the requirements necessary to be issued with an OSCAR number. In accordance with the request sent to the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors for an OSCAR number for the UAE CubeSat,...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 27, 2017 | Daily Updates
Weather permitting there will be a 434 MHz pico balloon launched from Bristol on Tuesday, February 28 at 0830 GMT. Richard Meadows M0SBU from University of Bristol Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (UBSEDS) writes: This launch is using a 1.5m...
