by Peter Goodhall | Jun 30, 2016 | Daily Updates
The 2016 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium is taking place at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, over the weekend of July 29-31. The event is open to all. The presentations will be streamed at https://beta.batc.tv/live/amsatuk A full programme of...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 28, 2016 | Daily Updates
The United Arab Emirates newspaper The National reports on the Nayif-1 spacecraft developed by Emirati students from the American University of Sharjah in partnership with The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre. Nayif-1 carries a 435/145 MHz transponder (FUNcube-5) for...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 28, 2016 | Daily Updates
The Appledore Amateur Radio Club helped students at Caen School in Braunton, Devon with their balloon, callsign CAEN_CP1, which transmitted pictures using Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV) on 434.250 MHz. The balloon was launched on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at the school...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 27, 2016 | Daily Updates
The 2016 edition of the book Getting Started with Amateur Satellites is now available from the AMSAT-UK shop. This excellent book is written by G. Gould Smith, WA4SXM and Friends. This year’s edition has been thoroughly updated and the book is now 176 pages long,...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 24, 2016 | Daily Updates
Es’hail 2 is a geostationary satellite which will carry two amateur radio transponders. The launch of the Es’Hail-2 satellite into a geostationary orbit is currently planned for the 3rd quarter of 2017. The coverage area of the Narrowband (NB) and Wideband (WB)...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 22, 2016 | Daily Updates
On June 22, 2016 the Indian Space Agency ISRO successfully launched several satellites carrying amateur radio payloads. The CSAT Swayam satellite was one of those launched. The 1U CubeSat carries a digital store and forward messaging system for use by the amateur...
