by Peter Goodhall | Sep 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
On Saturday, September 6, at 1000 GMT Paulo PV8DX emailed the news that the International Space Station (ISS) Slow Scan Television (SSTV) on 145.800 MHz FM had been active again. At the end of the passage (ISS) in northern Brazil where I live. I heard the sound of...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
Sarah Brightman hopes to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 10 day mission in September 2015. If the launch were to take place as expected she would become the UK’s second astronaut, the first was Helen Sharman GB1MIR on May 18, 1991. Tim...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 2, 2014 | Daily Updates
BBC News reports on last weekend’s successful Electromagnetic Field EMF 2014 event held near Bletchley, Milton Keynes. The three day event attracted nearly three times as many people as the previous event held in 2012. Of those attending 75 were children under...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 1, 2014 | Daily Updates
Beijing plans to launch a Lunar spacecraft on a journey lasting 196 hours that should take it around the Moon before returning and re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. It will carry a 14 kg payload known as 4M-LXS which was developed at LuxSpace. The launch is...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 1, 2014 | Daily Updates
A Japanese news report says the asteroid mission Hayabusa 2, planned to launch November 30, 2014 at 0424 UT (1324 JST) on a H-IIA rocket, will also carry the amateur radio satellite Abyss 2 / Shin’en 2. Another amateur radio satellite ARTSAT2:DESPATCH will also...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 1, 2014 | Daily Updates
Paul Stoetzer N8HM provides an update on the 73 on 73 Award for contacts made via the amateur radio satellite AO-73 (FUNcube-1). Just a reminder that the award period for the 73 on 73 Award begins at 0000Z on September 1st, so begin keeping track of the unique...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 29, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Electromagnetic Field EMF 2014 event is taking place this weekend at Bletchley near Milton Keynes and the presentations will be streamed live to a global audience. GB2EMF will be on-the-air. EMF 2014 is a festival for anyone interested in radio, electronics,...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 24, 2014 | Daily Updates, Uncategorized
The Japan AMSAT Association (JAMSAT) and students at the Nippon University are jointly developing a CubeSat called NEXUS which will have a 145 to 435 MHz (Mode-J) transponder and a 38 kbps data downlink. Nippon University students have previously developed the SEEDS...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 23, 2014 | Daily Updates, Uncategorized
A test of the Slow Scan Television (SSTV) experiment MAI-75, callsign RS0ISS, took place on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, August 27 between 1100-1300 GMT on 145.800 MHz FM. Although a strong carrier was heard there were no reports of SSTV tones...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
Lambda-Sat was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on July 13, 2014, in an Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket CRS-2/ORB-2. UPDATE: Deployment from the ISS took place on March 4, 2015 along with the...
