by Peter Goodhall | Jul 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
ISIS have been selected by SpaceFlight Inc. to provide QuadPack nanosatellite dispensers for the 2015 SHERPA launch. They will provide the capacity to deploy 84 3U CubeSats. Future SHERPA launches aim to go to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). Following next year’s...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
Pupils at Wirral Grammar School for Girls are planning to launch a High Altitude Balloon equipped with 434 MHz telemetry and Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV) transmitters. The launch is planned for Wednesday, July 16 at around 11:00 BST from Middletown Hill near...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
The free BYOB CubeSat Day takes place in the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford on Friday, July 25. The day will include ad-hoc tours to SSC’s cleanroom, ground–station, and new CubeSat experimentation facilities. Following on from the success of...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
David Bowman G0MRF describes the coverage area that might be provided by an amateur radio Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite (MEOSAT). He suggests there is a region of space that would be optimum for such satellites. The Van Allen radiation belts are separated into...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
CubeSail is an exciting, ground-breaking educational satellite project at the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) that hopes to launch into a 680 km Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) from India in December 2014. A key feature is the deployment of a 25 square metre sail structure,...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Surrey Electronics and Amateur Radio Society (EARS) have received the Special Interest Society of the Year award. The Society say “Surrey EARS has been working hard to be one of the best societies on campus and this year our work has been officially...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Philip Crump M0DNY plans a number of High Altitude Balloon (HAB) flights this weekend transmitting Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV). The launches will take place from Gilwell Park near Epping Forest and the balloons are expected to land around Chelmsford...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-DL report a team of engineers, space enthusiasts and radio amateurs have succeeded in firing the thrusters of the NASA-abandoned ISEE-3/ICE spacecraft. The plan on Tuesday, July 8, was to fire the thrusters for a total of 7 sequences with breaks for telemetry...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UKube-1 satellite was successfully launched on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 1558 UT from Pad 31/6 at Baikonur in Kazakhstan. The 145.840 MHz beacon signal was received by the UKube team in Chilbolton at 19:16 UT. It had been expected the first signal would be received...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
The University of Birmingham reports that Graham Kirkby, a PhD student in the Space Environment and Radio Engineering group, School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, has won the prize for the best student presentation at the 2014 UK CubeSat Forum...
