by Peter Goodhall | Jun 1, 2014 | Daily Updates
A space.com article reports a spaceport in the United Kingdom may be possible by 2018. Pending a regulatory report to be published this July and a technical feasibility study that is underway with the country’s National Space Technology Programme (NSTP), it is...
by Peter Goodhall | May 31, 2014 | Daily Updates
The LituanicaSAT-1 team have announced the FM transponder should be active until June 4, 2014. Dear radio amateurs, Due to favorable orbit conditions LituanicaSAT-1 is now operating under 100% sunlight until about 4th of June. Thus we have decided to turn the...
by Peter Goodhall | May 31, 2014 | Daily Updates
Howard Long, G6LVB and member of the FUNcube Satellite Team, describes the launch and use of the FUNcube-1 satellite, and timeframes for the next three FUNcube sats. Watch FUNcube Satellite Update by Howard G6LVB, 2014 Dayton Hamvention [youtube...
by Peter Goodhall | May 31, 2014 | Daily Updates
In this brief presentation from the AMSAT Forum at the 2014 Dayton Hamvention, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA and AMSAT VP Operations, summarizes six operational amateur satellites and another dozen satellites that will become available or will launch soon. NOTE:...
by Peter Goodhall | May 31, 2014 | Daily Updates
Slow Scan TV (SSTV) images in Scottie 1 format have been successfully received from the amateur radio satellite SPROUT on 437.600 MHz FM (+/- 9 kHz Doppler shift). The Digitalker has also been active. SPROUT, a 20 x 20 x 22 cm amateur radio nano-satellite with a mass...
by Peter Goodhall | May 29, 2014 | Daily Updates
This video shows a demonstration, given on May 24, 2014, of the KLETSkous 1U Cubesat amateur radio transponder. A 435/145 Linear transponder is planned with a bandwidth of 20 kHz. Currently the team are considering frequencies in the 435.100 to 435.140 MHz range for...
by Peter Goodhall | May 27, 2014 | Daily Updates
A video collection of the presentations given at the Group for Earth Observation (GEO) Symposium on Saturday, April 26, 2014 has been released. GEO is a group of enthusiasts interested in the amateur reception of weather and earth imaging satellites. They produce a...
by Peter Goodhall | May 27, 2014 | Daily Updates
Organizer Sotira Trifourki reports on the planned Synergy-Space Meetups in the Manchester area. She says: We are putting together a regular meetup group to start making the CubeSats and Space Telescope’s for our forthcoming missions to the Moon with Team SYNERGY...
by Peter Goodhall | May 26, 2014 | Daily Updates
The South African CPUT TshepisoSAT team were invited to give a mission update at the SA AMSAT‘s Space Symposium on Saturday, May 24, 2014 at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria. The event was well attended and even had representatives from SANSA in attendance....
by Peter Goodhall | May 25, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team have received confirmation that UKube-1, which is hosting the FUNcube-2 payload, is now scheduled for a Soyuz-2-1b Fregat-M launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Saturday, June 28 with the following day as a back-up. The launch time has been quoted...
