by Peter Goodhall | May 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Friday, July 4, the Whitton Amateur Radio Group (WARG) will be hosting a presentation by David Bowman G0MRF on the subject of the FUNcube satellite. David is a member of the AMSAT-UK team behind the successful development and launch of the amateur radio FUNcube-1...
by Peter Goodhall | May 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
Delfi Nanosatellite Program Manager, Jasper Bouwmeester PC4JB, has announced that the team plan to activate the Delfi-n3Xt satellite’s 2405 MHz downlink on May 13-17, 2014. Dear all, It has been a while since you heard from us. We are still having problems to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team have received confirmation that UKube-1, which is hosting the FUNcube-2 payload, remains scheduled for a Soyuz launch on June 19. The team do not, as yet, have any lift-off times or TLE’s for this launch but we will make these available as soon as...
by Peter Goodhall | May 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
A solar-powered foil party balloon, B-47, transmitting telemetry on 434.500 MHz USB using the amateur radio data mode Contestia 8/250 was launched on Monday, April 28, 2014 from Silverstone in the UK by radio amateur Leo Bodnar M0XER. The balloon’s eight-day...
by Peter Goodhall | May 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK Space Agency has launched a competition for school children between the ages of 7 and 14 to design a British-inspired, balanced and exciting meal for UK ESA astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI to eat during his 6 month mission to the International Space Station (ISS)....
by Peter Goodhall | May 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
The QB50 project has reached another crucial milestone. The first two QB50 satellites have been delivered for shipment to the launch site after a successful flight acceptance test campaign. The satellites will form the QB50 Precursor mission that seeks to de-risk and...
by Peter Goodhall | May 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
UK ESA astronaut Tim Peake took the opportunity to sit his Technician amateur radio exam at the end of April while he was in Houston for astronaut training. He has now been issued the amateur radio callsign KG5BVI. At the beginning of March Tim gave a presentation to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 3, 2014 | Daily Updates
An unexpected reset of the master clock on KickSat may mean that the deployment of the 104 Sprite satellites will not take place before the KickSat CubeSat burns up in the atmosphere. Radio amateur Zac Manchester KD2BHC has posted this update: First off, I’d...
by Peter Goodhall | May 2, 2014 | Daily Updates
Delfi-C3 (DO-64) has celebrated its 6th birthday on April 28, 2014. The spacecraft is still operational, telemetry only, on 145.870 MHz USB Delfi-C3 has exceeded its mission lifetime by six times now, and on-board telemetry still does not indicate degradation in...
by Peter Goodhall | May 2, 2014 | Daily Updates
In October 2013 Celebrity TV chef Heston Blumenthal visited radio amateur David Akerman M0RPI to fly a potato to near-space on a high altitude balloon as part of his TV show Heston’s Great British Food. Dave says: “It started with a call from a TV...
