by Peter Goodhall | Mar 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
Samudra Haque N3RDX is involved in developing a Micro-Cathode Arc Thruster (μCAT) propulsion system for CubeSats. The Micropropulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MpNL, http://www.mpnl.seas.gwu.edu/), of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, of...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK CubeSat Weekend, taking place at Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell Didcot, will allow members of the public to work together to design, build and balloon launch a flight ready CubeSat engineering model, and a flight model suitable for launch into low...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
OSCAR-11 (AKA UoSAT-2 and UO-11) celebrated its 30th birthday in space on 01 March! It was designed, built and launched within a period of six months, using commercially available ‘off the shelf’ components (COTS). Once again, congratulations to Professor...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Bob Twiggs KE6QMD is interviewed by Stephen Clark in Spaceflight Now. Read the interview at http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1403/08cubesats/ The team behind the recently launched $50sat PocketQube programmed the satellite’s FM CW beacon to send...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateurs have received signals over a distance of 43 million km from the NASA ISEE-3 / ICE deep space probe which was retired from service in 1997. AMSAT-DL have released this statement: On March 1st and 2nd, 2014 radio amateurs were able to detect the beacon...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
The 435/145 MHz SSB/CW linear transponder on the Lithuanian amateur radio CubeSat LitSat-1, call sign LY1LS, was successfully tested on Sunday, March 9. LitSat-1 was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, February 28 at 0730 UT by astronaut...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
Nico Janssen PA0DLO reports the process of producing Object ID’s for newly launched satellites has changed recently. Writing on the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) he says: It seems that the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) has changed some of their...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, March 8 test transmissions were made on 2422.0 MHz using the HamTV equipment on the International Space Station (ISS). The Digital TV signal was successfully received and web streamed to a global audience via the Britsh Amateur Television Club (BATC)...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
Researchers from the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey have launched a unique campaign that will enable the public to ‘travel’ to space for the cost of a pair of trainers. Virtual Ride to Space will use cutting-edge virtual technology and a specially designed...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Ham Video transmitter was installed in the Columbus module of the International Space Station (ISS) on March 6, 2014 at approximately 10.00 UT. The transmitter was powered on briefly and all control LEDs were nominal. Ham Video is declared ready for Commissioning....
