LitSat-1 with linear transponder

The amateur radio CubeSat LitSat-1, call sign LY1LS, is planned to be deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, February 28 at 0730 UT. It carries a 435/145 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW communications. The LitSat-1 team have issued this...

ITF-1 CubeSat Team Request Reports

The amateur radio CubeSat ITF-1 (YUI) plans to launch from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center on Thursday, February 27 at 1837 UT. Toshihiro Kameda JJ3GRX reports: The data reception App for our satellite ITF-1 (YUI) is now available at the...

QSL cards available for INVADER reception

The ARTSAT1:INVADER CubeSat team have announced that QSL cards will be available for reception reports of the amateur radio satellite. INVADER will launch from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center on Thursday, February 27 at 1837 UT. It will be...

Delfi-n3Xt Update: Some Bad News

Delfi Nanosatellite Program Manager, Jasper Bouwmeester PC4JB, has announced the results of the testing carried out on the Delfi-n3Xt CubeSat 435/145 MHz linear transponder. Dear radio amateurs, Unfortunately, we have not heard anything from Delfi-n3Xt since Thursday...

Brazilian CubeSat NanosatC-Br 1

NanosatC-Br 1 is planned to launch on a Dnepr rocket from Dombarovsky near Yasny in May/June 2014. The 1U CubeSat carries an ISIS U/V transceiver with 1200 bps FM AX.25 UHF command uplink and a 9600 bps BPSK downlink on 145.865 MHz. NanosatC-Br 1 is the first...

Launch of Japanese amateur radio satellites

The ARTSAT INVADER CubeSat, callsign JQ1ZKK, and six other amateur radio satellites were on the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 23 (H-IIA F23) along with the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core observatory satellite. The launch took place from the Yoshinobu Launch...

Amateur radio CubeSats prepared for deployment

NASA reports that on Thursday, February 20, 2014, International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA worked in the Japanese Kibo laboratory to prepare the second batch of NanoRacks CubeSats for their deployment beginning next Tuesday. He opened the inner...

$50SAT PocketQube Amateur Radio Challenge

The $50sat PocketQube satellite team, AB2S, KD8QBA and GW7HPW, areĀ celebrating 90 days in orbit by proposing a technical challenge to all interested radio amateurs. $50sat is capable of responding to uplink command packets. There are three open packets: • Test packet...

Results of first Delfi-n3Xt transponder test

Delfi Nanosatellite Program Manager, Jasper Bouwmeester PC4JB, has announced results of the first test of the Delfi-n3Xt CubeSat 435/145 MHz linear transponder that were carried out on February 20. Dear all, Today we did a first transponder test. We could hear the...

ISS CubeSat deployments to resume February 25

According to NanoRacks the deployment of the second batch of CubeSats from the International Space Station (ISS) will commence at 1700 UT on Tuesday, February 25, 2014. The CubeSats deployments were streamed live at http://m.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-streamEarlier...