by Peter Goodhall | Feb 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contact took place at 17:24 UT on Thursday, February 13, 2014. Students at Escola Estadual ‘Gonçalves Dias’, Boa Vista, Brazil, using the station of Paulo PV8DX, were able to talk to...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
Founded in 1975 AMSAT-UK is a voluntary organisation that supports the design and building of equipment for amateur radio satellites. AMSAT-UK initially produced a short bulletin called OSCAR News to give members advice on amateur satellite communications. Since those...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
Beijing’s Jade Rabbit (Yutu) lunar rover had been thought to be dead but its radio signal on 8462.078 MHz was received by radio amateur Paul Marsh G7EYT / M0EYT on February 12, 2014. In their story about Jade Rabbit’s return CNN mentions that the amateur...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
Since deployment on November 21, 2013 of FUNcube-1 (AO-73) the FUNcube team have been capturing the minimum and maximum Realtime values for each channel when they have been uploaded by a ground station. This has given a good overview for the early operation and...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
David Bowman G0MRF will be giving a presentation on the FUNcube satellite project to the Sutton & Cheam Amateur Radio Society on Thursday, February 20. The FUNcube-1 CubeSat was launched on November 21, 2013 and provides a 435/145 MHz transponder for SSB and CW...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
The EQUiSat CubeSat will have an LED beacon visible to the naked eye at night and will transmit data about its health and position. EQUiSat, being built by a team of students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has been cleared for launch. NASA has...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
Michael Kirkhart KD8QBA provides this update on the $50SAT PocketQube which transmits on 437.505 MHz (+/-9 kHz Doppler shift). The TLEs on the Dropbox have been updated to reflect the latest element set available from Celestrak. This probably is not necessary, as many...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 astronaut Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA successfully deployed the first of the 33 CubeSats that were launched from the Wallops Flight Facility, VA to the International Space Station (ISS) in the Cygnus freighter on January 9. The first two of the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
There are new launch dates for both SpaceX CRS-3 launching from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the Soyuz-2.1b, Fregat-M which will be launching from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. On his website Mineo Wakita JE9PEL provides the following information: SpaceX...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
Jonathan’s Space Report (JSR) has been covering robotic and human spaceflight activity for 25 years. In the latest issue UK born Jonathan McDowell writes: The first issue of JSR was sent to an internal email distribution at my then and current place of work, the...
