by Peter Goodhall | Jan 31, 2014 | Daily Updates
A team of University of Warwick engineering students are designing and building a CubeSat WUSAT2 which will be launched 100 km into space in 2015. The third and fourth-year engineering students beat off stiff competition from undergraduate, post-graduate and PhD teams...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 30, 2014 | Daily Updates
The ARRL report the FCC has invited comments by February 18 on the latest batch of draft recommendations of its Advisory Committee for World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-2015). At its January 27 meeting, the Advisory Committee (WAC) approved draft...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 29, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team have made a few changes to the way Fitter Messages are handled / displayed on the Data Warehouse: – Only the last 7 days of fitter messages are displayed (list is truncated at midnight UT, each day) – To help the command stations, the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 28, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube Team are pleased to announce the latest version of the Dashboard Software. Version 820 can be downloaded from http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard/ The major change in Version v820 centres on improved decoding routines which...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 28, 2014 | Daily Updates
The 7th QB50 workshop opened on Tuesday with the announcement that on Monday, January 27, 2014, the Von Karman Institute of Belgium signed the launch contract with Alcantara Cyclone Space for the launch of the QB50 constellation of 50 2U CubeSats into a 350 km low...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 27, 2014 | Daily Updates
The following information was posted to the $50SAT (437.505 MHz) PocketQube Yahoo Group: This is the data from a pass a couple of weeks ago. By noting the audio frequency of the Morse audio, you know what the battery voltage is, so this can be used together with the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 26, 2014 | Daily Updates
As announced December 22, 2013 the Ham Video transmitter is onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and stored in the Columbus module. It is slated to be installed February 5, 2014 by Michael Hopkins KF5LJG. Hopkins will also install the camera and the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 26, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK CubeSat Workshop, planned for Tuesday, May 13, 2014, will include presentations on the amateur radio satellites FUNcube-1 and UKube-1. The workshop will take place at the Satellite Applications Catapult, Electron Building, Fermi Avenue, Harwell OX11 0QR. Graham...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 24, 2014 | Daily Updates
David Johnson G4DPZ will be giving a presentation on the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) spacecraft to the National Student Space Conference being held at the University of Leicester on March 1-2. David is a software engineer and committee member of AMSAT-UK. He writes Open-Source...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
James Miller G3RUH reports reception of the Rosetta spacecraft signal at a distance of 805 million km from Earth using the 20 metre dish at the Bochum amateur radio facility On the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) James Miller G3RUH writes: Just a quick note about...
