by Peter Goodhall | Jan 22, 2014 | Daily Updates
Michael Kirkhart KD8QBA reminds us that the PocketQube $50SAT has now been operating for two months. He writes: It has now been 2 months since the launch of $50SAT into its 625 km (approximate) sun-synchronous orbit, and as of this morning [Tuesday January 21], it is...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
University of Sheffield astrophysics student and UKSEDS member, Gillian Finnerty, has made it through to the next round of selection for the first human mission to Mars. ITV news report she is one of just 40 from the UK who have been chosen to go through to the next...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 19, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Jonathan Oxer VK3FADO gave this Keynote presentation on the latest developments in the ArduSat CubeSat project to the 2014 Linux conference in Perth, Western Australia. Jon has been hacking on both hardware and software since he was a little tacker. Most...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
A new FUNcube guide developed by ARRL Education & Technology Program (ETP) Director Mark Spencer, WA8SME, aims to maximize the educational focus of the tiny FUNcube-1 (AO-73) satellite. Spencer’s Pragmatic Guide for Using the FUNcube (AO-73) Materials Science...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
Jan Stupl provides an update on PhoneSat 2.4 which was part of the ORS3 / Elana 4 launch from the Wallops Flight Facility on November 19, 2013. By now there are TLEs at space-track for all 29 objects of that launch (NORAD ID 39380 – 39409), but only five of...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team were interested to know the trend of the number of uploads to the warehouse since launch, we thought we would share our findings. We have been consistently getting more than 5000 raw packets per day and the trend is increasing, thanks folks! The plan...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
Understanding orbits can be called the key to understanding satellites. These videos by Nanosatisfi cover many facts about orbits. Watch Coding For Space – Orbits 1 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGAmYLlWj2c&w=560&h=315] This second video about...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
A Dnepr carrying the 310 kg Spanish imaging minisatellite Deimos-2 along with 20 other satellites is expected to launch from Dombarovsky near Yasny in April/May. The satellites will be deployed in a 600 km orbit. Information on Russian space launches can be found on...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
New Electronics has a feature on the UK CubeSat programme and UKube-1 which it says should be launched from Kazakhstan on March 27, 2014. Caroline Harper is a programme manager at the UK Space Agency and one programme that comes under her wing is UKube-1. CubeSats can...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube Data Warehouse is now producing .csv files containing Realtime data channels for the AO-73 CubeSat. The data is produced every hour, on the hour and contains 3000 rows, starting 250 minutes before the last record in the database. As we do not have...
