by Peter Goodhall | Jan 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Thursday, January 9 at 1807 UT an Antares rocket launched the Cygnus freighter carrying a cargo of CubeSats to the International Space Station. There are four amateur radio CubeSats LituanicaSat-1, LitSat-1, ArduSat-2 and UAPSat-1. Also onboard is the 915 MHz...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
The high radiation level from recent solar eruptions has resulted in a planned launch of amateur radio CubeSats being postponed. NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility say: Early on Wednesday, January 8 the Antares launch team decided to scrub the launch attempt due to...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2014 | Daily Updates
UNSA-SAT1 hopes to be the first CubeSat to make use of the 3400 MHz ITU Amateur-Satellite Service allocation. Built by students at the Instituto Astronómico y Aeroespacial Pedro Paulet in Peru, UNSA-SAT1 is a 2U spacecraft (20x10x10cm) which will be part of the QB50...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
The January 2014 issue of SatMagazine features the UKube-1 CubeSat built at Clyde Space in Glasgow. UKube-1 carries an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW communications and should launch later this year. The magazine also covers some of the many...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 3, 2014 | Daily Updates
As promised, we are making the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) CubeSat High Resolution Data available for download from the Data Warehouse. It contains Hi-Res data generated every hour, on the hour for the 60 minutes preceding the extract. Please note that unlike the Whole Orbit...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 3, 2014 | Daily Updates
E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the PDF of the Winter edition of the OSCAR News magazine here (as well as previous 2013 and 2012 issues). The paper edition should be posted to members soon. In this issue • FUNcube-1 Operations Report • FunCube Dongle Pro+ V2.0...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 2, 2014 | Daily Updates
Yahoo News have published an interview with entrepreneur Tom Walkinshaw, 24, who is opening a ‘DIY space kit shop’. He hopes it will start a new, “DIY space race” with satellites available for as little as £12,000 ($18,000) which rises to £20,000 ($30,000)...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this video Travis Goodspeed KK4VCZ describes his Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tracking system to the 30th Chaos Computer Congress which took place December 27-30, 2013 at the Congress Center Hamburg in Germany. The YouTube description reads: Satellites in Low...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
To celebrate the upcoming launch of LituanicaSAT-1 the special event station LY2013SAT operated by Vilmantas Morkunas LY3BY has been on the air. Andy Thomas G0SFJ was one of the those who worked it and he was rewarded with a QSL card showing LituanicaSAT-1 in space....
