by Peter Goodhall | Dec 21, 2013 | Daily Updates
Paulo PV8DX and Luciano PY5LF have made the first contact using the amateur radio FUNcube-1 AO-73 satellite between the North and the South of Brazil. Watch AO73 – HAM CUBESAT...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 21, 2013 | Daily Updates
Former radio amateur Jeff Garzik ex-KB4UZB plans to develop a CubeSat BitSat to distribute block chain data for the digital currency Bitcoin. Jeff’s amateur radio license expired in 2006 and in recent years during his spare time he has been a Bitcoin...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 20, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC TV News has reported on the 434.075 MHz STRATODEAN balloon carrying Santa and Rudolf that was launched from Coleford, Gloucestershire, UK. The BBC say that amateur scientists Cassie Phelps and Mark Ireland, from the Forest of Dean, successful launched Santa and...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
A publisher of printed paper books, Mikazuki Publishing House, has issued a press release saying they will be launching a 3U CubeSat in August 2014 that would have both voice and data uplinks and downlinks. They intend to use the CubeSat for a single book marketing...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 19, 2013 | 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 | Dec 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
Delfi Nanosatellite Program Manager, Jasper Bouwmeester PC4JB, provides this update on the Delfi-n3Xt amateur radio satellite which was launched November 21 and carries a 435/145 MHz linear transponder. Dear radio amateurs, Today, December 19, we have switched from...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
As a result of recommendations from the January 2013 UK CubeSat Workshop, members of the UK CubeSat community have established a forum to provide an independent, community led discussion and networking platform for UK nanosatellite or CubeSat stakeholders. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
December 20, 2013 will be the 11th birthday of the amateur radio satellite SO-50. Now known as SO-50, Saudisat 1C is a Saudi Arabian satellite about 25 cm cubed that was launched by a Dnepr rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 17:00 UT on December 20, 2002. SO-50...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
The ARRL report Expedition 38 Astronauts Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG, and Rick Mastracchio, KC5ZTE, will leave the confines of the International Space Station (ISS) December 21, 23, and 25 to repair a faulty cooling system pump. The malfunction has already caused the...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
In The Register Lester Haines interviews radio amateur Daniel Richman M0ZDR (ex-M6DRX) about the impressive Cambridge University Space Flight (CUSF) Landing Predictor. Rob Anderson wrote the original landing predictor for High Altitude Balloons in 2008. Since then...
