by Peter Goodhall | Dec 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Nico Janssen PA0DLO has posted a summary of the presently known IDs for the satellites that were launched on the Yasny Dnepr on November 21. Further Doppler measurements show that TshepisoSat (aka ZACube-1) is object 39417...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
Roland PY4ZBZ reports that the CAPE-2 amateur radio CubeSat responded to a “Send Text to Speech” command with “Hello P Y 4 Z B Z” in the voice of Darth Vader. Listen to the recording at http://tinyurl.com/PY4ZBZ-Cape-2-Darth-Vader AMSAT...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
Ten year-old radio amateurs Maribel Laguna KK6IGY and Laisha Vergara KK6HZH hope to link up with the International Space Station next year. The San Bernardino Sun newspaper reports both are students at the Dorothy Grant Elementary School in Fontana. The school has a...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
TshepisoSat was built at the French South African Institute of Technology (F’SATI), at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and launched on a Dnepr from Dombarovsky near Yasny on November 21, 2013. The CPUT-F’SATI blog says: Earlier this week a quick...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
The first novel to find inspiration from Cubesats and the new wave of personal spacecraft – such as the Sprites – has been published and is available from Amazon and Createspace. In ‘A Pyramid of Tiny Skulls’, the story is this: “On the...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
Jason Rexroat KK4AJE of the University of Kentucky KySat-2 team brings news of the latest version of the amateur radio ground station telemetry decoder software. We really appreciate everyone using our ground station software to decode KySat-2 packets! We are...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Warwick University Satellite Team (WUSAT) have won a place on the sub-orbital Rocket Experiments for University Students REXUS 1718 campaign. The team say: We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in our bid for a slot on the REXUS 1718 campaign!...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
UKube-1 left Clyde Space in Glasgow on its way to Baikonur in Kazakhstan on December 12, 2013. The 3U CubeSat carries a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards (FUNcube-2) to provide an Educational beacon and a 435/145 MHz linear transponder for amateur radio SSB/CW...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Peruvian CubeSat PUCP-SAT-1 (145.840 MHz AX.25 FM) was carried by the microsatellite UNISAT-5 which was launched on a Dnepr on November 21, 2013. When in orbit UNISAT-5 deployed PUCP-SAT-1 and Neilsao Vilchez reports PUCP-SAT-1 has in turn deployed an even smaller...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Data Warehouse now provides the facility to download FUNcube-1 (AO-73) Whole Orbit Data (WOD) as a .csv file. The file is produced at 23:59 every day and contains data for the preceding 24 hours. It contains all the channels shown on the WOD graph, which shows the...
