by Peter Goodhall | Dec 6, 2013 | Daily Updates
The British Amateur Television Club (BATC) has made available videos from the RSGB Centenary event held on December 5, 2013 at Imperial College, London. Three videos are available from the batc.tv site: – “Amateur Radio: a 100 years of introducing...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 6, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Sleaford Standard newspaper reports that a school science club is turning pupils into amateur radio fans after they were given the technology to communicate with a satellite. The group of students based at St George’s Academy in Ruskington have been gathering data...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 6, 2013 | Daily Updates
At 07:14:30 UT on Friday, December 6, 2013 a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 3-East (SLC-3E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s Central Coast. In addition to a classified satellite for the US spy satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
Delfi Nanosatellite Program Manager, Jasper Bouwmeester PC4JB, provides this update on the Delfi-n3Xt satellite which was launched November 21 and carries a 435/145 MHz linear transponder. Dear Radio Amateurs, Here is a status update about Delfi-n3Xt operations. New...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Mid Ulster Amateur Radio club will be hosting the special event callsign GI100RSGB over the weekend Dec 6-8 We hope to be active on most operational satellites from Friday 3pm UT, however the current storm blowing in N. Ireland may slow down antenna setup. An...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
A report on the PI9CAM website forwarded by PE0SAT describes how Triton-1 was recovered with the help of the 25 meter dish from PI9CAM. Triton-1 was launched on a Dnepr on November 21, it has a 435/145 MHz FM to DSB transponder which is expected to be available for...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is set to launch from Space Launch Complex 3-East, or SLC-3E at Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s Central Coast. As well as a classified satellite for the US spy satellite agency the National Reconnaissance Office...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
Benjamin Longmier KF5KMP and James Cutler KF6RFX of the University of Michigan have launched a Kickstarter to raise funding to develop a CubeSat Ambipolar Thruster (CAT). The project’s Kickstarter page says: Space exploration has traditionally been expensive,...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Craig Kief KE5VSH posted this on the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB):Jin KB3UKS and I launched two CubeSats a week or so ago. The first is Trailblazer (mine) and the second is DragonSat (Jins). Trailblazer is from the Configurable Space Research at the University of...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
The N2YO satellite tracking website provides live video streaming from the International Space Station (ISS) alongside a track showing the position of the ISS over the Earth. The Ustream video from the station is available only when the complex is in contact with the...
