by Peter Goodhall | Nov 27, 2013 | Daily Updates
Dmitry Pashkov UB4UAD may have received the first signal from the WREN PocketQube on 437.405 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler). The WREN team would welcome any further reports. The length of the AFSK-modulated beacon is 1.6 seconds. The Telemetry Decoder and an Audio File of...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 27, 2013 | Daily Updates
Whole Orbit Data from the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) amateur radio spacecraft can now be displayed. Dave G4DPZ writes: We can now display 104 minutes of Whole Orbit Data captured within the satellite and we are working on getting the scaling factors such that all values can be...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube Team have some new TLEs for object 2013-066B 2013-066B 1 39417U 13066B 13330.15401895 .00003238 00000-0 45063-3 0 205 2 39417 97.7994 42.6429 0062763 180.4144 179.7025 14.77120863 712 These still seem to be the best fit but the team would...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
John Besedic KK4EQF has released a video showing how easy it is to capture data from the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) amateur radio satellite using the Dashboard App, a computer, antenna and the FUNcube Dongle SDR. Watch FUNcube Satellite Dashboard and FUNcube Dongle Amateur...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Cajun Advanced Picosat Experiment satellite CAPE-2, built by students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, launched on a Monotaur-1 on November 20, 2013 at 0115 UT. On November 24 Tetsurou Satou JA0CAW in Japan made this recording of CAPE-2′s Text to...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
The WREN team report that they have had no confirmed reception of the signal from their SSTV PocketQube satellite which was launched on November 21. These are the TLEs the team are currently using for WREN: WREN2 1 10000U 00000 13325.30958333 .00066391 00000-0 78737-2...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 25, 2013 | Daily Updates
On Monday, November 25, both the BBC Breakfast show and BBC News broadcast a report on the amateur radio FUNcube-1 satellite. The report was filmed in the RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) at Bletchley Park and at Abbeys Primary School in Bletchley. You can watch the...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 25, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Group of Astrodynamics for the Use of Space Systems (GAUSS) issued this update on November 24 at 22:33 UT. Dear all, After the successful DNEPR cluster launch we will like to give you a brief update about the UniSat-5 mission and the released satellites: • Eagle-1...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 24, 2013 | Daily Updates
The CubeSat team at the University of Khartoum ST2UOK have been tracking and capturing telemetry data from FUNcube-1 (AO-73) since it was launched on November 21. The team are developing their own CubeSat KN-SAT and recently completed the design and development of the...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 24, 2013 | Daily Updates
Triton-1 is a 3U CubeSat from ISIS-BV (Innovative Solutions In Space BV) that carries a 435/145 FM to DSB transponder which is expected to be available for amateur radio use 3 months after launch.This update was issued at 22:23 on November 24, 2013.Hi all,We have put...
