by Peter Goodhall | Nov 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
The largest ever launch of satellites carrying amateur radio payloads should take place on November 21, 2013 at 07:10:11 UT on a Dnepr from Dombarovsky near Yasny. One of the satellites UniSat-5 will itself deploy a number of additional satellites. Among them should...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
Thanks to the very good work of Richard Limebear G3RWL the first edition of the “FUNcube Handbook” is now available. The handbook provides an initial introduction to the project overall and the FUNcube-1 spacecraft in particular. An updated edition may be available...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 6, 2013 | Daily Updates
Hans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV gave a presentation “SA AMSAT Turns to Innovation for its Cubesat” at the 2013 AMSAT Space Symposium in Houston, Texas, on Saturday, November 2, 2013. The mission aim of the KLETSkous Cubesat is to give Radio Amateurs in...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
UK amateur radio exams have now moved over to optical marking, this video describes the new system. Paul Whatton G4DCV has re-edited an earlier video to produce this presentation about the Optical Marking System by Alan Betts G0HIQ Chief Examiner for the Radio...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
Dmitry Pashkov UB4UAD reports that the Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat-M is now expected to launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on March 27, 2014. The launcher will carry the satellites Meteor-M number 2, MCA-PN2 (Relek), M3MSat, UKube-1, SkySat-2, TechDemoSat-1, AISSat-2 and DX -1....
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
The KN-SAT Cubesat team at the University of Khartoum (UofK), Sudan, have successfully completed the design and development of the Prototype-2. This has been a result of hard work and dedication throughout the last year.Dr. Sharief F Babikir writes: “I must...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Barcelona Moon Google X-Price team is looking for secondary payloads to take on their trip to the Moon planned for June 2015. These documents provide some details on this opportunity (1.35m Euros/kg). You can contact the Barcelona Moon team directly if you are...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
The payload of the Indian amateur radio APRS balloon launched on October 13, 2013 has been successfully retrieved. The balloon payload was returned to Dhruva Space on November 3 during Diwali (Festival of Lights). The balloon had been launched from the Indian...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
Students at the Tama Art University are planning to send a sculpture ARTSAT2 DESPATCH along with an amateur radio payload into deep space. The ARTSAT2 Deep Space sculpture “DESPATCH” is planned to launch in mid 2014 on a H-IIA rocket with the asteroid explorer...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK has announced a new FUNcube Forum to cater for the two FUNcube payloads that will be launched in the coming months. FUNcube-1 is a complete educational single CubeSat project with the goal of enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics...
