by Peter Goodhall | Sep 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT FUNcube team are delighted to be able to announce that the FUNcube-1 CubeSat has now completed all its final testing and been placed into its launch POD. This work was completed during a three day programme at the premises of ISIS BV in Delft in the...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
NASA’s Juno mission is inviting amateur radio operators around the world to transmit a coordinated message on the 28 MHz band to the Juno spacecraft. NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly past Earth on October 9, 2013 to receive a gravity assist from our planet,...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
Dmitry Pashkov UB4UAD has posted two images that he received on 145.800 MHz FM from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, September 4, 2013. All you need to do to receive the SSTV pictures from the space station is to connected the audio output of a...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
It is reported on SatWatch that the 216 MHz US Space Fence, used to detect orbital objects, was turned off on September 1, 2013 at 0000 UT. The Air Force Space Surveillance System (AFSSS), known as the Space Fence, is a U.S. government multistatic radar system built...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
Brent Salmi KB1LQD offers his thoughts on some of the challenges involved in putting a CubeSat or any other spacecraft into High Earth Orbit (HEO). This was originally posted on the AMSAT-BB and is reproduced here with Brent’s permission. I think this 2-part 4...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
LunarSail is an Open-Source Cubesat and Solar Sail Lunar Orbiter project. Matthew Travis used Kickstarter to raise funds and comfortably exceeded his target of $11,00 by getting pledges for $15,817. The team say “LunarSail’s computer is based on the Raspberry...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Late Sunday afternoon, September 1, Leo Bodnar launched a long-duration pico balloon running DominoEX 16 on 434.500 MHz USB. It is expected to travel across Europe. The balloon was launched from Silverstone and aims to test some solar power modes and check for...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 30, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL are delighted to be able to announce that they have been advised that the launch date for FUNcube-1 is now expected to be late November 2013. The date is still subject to final approval by the authorities. The FUNcube project started back in 2009...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
The CEPT SE24 Short Range Devices meeting M72 took place in Vienna on August 26-27, 2013. The meeting discussed the use of the frequency bands 5350-5470 MHz and 5725-5925 MHz (‘WAS/RLAN extension bands’) for wireless access systems including radio local...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
AX.25 packet radio is currently the most popular data protocol for use in CubeSats. Radio amateur Alejandro Santos LU4EXT is developing extmodem an open source APRS compatible AX.25 packet radio modem. It is currently capable of both sending and receive packets at...
