by Peter Goodhall | Jul 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
As part of the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium there will be two opportunities to visit the satellite facilities at the Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) Kepler building. Visit # 1 – Friday, July 19 at 5 PM Visit # 2 – Sat, July 20 at 9...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 13, 2013 | Daily Updates
The South African Radio League (SARL) has issued the following bulletin about the company SunSpace which developed out of the Stellenbosch University SUNSAT OSCAR-35 project and was responsible for building the SumbandilaSat OSCAR-67 satellite. Both SUNSAT and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
Henk Hamoen PA3GUO used his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle Software Defined Radio (FCD SDR) to show the variations in signal strength between the two amateur radio stations on-board the International Space Station (ISS). The amateur radio station in the Russian Service...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
In HamRadioNow episode 85 Gary Pearce KN4AQ talks to a pair of AMSAT Vice Presidents – Tony Montiero AA2TX (Engineering) and Mark Hammond N8MH (Education) who tell us about the new Fox-1 Satellite. They explain why AMSAT must transition from a bunch of hams who...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
Radio amateurs Dave Akerman M6RPI and Anthony Stirk M0UPU provide an update on a balloon launch planned for this Saturday, July 13 which aims to test the firing mechanism for the LOHAN rocket. There will be several 434 MHz radio transmitters on-board including one...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
Radio amateurs Benjamin Longmier KF5KMP and James Cutler KF6RFX of the University of Michigan hope to raise $200,000 on Kickstarter for a CubeSat propulsion project. The CubeSat Ambipolar Thruster (CAT) is a new plasma propulsion system which will push small...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
Dexter, a 7-year-old from Derby in England, wrote to NASA saying he wanted to be an astronaut and go to Mars.The Huffington Post reports that to the surprise of his mother, Katrina Anderson, NASA responded encouraging Dexter to explore space camp, get good grades and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
Concerns have been raised about interference from the 2400 MHz and 5800 MHz transmitters on the Google Project Loon High Altitude Balloons. Google has launched 30 balloons from New Zealand which transmit wideband 2400 MHz and 5800 MHz signals and concerns have been...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio CubeSat FITSAT-1, also known as NIWAKA, burnt up in the Earth’s atmosphere in the early hours of Thursday, July 4, 2013. Takushi Tanaka JA6AVG of the Fukuoka Institute of Technology FITSAT project has issued this statement: FITSAT-1 has decayed...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Slow Scan TV (SSTV) experiment MAI-75 on the International Space Station (ISS) was active on July 2-3, on 145.800 MHz FM. The Russian ham radio call sign is RS0ISS. Two Russian hams, Pavel Vinogradov, RV3BS, and Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI, are aboard the ISS as part...
