by Peter Goodhall | May 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
During a teleconference in mid-May, the IARU Administrative Council authorized the distribution of a paper which sets forth the IARU positions on the agenda items that will be considered during the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2015. The agenda items that...
by Peter Goodhall | May 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
The American University in Cairo AUC CubeSat is building a CubeSat which aims to provide surface imaging. Watch AUC CubeSat [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKknrsygrTw] AUC CubeSat http://spaceresearch.wix.com/discover#!__auc-cubesat AUC CubeSat on Twitter...
by Peter Goodhall | May 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
15-year-old Abby Harrison is in Baikonur, Kazakhstan to watch the launch of her mentor, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP, on a Soyuz TMA-09M to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, May 28 at 2031 UT. She again met Luca but this time he was in...
by Peter Goodhall | May 25, 2013 | Daily Updates
Chris Bridges @DrChrisBridges tweets the following Raw 9K6 ESTCube-1 Data. http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ssc/ ESTCube-1 is the first Estonian satellite. Developed as part of the Estonian Student Satellite Program, it was launched on 7 May 2013 aboard a Vega carrier...
by Peter Goodhall | May 24, 2013 | Daily Updates
The SEBA-3 high-altitude amateur radio balloon, with a 29.494 MHz RTTY transmitter, launches Saturday, May 25. Other balloons carrying 434 MHz transmitters are also launching this weekend. One of the 434 MHz balloons PIE will have live video streaming of the launch...
by Peter Goodhall | May 24, 2013 | Daily Updates
A Small Satellite Developer Workshop featuring Amateur Radio is taking place July 8-13 in Chennai, India. The amateur radio segment is being conducted by the National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR). Other topics include • Software Designed Receiver • Basics of...
by Peter Goodhall | May 23, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Satellite Applications Catapult is hosting a Satellite Applications Hackathon event on the weekend of June 8-9, 2013. It will take place at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. The two-day ‘technology development’ event is part of a series of activities to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 23, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC News is reporting that at 0538 UT on Thursday, May 23 Ecuador’s new NEE-01 Pegasus 910 MHz CubeSat collided with debris from a S14 Soviet rocket launched in 1985. The satellite was some 1,500 km east of Madagascar at the time. Pegasus, launched less than a...
by Peter Goodhall | May 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
Grupo de Radioaficionados para Operaciones Satelitales (GROS) Coordinator Raydel Espinet CM2ESP comments on the use of amateur radio satellites for emergency communications and describes how an amateur satellite was used in a Civil Defense exercise on May 18-19, 2013....
by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2013 | Daily Updates
The first picture taken by the amateur radio CubeSat ESTCube-1 in space has been released. ESTCube-1 was launched from Kourou in the Caribbean on May 7 at 0206 UT on an ESA Vega rocket into a 704 km orbit. The hard work of the first two weeks has paid off and the CAM...
