by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC News reports that fifteen-year-old Abby Harrison is training to be an astronaut and has set herself the goal of being the first person to reach Mars. “I remember looking up at the night sky when I was five-years-old and thinking that I wanted to go to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 20, 2013 | Daily Updates
NEE-01 Pegasus (Pegaso) the first of two HD TV CubeSats built in Ecuador launched on a CZ-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Space Center on Friday, April 26 at 0413 UT. The 1U CubeSat (10x10x10 cm) was built in Ecuador and carries a 0.9 watt output 720p HD TV transmitter on...
by Peter Goodhall | May 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Guardian newspaper reports that Major Tim Peake has been selected to fly a five-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. Tim Peake, from Salisbury in Wiltshire, was chosen for astronaut training in 2009 from 8,400 applicants. Since then he...
by Peter Goodhall | May 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
NASA announced on May 13, 2013 that AMSAT’s Fox-1 amateur radio spacecraft has been assigned for launch in November 2014 on the ELaNa XII mission. The expected orbit is 470 x 780 km at 64 degrees inclination. This orbit has a lifetime of about 11 years. AMSAT Vice...
by Peter Goodhall | May 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
The 2013 UK Space Conference, which takes place July 16-17 in Glasgow, will focus on realising the UK’s ambitions in space – including making a global impact with science and research, contributing to the UK’s economic growth by developing new...
by Peter Goodhall | May 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
An ARRL article describes the Mars Lander Amateur Radio Robotics Exploration Activity. NASA has been doing some exciting explorations of Mars with robots, currently Opportunity and Curiosity, which are maneuvered on the Martian surface by remote control. These...
by Peter Goodhall | May 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
NASA announced Monday that AMSAT’s Fox-1 FM transponder spacecraft has been assigned a launch in 2014. For details on the launch vehicle, targeted launch date, orbit specifics, and more, please attend the AMSAT Forum and visit the AMSAT booth at the Dayton Hamvention...
by Peter Goodhall | May 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
Frequencies have been announced for the new Ham Radio Digital TV transmitter that will send video from the ISS in the amateur radio 2400 MHz band. The main mission of HamTV is to perform school contacts between the astronauts onboard ISS and the scholarship, not only...
by Peter Goodhall | May 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
The 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will start late afternoon on Friday, July 19 and will run through until the afternoon on Sunday, July 21 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, UK. It will be preceded by an exciting “Hands-on” CubeSat Workshop which...
by Peter Goodhall | May 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
Fifteen-year-old Abigail Harrison has a big dream, to be the first astronaut to Mars. She is currently using the crowd funding website RocketHub to raise money to fund a trip to Baikonur in Kazhakstan to watch her mentor, Astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP, blast-off to...
