by Peter Goodhall | Apr 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
Flight Refueling Amateur Radio Society (FRARS) were active on the amateur radio satellites on Thursday, April 4 using the special event callsign G100RSGB . On one pass of the satellite FO-29 club member Clive Lambert-Hutchinson G7SVI had arranged a schedule with...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
PicoDragon is a 1U CubeSat project intended to take low resolution Earth images and to test on-board systems. It is planning to use two amateur radio downlinks and frequencies for these have been coordinated by the IARU. The 100mW CW beacon will be on 437.250 MHz and...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
NASA is seeking small spacecraft technology project proposals from U.S. colleges and universities that would like to collaborate with agency researchers. Small spacecraft, or smallsats, represent a growing field of space research and operations in which universities...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
Dr Chris Bridges M6OBC from the Surrey Space Centre has advised that the amateur radio beacon on their STRaND-1 CubeSat became intermittent over the Easter weekend. Both Mike Rupprecht DK3WN and Nader Omer ST2NH have reported that no signals have been heard since...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
The final set of VHF/UHF/uW papers for the IARU Region 1 Interim meeting in Vienna, April 20-21, have been released. They include a number of papers related to Amateur-Satellite Service allocations: • VIE13_C5_03 Increased Amateur‐Satellite Service 144MHz Usage •...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
NextGen CubeSat Project, a presentation prepared by Alex Harvilchuck N3NP and presented by Dr. Charles Westgate WC2R during the AMSAT Forum at the 2010 Dayton Hamvention. Watch NextGen CubeSat Project [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBMsvHitJtM] See other...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Clive G7SVI reports that G100RSGB should be active on the amateur radio satellites on Thursday, April 4. The Flight Refueling Amateur Radio Society will be hosting the RSGB Centenary Call G100RSGB from their club house at Merley, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 3DA and should...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
The European Interparliamentary Space Conference (EISC) workshop on small, micro, nano and CubeSat missions took place on March 25 in Redu, Belgium. AMSAT Belgium and the UBA took advantage of the opportunity to demonstrate the engineering model of the AMSAT-UK...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Hector, CO6CBF is looking for stations in the West of the UK on the amateur radio satellite FO-29. Currently FO-29 is in apogee and has a big footprint which allow mutual visibility during a couple of minutes between Cuba and UK. I can work the satellite until LOS and...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
8000x-1 will be the first cubesat to fully implement mobilephone technology within a 1U (10×10×10 cm) cubesat. Due for launch later this month, 8000x-1 will be fully controlled by the mobile phones OBC, “Loof Prial” the project sponsores aim to release an...
