by Peter Goodhall | Mar 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
The French language version of the European Space Agency (ESA) website reports the latest in the series of comic books about the Adventures of Tania in Space was published on March 22, 2013. ESA report that as well as the adventures of Tania the 176 page publication...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
Surrey Space Centre report that the STRAND-1 satellite is healthy but they have had new ground station teething problems. That has diverted effort and delayed the eagerly awaited switch-on of the Google Nexus One smartphone carried by the CubeSat. The team are...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Student Oxygen Measurement Project (SOMP) is a cubesat developed by students of the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, organized in the Students’ Research Group for Spacecraft Engineering in Dresden (STARD). SOMP will be a standard sized single CubeSat...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 21, 2013 | Daily Updates
Fox News reports that drones (UAV’s) are a new tool that teaches youngsters some pretty sophisticated science and math concepts. Read the Fox story at http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/20/how-drones-teach-kids-science-math/ Middlesex Foundation Radio Hams...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 20, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Newfoundland and Labrador Independent reports on two amateur radio satellite projects. The article covers FITSat-1 (Niwaka) developed under the leadership of Takushi Tanaka JA6AVG and the Open Source Satellite Initiative CubeSat OSSI-1 developed by Korean artist...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 20, 2013 | Daily Updates
The KiwiSAT website reports that all hardware is complete and the KiwiSAT micro-satellite is operational. Final integration to launch ready awaits completion of command and control testing. They say software is being developed and launch negotiation is underway in New...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this article Adam Laurie from London describes how he used his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF Software Defined Radio (SDR) to decode the signal from a 433.920 MHz doorbell. Read the article at...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO is interviewed on pages 32-34 of the March-May 2013 issue of the free UK magazine for the Aviation, Defence, Security and Space industries ADS Advance. You can read the March-May 2013 issue online or download it as a PDF file at...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC News report that the European Space Agency (ESA) is turning to owners of terrestrial robot aircraft to aid those that journey into space. The agency has released an App that makes use of the cameras on the Parrot drone to simulate docking with a virtual space...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
These video shows CubeSat deployment experiments carried out in a weightless environment on the “Vomit Comet” aircraft by students from the University of Texas. The team write: Nanosatellites are becoming increasingly common in the aerospace industry due...
