by Peter Goodhall | Mar 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Register reports that the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team will be working with radio amateur Paul Shackleton G7ALW. The report by Lester Haines says Paul G7ALW will be working on the Vulture 2 spaceplane. Laying out his electronics credentials,...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Public Notice to provide guidance concerning FCC licensing of spectrum for use by small satellites, including satellites that fall within the categories of pico-satellites, nano-satellites and cubesats. The advent...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
NASA EDGE talks to NASA about how they’re helping students and professionals launch their own mini satellites known as CubeSats. The CubeSat Launch Initiative provides new opportunities for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics by helping people...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
Estonia’s first CubeSat ESTCube-1, amateur radio callsign ES5E/S, is planning to launch from Kourou in the Caribbean in the Spring on an ESA VEGA rocket. Built by students at the University of Tartu ESTCube-1 the main mission of the satellite is to test electric...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
Never before have images of Slime Mold growth been transmitted from space using amateur radio but students from Teikyo University plan to do just that with their TeikyoSat-3 satellite. The TeikyoSat-3 team say “A slime mold is a microbe without a brain, its...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
It is with great sadness that I must record the passing of Jules Thomson G8PJL who passed away at home on March 8, 2013, after a long battle against cancer. Jules was AMSAT-UK Honorary Treasurer since volunteering for the post in July 2008. He also served on the...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, March 23 at 1400 UT AMSAT-LU plan to launch a High Altitude Balloon (HAB) carrying a 435.950/145.950 MHz FM repeater, a SSTV transmitter on 145.850 MHz and an APRS transmitter on 144.930 MHz. The 145.850 MHz SSTV ROBOT-36 mode images will be transmitted...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
EXA Announcement: Guayaquil, March 13, 2013. – The Ecuadorian satellites NEE-01 PEGASUS and NEE-02 KRYSAOR passed all qualification tests for space flight and launch vehicle integration for the Chinese and Russian rockets and are now ready to take off the...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
Swiss Space Systems – S3 a new Swiss aerospace company, was officially inaugurated in Payerne on Thursday, March 14, in the presence of representatives of the national authorities and of prestigious Swiss and international partners such as the ESA, Dassault...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
On September 17, 2012, 22 female astronauts, a number of them radio amateurs, along with Johnson Space Center’s first female director, Carolyn Huntoon, met to honor Sally Ride and her legacy. Sally Kristen Ride was one of 8,000 people to answer an advertisement...
