by Peter Goodhall | Mar 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
TechNewsDaily contributor Rachel Kaufman interviewed James Cutler KF6RFX about two CubeSats that aim to travel into interplanetary space. The two Interplanetary NanoSpacecraft Pathfinder In Relevant Environment (INSPIRE) satellites measure just 10x10x30 cm and each...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
The IARU amateur radio satellite frequency coordination panel has announced the frequencies for the OSSI-1 CubeSat developed by Hojun Song DS1SBO. Artist and radio amateur Hojun Song DS1SBO has spent 7 years developing his Open Source Satellite Initiative satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
Several CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads are planned to launch on the Antares-110 mission in April. On the CubeSat mailing list Jason Andrews President and CEO of both Spaceflight Inc and Andrews Space posted: Spaceflight Inc recently completed CubeSat...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Alan WA4SCA has posted information from Space Track of the object-satellite pairings for the PSLV-C20 launch that carried the UK smartphone satellite STRaND-1 into space. He writes: JSpOC [Joint Space Operations Center] has named the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
Roland Zurmely PY4ZBZ in Brazil has received the 437.568 MHz telemetry signal from the STRaND-1 smartphone satellite launched on Monday, February 25. See his STRaND-1 telemetry page in Google English at http://tinyurl.com/cf8l8n4 Page in Portugese...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 27, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-NA reports that the RadFxSat/Fox-1B proposal has been accepted by NASA. Tony Monteiro AA2TX writes: I am pleased to announce that our NASA ELaNa proposal for RadFxSat/Fox-1B has been accepted. Here is the NASA announcement. Note that the projects are listed in...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 27, 2013 | Daily Updates
Tweets from Surrey Space Centre @SpaceAtSurrey regarding #STRaND-1. We have a new beacon type out at the moment – and it has a message in it! See if you can receive it š First to pick it up gets … free STRaND-1 stickers! STRaND-1 437.568 MHz telemetry...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
STRaND-1 carries an amateur radio AX.25 packet radio downlink onĀ 437.568 MHz using 9600 bps FSK modulated data with HDLC frame, NRZI encoding. Dr Chris Bridges would be delighted to receive all available telemetry files by email to C.P.Bridges@surrey.ac.uk Excel...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
UniBriteĀ (CanX 3A) was launched Monday, February 25, on the same rocket as STRaND-1. It has an amateur radio Morse Code beacon on 145.980 MHz. This report was posted on the AMSAT Bulletin Board by Yasir Osman ST2YM in Khartoum, Sudan. ST2UOK ground station at the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT bulletin board Hector Martinez, CO6CBF, reports receiving the smartphone satellite STRaND-1 using a FUNcube Dongle Software Defined Radio (SDR). He posted: On the 22:36 UTC pass both STRaND-1 and AAUSAT3 have been heard in Cienfuegos city (EL92sd). I was...
