by Peter Goodhall | Feb 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
The International Space Station ARISS contact planned February 19, 2013 with school in Greece An International Space Station school contact has been planned February 19 2013 with participants at 4th Dimotiko Scholeio Chaidariou, Chaidari (near Athens), Greece....
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
ShindaiSat is a 20 kg spacecraft approx 300 by 300 by 350 mm which is planning to use bright LEDs for Space to Earth optical communication using Morse code. There will be an AX.25 packet radio telemetry beacon and a low power CW beacon. Downlink frequencies of 437.305...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 17, 2013 | Daily Updates
While on-board the International Space Station (ISS) Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, KC5RNJ/VA3OOG, has been creating music in space . He has been working with Ed Robertson who created the theme song for the popular comedy show The Big Bang Theory. CBS News report:...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
This Cosmic Journeys video covers the work of Dr. Ben Longmier KF5KMP and his University of Michigan team in developing plasma rockets. Dr. Ben Longmier and his team from the University of Michigan have traveled to Fairbanks, Alaska to play a small part in a much...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK is very saddened by the passing of John Heath, G7HIA. He was a long standing member of AMSAT-UK, and contributed to the amateur space programme in many ways during his lifetime. John was a regular attendee at the annual AMSAT-UK Colloquia for many years and...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
Jim Heck G3WGM, Honorary Secretary of AMSAT-UK and project lead on the FUNcube amateur radio satellite project, will be giving a presentation on FUNcube-1 to the UKSEDS National Student Space Conference (NSSC) that takes place in Bristol on February 23-24. The NSSC is...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
Ecuador is hoping to have two CubeSats in orbit this year. Their first CubeSat NEE-01 Pegasus will carry a 720p HD camera to send live video from space using a 0.9 watt TV transmitter in the 910 MHz (33cm) band along with a beacon that will send a Morse Code ID, a...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 13, 2013 | Daily Updates
TURKSAT-3USAT is a three unit CubeSat built jointly by TURKSAT and the Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Members of AMSAT-TR (TAMSAT), the Turkish Amateur Satellite Technologies Organisation, have designed and implemented a V/U linear transponder for the satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT bulletin board Raydel Espinet CM2ESP reports that more Cuban radio amateurs have become active on the satellites. He writes: As many of you should already know, now we have two new Cuban Amateur Operators on FM Satellites. Recently CO7WT and CM2XN have...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
After experiencing issues with the Kenwood D700 on two consecutive school contacts, ARISS will use the Ericsson radio on the Columbus module for ARISS contacts until problems with D700 are resolved. According to Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, AMSAT’s Vice President for...
