by Peter Goodhall | Feb 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Arirang, a TV station in Korea, has broadcast an English language TV news item about CubeSats that features a brief clip of the AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 CubeSat. FUNcube-1 is planned to launch in 2013 and will provide an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder for...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
This video shows the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat UKube-1 which is being built by Clyde Space. It is slated to launch in the 1st quarter of 2013 on a Soyuz-2 along with TechDemoSat-1. UKube-1 will carry a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards to provide an amateur...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this video Surrey Space Centre’s Dr. Peter Shaw talks us through the anatomy of the highly advanced UK CubeSat STRaND-1. The innovative amateur radio STRaND-1 CubeSat aims to carry a NEXUS Android Smartphone into space to demonstrate the feasibility of using...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 31, 2013 | Daily Updates
It is understood that the ISS amateur radio SpEx Shadow-Beacon experiment is planned to take place February 1-3 and 8-10. The timetable is here. The Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TSNIIMASH) in Russia is conducting a series of space plasma experiments...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
The UK Space Agency’s first Cube UKube-1, which is being built by Clyde Space, featured in The Herald on Monday, January 28. UKube-1 will carry a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards to provide an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder and a 1200 bps BPSK beacon...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
’Fly Your Satellite!’ is an exciting new initiative from the European Space Agency (ESA) Education and Knowledge Management Office. It is focused on CubeSat projects run by university students and builds on the successful ‘CubeSats for the Vega Maiden Flight’ pilot...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 27, 2013 | Daily Updates
EregbuSAT is a CubeSat prototype that is being developed by the Postgraduate students of the African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in English (ARCSSTE-E) to simulate the communication (send and receive data) between a Satellite and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
Tom Doyle W9KE has made available the amateur radio Satellite Explorer app for Windows 8 devices. Satellite Explorer is a Windows 8 app that runs on Intel based tablets, laptops and desktops as well as Windows RT tablets like the Microsoft Surface. It is available in...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
Paulo PV8DX made this video of a CW contact with Joe EI5EV over a distance of 7383 km using the amateur radio satellite OSCAR 7. Although OSCAR 7 is over 38 years old and it’s solar panels have been severely degraded by radiation it still provides some excellent...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 23, 2013 | Daily Updates
Scotland seems to be taking advantage of the expanding satellite and space market with several new companies involved in CubeSat development. Glasgow’s Clyde Space, who are developing the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat UKube-1, has already established a...
