by Peter Goodhall | Nov 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
In this video Nick Sweet of Concordia’s Student-run astronautical engineering group Space Concordia describes his teams winning CubeSat entry and provides an insightful analysis of the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge at the 2012 Canadian Space Summit. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
Oculus-ASR is a 70 kg satellite 45.72 cm by 78.74 cm by 45.72 cm. It consists of two modules that are permanently attached. An octagonal module, referred to as the Oculus module, sits atop a square module, known as the ASR module. The Michigan Technological...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
The KN-SAT1 CubeSat, which will have a VHF downlink, is being developed at the University Of Khartoum. Mahmoud Esawi has made available a video which shows KN-SAT1 Prototype2 subsystems design and testing. Prototype 2 has a variety of functions: • Send it’s...
by m0xtd | Nov 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
Phonesat, which hopes to launch in December carrying an amateur radio payload on 437.425 MHz, has been chosen as one of the winners in the Aerospace category for the Popular Science magazine “Best of What’s New 2012” awards. PhoneSat is a...
by m0xtd | Nov 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
Kentucky Space have released an App for the iPhone, iPad and iTouch that tracks the CXBN CubeSat – 437.525 MHz 9k6 FSK AX.25, FM. The Morehead State University Cosmic X-Ray Background Nanosatellite (CXBN) is a 2U CubeSat mission designed to make observations of...
by m0xtd | Nov 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Tarif Rashid Santo has made his Solar Radio Telescope available online. He provides live data from his IONX Solar Radio Telescope in Demra, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Coordinates Lat: 23°42′26.83″N Long: 90°29′31.19″E. The Spectrogram and the Plotter update in every hour with...
by m0xtd | Nov 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) the Japanese students who built FITSAT-1 are planning to active the satellite’s LED optical array and flash a message in Morse code to Earth. The Morse message may be visible to the unaided eye. According to Takushi Tanaka JA6AVG the...
by m0xtd | Nov 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
The 5840.0 MHz downlink of FITSAT-1 was received in Vermont on both Saturday and Sunday by Mike Seguin N1JEZ. FITSAT-1 CubeSat, developed by students at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) in Japan has a CW beacon on 437.250 MHz and a data link on 437.445 MHz....
by m0xtd | Nov 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
Pete Sipple M0PSX who runs the Essex Ham and FrequencyCast websites received this Slow Scan TV (SSTV) picture transmitted by the amateur radio station on the International Space Station on Friday, November 9. After being tipped off via the ISS Fan Club website that...
by m0xtd | Nov 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video shows the successful ARISS contact for Italian Schools in Govone, Priocca and Diano dAlba, Italy. On Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 1204 UT, students from Institute Comprehensive in Govone, Nino Costa Middle school in Priocca and Institute Comprehensive in...
