by m0xtd | Oct 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
Thanks to the efforts of Patrick Stoddard WD9EWK/VA7EWK and other AMSAT members Hector Martinez CO6CBF was able to attend the AMSAT Symposium in Orlando, Florida. On YouTube Patrick posted: Hector Martinez CO6CBF gives his presentation “Working Satellites with a...
by m0xtd | Oct 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Times of India reports that a group of students in Gujarat will reach out to the stars. About 500 students hope to have a live amateur radio contact with the Commander of the International Space Station Sunita Williams KD5PLB. It is believed this would be the...
by m0xtd | Oct 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
Thu Trong Vu XV9AA has provided this update on F-1: Despite many efforts from the amateur radio community and the team ourselves in tracking F-1, we still haven’t heard from F-1 other than a few uncertain reports during the first few days. The team has been...
by m0xtd | Oct 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
Howard Long G6LVB travelled to Orlando, Florida to give a presentation on Friday, October 26 about the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle PRO+ software defined radio. The video of a similar presentation Howard gave to the AMSAT-UK Colloquium can be seen via...
by m0xtd | Oct 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
Scream in Space won a competition run by Surrey Satellite Techonology Ltd (SSTL) in 2011 to propose an idea for an app to run on their STRaND-1 smartphone nanosatellite. With the help of the public, we’re testing the hypothesis that in space no one can hear you...
by m0xtd | Oct 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
Hojun Song DS1SBO, developer of the OSSI CubeSat, will be speaking at the WIRED 2012 event taking place in London, EC1Y 4SD on Friday, October 26. OSSI-1 has a beacon in the 145 MHz band and a data communications transceiver in the 435 MHz band. It carries a 44 watt...
by m0xtd | Oct 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
Twyman Clements, Space Systems Engineer at Kentucky Space, has agreed to provide regular updates to blog readers on the progress of the next satellite now that the X-ray hunter, “CXBN,” has flown. His first installment can be read below. Enjoy....
by m0xtd | Oct 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
The team that developed the PRISM satellite have announced it is being opened up for use by radio amateurs during afternoon passes. The satellite was built by the University of Tokyo and launched on January 23, 2009 into a 660 by 670 km orbit. It uses AX.25 packet...
by m0xtd | Oct 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
PICO, a single foil balloon was launched by James Coxon M6JCX on Saturday, October 20, 2012 from Suffolk in the UK. It carried GPS and a miniature radio transmitter sending RTTY (ascii-8) on 434.301 MHz USB running 10 mW output. During the 19 hour flight it crossed...
by m0xtd | Oct 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
When the FITSAT-1 CubeSat was deployed from the International Space Station on October 4 it took a picture using the on-board camera. On Friday, October 19 UT, the team successfully downloaded the picture using the high-speed 115.2 kbps data transmitter on 5840.0 MHz....
