by m0xtd | Oct 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Friday, October 19, after some final testing and characterisation checks completed at the facilities of ISIS BV in Delft, AMSAT-UK handed over the set of three PCBs that form the FUNcube-2 subsystem on the UKube-1 spacecraft to Clyde Space Ltd in Glasgow. Clyde...
by m0xtd | Oct 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
Raydel Espinet CM2ESP reports the first national meeting of the Cuban amateur radio satellite group will take place November 8-11 and special event station T47G will be on the air, on both HF and the satellites, during the event. With great pleasure, on behalf of the...
by m0xtd | Oct 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
CAMSAT are building two micro-satellites CAS-2A1 and CAS-2A2 to be combined into a binary star system for amateur radio communication and education. There will be a radio link between two satellites when the satellites are in suitable positions in their orbits, so...
by m0xtd | Oct 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video by radio amateur Tetsurou Satou JA0CAW shows reception in Japan of the 5840.0 MHz downlink from the FITSAT-1 (aka NIWAKA) CubeSat that was deployed from the ISS on October 4. He used a 38cm dish with a down-converter to an IF of 1284 MHz, a BGA2717 LNA and...
by m0xtd | Oct 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
PACSAT developer Bob Bruninga WB4APR explains how you can use your APRS radio for global contacts at your Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) station this weekend. You can use your APRS radio or HT to text message a CQ to all other JOTA stations with an APRS radio anywhere in...
by m0xtd | Oct 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
On May 19, 2012 a high altitude amateur radio balloon was launched from La Pampa, Argentina, reaching 34 km. It carried a 430 MHz to 144 MHz band 4 watt CTCSS activated FM repeater, APRS lu7aa-11, Robot-36 live SSTV, CW, and 40/20m CW telemetry beacon with 2 video...
by m0xtd | Oct 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Gerard Auvray, F6FAO, is a member of the Synergy Moon team that aims to develop and land a rover on the moon. Synergy Moon are currently building a communications and mission control infrastructure, starting with a NanoSat that will test some of the...
by m0xtd | Oct 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
In this video students from the Univeristy of Manitoba show what’s involved in assembling a Nanosatellite. T-Sat1 will use the 145 and 437 MHz amateur radio bands. On Saturday, September 22, the team finished assembling the satellite. This was an enormous effort...
by m0xtd | Oct 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Wednesday, October 10 it was announced in Moscow that UK private spacefarer Sarah Brightman had passed the required mental and physical examinations to fly into space. In 2013 she will undertake six months of training at Star City in Moscow in preparation for her...
by m0xtd | Oct 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
The October issue of the free publication SatMagazine has articles on the Aeneas and Firefly CubeSats as well as a Builder’s Guide To Inexpensive Space Access. In this issue: Page 16 – Aeneas CubeSat Page 40 – Satellite Networks For Education Page 56...
