by m0xtd | Aug 22, 2012 | Daily Updates
Korean artist Hojun Song DS1SBO has traveled to Malmö in Sweden to give a presentation about his innovative amateur radio CubeSat OSSI-1 to the Media Evolution Conference taking place August 22-23. On Thursday, August 23, in The Theatre Hojun Song delivered the...
by m0xtd | Aug 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video is about the amateur radio F-1 CubeSat that is due to be deployed from the International Space Station in September by Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI using the ISS Kibo robot arm. It was broadcast on the Vietnamese TV station VTC2 and features...
by m0xtd | Aug 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
Despite a small war in Tajikistan Neil Melville PA9N and Helen Woolnough, driving their 9 year old 1.1 litre Fiat Panda, have now made it to Mongolia. On Sunday, August 19 their location was given as 46.37 N, 96.25 E. They are taking part in the Mongol Rally where...
by m0xtd | Aug 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
Ecuador’s first satellite NEE-01 Pegasus, built by the Ecuadorian Space Agency EXA, is currently planned to launch in the 1st quarter of 2013 on a DNEPR rocket from Yasny. The raw aluminum structure of the CubeSat was donated by Professor Bob Twiggs KE6QMD....
by m0xtd | Aug 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
The UK STRaND nanosat team have released this picture in which a volunteer from SSTL, Nimal Navarathinam VE3NML, finishes laying down the cells for the Earth-facing and Space-facing solar panels. STRaND stands for Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite...
by m0xtd | Aug 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
The JURBAN team not only hope to win the Google Lunar X-Prize by landing a robot on the Moon they also aim to inspire future generations to pursue Science, Technology Engineering and Math (STEM). Watch We are JURBAN [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw9uWc-1PQs]...
by m0xtd | Aug 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI used amateur radio to speak to Scouts at Space Jam 6 in Rantoul, Illinois. The Space Jamboree Workshop is the Midwest’s largest technology oriented gathering of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Scouts from all over the United States...
by m0xtd | Aug 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device, designed by Paulo Lozano, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, bears little resemblance to today’s bulky satellite engines, which are laden with...
by m0xtd | Aug 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dr Lucie Green from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory will be giving a talk about the Sun to the Reading and District Amateur Radio Club on Thursday, September 27 at 7:30 pm. The talk takes place at Lecture Theatre 109, Palmer Building, White Nights Campus,...
by m0xtd | Aug 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
Mal VK2MALhas produced a video showing reception, using a handheld, of SSB signals from the amateur radio satellite VO-52. In this video I am using the Kenwood TH-F7E & Arrow LEO antenna to receive VO52, a SSB Amateur Satellite. In the first part of the video you...
