by m0xtd | Aug 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Max Valier satellite is a 15 kg amateur radio microsat planned for launch into a 700 km Sun Synchronous Orbit from Plesetsk. The first mission is educational and involves two Technical High Schools (TFO) in South Tyrol, Italy. Its aim is to demonstrate the...
by m0xtd | Aug 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
POPSAT-HIP1 is a 3U amateur radio CubeSat developed in Singapore. It aims to demonstrate the functionality of a high resolution optical payload and attitude control propulsion system. It will operate a 437.405 MHz downlink with 1k2-9k6 data using CCSDS format. A...
by m0xtd | Aug 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
In this 20 minute video Korean artist Hojun Song DS1SBO and Donghee Park describe the Open Source Satellite Initiative amateur radio CubeSat OSSI-1. OSSI-1 plans to launch on a Soyuz-2-1b rocket from the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan along with the Bion-M1...
by m0xtd | Aug 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
George Boorer ZL3PN has been interviewed on Radio New Zealand because his name and amateur radio callsign is encoded on a chip aboard the Mars Rover Curiosity. The Radio New Zealand interview follows hard on the heels of an interview George gave to his local newspaper...
by m0xtd | Aug 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio CubeSat HORYU-2 has been successfully sending back images of the Earth. The team also report the high-voltage power experiment has generated 300 volts. Built by students at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) HORYU-2 is 350 * 310 * 315 mm and...
by m0xtd | Aug 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
The RSGB amateur radio books VHF-UHF Manual and the Radio Communication Handbook were referenced by Korean satellite pioneer Sungdong Park when he made the first Korean satellite KitSAT-OSCAR-23 in early 90’s. On Wednesday, August 8, Sungdong Park, now CEO of...
by m0xtd | Aug 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
ESA’s Education Office is inviting the CubeSat community to send their notifications of interest for a new initiative involving the development of educational picosatellites and the provision of deployers and launch services. The call closes on 7 September 2012....
by m0xtd | Aug 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video presentation describes a CubeSat with an Ion Drive that in 2013 could travel to the Moon. With a grant from the Vermont Space Grant Consortium, a part of the NASA Space Grant program, a group of students from four Vermont colleges and universities, are...
by m0xtd | Aug 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
Prior to the Curiosity Mars landing this morning Aug 6, The Canberra Times interviewed radio amateur Len Ricardo VK1ALR, operations manager at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, who will be providing a communications link for the Mars Curiosity Rover. Len...
by m0xtd | Aug 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Monday, August 6 UT to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation. The Mars Science...
