by m0xtd | Jul 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
The British Interplanetary Society are seeking nominations for this years Sir Arthur Clarke Awards. In recognition of notable or outstanding contributions made to all space activities, the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards have been presented annually since 2005. In the past...
by m0xtd | Jul 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
YNN (channel 9) reports on an “out of this world” amateur radio contact between campers attending RIT’s Everyday Engineering Program in Rochester and astronaut Sunita Williams KD5PLB Sunita was operating the Kenwood TM-D700 ham radio station located...
by m0xtd | Jul 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
Wendy Quinn W1DY explains how to go about hearing and talking to the International Space Station (ISS). The video shows the ISS frequencies used in most of the world, uplink 144.490 MHz, downlink 145.800 MHz, however, in IARU Region 1 (Europe/Africa) the uplink is...
by m0xtd | Jul 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
Digital designs for real, physical objects. A Universe of Things! Full Instructions can be found here This is a full scale (moderately simplified) 3D printer-ready copy of the ArduSat, the wildly successful Kickstarter.com satellite for personal space exploration...
by m0xtd | Jul 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
It’s 43 years since Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Now a group of volunteer hackers and engineers are about to send a privately-built amateur radio rover to the Moon. Writing on ZD-Net Simon Bisson tells how the Part-Time Scientists team aim to win the Google...
by m0xtd | Jul 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio satellite Tethersat is a 3U CubeSat that splits into two joined by a 1 km tether to test electrodynamic tether propulsion. Both spacecraft will use 9600 bps AX25 GFSK packet downlinks on UHF. A launch is planned on ORS-3 in July 2013 from the...
by m0xtd | Jul 22, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio F-1 CubeSat, built by the FSpace team of young engineers and students at the FPT University, is on its journey to the International Space Station (ISS). It is the first satellite to be built in Vietnam and the project has attracted much TV news...
by m0xtd | Jul 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
This movie shows the integration of the amateur radio First-Move CubeSat compressed to 5 minutes. The video was made using a DSLR Camera shooting 1 picture every 10 seconds. First-MOVE is an amateur radio CubeSat being built by students at the Technical University of...
by m0xtd | Jul 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
The UAHuntsville Space Hardware Club is a University of Alabama in Huntsville student organization. They conceptualize, design, build, test and fly flight hardware for high altitude balloons, the CubeSat platform, and the CanSat competition. The aims of their...
by m0xtd | Jul 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut of British nationality Tim Peake is encouraging school children to get fit and stay active at the Farnborough International Airshow this week. Budding young astronauts aged 8 to 13 from across the UK are invited to take part in...
