by m0xtd | Jul 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
Southern Stars Group LLC, the company responsible for the popular SkySafari apps for iOS, Android and Mac OS X, is thinking a little bigger with its next project. The publicly funded SkyCube is a miniature CubeSat satellite that will orbit the planet, transmitting...
by m0xtd | Jul 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dave Akerman M6RPI has used a Raspberry Pi computer board as the flight computer on a High Altitude Balloon (HAB) and sent back live images from near space at an altitude of almost 40 km. The balloon, appropriately called PIE1, was launched from Brightwalton, in...
by m0xtd | Jul 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
PC World magazine reports that a fundraising campaign for the satellite, SkyCube, launched on Kickstarter last weekend (July 14) with the goal of raising US$82,500. Kickstarter is an online service popular with entrepreneurs and startups for raising money. The article...
by m0xtd | Jul 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
A Chinese rocket due to launch in the 2nd quarter of 2013 will carry CubeSat NEE-01 Pegasus from Ecuador. The NEE-01 Pegasus engineering team was led by Cmdr. Ronnie Nader, Ecuador’s first astronaut. The tiny 1U CubeSat (10cm cube) has a large fold-out solar...
by m0xtd | Jul 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
Since the defenceWeb article was written it is believed ZACUBE-1 and ZACUBE-2 have changed designation and the references to the 3U Cubesat ZACUBE-1 should instead read ZACUBE-2. Students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) have been building an...
by m0xtd | Jul 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
International Space Station Flight Engineer Joe Acaba KE5DAR used amateur radio to speak with high school students participating in a summer program called Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars, or WISH. The students, selected from across the country, were...
by m0xtd | Jul 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Planetary Society’s amateur radio spacecraft Lightsail-1 carries a 32m square metre solar sail demonstration. After launch LightSail-1 will spend a few weeks in orbit during which the team will check out the subsystems. The side panels will then be...
by m0xtd | Jul 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
Always keen to promote Amateur Radio in Essex, Pete M0PSX from Essex Ham was given the opportunity to join presenter Scott Ross on Phoenix FM in Brentwood to discuss the hobby. During the interview Pete took the opportunity to briefly plug the amateur radio...
by m0xtd | Jul 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
ARRL report that NASA will televise the launch and docking of the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for 8:40 PM (CDT) Saturday, July 14 (0140 UT, Sunday, July 15). NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams, KD5PLB, along with Russian...
by m0xtd | Jul 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK Membership. There has never been a more exciting time for you to join one of the UK’s largest group of people who have an interest in Amateur radio satellites/space activities from all around the world. AMSAT-UK has an ever growing membership base from...
