by m0xtd | Jun 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
The development of the amateur radio satellite KiwiSAT is completed and it is now ready for a LEO launch. It carries a 435 or 1268 MHz to 145 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW operation. * Transmit Power: 2 Watts PEP. * Beacon frequency: 145.885 MHz * Uplink:...
by m0xtd | Jun 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
The first CAMSAT amateur radio satellite CAS-1 (aka XW-1, HO-68) carried a linear transponder and proved very popular with radio amateurs world-wide. CAMSAT and students at the Qian Youth Space Academy have been working on the next satellite CAS-2. The launch of CAS-2...
by m0xtd | Jun 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio CubeSat F-1 built by students at the FPT University in Hanoi, Vietnam has now been delivered to the Tsukuba Space Center in Japan. F-1 and the other four CubeSats (RAIKO, WE WISH, FITSAT-1 and TechEdSat) will be integrated with the small satellite...
by m0xtd | Jun 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
NanoSatisfi founder Peter Platzer appeared on the Japanese NASDAQ TV feed to talk about the ArduSat satellite. ArduSat is an open-source arduino-based nanosatellite. It will have an extensive sensor-suite onboard and will allow users to upload their own code and run...
by m0xtd | Jun 22, 2012 | Daily Updates
Built by students at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) the amateur radio satellite HORYU-2 was launched on May 17 at 1639 UT. Radio amateurs from around the world sent in telemetry and the winner with the most points has been announced as Yoshitomo Iji JA6PL...
by m0xtd | Jun 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
The crew of STS-56 made numerous amateur radio contacts to schools around the world using the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment II (SAREX II), including brief radio contact with the Russian Mir space station, the first such contact between Shuttle and Mir using amateur...
by m0xtd | Jun 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Feb. 3, 2006, astronauts tossed an old spacesuit off the International Space Station. Inside was an amateur radio transmitter, a temperature sensor and some batteries. The suit was a DIY satellite. It circled the Earth twice, repeating a greeting recorded in...
by m0xtd | Jun 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio satellite AMSAT-OSCAR 7 was launched by a Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base on November 15, 1974 and provided many years of service until it went silent from battery failure in mid 1981. For 21 years nothing more was heard until June 21,...
by m0xtd | Jun 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars (WISH) project is sponsoring two six-day summer camps for rising high school seniors that should feature a presentation by astronaut Shannon Walker KD5DXB and an Amateur Radio contact with the International Space...
by m0xtd | Jun 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
Have you ever wanted to build your own personal satellite but your last name doesn’t start with Gates or Branson? Well, now there’s good news. For the price of a car you can now build, test and launch your own personal satellite at home. Dr. Sandy Antunes,...
