by m0xtd | May 29, 2012 | Daily Updates
After 4th time going to the workshop, OSSI finally made to present the work at 2012 Cubesat Developers’ Workshop. Here is the published version of presentation slides: http://opensat.cc/download/OSSICubesat2012Pub.pdf And you can see the video of OSSI presentation...
by m0xtd | May 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
What happens when rocket scientists get together in their spare time? Michael Clive builds rockets during the day and Makerspaces at night. And this is no ordinary Makerspace, it’s in the “Silicon Valley of Space”..also known as Mojave, California....
by m0xtd | May 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
STRaND-2, a twin nanosatellite mission from SSTL and the University of Surrey to test a novel in-orbit docking system using a gridded Lidar system based on the Microsoft Xbox Kinect games-controller technology. Similar in design to STRaND-1, the identical twin...
by m0xtd | May 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
The SimpleSat Look Down program is designed for demonstrating satellite operation. It is also useful in educational environments. It is designed for ease of use and is not a full featured tracking program like the very capable SatPC32. Tom Doyle W9KE wrote it as a...
by m0xtd | May 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
This is the second call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium which, due to the Olympic & Paralympic Games, will be held this year on the weekend of September 15-16, 2012 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, United Kingdom. This...
by m0xtd | May 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dimitrios Pallis SW1JGW has made available a video of the downlink of the amateur radio satellite VO-52 over Europe on May 27, 2012. Among the stations heard in the downlink is Domenico I8CVS. His interest in satellites first started in 1960 when he built a VHF...
by m0xtd | May 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
Surrey-based researchers are to build Xbox Kinect hardware into twin satellites in an auto-docking experiment. The microsatellites, to be called STRaND-2, are being developed by University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL), with the Kinect providing its...
by m0xtd | May 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT-UK net is held every Sunday morning at 10am local time on a nominal frequency of 3.780 MHz. Due to interference the net may move either side of that frequency so tune around. Newcomers are most welcome to call-in. You Dont have to be a AMSAT-UK member to...
by m0xtd | May 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
The UK Space Agency has released a YouTube video celebrating the UK’s 50 years in space Watch 50 Years of the UK in Space [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNvhjXh_53I]
by m0xtd | May 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Italian microsat UniSat-5 will itself deploy a number of additional amateur radio satellites. Among them should be the CubeSats PUCP-SAT-1, HumSat-D, Icube-1, Dove-4 (Planet Labs Inc. non-amateur) and PocketQubes Wren, Eagle-1 (BeakerSat), Eagle-2 ($50Sat),...
