by m0xtd | May 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, KE5DAR, and his two Russian crewmates, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, RN3DT, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, RN3BS, arrived on the International Space Station (ISS) this week. They joined the three other radio amateurs on the ISS...
by m0xtd | May 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Tuesday, May 22 at 07:44 UT SpaceX’s Dragon hopes to transport the student payload Aquarius on SSEP Mission 1 to the International Space Station (ISS). The set of SSEP Mission 1 experiments, called Aquarius, was originally slated to fly aboard the Soyuz 30. But in...
by m0xtd | May 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
Nader Omer ST2NH, in grid square KK65gp, has made available a video of HORYU-2 recorded at 2:25 AM Friday Sudan time. The signal received on 437.375 MHz (+/- Doppler shift) was very strong. In this video the beacon is sending CW and Nader is using manual tracking and...
by m0xtd | May 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
Built by students at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) the amateur radio satellite HORYU-2 was launched Thursday, May 17 and its 437.375 MHz signal has been heard by radio amateurs around the world. This video shows the deployment of the satellite. Watch...
by m0xtd | May 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio satellite HORYU-2 was successfully launched on Thursday, May 17 at 1639 UT and its signals have been received by radio amateurs around the world. Built by students at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) HORYU-2 is 350 * 310 * 315 mm and has a...
by m0xtd | May 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
LU7AA brings news that on Saturday May 19 from 11hs-LU on (GMT-3), a free Balloon UV Repeater will fly from the city of General Pico (Airport), Province of La Pampa, Argentina, 571 Km west of Buenos Aires City. See details and photos...
by m0xtd | May 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
The launch of amateur radio satellite HORYU-2 on Thursday, May 17 at 1639 UT will be broadcast live on the Internet. On the same launch will be the JAXA climate observation satellite SHIZUKU (GCOM-W). The launch broadcast will commence at 1610 UT and can be seen at...
by m0xtd | May 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
The May 14, 2012 edition of the Metro newspaper carried a story by Ben Gilliland on pages 26-27 about CubeSats. Among those mentioned is the UK amateur radio Android smartphone CubeSat STRaND-1 which is being built by volunteers at the Surrey Space Centre (SSC). The...
by m0xtd | May 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Go Erie reports on the work of students from Penn State Behrend who have been building part of a satellite for AMSAT. The report says: The trio speaks the language of supercapacitors and charges cycles, and they offer informed views on how circuit boards can shed...
by Peter Goodhall | May 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Go Erie reports on the work of students from Penn State Behrend who have been building part of a satellite for AMSAT. The report says: The trio speaks the language of supercapacitors and charges cycles, and they offer informed views on how circuit boards can shed...
