by m0xtd | May 2, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio 3U CubeSat Armadillo is a collaboration between students at University of Texas at Austin and Baylor University. Armadillo stands for Attitude Related Maneuvers And Debris Instrument in Low (L) Orbit and the satellite is being designed for Flight...
by m0xtd | May 1, 2012 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 satellite is due to launch on a DNEPR rocket from Yasny later this year. This launch could carry around 11 amateur radio satellites including FUNcube-1 into space. As a result the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) satellite advisory panel...
by m0xtd | May 1, 2012 | Daily Updates
Hojun Song DS1SBO is a cutting-edge, tech-obsessed Korean artist breaking boundaries with his passion for telling stories through technology. He hopes to instill a sense of empowerment in the world, through the DIY nature and uplifting undertones in each of his works....
by m0xtd | Apr 30, 2012 | Daily Updates
Blue Origin is developing a reusable first-stage booster. It will take off vertically like a conventional booster rocket and lift the upper stages to a conventional suborbital staging point, where the upper stage will separate and continue to propel the astronauts to...
by m0xtd | Apr 30, 2012 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-DL President, Peter Gülzow, DB2OS reports on a new IARU appointment: I have recommended to the IARU Satellite Adviser that Mike Rupprecht, DK3WN takes over membership of the advisory panel form Norbert Nothoff, DF5DP and I’m happy to notify interested...
by m0xtd | Apr 30, 2012 | Daily Updates
Medgar Evers College students help develope ‘CubeSat’ for NASA communication satellite Eagerly await ‘CUNYSAT’ lift-off to test 3 year-long science experiment. For a little piece of equipment, the 4×4-inch cube tucked in an anti-static bag in a plastic lined...
by m0xtd | Apr 29, 2012 | Daily Updates
On April 28, 2012 the nanosatellite Delfi-C3 (DO-64) celebrated 4 years in orbit and is still alive and kicking! This 3-unit CubeSat, developed by the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands has been largely developed by students and performed technology...
by m0xtd | Apr 29, 2012 | Daily Updates
Ecuadors first satellite NEE-01 Pegasus is slated to launch from Yasny this October on the same DNEPR rocket as the AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1. NEE-01 Pegasus is a 1U CubeSat with two large (for a CubeSat) deployable solar panels and the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA)...
by m0xtd | Apr 29, 2012 | Daily Updates
MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we’re all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker with, like Arduinos, affordable 3D printers, even DIY satellites. The brief DIY satellite segment, with a picture of the Amateur Radio satellite OSCAR-7...
by m0xtd | Apr 29, 2012 | Daily Updates
First-MOVE is an amateur radio CubeSat being built by students at the Technical University of München. MOVE stands for München Orbital Verification Experiment. The 1U CubeSat carries a CCD camera and has two deployable solar panels carrying a new generation of solar...
