by m0xtd | Apr 29, 2012 | Daily Updates
OZ9AEC has found a strange signal in the 7 MHz band using his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle with an HF up-converter. A strange whistle-like signal received on the 40 meter band using Gqrx software defined radio receiver and a Funcube Dongle equipped with a shortwave...
by m0xtd | Apr 29, 2012 | Daily Updates
Since the inception of The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) in 1999, all US-built satellites have been subject to the US Munitions List, including amateur radio, education and university satellite projects. The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls...
by m0xtd | Apr 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
Bob Bruninga WB4APR reports on the 2nd Party Balloon mission, carrying APRS and a 2.4 GHz wireless camera, that took place Friday, April 27. Everything possible went wrong! A disaster of monstrous proportions. But finally got it all working and just wanted it gone! ...
by m0xtd | Apr 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
Lopez-Alegria is a former NASA astronaut, International Space Station commander and test pilot. A four-time astronaut he holds three NASA records incl longest spaceflight; 215 days! Michael will share his extraordinary story and gaze into the future of spaceflight as...
by m0xtd | Apr 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
BBC News report on Skylon, designed to be an unpiloted spaceplane by the UK company Reaction Engines Limited (REL). It uses a combined-cycle, air-breathing rocket engine to reach orbit in a single stage. The report by BBC Science correspondent Jonathan Amos along with...
by m0xtd | Apr 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the Naval Postgraduate School have developed an auxiliary payload platform that will permit the launch of as many as 24 cubesats at a time. AMSAT News Service reports that the NPS CubeSat Launcher is designed to release satellites one at a time by opening...
by m0xtd | Apr 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
On the anniversary of the launch of Ariel-1, April 26, the UK Space Agency and the Science Museum co-hosted a two-day conference celebrating 50 years of the UK in space. It brought together those who started the UK on the road to being a world-renowned centre for...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
On the anniversary of the launch of Ariel-1, April 26, the UK Space Agency and the Science Museum co-hosted a two-day conference celebrating 50 years of the UK in space. It brought together those who started the UK on the road to being a world-renowned centre for...
by m0xtd | Apr 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
The United Kingdom sent up its first satellite 50 years ago when Ariel 1 launched on April 26, 1962. To celebrate the occassion BBC News interviewed radio amateur Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO. The launch of the joint UK/US satellite Ariel-1, also known as UK-1, made the...
by m0xtd | Apr 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
We are pleased to announce very successful contact of Balaklava school (Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine) with International Space Station. More than 100 children came to take part of the evening event on April 11, 2012 in Balaklava – very unique place with interesting...
