by m0xtd | Apr 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
ARTSAT PROJECT-1: INVADER is an amateur radio “Art Satellite” currently being developed as a part of the “ARTSAT: Art and Satellite Project” which aims at a practical use of a satellite for art and design. Invader is a 1U CubeSat being...
by m0xtd | Apr 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
The student built Hiscock Radiation Belt Explorer (HRBE) amateur radio CubeSat formerly known as Explorer-1 [PRIME] is featured on page 10 of the April issue of SatMagazine. In the article SatMagazine says: The Montana State University (MSU) satellite that rode into...
by m0xtd | Apr 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
This is going to be a busy weekend for Cuba’s recently founded “Grupo de Radioaficionados para Operaciones Satelitales” (GROS). Three different activities have been scheduled so far. * Friday night (20:30 EDT), Hector CO6CBF will be hosting a talk...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
This is going to be a busy weekend for Cuba’s recently founded “Grupo de Radioaficionados para Operaciones Satelitales” (GROS). Three different activities have been scheduled so far. * Friday night (20:30 EDT), Hector CO6CBF will be hosting a talk...
by m0xtd | Apr 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
“Bloomberg Risk Takers” profiles Elon Musk, the entrepreneur who helped create PayPal, built America’s first viable fully electric car company, started the USA’s biggest solar energy supplier, and through SpaceX may make commercial space travel a...
by m0xtd | Apr 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) hope to get one of their own CubeSats into space for the first time on the Operationally Unique Technologies Satellite (OUTSat) mission slated for launch, along with 10 other CubeSats, in August 2012. At 19:08 into...
by m0xtd | Apr 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
A paper by Mahmoud N. Mahmoud presents an innovative solution for small satellite antennas by integrating slot antennas and solar cells on the same panel to save small satellite surface real estate and to replace deployed wire antennas for certain operational...
by m0xtd | Apr 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
Senior design project to incorporate flexible solar panels in a CubeSat. The mechanism consists of a rack and gear spring loaded mechanism to release the rolled up solar panel. Watch Flexible Solar Panel Deployment for CubeSat [youtube...
by m0xtd | Apr 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
Roland (PY4ZBZ) used an AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF software defined radio to capture this stunning image from Noaa 15 “NOAA-15 vertical pass over my QTH Sete Lagoas GH70un Brasil Received with FCD+DCA antenna+Spectravue” The FUNcube Dongle was...
by m0xtd | Apr 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
Yuri’s Night is a celebration of humanity’s achievements in space, with hundreds of parties and events held around the world each April. Yuri’s Night was first held on April 12, 2001, on the 40th anniversary of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space and the...
