by m0xtd | Mar 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
They are constantly circling hundreds of miles above our heads, driving our daily lives – yet we barely give satellites a second thought. Satellite engineer Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock Ph.D., MBE wants to change all that. She wants to make us realise and appreciate...
by m0xtd | Mar 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
The WebSDR receiver located at the Astronomical Observatory Department of “Stefan cel Mare” University in Suceava, Romania has provided coverage of the 3.5 MHz band. Now coverage of 437.470 – 437.515 MHz has been added enabling the Romanian amateur...
by m0xtd | Mar 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
At the Education Exhibition Fair held in the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) young people where able to take part in making a CanSat. The CanSat was then launched on a helium balloon and transmitted back video pictures. Watch KARI CanSat (in Korean) [youtube...
by m0xtd | Mar 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
UKube-1 is a 3U CubeSat being designed and produced by Clyde Space for the UK Space Agency. UKube-1 is the UK’s first CubeSat and will fly a total of 6 independent payloads. This news piece was prepared by the BBC covering Clyde Space and the UKube-1 mission....
by m0xtd | Mar 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced the launch of five amateur radio satellites on two launches taking place in May and July. The first H-IIA launch takes place on May 17, 1639-1642 UT and will carry the amateur radio satellite HORYU-2 The...
by m0xtd | Mar 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
Roke Manor Research Ltd’s (Roke) Gioconda industry consortium has been awarded a contract to deliver a major element of the UK MoD’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s ‘Smallsat’ CubeSat Research Programme. A CubeSat is a...
by m0xtd | Mar 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
Astrobiology magazine posts a piece on the success of NASA’s O/OREOS mission that points out that serious science can be accomplished by tiny spacecraft: ‘The full success of the O/OREOS mission demonstrates convincingly that cubesats can be...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
Astrobiology magazine posts a piece on the success of NASA’s O/OREOS mission that points out that serious science can be accomplished by tiny spacecraft: ‘The full success of the O/OREOS mission demonstrates convincingly that cubesats can be...
by m0xtd | Mar 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
On 21 and 22 March 2012 (Wednesday, Thursday) we will switch the satellite to silent mode again as a repetition of the last silent mode data aquisition. In silent mode, all RF transmission of the satellite is turned off, the satellite is only on reception. After these...
by m0xtd | Mar 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
The BBC report that the first satellite to be built in Scotland is due to be launched next year. BBC News say UKube-1 is being built at the West of Scotland Science Park in Maryhill, Glasgow and is expected to enter orbit in 2013. UKube-1 systems engineer Steve...
