by m0xtd | Mar 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
On BBC Radio 4 Elon Musk of SpaceX speaks about his plans for flights to Mars. As well as Mars Elon talks about the Falcon 9-Heavy vehicle. This rocket will be substantially bigger than the simple variant due to fly next month, and should be capable of putting more...
by m0xtd | Mar 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Spring edition of the AMSAT-UK colour A4 newsletter OSCAR News is being posted to members this week. In this issue – Dick Daniels W4PUJ SK – VEGA Maiden Flight Report – My way to solve the TLE lottery by Mike DK3WN – Your Spacecraft...
by m0xtd | Mar 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
Just a reminder of the launch Fund that has been created for the FUNcube-1 Cubesat Satellite, all donations are very much appreciated, and will help towards the cost of launching the FUNcube-1 satellite in 2012. AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 Launch...
by m0xtd | Mar 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Russian government will guide the large Express — AM4 telecommunications satellite, which was launched into a useless orbit in August, into a controlled atmospheric descent starting March 20 so that any surviving pieces will land in the Pacific Ocean, a...
by m0xtd | Mar 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD/BluRay a movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at Skywalker Sound. Watch Riding the Booster with enhanced sound [youtube...
by m0xtd | Mar 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contact has been planned Sunday 18 March 2012 at approximately 11.31 UTC with students at Istituto Tecnologico Statale Trasporti e Logistica “Leone Acciaiuoli”, Ortona, Italy. The contact...
by m0xtd | Mar 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
The SSB/CW linear transponder amateur radio satellites such as VO-52 are great fun to work but the technique required is different to that used for the FM satellites. Simon 2E0HTSÂ has produced a video showing how to make contacts through VO-52. Using a home-made 10...
by m0xtd | Mar 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
Masat-1, the first Hungarian Satellite made history again when it captured the first satellite space photographs on March 8, 2012. The first photo showed the southern section of the African continent. The next photos were made of Australia and Antarctica, in a quality...
by m0xtd | Mar 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dear Friends, I take this opportunity to sincerely thank each and every user and well wishers, who have been following and monitoring closely all those events and activities that followed since the interruption on 28th February 2012. Thanks for all those encouraging...
by m0xtd | Mar 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Dutch SSB/CW linear transponder on the AMSAT-India amateur radio satellite HAMSAT VO-52 has been successfully activated. Transponder # 1, which had been operating for over 6 years, fell silent on February 28 and efforts have been underway to activate transponder #...
