by m0xtd | Mar 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Hindu newspaper reports on K. G. Girish Babu VU2KGB who uses computerised antenna design for VHF and UHF wireless communication. He helped his son Rahul make an antenna, the largest in India, which can track amateur radio satellites. He says he also designed and...
by m0xtd | Mar 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
The GENSO project features in an article in the February 2012 edition of the free magazine ESA Bulletin. GENSO is a worldwide network of education and amateur radio ground stations linked together via the internet. Student satellite teams can normally only gather...
by m0xtd | Mar 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur and ISS astronaut Don Pettit KD5MDT describes how he succeeded in receiving signals on a frequency of 650 THz. Flashing the International Space Station with beams of light as it passes overhead had never been successfully done—until now. It sounds...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur and ISS astronaut Don Pettit KD5MDT describes how he succeeded in receiving signals on a frequency of 650 THz. Flashing the International Space Station with beams of light as it passes overhead had never been successfully done—until now. It sounds...
by m0xtd | Mar 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will be held on September 15-16, 2012 in Guildford. The Colloquium attracts an international audience from across Europe as well as North America and the Middle East. Attendees range from the builders of the CubeSats and...
by m0xtd | Mar 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
It had been hoped that the amateur radio SSB/CW satellite HAMSAT (VO-52) would be reactivated on Thursday, March 8 but this has now been postponed. More time is needed to carry out observations on the state of the satellite, which fell silent Feb. 28, so the...
by m0xtd | Mar 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
Hector CO6CBF brings news of the formation of Grupo de Radioaficionados para Operaciones Satelitales (GROS). He writes: We are pleased to inform that: The Cuban Amateur Radio Federation (FRC) has created its first officially Satellite Group in the history. Raydel...
by m0xtd | Mar 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio spacecraft LightSail-1 is a 32 square metre solar sail demonstrator. The first full scale deployment of the solar sail was conducted on March 4, 2011 at Stellar Exploration in San Luis Obispo, California. Read more After launch LightSail-1 will...
by m0xtd | Mar 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
Sixteen UK space labs and companies are set to benefit from the latest round of the UK Space Agency’s National Space Technology Programme (NSTP) which will spur innovation in the fast-moving area of space technology known as ‘cubesats’. Artist’s impression of a...
by m0xtd | Mar 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
DL, GERMANY DQ0STRATEX is a special event call on the occasion of the stratospheric balloon project (StratexB) planned for March 2012 by the local DARC clubs Duelmen (N28) and Luedinghausen (N29). They plan to send an amateur radio load, consisting of an APRS and a...
