by m0xtd | Mar 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
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by m0xtd | Mar 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
Planned ISS contact Tuesday, March 6, 2012 13.11 UTC The questions are asked by children who won the Ruimteschip Aarde (Spaceship Earth) competition. In this competition André Kuipers challenged them to turn their class room into a spaceship and to think very good...
by m0xtd | Mar 5, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Cincinnati press reports that two Anderson Township amateur radio operators recently sent and received a photo from a satellite that was manually deployed from the International Space Station (ISS). Farrell Winder W8ZCF and his son Jeff Winder KB8VCO achieved this...
by m0xtd | Mar 4, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at Morehead State University are building an amateur radio CubeSat with a propulsion system that will raise the apogee of its orbit from 500 km to 1200 km. RAMPART, which stands for RApidprototyped Mems Propulsion And Radiation Test CUBEflow SATellite, plans...
by m0xtd | Mar 4, 2012 | Daily Updates
If you have written or would like to write an article for AMSAT-UK’s OSCAR News, please email your articles including any photo and artwork to m0tfo@amsat.org A sample copy of OSCAR NEWS can be found here http://www.uk.amsat.org/on_193_final.pdf We are...
by m0xtd | Mar 4, 2012 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK Net Recorded via 20 km WiFi Link Simon Brown HB9DRV in Switzerland has made available a recording of Sunday’s AMSAT-UK 80m net that he made using a remote receiver in Poole, Dorset. What is remarkable about this recording is that a 20 km long experimental 2.4...
by m0xtd | Mar 4, 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 3, 2012 | Daily Updates
Mike Rupprecht DK3WN brings the sad news of the demise of the COMPASS-1 CubeSat that was launched April 28, 2008. COMPASS-1 was designed and built by students at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Dear supporters and friends of our COMPASS-1...
by m0xtd | Mar 2, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video shows a presentation on the mur.sat TubeSat MURSAT1 that was given at the Chaos Computer Camp on August 13, 2011. A team of about 15 people around mur.at (Graz/Austria) have build their first Nanosatellite called MURSAT1, based on the Interorbital Systems...
by m0xtd | Mar 2, 2012 | Daily Updates
An SSTV and crossband repeater payload developed by AMSAT-LU will be flown on a Glider and a High Altitude Balloon on March 3 and 17. AMSAT-LU LU7AA report: We are pleased to inform next Saturday March-3 2012 (if weather permits) from 12hs (GMT-3), Amsat-LU and...
