by m0xtd | Feb 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio satellite Dove-1 (145.825 MHz AX.25 FM) was originally planned to launch on the Antares launcher on February 28 but reports indicate it may be Fall before it is launched. Space.com reports that on February 21 Orbital Sciences Corporation announced a...
by m0xtd | Feb 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
Vietnamese students have produced a video about their amateur radio CubeSat F-1, callsign XV1VN. The F-1 is an educational CubeSat to be launched in the summer of 2012. It will carry a low resolution C328 camera with 640×480 resolution and two Yaesu VX-3R...
by m0xtd | Feb 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
TechEdSat will be deployed from the International Space Station (ISS). It is a 1U CubeSat that will demonstrate Plug and Play power architecture and two way communication via the satellite phone/data networks Iridium and Orbcomm. UPDATE: The plan to transmit from...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
TechEdSat will be deployed from the International Space Station (ISS). It is a 1U CubeSat that will demonstrate Plug and Play power architecture and two way communication via the satellite phone/data networks Iridium and Orbcomm. UPDATE: The plan to transmit from...
by m0xtd | Feb 24, 2012 | Daily Updates
Sabrina Corpino, Team Leader of the E-St@r CubeSat project, is interviewed by ASI TV about the CubeSat that was launched on February 13. Watch E-St@r – L’intervista [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fXbRqtl-nI] E-ST@R...
by m0xtd | Feb 22, 2012 | Daily Updates
Paul Robinson 2E1EUB will be guest speaker at the Telford and District Amateur Radio Society (TDARS) on Wednesday, March 21, where he will give a talk about amateur radio satellites. In 2011 the RSGB awarded Paul the prestigious Louis Varney Cup for Advances in Space...
by m0xtd | Feb 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
Wouter Jan Ubbels PE4WJ provides an update regarding the attendance by ISIS at the World Radiocommunication Conference. At the conference, ISIS has managed to write a last-minute resolution which was submitted by a group of countries, led by The Netherlands. The aim...
by m0xtd | Feb 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
The students who developed the amateur radio satellite MO-72 (Masat-1) have announced that new telemetry decode software is available. Changes in this new release include: – “Offline” label removed, the status of the automatic packet reporting is displayed...
by m0xtd | Feb 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contact has been planned with participants at 1° Circolo Didattico Nicola Fornelli, Bitonto, Italy on 24 Feb. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 14:01 UTC. The duration of the contact is...
by m0xtd | Feb 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO reports, “Congratulations on the successful launch of the MaSat-1 Cubesat that the team at Budapest University of Technology and Economics have been responsible for designing, building and testing. “Since you...
