by m0xtd | Feb 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
The first Vega, flight VV01, lifted off at 1000 UT Monday, February 13 from the ESA Spaceport at Kourou in the Caribbean carrying eight student built amateur radio satellites and the LARES Laser Relativity Satellite into orbit. LARES was put into a 1435 by 1452 km...
by m0xtd | Feb 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the University of Khartoum, Sudan have been eagerly listening for the new amateur radio satellites deployed by the Vega launcher on Monday, Feb 13. The students are undertaking a CubeSat project KN-SAT1. As part of the project they recently completed the...
by m0xtd | Feb 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
In just 16 months the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Yahoo Group has exceeded a membership of 3000. The group was created by Rob Styles M0TFO at the end of October 2010 to provide support for the AMSAT-UK FUNcube satellite and the FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF Software Defined Radio. The...
by m0xtd | Feb 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
The QB50 project, funded by the European Commission, deals with the design and the launch of a network of 50 miniaturized satellites to study the lower layers of the thermosphere / ionosphere. This project receives as from 15th of January 2012 financial support from...
by m0xtd | Feb 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
When amateur radio satellites are initially deployed Two Line Elements (TLE) Keplerian orbital data sets for tracking the satellites are released by NORAD. Unfortunately they are only given object identifiers of A, B, C, D etc not satellite names. Some of the debris...
by m0xtd | Feb 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
By MrPromo Most of us take satellites for granted. Satellites are so far removed from our daily reality, they’re easy to forget about. Yet even from the unimaginable distance at which they orbit the earth, they allow us to use mobile phones, TV, radio and the...
by m0xtd | Feb 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
NASA has selected 33 small satellites to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014. The proposed CubeSats come from universities across the country, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, NASA field centers and Department of Defense...
by m0xtd | Feb 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
Poland… CubeSat’s Journey Starts. PW-Sat was successfully deployed on orbit. This first Polish satellite, built by students, was successfully launched by the new European rocket Vega. This marks the end of the preparation stage for the PW-Sat project and...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
Poland… CubeSat’s Journey Starts. PW-Sat was successfully deployed on orbit. This first Polish satellite, built by students, was successfully launched by the new European rocket Vega. This marks the end of the preparation stage for the PW-Sat project and...
by m0xtd | Feb 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station after a launch later this year from Japan. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications and Navigation Testbed, was designed and built at NASA’s Glenn...
