by m0xtd | Jan 30, 2012 | Daily Updates
Vega is presently scheduled to launch at 0900 UT on Thursday, Feb 9, with eight student built amateur radio satellites. The launcher will first deploy the main payload, the LARES the Laser relativity Spacecraft and will then make an additional firing of the final...
by m0xtd | Jan 30, 2012 | Daily Updates
Simon 2E0HTS has released a video that shows him making contacts via the amateur radio satellite SO-50. This satellite carries an FM transponder that receives signals on 145.850 MHz and retransmits them on 436.795 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift). Operation is a little...
by m0xtd | Jan 30, 2012 | Daily Updates
Vega is planned to launch on Monday, February 13, between 1000-1300 UT from the ESA launch site at Kourou in the Caribbean. It will carry eight student built amateur radio satellites comprising seven CubeSats and a microsatellite called ALMASat-1. ALMASat-1 –...
by m0xtd | Jan 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
The IARU amateur satellite frequency coordination panel have agreed frequencies for CUSat-1/2, planned to launch on a SpaceX mission in the last quarter of 2012. CUSat-1/2 is a 45kg satellite that will split into two parts sometime after separation from the launcher....
by m0xtd | Jan 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
Vega is planned to launch on February 9 from the ESA launch site at Kourou in the Caribbean. It will carry seven amateur radio CubeSats and an amateur radio Microsatellite called ALMASat. This HD clip shows how one of those CubeSats, Masat-1 (437.345 MHz), is going to...
by m0xtd | Jan 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
In 1999, professors Robert Twiggs of Stanford University and Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University began to standardize the satellite business. They designed a small orbital unit-–a four-inch cube with little metal feet–-that was wide enough for...
by m0xtd | Jan 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
A video from Simon 2E0HTS shows him working F6HRO and DG1EA via the amateur radio satellite OSCAR-7 which was launched in 1974. His new assistant is showing good radio com skills especially rotating and elevating the satellite antennas. Watch Simon’s video...
by m0xtd | Jan 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
The defenceWeb site reports: South Africa’s second satellite, SumbandilaSat, is no longer fulfilling its main purpose due to technical problems and is essentially beyond repair, its maker SunSpace says. Rob Olivier, head of Business Development at SunSpace, told...
by m0xtd | Jan 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
Nittin VU3TYG has made available a video showing reception of the new RS-39 (Chibis-M) satellite that was deployed from the Progress M-13M cargo ship. RS-39 has beacons on 435.315 and 435.215 MHz that can be received directly by schools and colleges for educational...
by m0xtd | Jan 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
In this video Lance Ginner, K6GSJ, describes the early days of Project OSCAR, which put Amateur Radio into orbit and lead to the foundation of AMSAT. Watch AMSAT Symposium 2011 Keynote Speech [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWSCCZY1FgQ] Article – “OSCAR-1...
