by m0xtd | Jan 22, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Chicken Little Contest received 77 entries from 17 different countries, and all continents except Antarctica. Based on comments sent along with the submissions, a wide variety of techniques were used. These ranged from detailed calculations, to comparisons with...
by m0xtd | Jan 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
There was a presentation on building a distributed satellite ground station network at the Chaos Communication Congress held December 27-30 and the video is now available. The AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF Software Defined Radio gets a brief mention at 39:26 into...
by m0xtd | Jan 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students working on the Aalto-1 CubeSat have released a 4 minute video showing a visualization of the launch and deployment of the satellite. Aalto-1 is a student satellite project of Aalto University, Finland. When launched, it will be Finland’s first...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the University of Tsukuba are working on the ITF-1 (YUI) CubeSat project that is planned to be launched on a H-IIA rocket in the fiscal year 2013. The orbit will be 400 by 350km with an inclination of 65 degrees. The formal name ITF-1 comes from the...
by m0xtd | Jan 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
Flight VV01 Vega rocket ready for first flight 19 January 2012 Final checkout of Europe’s new Vega launcher was completed last Friday, marking another milestone towards its maiden flight from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The first Vega launch...
by m0xtd | Jan 16, 2012 | Daily Updates
Doug Cook KD5PDN’s article about contacting the International Space Station with a few watts and a shoestring budget antenna is now available. The article “QRP to the ISS” appeared in the February, 2012 issue of QST magazine and, with permission from...
by m0xtd | Jan 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the University of Liege are hoping their D-Star GMSK satellite OUFTI-1 will be launched towards the end of this year. An update on the satellite is published in the January 2012 issue of the OUFTI-1 newsletter at...
by m0xtd | Jan 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
Matthias, DD1US, would like to draw your attention to a collection of audio recordings, the ‘Sounds From Space’ collection on his website at http://www.dd1us.de. This features a collection which has also a section dedicated to recordings of amateur radio...
by m0xtd | Jan 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the University of Vigo have built Xatcobeo a CubeSat that carries a Software Defined Radio (SDR) and a solar panel deployment mechanism. A launch on an ESA Vega rocket in February is planned. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUmLhA7ioE] The IARU...
by m0xtd | Jan 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube amateur radio satellite project is featured on the website of Electronics Weekly. The printed version of the publication (circulation 36,400) is due out on Wednesday, January 18. Read the article ‘Radio hams seal launch deal for FUNcube...
