by m0xtd | Jan 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Winter issue of OSCAR News has been posted to members. In this issue: – It all started here – 50 years ago! – UKube-1 Update – Clive Wallis G3CWV column – RSGB Spectrum Forum Meeting Nov 2011 – FUNcube Report – Utility of...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Zac Manchester KD2BHC is an engineer at Cornell University in the Space Systems Design Studio who has created the Sprite – a “cracker-sized” satellite that changes the dynamics of the economics and thus the accessibility of spacecraft by several orders of...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Bob McGwier N4HY has made available an extensive collection of amateur radio satellite pictures available for download on smugmug.com. The pictures range from the early 1960’s with OSCAR’s 1, 2, 3 etc to the more recent Eagle and SuitSat. You can view the...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the Institute of Space Technology (IST) have been building Pakistan’s first CubeSat ICUBE-1. Like a number of new CubeSats its communications subsystem is capable of acting as an “AO-16 mode” FM to DSB transponder. The IARU amateur...
by m0xtd | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Europe has named Thursday 9 February as the day it intends to launch its new Vega rocket for the very first time. The 30m-tall vehicle has been developed to take payloads up to 1.5 tonnes into a polar orbit, and will fly from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Europe has named Thursday 9 February as the day it intends to launch its new Vega rocket for the very first time. The 30m-tall vehicle has been developed to take payloads up to 1.5 tonnes into a polar orbit, and will fly from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The...
by m0xtd | Jan 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
Towards the end of 2012, a tiny satellite the shape of a cd rack will be blasted into space on top of a converted intercontinental ballistic missile, then be hurled into orbit by a spring-loaded pod. Although dwarfed by communications and military satellites, the...
by m0xtd | Jan 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
During the summer a number of UK institutions currently active or interested in space biomedicine research and education formally agreed to collaborate in order to identify and pursue a national strategy for space biomedicine research and development. “UK...
by m0xtd | Jan 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
The International Space Station ARISS contact planned with Atheneum in Borgloon, Belgium On Friday January 13, 2012 at approximately 12:36 UTC , which is 13.36 CEWT, an educational ARISS contact is planned with students at Atheneum Borgloon in Belgium....
by m0xtd | Jan 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
ESA has changed the launch date of Vega, carrying 8 amateur radio satellites, to Thursday, February 9. Vega will launch from the ESA launch site at Kourou in the Caribbean. It will carry 7 amateur radio Cubesats and an amateur radio Microsatellite called ALMASat. Many...
