by m0xtd | Nov 9, 2011 | Daily Updates
In his blog Nader ST2NH describes how to receive the 437.505 MHz LSB data telemetry from the Explorer-1[PRIME] (E-1P) Amateur Radio CubeSat. His step by step guide showing how to set up MiXW and the E-1P Telemetry Decoder software can be read here Watch Nader’s...
by m0xtd | Nov 9, 2011 | Daily Updates
Now that the submissions are complete for the Chicken Little Contest, AMSAT is announcing a new contest: Catch the Last ARISSat-1 Telemetry. With luck, we will have real time data to go along with the final reentry. While telemetry sent by e-mail is valuable and...
by m0xtd | Nov 8, 2011 | Daily Updates
OSCAR Number Administrator, Bill Tynan, W3XO reports that he has advised J. M. Wersinger, PhD, KI4YAU, Professor Emeritus and Director of Auburn University’s Student Space Program, that following the successful NASA ELaNa III launch on October 28, 2011 of...
by m0xtd | Nov 8, 2011 | Daily Updates
The UK space Agency and Astrium have just approved the final design of UKube-1 – the UK’s first CubeSat mission. On Thursday and Friday last week (3rd and 4th November 2011), a young team of engineers from Clyde Space presented their final design to a team of experts...
by m0xtd | Nov 6, 2011 | Daily Updates
A prototype of the first Amateur Radio satellite OSCAR 1 has been on display at the AMSAT symposium in San Jose. OSCAR-1 was launched nearly 50 years ago on December 12, 1961 and its beacon sent the letters HI on 144.9830 MHz CW. Bob Allison, WB1GCM of ARRL’s...
by m0xtd | Nov 6, 2011 | Daily Updates
Christophe has produced a handy chart showing the CubeSat UHF downlink frequencies. http://cubesat.free.fr/IMG//pdf/Cubesat_-_frequence_bande_U.pdf CubeSat France in Google English http://tinyurl.com/CubeSatfFrance
by m0xtd | Nov 4, 2011 | Daily Updates
In a recent podcast Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS) member Pete Sipple 2E0PSL asked NASA astronaut Julie Payette about the Amateur Radio station on the ISS. Julie Payette was a flight engineer on two ISS missions, STS-96 and STS-127, and her answer can be...
by m0xtd | Oct 31, 2011 | Daily Updates
The 2011 AMSAT-NA Annual General Meeting will be broadcast on EchoLink node 101377 on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 beginning about 2215 UTC. The Annual Meeting is being held in conjunction with the AMSAT Symposium in San Jose, CA from Nov. 4-5, 2011 and is scheduled to last...
by m0xtd | Oct 31, 2011 | Daily Updates
When a competion was run to find Apps to fly on the Smartphone CubeSat STRaND-1 one of the wining entries was an App which was a spin-off of the work done by the AMSAT-UK FUNcube team. See the story at:...
by m0xtd | Oct 31, 2011 | Daily Updates
AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards, Bruce Paige, KK5DO says that congratulations are in order for the latest AMSAT Awards recipients:The following have entered into the Satellite Communicators Club for making their first satellite QSO: Stephen Licht, WF2S Jay...
