by m0xtd | Sep 24, 2011 | Daily Updates
ARISSat-1 Operations Survey The ARISSat-1 Team has put together a survey on ARISSat-1 operations. Please take a few minutes to answer the questions athttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/arissat1-operation. The results of the survey will be posted to the Official ARISSat-1...
by m0xtd | Sep 22, 2011 | Daily Updates
Videos and slides from the Summer CubeSat Developers’ Workshop, held August 6-7 at the 25th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, are now available for download from http://cubesat.org/index.php/workshops/past-workshops/2011summerslides
by m0xtd | Sep 22, 2011 | Daily Updates
ESA’s UK astronaut Tim Peake, together with fellow astronauts Thomas Pesquet from France, Randolph Bresnik from NASA, Norishige Kanai from Japan and Sergey Ryzhikov from Russia, has just completed (21 September 2011) a week of living and working in a dark and...
by m0xtd | Sep 22, 2011 | Daily Updates
UK space students graduate from International Space University 6 UK graduates have just had their first taste of working in the space sector with the successful completion of the International Space University’s two-month Space Studies Programme (SSP). With funding...
by m0xtd | Sep 20, 2011 | Daily Updates
The team at Drexel University have been doing some research on a deployable boom for CubeSats. The YouTube description reads: Drexel University’s experiment, Characterizing the Performance of the CubeSat Deployable Boom in Microgravity has been selected to...
by m0xtd | Sep 20, 2011 | Daily Updates
ARISSat used as teaching tool, covered in local newspaper Matt Severin, principal of Dowagiac Middle School in Michigan, took some of his students outside to track and listen to the satellite ARISSat-1 on Tuesday, September 13. Two years earlier, Severin, then...
by m0xtd | Sep 19, 2011 | Daily Updates
Paul Robinson 2E1EUB, current holder of the Louis Varney G5RV cup, will be active on the Amateur Radio satellites from the Isle of Skye and Eastern Scotland starting Saturday, September 24. He will be using the call sign 2M1EUB/P and weather permitting Paul will be...
by m0xtd | Sep 19, 2011 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-NA BOD election results The 2011 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors election has been completed with the following results: Barry Baines, WD4ASW- 576 Tony Monteiro, AA2TX – 560 Alan Biddle, WA4SCA – 516 Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA – 418 Mark Hammond, N8MH...
by m0xtd | Sep 19, 2011 | Daily Updates
Indian NOAA APT images Mahesh Vhatkay VU2IIA has used his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle SDR to receive weather satellite images of the Indian sub-continent. As well as the FUNcube Dongle software defined radio his station comprised a QFH antenna with 137 MHz preamp...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 19, 2011 | Daily Updates
Indian NOAA APT images Mahesh Vhatkay VU2IIA has used his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle SDR to receive weather satellite images of the Indian sub-continent. As well as the FUNcube Dongle software defined radio his station comprised a QFH antenna with 137 MHz preamp...
