by m0xtd | Aug 23, 2011 | Daily Updates
The latest Earth observation satellites from UK small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) were successfully launched today at 07:12:20 UTC onboard a Dnepr rocket from Yasny in southern Russia. NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X will...
by m0xtd | Aug 22, 2011 | Daily Updates
It has been reported that ARISSat-1 is in Emergency Mode in an attempt to conserve power. 10:24 UTC 22 August 2011
by m0xtd | Aug 19, 2011 | Daily Updates
Herbert DL4SDR used an AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF software defined radio to receive a weather satellite picture in the 136-138 MHz band. On the FUNcube Yahoo Group he writes: Today [August 19] I received a picture from NOAA 15 WX satellite with simple...
by m0xtd | Aug 17, 2011 | Daily Updates
Thanks to the hard work of volunteers from the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) 14 videos of the presentations given to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium held in Guildford during July 30-31, 2011 are now available online. The Chair of BATC Trevor Brown...
by m0xtd | Aug 17, 2011 | Daily Updates
A 6U Canisterized Satellite Dispenser was displayed at the recent Small Satellites conference that will allow larger CubeSats to be deployed. Canisterized Satellite Dispensers (CSDs) are boxes that small payloads (CubeSats) are housed in during launch and dispensed...
by m0xtd | Aug 12, 2011 | Daily Updates
TOPCAT (TOPside ionosphere Computer Assisted Tomography) is a payload being developed at the University of Bath that will be launched on the UK’s first 3U CubeSat, UKube-1, next year. The TOPCAT payload will consist of a specialised dual-frequency GPS receiver...
by m0xtd | Aug 12, 2011 | Daily Updates
ARISSat-1 was deployed from the ISS on August 3. It has a composite VHF downlink that will easily fit into the FUNcube Dongle (FCD) receive spectrum. The 145.920 MHz telemetry is 1000 bps BPSK and can, of course, also be received with a normal SSB 2 metre receiver....
by m0xtd | Aug 12, 2011 | Daily Updates
The ARISSat-1 Battery voltage is decreasing each eclipse period. It therefore is taking longer for the Battery to charge up to 32.5V to allow the switch from Low Power to High Power when the satellite enters an illumination period. Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO has plotted...
by m0xtd | Aug 11, 2011 | Daily Updates
The new Amateur Radio satellite ARISSat-1 has been switching into low duty cycle mode even while in full sun which has suprised observers. When the satellite is in darkness, in order to conserve battery power, it switches into a low duty cycle mode (also known as low...
by m0xtd | Aug 11, 2011 | Daily Updates
A Radio Astronomy paper describes the use of the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle Software Defined Radio as part of a Radio Telescope. In the paper Dr David Morgan of the British Astronomical Association Radio Astronomy Group (BAA-RAG) describes how he used the FUNcube Dongle...
