by m0xtd | May 19, 2011 | Daily Updates
UK’s first ESA business incubator signs first tenant The European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre Harwell (ESA BIC Harwell) has announced (17 May 2011) that its first tenant is The Electrospinning Company, a pioneering developer of revolutionary...
by m0xtd | May 17, 2011 | Daily Updates
Helen Sharman GB1MIR became the United Kingdom’s first astronaut when she blasted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 1250 GMT on May 18, 1991 on her way to the Mir space station She won her place in space when in 1989 she answered as advertisement she heard on...
by m0xtd | May 12, 2011 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, May 14, there will be a presentation on the AMSAT-UK FUNcube satellite and Software Defined Radio dongle at the AMSAT-DL Symposium in Bochum. The presentation titled ‘FUNcube and the amateur radio dongle’ will be given by Jim Heck, G3WGM,...
by m0xtd | May 9, 2011 | Daily Updates
This is the first call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2011 which will be held from Saturday, July 30 to Sunday, July 31 2011. AMSAT-UK invite speakers, about amateur radio space and associated activities, for this event. They are also invited to submit...
by m0xtd | May 9, 2011 | Daily Updates
The PDF article below, written by John Heath G7HIA, was published by the Radio Society of Great Britain in the March 2007 edition of RadCom. Copyright 2007 Radio Society of Great Britain. For personal use only – no copying, reprinting or distribution without...
by m0xtd | May 7, 2011 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-NA will be present at the 2011 Dayton Hamvention with the theme of ‘Providing Education Through Amateur Satellites’. The Hamvention takes place May 20-22 and there will be multiple exhibits of the new AMSAT satellites on display. The AMSAT-UK FUNcube...
by m0xtd | May 6, 2011 | Daily Updates
AMSAT Vice-President of Operations Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA reported the AO-51 Command Team is having a difficult time trying to restore AO-51 to operation. The current situation is the satellite will not retain the upload of the flight software across eclipse. The...
by m0xtd | Feb 17, 2011 | News
ARISSat-1 is scheduled for deployment from the ISS next Wednesday Feb 16 – it has a composite VHF downlink that will easily fit into the FUNcube Dongle receive spectrum. The telemetry is 1 kbit BPSK and can, of course, also be received with a normal SSB 2 metre...
