by Peter Goodhall | Nov 24, 2018 | Daily Updates
ARRL reports the FCC has rejected a Petition for Reconsideration that AMSAT filed 14 years ago, seeking to exempt Amateur Radio satellites from the FCC’s satellite orbital debris mitigation requirements. The ARRL story says: The Commission took the opportunity in a...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 21, 2018 | Daily Updates
Five years ago, on November 21, 2013, FUNcube-1 launched into space. Soon, we hope to welcome ESEO (FUNcube-4) and JY1SAT (FUNcube-6) into space. A remarkable achievement by the radio amateur volunteers of AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL. Happy Birthday FUNcube-1. In 2010, we...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 21, 2018 | Daily Updates
The launch of the ESEO spacecraft on board the SSO-A flight from Vandenberg is scheduled for 18:31:47 GMT on Monday, December 3. The ESEO microsatellite includes a FUNcube payload which will provide similar telemetry to its predecessors but will have a more powerful...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 17, 2018 | Daily Updates
ESA have released a video of the European Student Earth Orbiter ESEO satellite which carries an amateur radio payload. ESEO is expected to launch as part of Spaceflight’s SSO-A SmallSat Express mission, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, currently...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 17, 2018 | Daily Updates
Following the successful launch on November 15 of Es’hail-2 on board the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle, Mitsubishi (MELCO) and Es’hailSat will begin the In Orbit Testing (IOT) program once the satellite has been positioned in a test orbital slot – the...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 16, 2018 | Daily Updates
JY1Sat is an enhanced 1U FUNcube. It has been developed for the Crown Prince Foundation in Jordan. The spacecraft has been named in honour of the Crown Prince’s grandfather, King Hussein, who operated using his personal amateur radio callsign which was simply JY1. In...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2018 | Daily Updates
Spaceflight’s SSO-A SmallSat Express mission, carrying many amateur radio satellites, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 18:34 GMT on Monday, December 3. Watch the launch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq8kS6UoOrQ 64 small satellites...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 9, 2018 | Daily Updates
AMSAT is counting down to the launch of the next Fox-1 satellite, Fox-1Cliff. The launch of Spaceflight’s SSO-A SmallSat Express mission, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base is scheduled for 18:31:47 GMT on Monday, December 3. It is planned to...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 5, 2018 | Daily Updates
The geostationary satellite Es’hail-2 carrying amateur radio transponders launched from Kennedy Space Center at 2046 GMT on Thursday, November 15 and was successfully deployed 32 minutes later. A pre-launch static fire test had been carried out November 12....
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 2, 2018 | Daily Updates
Videos of the presentations given at the 2018 William A. Tynan W3XO Memorial Space Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday/Saturday November 2/3 are now available Schedule of symposium presentations https://www.amsat.org/call-for-papers/ Watch Friday, November 2...
