by Peter Goodhall | Jan 17, 2018 | Daily Updates
The 2U CubeSat Zhou Enlai 周恩来 developed with primary and middle school students was launched at 04:12 UT on Friday, January 19, 2018. 26 delegates from the satellite development student team in Huai’an who helped develop the CubeSat were at the Jiuquan Satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 15, 2018 | Daily Updates
The time when AO-73 enters continuous sunlight, for the first time, is fast approaching. Current estimates show that this will commence on February 6th and last through until March 13th. Obviously, the autonomous switching system that the spacecraft has been using to...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 13, 2018 | Daily Updates
CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads were among the 31 satellites successfully launched on January 12 at 0359 UT on the ISRO PSLV-C40 mission from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. Two of the CubeSats, Fox-1D and PicSat, carry amateur radio FM...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 10, 2018 | Daily Updates
The PicSat 3U CubeSat carrying an amateur radio 145/435 MHz FM transponder is planned to launch into Earth orbit on January 12, 2018. The launch will be streamed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEcE7-odCo The primary mission is to study the star Beta...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 6, 2018 | Daily Updates
BBC TV’s Great British Railway Journeys is expected to show former MP for Enfield Southgate, Michael Portillo, using 5.6 GHz amateur radio to bounce a signal off the surface of the moon. In 2017, a team led by Noel Matthews G8GTZ and Brian Coleman G4NNS made...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 11, 2017 | Daily Updates
The December PDF of the weather satellite magazine GEO Quarterly produced by the Group for Earth Observation is now available for free download. The Group for Earth Observation’s aim is to enable amateur reception of weather and earth imaging satellites that are...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 4, 2017 | Daily Updates
NASA is known for communicating with astronauts on missions to space, but did you know regular citizens can radio NASA too? From the end of this year through the next, NASA will mark several key milestones. Amateur radio clubs at agency centers across the nation plan...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 3, 2017 | Daily Updates
The attitude of AO-73 / FUNcube-1 is passively stabilised using the traditional magnet and two hysteresis rods. Since the launch over four years ago we have been intrigued with the resultant actual spin rate/period which seems to vary over time for reasons that have...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 29, 2017 | Daily Updates
The 145.800 MHz FM Slow Scan Television (SSTV) transmissions from the International Space Station on December 5-6 should be receivable by radio amateurs around the world. There should also be SSTV activity on December 7 and 8 at times when the ISS is in range of...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 21, 2017 | Daily Updates
Today, November 21st 2017, marks the fourth birthday for FUNcube-1 (AO-73) in orbit. FUNcube-1 was launched at 07:10 UTC on November 21st 2013 and its first signals were received immediately after deployment over the Indian Ocean by amateurs in South Africa. Since...
