by Peter Goodhall | Mar 31, 2017 | Daily Updates
E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the Spring edition of OSCAR News here. This edition has the latest information on the new Nayif-1 EO-88 CubeSat which carries a 435/145 MHz amateur radio linear transponder. The paper edition should be sent to postal members in...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 30, 2017 | Daily Updates
The web site of the Chertsey Radio Club now has beginners guides to operating the FM and SSB amateur radio satellites. Getting started with FM satellites http://chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/getting-started-with-fm-satellites.html Getting started with SSB...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 28, 2017 | Daily Updates
Atsushi Yasuda JI1OEH reports the ITF-2 (YUI-2) CubeSat entered normal operation phase on March 25 JST, it was deployed from the ISS on January 16, 2017. Update: ITF-2 was giving the OSCAR number Tsukuba-OSCAR 89 (TO-89). Telemetry information and messages will be...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 14, 2017 | Daily Updates
The ARISS team took a giant step closer to flying the new ARISS Interoperable Radio System to the International Space Station, having met a major milestone. Lou McFadin, W5DID, and Kerry Banke, N6IZW, travelled to the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas,...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 13, 2017 | Daily Updates
Nico PA0DLO reports the CAS-4A and CAS-4B amateur radio linear transponder payloads were carried on the Earth imaging microsatellites OVS 1A and OVS 1B which were launched at 0300 UT on Thursday, June 15, 2017. CAMSAT News Release CAS-4A and CAS-4B Satellites from...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 3, 2017 | Daily Updates
The Nayif-1 (EO-88) CubeSat has now been in orbit for more than two weeks and all systems continue to operate nominally. The power budget is positive, the spin/tumble rate is acceptably low, on board temperatures are perfectly okay and, importantly, the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 27, 2017 | Daily Updates
OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan W3XO has announced that the Nayif-1 CubeSat has met all the requirements necessary to be issued with an OSCAR number. In accordance with the request sent to the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors for an OSCAR number for the UAE CubeSat,...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 27, 2017 | Daily Updates
Weather permitting there will be a 434 MHz pico balloon launched from Bristol on Tuesday, February 28 at 0830 GMT. Richard Meadows M0SBU from University of Bristol Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (UBSEDS) writes: This launch is using a 1.5m...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 25, 2017 | Daily Updates
The National newspaper reports a message by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, is being beamed across the world from space as the first to be transmitted by the UAE’s Nayif-1 satellite. The National says: Nayif-1 was launched February 15...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 20, 2017 | Daily Updates
The CRS-10 mission carrying vital amateur radio equipment to the International Space Station launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1439 UT on Sunday, February 19, 2017. Frank Bauer KA3HDO, ARISS International Chair and AMSAT-NA V.P. for Human Spaceflight Programs...
