by Peter Goodhall | May 31, 2016 | Daily Updates
Issue 214 of the AMSAT-UK amateur radio satellite publication OSCAR News was released on May 30, 2016. E-members can download it here. The paper edition is usually posted 2-3 weeks after publication of the electronic issue. In this issue: • OSCAR 1 • Es’hail 2 – the...
by Peter Goodhall | May 30, 2016 | Daily Updates
Pete M0PSX had the opportunity to talk about the ARISS school contacts and amateur radio during a radio show aired on Basildon Hospital Radio and community station Gateway FM. The interview was broadcast on 1287 AM, 97.8 FM, via the patient bedside system at Basildon...
by Peter Goodhall | May 30, 2016 | Daily Updates
Carole Cadwalladr writes in The Observer newspaper for Sunday, May 29 about the amateur radio contact between students at The King’s School GB1OSM, Ottery St Mary, Devon and Tim Peake GB1SS on the International Space Station. She says: A huge team of volunteers...
by Peter Goodhall | May 29, 2016 | Daily Updates
On May 19, 2016, students from Robertsville Middle School, Oak Ridge, Tennessee visited Marshall Space Flight Center and presented their CubeSat project results to NASA engineers. NASA Explores says: They had been tasked to design a 1U CubeSat with a deployable door...
by Peter Goodhall | May 27, 2016 | Daily Updates
On April 21, 2016, ESA’s Education Office set a challenge for the worldwide radio amateur community to start listening out for three new orbiting CubeSats. The results have now been released. ESA’s Education Office published the transmission frequencies of the...
by Peter Goodhall | May 27, 2016 | Daily Updates
The new version of the IARU Region 1 VHF Handbook 7.50 covering VHF, UHF and Microwaves is now available for download. The handbook has chapters on Band Planning, Contests, Propagation Research, Operating Procedures and the key Amateur Satellite section on pages...
by Peter Goodhall | May 25, 2016 | Daily Updates
Mineo Wakita JE9PEL reports on the Indian ISRO PSLV-C34 amateur radio satellite launch planned for June 22, 2016 at 0355 UT into a 500 km 98 degree inclination orbit. Main Payload, Cartosat-2C, Earth Observing PSLV-XL(C-34), Satish Dharwan Space Centre, Sriharikota,...
by Peter Goodhall | May 25, 2016 | Daily Updates
A reflection from the structure of the International Space Station enabled a 144.175 MHz signal from Tim GK4LOH in Cornwall to cross the Atlantic. The YouTube description reads: 02:40 UTC May 24th 2016 ISS Flypast. Signal heard 2 minutes 45 into the recording and...
by Peter Goodhall | May 23, 2016 | Daily Updates
On May 21, 2016 the CubeSat UWE-3 celebrated 2.5 years in space without any significant failures. Batteries, EPS, OBC and ADCS are fine, nevertheless we were confronted with a minor problem with one of the radios UWE-3 autonomously recovered from. Since then UWE-3 is...
by Peter Goodhall | May 23, 2016 | Daily Updates
The Russian space agency Roscosmos has released a video of the Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat commemorative transmission from the International Space Station. The satellite was developed by students at the Tomsk Polytechnic University to test new space materials technology and...
