by Peter Goodhall | Oct 2, 2015 | Daily Updates
Wednesday, October 7 should see the launch of LQSat which was developed by researchers and students at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP) and carries an amateur radio payload. The launch should take place sometime between 0405 and...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 1, 2015 | Daily Updates
Two Danish CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads were successfully deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, October 5 at 1405 UT. Originally launched to the ISS on August 19, 2015, the two CubeSats, AAUSat-5 and GomX-3, were deployed from the...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 28, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Indonesian amateur radio society ORARI report that on Monday, September 28, 2015 04:30 hours UT, the LAPAN-A2/ORARI satellite was launched from the Sriharikota Range (SHAR) of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India. Deployment took place 23 minutes later....
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 27, 2015 | Daily Updates
Ofcom had said NO to Special Event Station (GB) callsigns being used in the bands above 440 MHz for Amateur Satellite or Terrestrial operation. The RSGB intervened and Ofcom have now issued revised clarification – Operation above 440 MHz with SES (GB) calls is...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 26, 2015 | Daily Updates
On September 25, 2015 at 01:41 UT Beijing launched three satellites with amateur radio payloads from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) in the Gobi desert, Inner Mongolia. They were carried on a new launcher, Beijing’s first solid-fuel rocket Chang Zheng 11...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 25, 2015 | Daily Updates
Wei Mingchuan, BG2BHC, reports that the amateur radio FM voice transponder on the LilacSat-2 satellite should now be activated on a regular basis. LilacSat-2 is scheduled to switch on the FM transponder for 24 hours at about 2200 UT each Monday, Wednesday and Friday....
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 24, 2015 | Daily Updates
The AAUSAT-5 amateur radio CubeSat built by students at the University of Aalborg, Denmark is planned to be released from the International Space Station sometime in the week of October 5. The European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting radio amateurs to listen out for...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 23, 2015 | Daily Updates
Chris Thompson G0KLA reports on the AMSAT Bulletin Board that the telemetry decoder software for the Fox FM transponder CubeSats is now available for download. At the time of writing Fox-1A was scheduled to be launched on Ocober 8, 2015 with Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 22, 2015 | Daily Updates
Andrew Garratt M0NRD plans to launch Pinky Pig into near-space along with several 434 MHz transmitters on Saturday, September 26 from the National Hamfest at the Newark Showground. The launch had been planned for Friday but the weather has forced the postponement. If...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 20, 2015 | Daily Updates
Nine XW-2/CAS-3 amateur radio satellites were successfully launched on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 23:01:14 UT on Beijing’s new Chang Zheng 6 (CZ-6) rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) in Shanxi. Six satellites (designated XW-2A to XW-2F) carry...
