by Peter Goodhall | Aug 7, 2015 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK members have been busy this week working on the FUNcube-4 amateur radio payload for the new European Student Earth Orbiter (ESEO) satellite. On Friday, August 7, 2015 they tested the transponder and it seems to work fine. More testing and characterisation...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 7, 2015 | Daily Updates
As has been reported in the RSGB News, the PCSAT spacecraft was launched September 30, 2001 and has, due to an on-board power system issue, started to transmit APRS again on 144.390 MHz. Although this is the correct frequency for APRS operation in IARU Region 2, it is...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 5, 2015 | Daily Updates
Students at Nihon University in Japan are requesting the assistance of radio amateurs in collecting telemetry from the SPROUT satellite which has deployed an inflatable membrane structure. The SPROUT JQ1YGZ Team say: We’d like to show to everyone about SPROUT, and...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 5, 2015 | Daily Updates
Adrian Lane 2E0SDR got some great publicity for the hobby in national newspapers and TV about an amateur radio contact he had with an astronaut on the International Space Station. Many of the ISS astronauts hold amateur radio licences. In their spare time they carry...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 4, 2015 | Daily Updates
Nayif-1 is an educational single CubeSat project with the goal of providing an actual space project for Emirati University students. Additionally it is intended to enthuse and educate young people about radio, space physics and electronics. The 1U CubeSat is a...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 4, 2015 | Daily Updates
Scouts at the 23rd World Scout Jamboree at Bunkyo-ku in Japan had an amateur radio contact with the International Space Station. The contact on July 31, 2015 was between 8N23WSJ and NA1SS operated by astronaut Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS @astro_kjell from the ISS Columbus...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 3, 2015 | Daily Updates
Italian ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, who holds the amateur radio callsign IZ0JPA, will be heading for space a third time, as part of Expeditions 52 and 53 to the International Space Station. He will be launched on a Soyuz vehicle in May 2017 on a five-month mission....
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 2, 2015 | Daily Updates
Jules G0NZO hopes to launch a 434 MHz balloon BONZO8 from the Flight Refuelling ARS Hamfest on Sunday, August 9 at Cobham Sports and Social Club Ground, Merley, near Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 3DA. The Hamfest lecture stream will start at 11am with a talk on Transverter...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 30, 2015 | Daily Updates
High-definition videos of presentations given at the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium 2015 are now available on YouTube. The colloquium took place July 25-26 in Guildford and attracted attendees from Europe, the USA, Middle East and Japan. Thanks to the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 29, 2015 | Daily Updates
As announced at the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium 2015, a ‘Certificate of Achievement’ and/or an amateur radio style ‘QSL’ card are now available online. Only those who have successfully received telemetry from FUNcube-1 and uploaded it to the Data Warehouse...
