by Peter Goodhall | Jul 13, 2015 | Daily Updates
Professor Richard Holdaway will give the keynote presentation “What else does Space do for You!” at the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium at 1:30 pm on Saturday, July 25. Professor Richard Holdaway has just retired from serving 16 years as Director...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 12, 2015 | Daily Updates
HamRadioNow episode 211 features two presentations given at the TAPR/AMSAT banquet on Friday, May 15 at the 2015 Dayton Hamvention. The first is about the Amateur Radio transponder on the geostationary satellite Es’hail 2 by Thani Ali al-Malki followed by Adventures...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
The CubeSat DeorbitSail built by researchers and radio amateurs at the Surrey Space Centre in Guildford carries a 1200 bps BPSK beacon on 145.975 MHz. It is expected to launch at 1627 UT on Friday, July 10. DeorbitSail is a 3U CubeSat sized satellite with a...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
A launch postponement has been announced for Beijing’s new CZ-6 rocket which is planned to carry a constellation of amateur radio satellites. Soon to be launched six CAMSAT satellites CAS-3A to F have now been named as XW-2 (Hope-2) amateur satellite system, and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 7, 2015 | Daily Updates
On June 30, 2015, Graham Murchie, G4FSG, RSGB Chairman and Murray Niman, G6JYB, Chairman of the RSGB Spectrum Forum presented the case for amateur radio to the UK Spectrum Policy Forum (UKSPF). The Amateur-Satellite Service featured in this presentation. The Forum has...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 5, 2015 | Daily Updates
The UWE-3 team have provided an update on investigations into a recent communications anomaly on the CubeSat After the communication anomaly and the autonomous recovery of UWE-3 two weeks ago we uploaded an extended software to the OBC to analyse the event in detail....
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 5, 2015 | Daily Updates
Students at Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall plan to launch the Sun Chaser 2 balloon (434.448 MHz USB) to capture images of the sunrise on Saturday, July 11. Depending on altitude the signals from the balloon may have a range of up to 800 km, potentially...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 3, 2015 | Daily Updates
At the Hamfest event at Friedrichshafen held during last weekend, more information was provided about the exciting new Phase 4 amateur satellites presently under construction. P4A – This is a hosted payload on the geostationary spacecraft Es’hailSat 2....
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 30, 2015 | Daily Updates
Michael Kirkhart KD8QBA provides an update on the $50SAT amateur radio spacecraft which measures just 5x5x7.5 cm. Sunday, June 21, 2015 marked the 19 month anniversary of the launch of $50SAT/MO-76/Eagle-2. The good news is it still operating. The bad news is the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 30, 2015 | Daily Updates
On Monday, June 29, 2015 three high altitude balloons from Essex schools and colleges transmitted Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV) in the 434 MHz band. The balloons, part of the educational Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) initiative, were taken...
