by Peter Goodhall | Jun 23, 2015 | Daily Updates
At around 10-11am on Sunday, June 28, 2015 Andrew Garratt M0NRD and the South Kesteven Amateur Radio Society are planning to launch balloons from the 10th World Egg Throwing Championship held at the Swaton Vintage Day at Swaton, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire. As well as...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 23, 2015 | Daily Updates
As part of the #askAstro program 16-year-old Brandon Martinez KF7RAO submitted a video question to astronaut Reid Wiseman KF5LKT about Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) On September 14, 2014 Brandon posted his question to YouTube and on October...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 22, 2015 | Daily Updates
Colonel Fred Kennedy, USAF, Space Production Division and Program Manager for the Wide Field of View satellite (hereinafter WFOV) has accepted the proposal to allow Virginia Tech to place a hosted payload consisting of a Software Defined Radio designed and built by...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 21, 2015 | Daily Updates
On Sunday, June 21, there was an anomaly on FUNcube-1 that required the reboot of the satellite’s MCU (Microcontroller). After a bus freeze, the databus watchdog did kick in as expected and rebooted the satellite. However, we did need to command the satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 21, 2015 | Daily Updates
The South African Radio League (SARL) report at the pre-conference Engineering meeting held on Friday [June 19] members of the SA AMSAT CubeSat team made some tough decisions. During the past few years, various options and subsystems have been experimented with. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 17, 2015 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-Francophone report that the FM transponder on QB50p2 (EO-80) has been tested. A Google English translation of the post on their website reads: On June 19, 2014, two 2U CubeSats QB50p1 and QB50p2 were launched as part of the QB50 precursor program into a polar...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Skills Nights, are hosted by the CARS Training Team and continue to be a popular and appealing event, especially for newcomers to the hobby. There was an excellent turnout on the evening of Monday, June 15 with 68 people signing...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will be held on July 24-26 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, UK. Among the speakers will be: • Peter Guelzow DB2OS with an update on AMSAT-DL projects, including the Phase 4 satellite • Chris Brunskill, formerly of...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 15, 2015 | Daily Updates
The first Brazilian CubeSat, NanosatC-BR1, is experiencing battery issues for the last several months and it now seldom emits a beacon in CW on 145.865 MHz. For some time, Paulo PV8DX, was able to detect a beacon signal when the satellite was over the Caribbean sea...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 11, 2015 | Daily Updates
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF along with Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts landed safely on Thursday, June 11 in Kazakhstan after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station (ISS) at 1020 UT in a Soyuz TMA-15M...
