by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
The ARRL reports International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) representatives were in Prague earlier this month to join discussions on the regulatory aspects of orbits and spectrum usage for nanosatellites and picosatellites. On hand for the International...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur David Akerman M0RPI will be launching a 434 MHz balloon from the BBC Stargazing Live solar eclipse event in Leicester on March 20. The flight is to primarily to take photographs during the partial solar eclipse. Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV), RTTY and...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 15, 2015 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team are pleased to announce that the Data Warehouse has received two million packets of telemetry data from ground stations around the world. FUNcube-1 (AO-73) was launched on November 21, 2013 and since then radio amateurs and schools have been receiving...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 14, 2015 | Daily Updates
ESERO-UK, the UK space education office, based in York, has announced the winner of the UK round of the International CanSat competition . A CanSat is a student built simulated satellite with all the major subsystems including radio communications on 433/434 MHz and...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 14, 2015 | Daily Updates
8-year-old radio amateur Hope Lea KM4IPF made her first contact just 45 minutes after her callsign appeared in the FCC database. The contact with Arthur K4YYL, via the FO-29 satellite, took place on March 11, 2015 at 2100 UT. Her elder sister Faith WA4BBC and brother...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 13, 2015 | Daily Updates
Ofcom have announced that following representations they are restoring the 75.875-76.0 GHz Amateur and Amateur-Satellite allocation to Primary status in the new amateur radio licence which comes into effect on April 7, 2015. The Ofcom licensing updates page says:...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 13, 2015 | Daily Updates
On Friday, March 13 eight school teams from across the UK competed in the National CanSat Competition held at the National STEM Centre in York. The CREST Gold Award accredited competition, now in its second year, involves students building a miniature simulation...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 11, 2015 | Daily Updates
Sarah Brightman hopes to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 10 day mission in September 2015. If the launch takes place as planned she would become the UK’s second astronaut, the first was Helen Sharman GB1MIR on May 18, 1991. Tim Peake KG5BVI...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
There will be a total solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 which tracks across the North Atlantic and eventually covers a lot of the Arctic. It would seem that this will affect most spacecraft that are in a polar orbit to some extent as, at that sort of time, they would...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 8, 2015 | Daily Updates
Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen completed his amateur radio license class on February 23 and passed his exam on February 25. He has been assigned the callsign KG5GCZ. Andreas was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009 and completed the astronaut basic training...
