AMSAT-UK - Radio Amateur Satellites

ED-SAT CubeSat Training Kit

by | Jan 22, 2015 | Daily Updates

Nader Omer ST2NH brings news of the ED-SAT training kit, a Cube Satellite simulator. It has been developed for inspiring young people at variety of educational levels provide opportunities to discover and apply learning to real-world scenarios. It aims to provide a...

Amateur radio satellite talk near Farnham

by | Jan 22, 2015 | Daily Updates

This Monday, January 26 there will be a presentation on the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) and SO-50 satellites at the Hog’s Back Amateur Radio Club near Farnham. Mike Parkin, G0JMI, will give a talk entitled: Amateur Radio Satellites: A General Overview and Understanding of...

Radio ham interviewed on TV about Beagle 2

by | Jan 19, 2015 | Daily Updates

Essex-born radio amateur Dave Rowntree M6DRQ was interviewed on Channel 5 TV news about the Beagle 2 Mars mission. Dave, formerly drummer in the band Blur, is currently a DJ on London radio station XFM 104.9 MHz. On December 25, 2003 the pioneering UK spacecraft...

AESP-14 CubeSat deployed from ISS

by | Jan 17, 2015 | Daily Updates

The AESP-14 is a 1U CubeSat developed by undergraduate and graduate engineering students at the Technology Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) in Brazil. The satellite’s primary mission is to test the various subsystems in the space environment. The satellite was...

UK Space Industry in Guardian Newspaper

by | Jan 14, 2015 | Daily Updates

The Guardian interviewed radio amateur Dr. Chris Bridges 2E0OBC for their story on the growing UK space industry. Chris 2E0OBC worked on the Surrey Space Centre’s STRaND-1 spacecraft which carries an amateur radio payload. The newspaper also interviewed Steve...

OGMS-SA CubeSat to provide FM transponder

by | Jan 11, 2015 | Daily Updates

OGMS-SA is a 3U CubeSat being developed by students at the Paris-Est Creteil University as part of the QB50 constellation. The purposes of this CubeSat include upper atmosphere science; radio communication experiments; technology demonstrator; education, training and...