I would love to visit the Amsat-UK Colloquium but I am unable to. Therefor the Webcast that is made possible by the volunteers from BATC gives me the second best possibility to follow this Amsat-UK event. So if you can’t get … Continue reading
AAUSat-3 17 July 2013 18:47 UTC – 19:01 UTC As always this small Cubesat is strong …. This is how AAUSat-3 sounds: AAUSAT3 transmits CSP packets encapsulated in a custom space-link framing format. The radio subsystem works as a router, … Continue reading
I had a couple of nice ESTCube-1 passes this day and I gave it a try. I used my FUNcube Dongle Pro+, SDRSharp, DDE Plugin and SatPC32. To decode the signals I used my sound card modem setup. This gave me a … Continue reading
Radio Hams Plasma Thruster CubeSat Radio amateurs Benjamin Longmier KF5KMP and James Cutler KF6RFX of the University of Michigan hope to raise $200,000 on Kickstarter for a CubeSat propulsion project. The CubeSat Ambipolar Thruster (CAT) is a new plasma propulsion system which … Continue reading
26 June 2013 Six student teams and their supervisors have gathered at ESTEC for the kick-off of the new Fly Your Satellite! Programme under the ESA Education Office. For the next three days, ESA experts will introduce the objectives and … Continue reading
Especially for the Dutch amateurs the following message with information about the Dutch SatelliteNET. Elke zondagavond om 22:00 uur (lokale tijd) is het Nederlandstalig amateur satellietnet in FM te beluisteren op de frequentie 144,775 MHz. Dit satellietnet bestaat reeds sinds … Continue reading