The first student built amateur radio CubeSats to be sponsored by ESA’s Education Office have passed their Final Acceptance Review and have been declared ready for launch on board the maiden flight of Vega, the new ESA launcher. The launch … Continue reading
ISS (ZARYA) The ISS serves as a research laboratory that has a microgravity environment in which crews conduct experiments in many fields including biology, human biology, physics, astronomy and meteorology. The station has a unique environment for the testing of … Continue reading
Always wanted to know what kind of sounds we hear, when listening to the radio? Here are some example and I will try to add more. ACARS: Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (or ACARS) is a digital datalink system … Continue reading
Earth-Moon-Earth, also known as moon bounce, is a radio communications technique which relies on the propagation of radio waves from an earth-based transmitter directed via reflection from the surface of the moon back to an earth-based receiver. History The use … Continue reading
The conception of SRMSAT dates back to August 2008 when the vision of launching a student satellite was put forward in a seminar taken by eminent space scientist D.Raghavamurty. Enlightened by the scope and importance of such a magnificent multi- … Continue reading
AMSAT OSCAR 7 (AO-7) AO-7 (aka AMSAT-OSCAR 7) is the second Phase 2 amateur satellite launched into Low Earth Orbit on 15 November 1974. It remained operational until a battery failure in 1981. On 21 June 2002 the satellite was … Continue reading