One of my favorite satellites VO-52, was not heard over Europe on 28Feb2012. Please listen for VO-52 and submit reports to the oscar.dcarr.org website. I8CVS also didn’t hear VO-52 on a later pass. Lets hope there isn’t something wrong with this … Continue reading
This evening PI9ISS (André Kuipers) was active from the ISS space station. The signal was loud and clear but there were many stations that wanted to make a connection so for me this time it wasn’t possible to make a connection. During the pass at 19:30 CEST we will give it … Continue reading
Preliminary TLE (Orbital Elements) for the upcoming VEGA launch TLE-new 19-02-2012 12:00 UTC ALMASAT-1 1 38078U 12006B 12049.33443324 .00018909 00000-0 55604-3 0 123 2 38078 69.4856 227.8040 0775179 38.1714 327.1743 14.04552460 692 2012-006C 1 38079U 12006C 12049.75727519 .00032984 00000-0 85788-3 … Continue reading
ALMASat-1 In the recent years, the space research activity has been characterized by the large number of university small satellites that have been built and launched. On one side, this allows the direct participation of students to a real space … Continue reading
Vega is scheduled to launch on February 13, at 1000 UTC with eight student built amateur radio satellites. Internet video streaming of the launch will be available. The launcher will first deploy the main payload, the LARES the Laser relativity Spacecraft and … Continue reading
MASAT-1 (MagyarSat-OSCAR-72 MO-72) Masat-1 satellite will use the amateur radio frequency band to downlink telemetry data. The downlink data will not be encrypted, so everyone will be able to receive it, decode and process. The decoding software will be freeware … Continue reading