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
O/OREOS Organism/ORganic Exposure to Orbital Stress The overall goal of the O/OREOS mission is to demonstrate the capability to do low-cost science experiments on autonomous Nano satellites in space in support of the Astrobiology Small Payloads program under the Planetary … Continue reading
Using a Hardware Modem How one can decode satellite telemetry data using a Hardware modem also known as TNC. A terminal node controller (TNC) is a device used by amateur radio operators to participate in packet radio networks. The TNC … Continue reading
ARISS contact with school in France re-scheduled March 9, 2013 The International Space Station school contact with participants at Lycee Polyvalent Anatole France, Lillers, France, first planned for March 4, has been re-scheduled to Saturday March 9, 2013. The event … Continue reading
SDR# (SDRSharp) SDR# (read SDR Sharp) is a simple, intuitive, small and fast PC-based DSP application for Software Defined Radio. It’s written in C# with both object design correctness and performance in mind. The main purpose is to offer a simple … Continue reading
Space plasma experiment “Shadow” onboard International Space Station (ISS) with participation of radio amateurs. Motivation and background Many space professionals are looking forward to further space exploration using electric thrusters (ET). Unlike ordinary chemical propulsion systems, ET demonstrate much more … Continue reading