Stacking with Power Splitters The basis of the power splitters/combiners is a construction of a square tube for the outer conductor and a round tube for the inner conductor. It forms a quarterwave coaxial impedance transformer. The relation D/d influences … Continue reading
FUNcube (AO-73) AMSAT-UK is working on a new amateur satellite project – The FUNcube Project– that features a 435 to 145 MHz Linear Transponder for SSB/CW operation. FUNcube-1 is a complete educational single CubeSat project with the goal of enthusing … Continue reading
Fuji-OSCAR 29 (JAS 2) JAS-2 was successfully launched on August 17, 1996, by H-II rocket No.4, along with the earth observation platform satellite ADEOS, from Tanegashima Space Center of NASDA. Lift-off time was 1053 JST, or 0153 UTC, and after … Continue reading
PW-Sat will go into orbit along with several other CubeSats early 2012, on board the new European Vega rocket. Launch will take place from the ESA space center near the town of Kourou in French Guiana (South America). This will be … Continue reading
A team in the UK are trying to re-contact an old British launched satellite for the anniversary of its launch (28th October 1971). We’ve been given a licence to transmit and will be testing our re-engineered ground-segment in the next … Continue reading
Prospero (X3) The Prospero satellite, also known as X-3, is a satellite launched by the United Kingdom in 1971. It was designed to undertake a series of experiments studying the effects of the space environment. It is the only United … Continue reading