The CubeSat IRC channel is the place to be on launch day. Typically, amateur radio operators and developers from around the globe will collaborate their tracking efforts here and share tips and discoveries as new satellites are heard for the … Continue reading
Just last weekend at the Amsat-UK Collegium, I heard Dr. Chris Bridges say that it would probably be November before we would hear STRaND-1 again, in that period the satellite would go in eclipse causing the system to reset. But … Continue reading
CUSat-1 and CUSat-2 Mission The satellite has a 2 watt packet radio transmitter and carries Pulse Plasma Thrusters (PPT) which can raise or lower the orbit. Built by students at Cornell University CUSat-1/2 is a 45 kg space vehicle consisting … Continue reading
OSSI-1 Open Source Satellite Initiative OSSI-1 Mission Artist and radio amateur Hojun Song DS1SBO has spent 7 years developing his Open Source Satellite Initiative satellite OSSI-1. He has designed and developed it from scratch using readily available components rather than … Continue reading
GO-32 (TechSAT-1B – GURWIN OSCAR) The Israeli amateur radio satellite was TechSAT 1B (GO-32) was launched with TO-31 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 10-07-1998 . The inclination of the satellite is about 98° on a sun-synchronous polar orbit … Continue reading
SOMP Students Oxygen Measurement Project Mission The miniature satellite has to support not only the aim of teaching and education, two scientific mission objectives: Firstly, to the atomic oxygen in the residual atmosphere (between 400 and 600 kilometers) can be … Continue reading