ESA invites European student teams who are building CubeSats with mainly educational objectives to propose their satellite for the new ‘Fly Your Satellite!’ programme. ‘Fly Your Satellite!’ is an exciting new initiative from the ESA Education and Knowledge Management Office. … Continue reading
Problems with AO-27 (Eyesat) On Oct 5, 2012 AO-27 went off-line and the ground station team is trying to recover the Satellite. The attempt failed and at the moment the ground crew is in the middle of a new attempt … Continue reading
Data received from RS-40 After I had heard that RS-40 was successfully launched, it was obviously that we where going to try and receive the signals from this new satellite. The first attempt failed because the satellite wasn’t in range … Continue reading
RS-40 is launched. A Russian Rockot Launch Vehicle blasted off from Pad 133/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 1:35 GMT on Saturday, July 28 on a mission to deliver four payloads to Low Earth Orbit. All payloads were delivered to … Continue reading
RS-30 (Yubileiny) On 23-05-2008 at 1520UTC from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia (Site 133), a Rokot type rocket was launched into space. At a height of about 1450km, the main payload, 3 GONET D1M military satellite (Kosmos-2437, 2438 and … Continue reading
UO-11 (UoSAT OSCAR) In just six months time engineers at the University of Surrey developed, built and launched on 01-03-1984 UoSAT-2 as a piggyback payload aboard a U.S. Thor-Delta rocket carrying the LANDSAT-D earth observation satellite from Vandenberg Air Force … Continue reading