LightSail objectives. Solar sails use the sun’s energy as a method of propulsion—flight by light. Light is made of packets of energy called photons. While photons have no mass, a photon traveling as a packet of light has energy and … Continue reading
MXL (The Michigan Exploration Laboratory) Grifex update: 28-06-2015 Our primary challenge in the past couple of weeks has been cold temperatures aboard the satellite. You may have noticed increased beacon frequency and higher transmit power – this was to keep … Continue reading
The Delta-2 with on board four cubsats: FIREBIRD II-A & B, GRIFEX, ExoCube is finally launched from SLC-2W Vandenberg. GRIFEX public ground station software can be downloaded at: mxl-ops.engin.umich.edu MXL Blog with the latest updates can be found at: Michigan Exploration … Continue reading
UZ7HO has released a new version of his great Sound modem software. Here is part of the version history file, take a look at this file to get to know al the options. SCM v0.71b changes: – Fixed “Frame Collector” … Continue reading
PK-96 and TS-2000X After some debugging and measurements, I finally got my PK-96 working with my Kenwood TS-2000X where I use the TS-2000X ACC2 connector. The problem was that when one uses pin 13 PTT the TX audio from the … Continue reading
Today, more than one year after launch, there will be a temporary end of operations caused by the end of funding. However, UWE-3 is in a very good health condition with fully charged batteries and operations may be continued depending … Continue reading