Shin’en 2 – Sinen2 – Abyss 2 This will be an interesting development. A satellite going into interstellar space with an Amateur Radio transponder onboard. Shin’en 2 is a interplanetary satellite built by students at Kagoshima University in Japan that … Continue reading
Cubesats on the Falcon 9 SpaceX CRS-3 mission. Current launch date and time is 18-04-2014 19:25 UTC. Successful launch. P-POD Satellite Name Organization Size Beacon Details Info 1 SporeSat NASA Ames Research Center, Santa Clara University, Purdue University, and University of … Continue reading
KickSAT and Sprites Mission The Big Picture the goal is to bring down the huge cost of spaceflight, allowing anyone from a curious high school student or basement tinkerer to a professional scientist to explore what has until now been … Continue reading
Launch of Two Hundred 437MHz Satellites The largest ever launch of 437 MHz satellites is planned for March 16 at 0841 UTC when 200 Sprite satellites will fly on the SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS 3 mission to be deployed into a 325×315 … Continue reading
Despite earlier messages there are no signals received from Delfi-n3Xt. It seems that the signals that where believed to be Delfi-n3XT where signals from Delfi-C3. Below a message I received from Jasper PC4JB. Unfortunately, we have not heard anything from … Continue reading
University of Michigan MCubed Cubesats MCubed-2 The mission MCubed-2 is a mission designed around flight evaluation of a NASA JPL image processing FPGA called COVE. Our spacecraft provides pictures of Earth for processing, power, and data handling. M-Cubed2 is a … Continue reading