Aeneas Developed by the University of Southern California. Mission The primary payload speaks to a mission with global reach: tracking cargo containers over the open ocean with a 1-watt WiFi-like transceiver. A current tracking system for cargo containers, designed by our … Continue reading
Kepler (TLE) data for the ISS/JAXA cubesat launch The TLE of the five CubeSats recently launched from ISS are now available with the NORAD registration numbers 1998-067-CN, CP, CQ, CR, CS. 1998 ? Yes as NORAD considers they are parts … Continue reading
UKube-1 The UKube-1 nanosatellite is a collaboration between the UK Space Agency, industry and academia. It will allow the UK to fly educational packages, test new technologies and carry out new space research quickly and efficiently. It is envisaged as … Continue reading
The first signals are heard from RS-40 (MiR, Yubileiny-2) Maik Hermenau posted on the Amsat-DL mailinglist that he has received the first Morse-code and Doka-B signals on 435.365 MHz from RS-40. Below the preliminary TLE data Objekt A 1 38733U … Continue reading
RS-40 (MiR, Yubileiny-2) RS-40 (MiR Yubileiny-2) this satellite is named after Mikhail Reshetnev, the founder and the first director of the company. The previous satellite for scientific purposes – Yubileiny – was placed into orbit in 2008 and since then … 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