ALMASat-1 In the recent years, the space research activity has been characterized by the large number of university small satellites that have been built and launched. On one side, this allows the direct participation of students to a real space … Continue reading
Vega is launched successful and Satellite Signals are Heard. The first Vega, flight VV01, lifted off at 1000 UT from the ESA Spaceport at Kourou in the Caribbean carrying eight student built amateur radio satellites and the LARES Laser Relativity … Continue reading
Project ELaNa, NASA’s “Educational Launch of NanoSat” managed by the Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center, announced on February 10 that the AMSAT Fox-1 cubesat has been selected to join the program. AMSAT will work with NASA in … Continue reading
Vega is scheduled to launch on February 13, at 1000 UTC with eight student built amateur radio satellites. Internet video streaming of the launch will be available. The launcher will first deploy the main payload, the LARES the Laser relativity Spacecraft and … Continue reading
Check Your Keps: ISS Performs Debris Avoidance Maneuver UniverseToday reports that the ISS needed to perform a maneuver on Friday, January 13 to avoid debris from the 2009 collision between an inactive Russian Cosmos 2251 satellite and a commercial Iridium satellite. U.S. Space … Continue reading
MASAT-1 (MagyarSat-OSCAR-72 MO-72) Masat-1 satellite will use the amateur radio frequency band to downlink telemetry data. The downlink data will not be encrypted, so everyone will be able to receive it, decode and process. The decoding software will be freeware … Continue reading