CAPE-2 Mission CAPE is a completely nonprofit and student run organization which develops and builds Pico satellites along with a host of other aerospace and mission related systems such as weather balloons and sensor buoys. Our facilities are provided by … Continue reading
ZACube-1 Mission The South African ZACUBE 1 (South Africa CubeSat-1) is a student-developed 1U CubeSat of CPUT (Cape Peninsula University of Technology), Cape Town, South Africa. Its main payload is a high frequency (HF) beacon transmitter that will be used … Continue reading
After being confronted with a large number of objects via celestrak.com I saw T.S. Kelso his tweet on twitter where he is also trying to find out why there are so many object after the Falcon 9 v1.1 launch. “Trying … Continue reading
LES-1 (Lincoln Experimental Satellite) Mission LES 1 and 2 (Lincoln Experimental Satellite 1 and 2) were essentially identical experimental communication satellites. Both featured a single X-band transponder and an 8-horn electronically switched antenna. Additionally, attitude control and sensing experiments were … Continue reading
Afedri version 3.0 HF SDR receiver with the following specifications and features. Features: 100 kHz to 30.00MHz continuous frequency range Direct sampling Digital down-conversion 12- bit 80 MSPS A/D conversion Up to 2 MHz recording and processing bandwidth Waterfall display … Continue reading
It was a joint effort of Radio Amateurs, PolySat and the CubeBUG team that finally resulted in the decoding of the faint AX25 signals that are transmitted by CubeBUG-1. PolySat had recorded a audio file that could be decoded by … Continue reading