PW-Sat will go into orbit along with several other CubeSats early 2012, on board the new European Vega rocket. Launch will take place from the ESA space center near the town of Kourou in French Guiana (South America). This will be … Continue reading →

Prospero (X3) The Prospero satellite, also known as X-3, is a satellite launched by the United Kingdom in 1971. It was designed to undertake a series of experiments studying the effects of the space environment. It is the only United … Continue reading →

Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX-2) RAX is a standard 3U CubeSat that is 10 cm x 10 cm x 34 cm in size and 2.8 kg (~6 lbs) in mass. The satellite is designed to these dimensions so that it can … Continue reading →

EME Equipment Antennas: EME can be done with a single yagi antenna, for example, with 15dBd of gain and 100 watts, however, it is much better to have something like a set of 4 yagis. This is because it will … Continue reading →

DELFI-OSCAR 64 (DELFI-C³) On the 28th of April 2008 at 03:53 UTC the Delfi-C3 was succesfully launched with a PSLV launch vehicle. At 06:45 UTC the first signal was received by a radio amateur in California. At 11:55 UTC the … Continue reading →

A two-line element set (TLE) is a set of orbital elements that describe the orbit of an earth satellite. A computer program called a model can use the TLE to compute the precise position of a satellite at a particular … Continue reading →