Small satellites, which typically refers to spacecraft in the kilogram to a few hundred kilograms range, have become in the past few years a large and growing part of what is happening in space. Smallsats have actually been around since […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Space Radio
116 results.
A reader points me to this item about a low cost system for receiving images from NOAA’s GOES weather satellites: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System – SDRplay Community Forum This setup uses off-the-shelf components, is really easy to put together, and is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out the exotic sounds of Saturn as derived from the radio transmissions generated by waves in the plasma (ionized particles) between Saturn and the rings and the satellite Enceladus: Listen: Electromagnetic Energy of Saturn, Enceladus New research from NASA’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Scott Tilley, an “amateur visual and radio astronomer”, recently discovered that a NASA science satellite that went silent in 2005 had begun transmitting again: Amateur astronomer discovers a revived NASA satellite | Science/AAAS The astronomer, Scott Tilley, spends his free time […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are links to a set of How-To postings on receiving weather satellite images with a low cost home system that includes the conversion of a telescope mount into an automated antenna that follows weather satellites across the sky: Orbital […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ARRL ( American Radio Relay League) recently sponsored the “Moon bounce” EME Contest in which contestants demonstrate “Two-way communications via the earth-moon-earth [EME] path on any authorized amateur frequency above 50 MHz”. One entrant did his Moon bouncing from his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on Amateur radio enthusiast bounces signals off the Moon with balcony antenna
[ Update: As many suspected, it appears the signal was of terrestrial origin: Turns out the signal astronomers saw was “strong” because it came from Earth – Ars Technica. + Here is a brief video from Seth Shostak: ] That odd signal from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on Update on that unusual signal from a distant star
An intro to amateur satellite radio: Ham radio satellites at EMF – Southgate Amateur Radio News – Dave Rowntree 2E0DRV, drummer in the rock-band Blur, gave a presentation on amateur radio satellites at the Electromagnetic Field event in Guildford Talk description: There […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on Video: Dave Rowntree (Blur drummer) gives “A hacker’s guide to satellites”
Below is a TMRO.tv Space Pod short report on students communicating with crew members on the Int. Space Station via its amateur radio station: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station – Space Pod 3/2/16 – TMRO Students all over the world are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on Video: TMRO Space Pod – Amateur radio on the International Space Station
There is a ham radio station on the Int. Space Station that the crew members (many of whom have amateur radio licenses) use to talk with hams on the ground. In addition, quite often there is an arrangement made with a school […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you are planning a weather balloon or other amateur high altitude project and need a low cost system for tracking and telemetry communications, check out the Tracksoar Open source APRS tracker: Tracksoar is the smallest lightest open source APRS [Automatic Packet Reporting […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on Tracksoar – Open source APRS tracker for weather balloons and other projects
The HobbySpace Space Radio section has lots of information and web resources about home reception of satellite signals, especially for obtaining images from low earth orbit weather satellites. The price for such DIY systems was modest and now has gotten even cheaper. Previously, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on Low cost DIY ground station for weather satellite image reception
An overview of the history of ham radio communications with the Shuttle and the Int. Space Station : For Ham Radio Geeks, Contact With Space Station Is Exciting – Forbes – This event at The Exploer Club in New York City on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on Talking with astronauts on the ISS via ham radio
More sounds of space
Aug26
I wrote the other day about naturally generated space sounds. One of the examples in that post is actually from a big collection of such recordings at Space Audio – YouTube (via The Unwanted Blog). Here are more examples from that collection:
Comments Off on More sounds of space
Here’s an overview of “space sounds”, i.e. naturally produced radio signals from the planets, deep space, meteors, etc converted to audio: The spooky sounds of space: Since the 1950s, probes sent into space have been sending back data that reveal eerie […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 2014 Perseid meteor shower will be peaking between today and Wednesday. Here is some advice on observing them: Perseid Meteor Shower: How to See August’s ‘Shooting Stars’ – Space.com’. The International Meteor Organization offers citizen scientists a way to participate in monitoring the event […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on Seeing and listening to Perseid meteors
Congratulations to the ISEE-3 Reboot Project team on successfully firing the thrusters of the 36 year old International Cometary Explorer to spin it back up: ISEE-3 Engines Fired For Spin-Up – Space College Additional ISEE-3 Spin-up Confirmation – Space College ISEE-3 Current Location 3 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on ISEE-3 engines fired successfully
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is making progress towards resurrecting the International Cometary Explorer from its decades long hiatus in orbit around the sun. (See previous posts on the ISEE-3 reboot such as here and here.) Here is the news from yesterday: ISEE-3 Status 24 June 2014: We […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on ISEE-3 Reboot Project – preparing for first thruster firing
The ARISS (Amateur Radio on the ISS) activities were highlighted during the ISS Research & Development Conference held last week in Chicago: Amateur Radio Role on Space Station Featured at ISS Research and Development Conference – ARRL ARISS is the first and longest continuously running educational outreach program […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on Amateur Radio on the ISS (ARISS) going strong
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project (see the recent post ISEE-3 Reboot Project takes command of the spacecraft) continues to make progress in the effort to resurrect and re-target NASA’s International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) spacecraft, launched in 1978 to study the earth’s magnetosphere but re-targeted to study […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments Off on ISEE-3 Reboot Project update
_200x157.jpg){kind=tracking}
