A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs: [ Update: A satellite developed by China’s AMSAT group and the Beijing Institute of Technology ( BIT ) is set to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs: ** Yale student team to build BLAST CubeSat with cosmic ray detector. The NASA sponsored spacecraft will launch in 2020: Student-built satellite […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs: ** Arizona student team to build CubeSat with inflatable antenna for NASA program: UA Student-led CatSat Mission Selected by NASA | […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve posted a couple of times about the HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System for capturing weather satellite images: Build a low cost system to receive images from GOES weather satellites Improving GOES weather satellite imaging with low cost home ground […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs: ** Surrey Space Center at the University of Surrey in the UK is the leader of the consortium that built the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. about student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs: ** Images of earth from lunar orbit are being captured via amateur radio transmissions from a transceiver placed on a Chinese satellite […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. about student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs: ** Say hello to my little friend– it’s a tiny satelite – INSIDE Korea JoongAng Daily Korea’s own rocket boys are hoping […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. about student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs: ** Soyuz launches cluster of 28 satellites – Spaceflight Now The University of Würzburg’s fourth experimental CubeSat, known as UWE 4, carries a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in August I wrote here about a low cost system to receive images from GOES weather satellites. A reader points me to an improved software package described on the SDRplay Community Forum for obtaining better images with the system: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…
[ 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…
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…
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…
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…
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