Category Archives: Amateur/Student Satellite

AMSAT & ISS amateur radio news

Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS.
ANS 132 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – May 11, 2013:

* AMSAT is Going to the Dayton Hamvention This Week
* AMSAT Engineering Will Show Fox-1 System Software Running on IHU
* AMSAT V/U/WX Receive Preamps at Dayton for Display and Sales
* New Fox-1 CubeSat Model to Debut at Hamvention 2013
* Updated AMSAT LVB Tracker to be Shown at Dayton
* “Dayton Only” Special Deals
* Signals Received From Estonia’s ESTCube-1 CubeSat
* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations Solicited
* ARISS School Contacts
* Museum Ships Weekend Special Event Station KK5W Satellite Ops
* Additional 2M Downlink Allocation Proposed for Amateur Satellites?
* HAMSAT VO-52 Celebrates 8th Year On Orbit
* SA AMSAT Space Symposium Coming to Pretoria on May 18
* 1000th Session of the Houston AMSAT Net Invites You to Check In
* NASA TV to Cover Soyuz Landing May 13
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

ESTCube, now in orbit, to test E-Sail propulsion

The Estonian student Cubesat project ESTCube successfully reached orbit via a Vega rocket this week:

Paul Gilster writes about the E-sail propulsion concept, developed by Pekka Janhunen of Finland, which will be tested by ESTCube: To Ride the Solar Wind.

AMSAT & ISS amateur radio news – May 5, 2013

Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS.

ANS 125 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – May 5, 2013:

* AMSAT SPACE SYMPOSIUM – Save the Date November 1 – 3
* First Call for PApers – AMSAT Space Symposium
* AMSAT Booth is Moving at Dayton, but not very far!
* Call for Papers: 2013 Digital Communications Conference
* Help Wanted: AMSAT News Service Rotating Editor Positions Available
* NASA and Amateur Radio operators piece together the PhoneSat picture
* Conferences and Events related to Space Sceduled in May
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

More about ESTCube and the electric space sail

Here’s a report on the Estonian cubesat project ESTCube, which will test the E-sail propulsion concept from Pekka Janhunen of Finland: Electric Space Sail to Get Its First Test – IEEE Spectrum.

Cubesat workshop presentations on line

The 10th Annual Spring [CubeSat] Workshop 2013 took place last week. The agenda (pdf) included a vast array of CubeSat projects, technologies, and applications.  You can watch the talks on line: Videos of presentations – CubeSat Workshop 2013.

This item via  2013 CubeSat Workshop – KentuckySpace Blog.