Amateur/Student Satellite, Space Radio

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

History, Space Settlement

Darrell Romick, a nearly forgotten space visionary

This article describes the visionary rocket and space infrastructure concepts laid out in the 1950s by Goodyear Aircraft engineer Darrell C. Romick, who was eclipsed by Wernher von Braun: The Space City That Could Have Been, If Not For Wernher Von Braun –  io9.com

More about Romick:

Romick-Goodyear Meteor Junior

General, SpaceCasts

This Week @ NASA – May.11.13

The latest episode of This Week @NASA covers Saturday’s space walk by two astronauts on the ISS to fix a coolant leak and several other topics including:

Humans 2 Mars, 40th Anniversary of Skylab, Marshburn “Testifies” From Space, Next ISS Crew Focused on Launch, Curiosity Rover Update, Landsat’s Vegas Time-Lapse, Fruit Flies Improving Flight, Student Launch Projects and more!

DIY space, Rockets

Copenhagen Suborbitals: Manned vehicle design + Sapphire guided rocket update

Copenhagen Suborbitals

now has a concept design for their manned suborbital space vehicle, which they call the HEAT-1600/Tycho Deep Space: HEAT 1600 Concept Development – The Manifestation of Dreams and Ambitions (for Download) – Wired Science/Wired.com

heat1600_concept01_500x409“The first visualization of the HEAT-1600/TDSII rocket – 20 meters high. Image: Kristian von Bengtson. Concept: Peter Madsen / Kristian von Bengtson”

They make available the design drawings:

Nothing is secret at Copenhagen Suborbitals – so please go ahead – download the entire rocket here (Solidworks 2013, IGES and STP, 13MB total)

They are also making progress towards a flight test of their Sapphire  rocket with using active guide jet vane rudders. Assembly pictures: 11-05-13 Sapphire Assembly – Copenhagen Suborbitals – Picasa Web Albums

Activism, DIY space, Space Settlement

Bas Lansdorp of Mars One interviewed on the Space Show

The Mars One project to develop a settlement on the Red Planet was the topic of conversation on the Space Show yesterday with Bas Lansdorp, the project’s leader: Bas Lansdorp of Mars One, Friday, 5-10-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.

Everyone can participate in space