Category Archives: Amateur/Student Satellite

Amateur/Student Satellite, Space Radio

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

Amateur/Student Satellite, Space Radio

AMSAT & ISS amateur radio news – April 27, 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 118 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin –  April 27, 2013:

* CubeBug-1 Reaches Orbit
* Istanbul Technical University’s TURKSAT-3USAT Launched
* Antares Successfully Launches from Wallops Island, Virginia
* PhoneSats Mission Complete
* 16 Year-old UK student to Work on KickSat Sprite
* Merritt Island High School StangSat Team Wins Best Presentation

 

Amateur/Student Satellite, Education

Virginia elementary/middle school is building a Cubesat

The low cost CubeSat approach to satellite design is growing rapidly in popularity and over 75 Cubesats have reached space already. Most of these have come from colleges, universities and small companies. Now even a K-8 school is building one: Young students aim to be among first to launch small satellite – SlashGear.

Students at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, VA are aiming to be a part of a milestone. The school is looking to become the first K-8 school to launch a “CubeSat” satellite into space. The proposed satellite that the students will build would be four inches long in all directions and would weigh around three pounds.

The project has to be approved by NASA, but if the school gets clearance, the satellite will have a planned launch date sometime later in 2014. The CubeSat satellite that St. Thomas More students have planned will be designed to take photographs and temperature readings, and have them beamed back to the school on Earth.