Videos of the presentations at this years successful AMSAT-UK Colloquium in Guildford are now available to watch on the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) website.

On the 25th and 26th of July, starting at 10am local time (0900 GMT), batc.tv will be streaming the lecture programme from the AMSAT UK Colloquium in Guilford. This is a very popular event and attracts some very interesting speakers

After several years of running the AMSAT-UK shop, Jim G3WGM has handed the reins to Ciaran Morgan M0XTD. Ciaran obtained his full license in April 2008 and enjoyed organising a very successful ARISS contact between Budbrooke School in Warwick, England and Richard Garriott K5KWQ whilst he was onboard the International Space Station in October 2008.

First German Mars Mission makes sidestep to Venus, Ground station in Bochum generated echoes from Venus

The team of German Space Agency AMSAT-DL reached another milestone on the way to send a spacecraft to Mars on 25 March 2009. From ground mission control station in Bochum (located in the observatory IUZ Sternwarte) radio frequency signals were sent to Venus.

You can listen for the new Amateur Radio satellites, launched Friday Jan 23, by using a Web based Software Defined Radio (SDR). Some of the Radio Amateurs who were involved in the very successful Delfi-C3 / DO-64 Amateur Radio satellite have made available a WebSDR receiver that listeners around the world can use to receive signals from the new Amateur Radio satellites.

The ESEO project is moving ahead! AMSAT-UK is getting ready to support it with on board transponder and telemetry equipment. The latest news item on the ESA Education website gives up to date information about the progress made so far.

Some good news for a change!

AMSAT-UK is delighted to announce that the ESEO project is going ahead once again and that although it is now a LEO mission it is expected to have a number of amateur sub-systems and at least one transponder on board.