Amateur satellite and space related news from the AMSAT-UK website http://www.uk.amsat.org Fri, 09 May 2008 17:17:49 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.uk.amsat.org/images/M_images/amsatuknews.png http://www.uk.amsat.org Amateur satellite and space related news from the AMSAT-UK website http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/650/86/ The ARRL reports that all the satellites launched on April 28 deployed normally and appeared to be functional. The six satellites are: News - Latest Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:17:52 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/649/86/ Reports are being posted on the AMSAT Bulletin Board for some of the 6 Amateur Radio satellites launched earlier this morning. The latest satellite to be heard is Delfi-C3 on 145.930 MHz. News - Latest Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:03:10 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/647/86/ Telemetry decoding software for the Amateur Radio satellite Delfi-C3 is being made available.RASCAL is the name of the software package that the Delfi-C3 team are offering to radio-amateurs around the world to enable them to collect and decode data of the Delfi-C3 satellite. News - Latest Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:01:52 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/645/86/ An Indian rocket will this week send six Amateur Radio satellites into a 630 km 90 degree sun-synchronous orbit from the launch site at Sriharikota. News - Latest Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:54:15 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/648/151/ In the years ahead, it is possible that you may hear OSCAR-11, by accident, when tuning round the frequency. If you are able to record the satellite on audio tape or as a WAV file (not MP3), please do so, as it is unlikely that it will be heard on the next pass! News - OSCAR 11 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:05:02 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/644/86/ A new Amateur Radio satellite, Delfi-C3, is due to be launched at the end of April. It will go into a 630 km 90 degree sun-synchronous orbit from the Indian launch site at Sriharikota and will carry a 70 cm to 2 metre linear transponder for SSB and CW working. News - Latest Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:30:48 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/643/150/ It has been quite a time since the AMSAT-UK European Student Earth Orbiter (ESEO) team have been able to provide an update on the progress of this satellite payload and just recently ESA have made a major change to the structure of the project organisation. News - SSETI Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:54:17 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/639/86/ (Seen on The University of Manchester StaffNet Update) 20 Mar 2008 Members of University staff will no doubt have seen recent reports in the media regarding the funding of the e-MERLIN project and the implications for the future of Jodrell Bank. News - Latest Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:06:01 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/602/86/ One aspect of Amateur Satellite operating that has been growing in popularity is capturing telemetry data from the many Amateur satellites now in orbit. It's a lot of fun and Amateurs can provide invaluable research data that would otherwise be lost. News - Latest Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:45:24 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/599/86/ UK school pupils are being offered the chance to design an experiment for a small satellite in an effort to boost interest in space science. The contest, organised by the British National Space Centre (BNSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL), is open to students between the ages of 14 and 18. News - Latest Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:40:13 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/598/86/ Earlier this year the Directors of AMSAT-DL were informed by the University of Marburg in Germany that it had been decided that funding for the ZEL by the University would cease at the end of 2007. The Directors approached AMSAT-NA and AMSAT-UK for financial assistance in keeping the ZEL open for another year. The sum of 25,000 Euros was requested. News - Latest Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:19:26 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/597/86/ In recent years university students around the world have built a number of small educational satellites – CubeSats which have been launched in a low earth orbit. Often there is just one dedicated ground station for each CubeSat that may only be able to communicate with the satellite for less than an hour each day. This has made it difficult to make full use of the spacecraft and maximise the educational benefits. News - Latest Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:37:15 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/501/148/ Saturday's contact between the International Space Station NA1SS and GB100J at the World Scout Jamboree, Hylands Park, Chelmsford was a great success. Audio (7.6Mb MP3) (/ARISS/GB100JISS.mp3) and Video (21Mb WMV) (/ARISS/GB100JISS.wmv) of the contact can now be downloaded from the web.GB100J Website (http://gb100j.radio-scouting.org.uk/)Echolink node MB7IDA available for Chelmsford World Scout Jamboree (http://www.southgatearc.org/news/june2007/mb7ida.htm)ARISS Europe (http://www.ariss-eu.org/)High quality versions as Video (124Mb WMV) (/ARISS/GB100JISSHiPAL.wmv) or Video (63Mb MP4) (/ARISS/GB100JISS.mp4) are also available. News - ARISS Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:54:43 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/496/86/ RS-15 was launched on 26 December 1994 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It has since ceased operating but there have been reports that it's 10 metre beacon can be heard once more on 29.3156 MHz. News - Latest Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:46:52 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/494/86/ AMSAT-UK has held Beginners Workshops at their Annual Colloquium in Guildford for 20 years. One of the first of the Beginners Sessions is mentioned in the June 1988 issue of RadCom. News - Latest Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:57:25 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/493/86/ Up to now no Cubesats have been built in the United Kingdom but this may soon change. News - Latest Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:26:19 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/428/150/ The launch date for SSETI-ESEO, the ESA led student satellite project intended for Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), has been delayed by approximately one year. It had originally been hoped that this satellite would be a secondary payload on Arianespace launch from Kourou in late Nov 2008 but it now seems that the expected secondary payload opportunity will not be available. News - SSETI Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:40:37 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/383/86/ On the AMSAT Bulletin Board there has been a discussion on the human safety issues relating to Amateur Satellites such as PCSAT2 which are physically attached to the International Space Station. Bob WB4APR, the driving force behind Amateur Satellites PCSAT1, PCSAT2, RAFT and ANDES was asked What made the man-safety issues of PCSAT2 costly? Didn't you just agree to power PCSAT2 off for long periods of time whenever the need arose? He gave a detailed reply which he... News - Latest Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:31:03 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/380/86/ Following a meeting between representatives of the AMSAT groups from North America (AMSAT-NA), The United Kingdom (AMSAT-UK), and Germany (AMSAT-DL), a decision has been made by AMSAT-NA and AMSAT-UK to donate a total of 40,000 Euros to AMSAT-DL for the purpose of funding the continued operation of the Zentrales Entwicklungslabor for Electronik , (Central Development Lab for Electronics, aka The ZEL ). News - Latest Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:31:31 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/642/216/ This is the first call for speakers for the 23rd Amsat-UK Colloquium which will be held at Surrey University, Guildford, Surrey, U.K., from Friday 25 July to Sunday 27 July 2008. News - Latest Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:41:23 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/326/150/ Some eleven months ago we were able to announce that the planned SSETI ESEO GTO satellite would include a linear transponder which would be developed by a team from AMSAT-UK.Since then we have been very busy developing all the various parts of the satellite sub-system and apologise for not having provided many updates on the progress made.This report will hopefully help to correct this omission! News - SSETI Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:58:38 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/222/86/ A new Amateur Radio Licence document has been announced by the UK Regulator Ofcom. News - Latest Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:01:11 +0100 http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/197/86/ The October issue of RadCom announces that Foundation licensees will have access to the Amateur Satellite Service. News - Latest Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:35:38 +0100