A “Dnepr” launcher set to lift off from Dombarovsky, near Yasny, Russia, on November 21 will carry more than two dozen satellites from 13 countries. Individual satellite teams are now in Yasny preparing their payloads for launch. Several of the satellites will carry Amateur Radio payloads, marking this as the largest single deployment of ham…
SimpleSat Look Down’ is a satellite tracking program designed for ease of use and is particularly well suited for demonstrations, educational environments and people new to the satellite hobby. This program requires .Net 4 so you will have to install it if you do not have it installed already. Not sure ? Try running the…
Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit. The scheme was outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The project’s organisers said the Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid of ground stations to track and communicate with the satellites.…
The Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) initiative has another launch on October 28 at 5:48 a.m. EDT and a number of Amateur Radio satellites are among them. On the CubeSat reflector Connor Lange KJ6KSV ELaNa III Groundstation Coordinator posted this information: The ELaNa III Cubesats being launched are listed below: Satellite: AubieSat-1 Downlink Freq: 437.475…
Give the satellite to radio amateurs for experiments. Why Not? The Gift for 300 Billions USD 🙂 Controllers in Contact with Russian Satellite Dropped Off in Useless Orbit The Russian Express-AM4 satellite launched Aug. 18 into a bad orbit is communicating normally with ground controllers, has partially deployed its solar arrays, pointed to the sun…