NASA announced on May 13, 2013 that AMSAT’s Fox-1 spacecraft has been assigned for launch in 2014 on the ELaNa XII mission. The expected orbit is 470 x 780 km at 64 degrees inclination. This orbit has a lifetime of about 11 years. AMSAT Vice President Engineering, Tony Monteiro, AA2TX, reported that the software development …
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May 18 2013
434 MHz and 438 MHz balloon launches today
More balloons carrying 70cm transmitters will be launched this weekend, among them are STRATODEAN and STS-3 PICO STATODEAN is aiming for a launch from Coleford, Gloucestershire this Saturday afternoon at 2pm, predicted direction is towards Wales. STRATODEAN Two: $$SDEAN, 434.650MHz, 50 baud, 350hz shift, ASCII-7, 2 stop bits, no parity. The payload will be around …
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May 15 2013
Fox-1 has a launch date!
Fox-1 has a launch date! NASA announced Monday, May 13 that AMSAT’s Fox-1 FM transponder spacecraft has been assigned a launch in 2014. NASA announced Monday that AMSAT’s Fox-1 FM transponder spacecraft has been assigned a launch in 2014. For details on the launch vehicle, targeted launch date, orbit specifics, and more, please attend the …
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May 08 2013
ICSEDS 434 MHz balloon launch
Last Sunday, members of Imperial College Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (ICSEDS) travelled to Elsworth, Cambridgeshire, for their first launch trip. The aim was to launch two 434 MHz High Altitude Balloons (HABs) and several model rockets built over the course of the year. The two HABs were the culmination of ICSEDS’s …
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Apr 30 2013
NASA mission to study what disrupts radio waves
A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch from an atoll in the Pacific in the next few weeks to help scientists better understand and predict the electrical storms in Earth’s upper atmosphere. These storms can interfere with satellite communication and global positioning signals. The mission, called EVEX, for the Equatorial Vortex Experiment, will launch two …
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