UK space students graduate from International Space University

UK space students graduate from International Space University

6 UK graduates have just had their first taste of working in the space sector with the successful completion of the International Space University’s two-month Space Studies Programme (SSP).

With funding assistance from the UK Space Agency’s ISU Scholarship scheme, they were exposed to a wide range of disciplines related to space programmes and enterprises.

An additional grant winner has just started a 1 year MSc at the ISU and one of the students from the two month SSP will be joining him. This years SSP was held at the Graz University of Technology in Austria.

The ISU provides graduate-level training to the future leaders of the emerging global space community. In its two-month Space Studies Programme and one-year Masters Programme, ISU offers its students a unique core curriculum including study areas such as space science, space engineering, systems engineering, space policy and law, business and management, and space and society. Both courses also involve an intense student research team project providing international graduate students and young space professionals with the opportunity to solve complex problems by working together in an intercultural environment. Continue reading

CubeSat Deployable Boom

Drexel University Team

Drexel University Team

The team at Drexel University have been doing some research on a deployable boom for CubeSats.

The YouTube description reads:

Drexel University’s experiment, Characterizing the Performance of the CubeSat Deployable Boom in Microgravity has been selected to participate in NASA’s 2011 Grant Us Space Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. This flight will take place in Houston. The flight week the team participated in was July 7-16, 2011.

Watch MicroG_SpaceGrant_Drexel_July_2011.mov

The Triangle – Students ride NASA flight
http://thetriangle.org/2011/08/12/students-ride-nasa-flight/

ARISSat used as teaching tool, covered in local newspaper

ARISSat used as teaching tool, covered in local newspaper

Matt Severin, principal of Dowagiac Middle School in Michigan, took some of his students outside to track and listen to the satellite ARISSat-1 on Tuesday, September 13.

Two years earlier, Severin, then principal of Sister Lakes Elementary School, had a picture taken of the students and submitted it to be flown on ARISSat.

On Tuesday, the students were able to track the satellite, listen to greetings in several languages and receive telemetry as well as SSTV (Slow Scan Television) images with a goal to promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

The Daily News posted a story on this activity.http://www.dowagiacnews.com/2011/09/13/
passionate-principal-stokes-science-interest/

Isle of Skye on Amateur Radio Satellites Sep 24

Paul Robinson 2E1EUB, current holder of the Louis Varney G5RV cup, will be active on the Amateur Radio satellites from the Isle of Skye and Eastern Scotland starting Saturday, September 24.

2E1EUB Portable Satellite Station

2E1EUB Portable Satellite Station

He will be using the call sign 2M1EUB/P and weather permitting Paul will be active from the Isle of Skye for a week and then active for a further week from Cairngorms National Park about 80km west of Aberdeen in grid square IO67VJ.

He says he welcomes skeds, contact details via:
http://www.qrz.com/db/2E1EUB
http://www.qrz.com/db/2M1EUB

Louis Varney G5RV Cup

Getting started on Amateur Radio Satellites PDF

AMSAT-NA BOD election results

AMSAT-NA BOD election results

The 2011 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors election has been completed with the following results:

Barry Baines, WD4ASW- 576
Tony Monteiro, AA2TX – 560
Alan Biddle, WA4SCA – 516
Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA – 418
Mark Hammond, N8MH – 319 First Alternate
Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK – 275 Second Alternate
Steve Coy, K8UD – 229

A total of 751 ballots were received

In accordance with the Bylaws of AMSAT-NA those receiving the four highest number of votes are elected as regular members of the Board of Directors for the next 2 years.
The alternates will serve for one year until the next election.

Indian NOAA APT images with the ‘AMSAT-UKFUNcube Dongle SDR’

Indian NOAA APT images

Mahesh Vhatkay VU2IIA has used his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle SDR to receive weather satellite images of the Indian sub-continent.

As well as the FUNcube Dongle software defined radio his station comprised a QFH antenna with 137 MHz preamp (homebrew), WXtoIm (free version) and SpectraVue.

You can see the images at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1m9p35m44o57av#gallery:0

Join the FUNcube Yahoo Group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/

WXtoImg software
http://www.wxtoimg.com/

SpectraVue
http://www.moetronix.com/spectravue.htm

SDR-RADIO Beta FUNcube software
http://www.sdr-radio.com/Download/tabid/178/language/
en-GB/Default.aspx#LiveTabsContent15701