Sep 29 2011

Autumn OSCAR News

The autumn edition of the colour A4 newsletter OSCAR News is being posted to AMSAT-UK members this week

As usual it’s packed with Amateur Satellite articles:

– Haven’t Got A Callsign – regular column by Clive Wallis G3CWV
– Memories of working Astronaut Helen Sharman GB1MIR by Chris Lorek G4HCL
– Louis Varney Cup Presentation to Paul Robinson 2E1EUB
– ARISSat-1 Reception
– USA NTIA WRC proposal for an ITU “Educational” Satellite Service
– ARISSat Update
– FUNcube Testing at RAL
– Syncart geostationary transponder
– Report on First UK National Space Conference 2011
– FUNcube Project Report
– KiwiSAT Current Status
– IARU Region 1 Sun City Report
– 2011 AMSAT-UK Colloquium Report
– QB50 Latest News

To receive this copy of OSCAR News join AMSAT-UK online at
http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK/

If you’ve never seen OSCAR News before you can get an idea of what it’s like by downloading a sample issue from http://www.uk.amsat.org/on_193_final.pdf

Sep 28 2011

Name a satellite! European Commission launches a competition for 9-11 year olds

The European Commission has launched a European-wide drawing competition for children aged 9-11. The child submitting the winning entry from each European country will have one of the Galileo satellites named after them. Galileo is the European Union’s global satellite navigation system. Data from space will allow satnavs and smart phones to calculate your position any where on Earth.

The first two Galileo satellites are scheduled for launch on 20 October and are named Natalia and Thijs after the children winning the competitions in Bulgaria and Belgium. Competitions have already taken place in these countries and the competition is now open for the rest of Europe.

Entries for the UK drawing competition must be submitted on-line by 15 November at the competition website. The European Commission has also produced a lesson plan for teachers so that they can use the competition as a basis to teach their classes about space and space technology. Continue reading →

Sep 24 2011

ARISSat-1 Operations Survey

ARISSat-1 Operations Survey

The ARISSat-1 Team has put together a survey on ARISSat-1 operations.

Please take a few minutes to answer the questions athttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/arissat1-operation.

The results of the survey will be posted to the Official ARISSat-1 website http://www.arissat1.org

Sep 22 2011

CubeSat Developers’ Workshop Videos and Slides

Videos and slides from the Summer CubeSat Developers’ Workshop, held August 6-7 at the 25th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, are now available for download from
http://cubesat.org/index.php/workshops/past-workshops/2011summerslides

Sep 22 2011

UK astronaut resurfaces from cave training.

ESA’s UK astronaut Tim Peake, together with fellow astronauts Thomas Pesquet from France, Randolph Bresnik from NASA, Norishige Kanai from Japan and Sergey Ryzhikov from Russia, has just completed (21 September 2011) a week of living and working in a dark and humid cave – a unique training experience, organised by ESA, to prepare astronauts for space.

 

The 5 astronauts are now going through debriefings similar to those that follow an astronaut’s return from a space mission. Continue reading →

Sep 22 2011

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 →