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AMSAT-UK at the UK Space Conference July 4/5th 2011
AMSAT-UK will have a presence at the first ever UK Space Conference taking place at the Univeristy of Warwick on July 4/5th. This is being organised by the UK Space Agency which was formally commenced in April this year.
We have been sponsored by a member to have a small stand “booth” in the exhibtion area and will be amongst some very illustrious company.
We will be displaying FUNcube models and demonstrating the educational outreach possibilities that we will have with the telemetry and Fitter message download systems when matched with a simple groundstation – the FUNcube dongle.
We will also be presenting short papers in the educational and cubesat streams during the event.
– see this link for details of the event.
Satellite Presentation – Pasadena CA
AMSAT area coordinator Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting his ‘Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT’session at the June 28, 2011 meeting of the Pasadena (CA) Radio Club. ALL are welcome to attend.
Clint Bradford K6LCS
“The Pasadena club just celebrated their 50th anniversary,” Clint reports. “Not only as a club, but also 50 years of being an ARRL affiliate club. Why they are asking me back to speak during this momentous year is beyond me … ”
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 – 7:00PM
Kaiser Permanente – Walnut Center
393 E Walnut Street, Pasadena CA 91101
Attendees should download Clint’s four-page tutorial and radio programming data from …
http://www.work-sat.com
… and Clint welcomes pre-presentation questions. Call him at 909-1241-7666, or send email to …
clint@clintbradford.com
Deep sleep in deep space for Europe’s comet chaser
Artist's impression of the Rosetta Spacecraft (Credit: ESA - C. Carreau)
Rosetta’s hibernation mode starts today (8th June 2011) and will last until January 2014, during which time the spacecraft will reach its maximum distances from the Sun (about 800 million kilometres) and Earth (about 1000 million kilometres). UK scientists and engineers involved in this exciting mission are hoping Rosetta will unlock the hidden secrets of comets and teach us more about the origin of these huge, dirty snowballs.
Rosetta’s primary mission hasn’t even started yet but since the launch in 2004 it has been on a non-stop cosmic ‘road-trip’ Continue reading
College congratulated on ISS ham radio link-up
NASA Astronaut Ronald J Garan KF5GPO
Lough Erne Amateur Radio Club congratulates South West Regional College on its very successful Amateur Radio link up with the International Space Station.
Particular credits to Mamraz Nagi whose initiative secured this ARISS event, the College technicians, and the students who spoke with the Radio Amateur in the ISS, Ronald J Garan, KF5GPO. Among his replies to the Enniskillen students’ questions, he shared very happy memories of a recent visit to Northern Ireland.
David Taylor operated the ground station K6DUE in Maryland USA linking up to the ISS, and Gaston Bertels ON4WF in Belgium, guided the College ARISS team through checks, rehearsals student questions and wrapped up with remarks that brought massive applause from over a hundred present for the radio amateurs in space and on the ground, and all involved in Northern Ireland’s first ever ARISS event. Continue reading
Funcube Dongle distance record.
Breaking the Funcube Dongle distance record.. 219.000.000 kilometers, Mario Lorenz DL5MLO explains…
AMSAT-DL AGM May 2011 – 1 from Jim Heck on Vimeo.
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