Arirang, a TV station in Korea, has broadcast an English language TV news item about CubeSats that features a brief clip of the AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 CubeSat.
FUNcube-1 is planned to launch in 2013 and will provide an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW communications and a 1200 bps BPSK beacon for educational outreach.
A shot of the FUNcube-1 engineering model stack with an antenna deployment simulator attached can be seen 5 seconds into this video.
Arirang, a TV station in Korea, has broadcast an English language TV news item about CubeSats that features a brief clip of the AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 CubeSat.
FUNcube-1 is planned to launch in 2013 and will provide an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW communications and a 1200 bps BPSK beacon for educational outreach.
A shot of the FUNcube-1 engineering model stack with an antenna deployment simulator attached can be seen 5 seconds into this video.
Artists impression of UKube-1 in orbit – Credit Clyde Space
This video shows the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat UKube-1 which is being built by Clyde Space. It is slated to launch in the 1st quarter of 2013 on a Soyuz-2 along with TechDemoSat-1.
UKube-1 will carry a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards to provide an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder and a 1200 bps BPSK beacon for educational outreach.
On Saturday, January 26, UKube-1 was at Selex Edinburgh for vibration testing. This test was to simulate the vibration seen during launch to verify the build quality. In the space game this is called giving the spacecraft a ‘shake’.
Dr Chris Bridges and STRaND hardware
In this video Surrey Space Centre’s Dr. Peter Shaw talks us through the anatomy of the highly advanced UK CubeSat STRaND-1.
The innovative amateur radio STRaND-1 CubeSat aims to carry a NEXUS Android Smartphone into space to demonstrate the feasibility of using cheap Smartphone electronics to control a spacecraft.
A software-based speech synthesiser will be included to pay homage to the UOSAT family of satellites (OSCAR-9 and OSCAR-11) that were launched in the 1980′s.
STRaND-1 will carry an amateur radio payload with an AX.25 packet radio downlink on 437 MHz using data rates of 9k6 or 19k2 bps.
It is understood that the ISS amateur radio SpEx Shadow-Beacon experiment is planned to take place February 1-3 and 8-10. The timetable is here.
The Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TSNIIMASH) in Russia is conducting a series of space plasma experiments in order to evaluate the shape of previously observed “dead” zone, or shadowing due to the firing of an onboard arcjet plasma source.
Radio Amateurs are invited to participate in the Space plasma experiment “Shadow” onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Artists impression of UKube-1 in orbit – Credit Clyde Space
The UK Space Agency’s first Cube UKube-1, which is being built by Clyde Space, featured in The Herald on Monday, January 28.
UKube-1 will carry a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards to provide an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder and a 1200 bps BPSK beacon for educational outreach.
Read the article at
http://www.heraldscotland.com/business/people/we-dont-encourage-entrepreneurship-here-the-attitude-is-get-a-good-job.19985957
Note in the article the orbit is quoted as being 3700 miles (5920 km) it is understood the correct altitude is between 600 and 800 km.
Watch the UKube-1 CubeSat payload animation at http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12334
Watch other UK Space Agency videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/spacegovuk
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