Clyde Space have released pictures showing the progress of UKube-1 as they prepare the satellite for a Soyuz launch planned for March 2013.
UKube-1 is the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat and plans to carry an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder developed by AMSAT-UK.
Last year as part of the UKube-1 project and a student project at Cornell, the deployable solar panels were on a zero-G flight.
NBC News reports that inmates at San Quentin prison are building CubeSat orbital deployers.
P-PODs, Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployers are aluminum boxes designed to hold tiny satellites known as CubeSats, which ride “piggyback” into space as secondary payloads.
NBC quotes Ariel Wainzinger, a man with ten months left on his sentence, as saying: “You come to prison and you think it’s gonna be all gloom and doom and you find yourself with a lot of different opportunities and you take advantage of it.”
Hector Martinez CO6CBF
Hector, CO6CBF reports on his successful transatlantic contact between Cuba and Spain using the amateur radio satellite FO-29.
Inner West Courier – Robert Brand VK2URB
The Inner West Courier reports that Robert Brand VK2URB is hoping to break new ground with two space missions he is participating in.
The Sydney newspaper says he is involved in the communications system for the Team Stellar Lunar mission scheduled for 2014, as part of an entry in the Google Lunar X Prize.
In addition he is working on a UK-based Mars mission, scheduled for 2020, that aims to sniff out biological methane.
Read the newspaper article – From Sydney to Mars mission
http://inner-west-courier.whereilive.com.au/news/story/from-sydney-telecommunications-to-navigating-mars-mission/
Robert’s son Jason VK2FJAB was interviewed on Channel 9 TV earlier this year.
10 year old Radio Ham talks of his DIY Space Projects on TV http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=8821
Inner West Courier – Robert Brand VK2URB
The Inner West Courier reports that Robert Brand VK2URB is hoping to break new ground with two space missions he is participating in.
The Sydney newspaper says he is involved in the communications system for the Team Stellar Lunar mission scheduled for 2014, as part of an entry in the Google Lunar X Prize.
In addition he is working on a UK-based Mars mission, scheduled for 2020, that aims to sniff out biological methane.
Read the newspaper article – From Sydney to Mars mission
http://inner-west-courier.whereilive.com.au/news/story/from-sydney-telecommunications-to-navigating-mars-mission/
Robert’s son Jason VK2FJAB was interviewed on Channel 9 TV earlier this year.
10 year old Radio Ham talks of his DIY Space Projects on TV http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=8821
IO-26 ITAMSAT
This documentary shows the preparation and launch of the first Italian amateur radio satellite, September 26, 1993. It was encoded and uploaded from original video master.
AMSAT-UK 
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