KN-SAT1 Prototype Subsystems Design and Testing

KN-SAT1 Students at ST2UOK Khartoum

KN-SAT1 Students at ST2UOK Khartoum

The KN-SAT1 CubeSat, which will have a VHF downlink, is being developed at the University Of Khartoum.

Mahmoud Esawi has made available a video which shows KN-SAT1 Prototype2 subsystems design and testing.

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Phonesat – Popular Science Magazine Winners

Phonesat ConstructionPhonesat, which hopes to launch in December carrying an amateur radio payload on 437.425 MHz, has been chosen as one of the winners in the Aerospace category for the Popular Science magazine “Best of What’s New 2012” awards.

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iPhone/iPad/iTouch App for the X-Ray CubeSat CXBN

Kentucky Space have released an App for the iPhone, iPad and iTouch that tracks the CXBN CubeSat – 437.525 MHz 9k6 FSK AX.25, FM.

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Online Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SID) Monitoring Station

The Sun – Image Credit NASA SOHO

Tarif Rashid Santo has made his Solar Radio Telescope available online. He provides live data from his IONX Solar Radio Telescope in Demra, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Coordinates Lat: 23°42′26.83″N Long: 90°29′31.19″E.

The Spectrogram and the Plotter update in every hour with new data exported from the Radio Telescope. Beside this you will get Solar Flux measurement from NOAA and recent Sunspots updates.

New articles on How to make Radio Telescope, Antenna, other stunning experiments are coming soon!

Check out the Online Solar Radio Telescope Page: http://radioastronomybd.com/onlinesid.html

Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances http://www.radioastronomybd.com/sidvlf.html

Amateur Radio Satellite to Flash Morse Code on Christmas Eve

FITSAT-1 plans to use LED’s to signal in Morse code

On Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) the Japanese students who built FITSAT-1 are planning to active the satellite’s LED optical array and flash a message in Morse code to Earth. The Morse message may be visible to the unaided eye.

According to Takushi Tanaka JA6AVG the students plan to start testing the optical system at the end of November.

The FITSAT-1 CubeSat was developed by students at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) in Japan. In addition to the LED array it also has a CW beacon on 437.250 MHz, a data link on 437.445 MHz and a 5840.0 MHz data downlink.

Further FITSAT-1 information at http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml

CubeSats deployed from International Space Station http://www.uk.amsat.org/?page_id=10967

FITSAT-1 heard in Vermont on 5840.0 MHz

FITSAT-1 Flight Model

The 5840.0 MHz downlink of FITSAT-1 was received in Vermont on both Saturday and Sunday by Mike Seguin N1JEZ.

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