A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device, designed by Paulo Lozano, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, bears little resemblance to today’s bulky satellite engines, which are laden with valves, pipes and heavy propellant tanks.
The Sun – Image Credit NASA SOHO
Dr Lucie Green from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory will be giving a talk about the Sun to the Reading and District Amateur Radio Club on Thursday, September 27 at 7:30 pm.
Mal VK2MALhas produced a video showing reception, using a handheld, of SSB signals from the amateur radio satellite VO-52.
Max Valier satellite – Image credit Max Valier Gewerbeoberschule
The Max Valier satellite is a 15 kg amateur radio microsat planned for launch into a 700 km Sun Synchronous Orbit from Plesetsk.
Microspace POPSAT-HIP1 Team
POPSAT-HIP1 is a 3U amateur radio CubeSat developed in Singapore. It aims to demonstrate the functionality of a high resolution optical payload and attitude control propulsion system.
Donghee Park and Hojun Song with OSSI-1 CubeSat
In this 20 minute video Korean artist Hojun Song DS1SBO and Donghee Park describe the Open Source Satellite Initiative amateur radio CubeSat OSSI-1.
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