Tag Archives: Space

Apr 11 2013

April Issue of RocketSTEM Available Online

Rocket STEM 2013-04The April 2013 issue of the RocketSTEM Media Foundation Magazine is now available online.

April’s issue will give you interesting facts about Mars Curiosity, Skylab and Yuri Gagarin and much more. Pages 48-49 cover Yuri’s Night which takes place April 12.

RocketSTEM Media Foundation is a private, not-for-profit organization established for the purpose of fostering science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, as well as promoting the benefits of space exploration. The new monthly digital magazine with content geared towards teachers, students and parents as well, blends space history – past, present and future – with interviews, career paths, astronomy guide, aerospace and astronomy news, museum features, NASA technology spinoffs, puzzles, games, quizzes, lesson plans and other educational resources, along with easy-to-follow explanations of the mathematics and physics of all things to do with aerospace and space travel.

Read the April issue of RocketSTEM at
http://issuu.com/rocketstem/docs/rocketstem_issue_2_spring_2013

RocketSTEM http://issuu.com/rocketstem

Apr 6 2013

AMSAT Life Member VK4PJ is 100 on April 13

Flag_of_AustraliaThe WIA is pleased to announce that Peter Brown VK4PJ will attain 100 years of age on Saturday, April 13.

It is believed by his friends that  Peter was first licensed in the early 1950’s . There is  evidence that he was issued with Amateur Radio licence QA.244 on 12 May 1963 so we can say with some certainty that he  has been licensed  for well over 50 years.

He  received a Meritorious Service Badge in 1978 from the Queensland Divisional Council  of the WIA following a sustained effort to bring the Division into a good financial and administrative position with the assistance of his great friend Al Carter VK4LT, now resident on the Sunshine Coast.

Peter also received certificates from QNEWS in 2001 and 2002 for his assistance in this area of the hobby.

His interest in space communication is evidenced by becoming AMSAT Life Member Number 1130 in 1979.

All in all Peter’s contribution to our hobby has been sustained and substantial and he is congratulated for a job well done.

Happy Birthday

Laurie Murray VK4LO

Source: WIA Weekly News

Mar 22 2013

Tania in Space Comic Book

Tania in Space

Tania in Space

The French language version of the European Space Agency (ESA) website reports the latest in the series of comic books about the Adventures of Tania in Space was published on March 22, 2013.

ESA report that as well as the adventures of Tania the 176 page publication features articles on space and is prefaced by several astronauts such as Frank De Winne, Dirk Frimout, Jean-François Clervoy and Jean-Pierre Haigneré of ESA and even Pamela Melroy and Piers Sellers of NASA.

ESA report on the new comic book http://tinyurl.com/TaniaInSpaceESA

The comic book is published by Editions Joker http://www.editions-joker.com/

Space adventures of Tania http://tinyurl.com/SpaceAdventuresOfTania

Mar 18 2013

Radio Amateur G3YJO in ADS Advance Magazine

ADS Advance magazine pages 32-33 March-May 2013

ADS Advance magazine pages 32-33 March-May 2013

Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO is interviewed on pages 32-34 of the March-May 2013 issue of the free UK magazine for the Aviation, Defence, Security and Space industries ADS Advance.

You can read the March-May 2013 issue online or download it as a PDF file at http://www.adsadvance.co.uk/issue1/volume3/

ADS Advance archive http://www.adsadvance.co.uk/archives.php

Mar 12 2013

Gathering of Female Astronauts and Former Johnson Space Center Director

Gathering of some Female Astronauts in memory of Sally Ride

Gathering of some Female Astronauts in memory of Sally Ride. Image credit NASA
Seated (from left): Carolyn Huntoon, Ellen Baker KB5SIX, Mary Cleave, Rhea Seddon, Anna Fisher, Shannon Lucid R0MIR, Ellen Ochoa KB5TZZ, Sandy Magnus KE5FYE.
Standing (from left): Jeanette Epps, Mary Ellen Weber, Marsha Ivins, Tracy Caldwell Dyson KF5DBF, Bonnie Dunbar KD5DCB, Tammy Jernigan KC5MGF, Cady Coleman KC5ZTH, Janet Kavandi, Serena Aunon, Kate Rubins, Stephanie Wilson KD5DZE, Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger KE5DAT, Megan McArthur, Karen Nyberg, Lisa Nowak KC5ZTB
Photographer: Lauren Harnett

On September 17, 2012, 22 female astronauts, a number of them radio amateurs, along with Johnson Space Center’s first female director, Carolyn Huntoon, met to honor Sally Ride and her legacy.

Sally Ride - Image Credit NASA

Sally Ride – Image Credit NASA

Sally Kristen Ride was one of 8,000 people to answer an advertisement in a newspaper seeking applicants for the space program. As a result, she joined NASA in 1978. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space as a crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7.

She was the president and CEO of Sally Ride Science, a company she co-founded in 2001 that creates entertaining science programs and publications for upper elementary and middle school students, with a particular focus on young women. The science books, student programs and professional development programs place a strong emphasis on gender and racial equality in the classroom and provide role models of working scientists, engineers and mathematicians who exemplify this diversity in their respective fields

Sally Ride wrote or co-wrote five books on space aimed at children, with the goal of encouraging children to study science.

She died on July 23, 2012, aged 61, seventeen months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Wiki – Sally Ride http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride

Astronuat Sally Ride - Image Credit NASA

Astronuat Sally Ride – Image Credit NASA

Mar 6 2013

IITMSat Satellite Project at AAS-AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting

Deepti Kannapan 23rd AAS-AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting 2013-02

Deepti Kannapan at the 23rd AAS-AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting

The 2013 Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, hosted by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and co-hosted by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) took place in Kauai, Hawaii, February 10-14, 2013.

At the meeting Deepti Kannapan presented her paper on a new attitude control algorithm developed as a part of her Dual Degree Project. This algorithm is being implemented in the IIT Madras Student Satellite (IITMSat) that is being developed by students at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

IITMSat Primary Mission Objectives:
• To design, fabricate, test and launch a small-satellite (15kg), that demonstrates all features of satellite functioning, and build a ground station for collection of data from the satellite
• To measure the energy spectrum of protons and electrons beneath the inner-Van Allen radiation belt boundary (600-800 km) to aid earthquake prediction studies
• Interpret the data received from the satellite and analyze the effects of solar flares, lightning storms and seismic activity on the radiation belts

23rd AAS-AIAA conference schedule http://www.space-flight.org/docs/2013_winter/FinalProgram.pdf

IITMSAT http://iitmsat.iitm.ac.in/

IITMSat on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/iitmsat/372808989404716