VE3NML works on STRaND solar panels

The UK STRaND nanosat team have released this picture in which a volunteer from SSTL, Nimal Navarathinam VE3NML, finishes laying down the cells for the Earth-facing and Space-facing solar panels.

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Video of Space Jam 6 ISS Contact

International Space Station

International Space Station

Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI used amateur radio to speak to Scouts at Space Jam 6 in Rantoul, Illinois.

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Portable reception of amateur radio satellite VO52

Mal VK2MALhas produced a video showing reception, using a handheld, of SSB signals from the amateur radio satellite VO-52.

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High School Satellite Max Valier

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.

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Earth Images from amateur radio CubeSat HORYU-2

The HORYU-2 Team

The amateur radio CubeSat HORYU-2 has been successfully sending back images of the Earth.

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ESA – Towards a new educational CubeSat initiative

Vega Amateur Radio CubeSats PW-Sat, Masat-1 and Robusta

ESA’s Education Office is inviting the CubeSat community to send their notifications of interest for a new initiative involving the development of educational picosatellites and the provision of deployers and launch services. The call closes on 7 September 2012.

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