Three PhoneSat cubesats will be aboard the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares(TM) rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) in eastern Virginia. Orbital Sciences reports on their website the soonest that the Antares rocket can be ready to retry the launch is April 19. The launch on April 20 was postponed because of unfavorable weather conditions. … Read more
Information Week published news of the Merritt Island High School team who developed StangSat. The fourth round of selections in NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative also included a team of high school students at the Merritt Island High School in Brevard County, Florida. They plan to build a cubesat containing two accelerometers to measure the amount … Read more
April 19 BAIKONUR Soyuz-2-1b A Soyuz-2-1b from the Baikonur launch facility, in Kazakhstan on April 19, 2013 will include three cubesat missions: OSSI-1 145.980/437.525 CW/1200bps SOMP 437.485 1200, 9600bps BPSK BEESAT-2/3 435.950 4800bps GMSK Bion-M1 Biological research satellites AIST Measurement of the Earth’s geomagnetic field Dove-2 Commercial technology demonstration mission
In this edition: The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and … Read more