NASA announced Monday that AMSAT’s Fox-1 spacecraft has been assigned a launch in 2014. For details on the launch vehicle, targeted launch date, orbit specifics, and more, please attend the AMSAT Forum and visit the AMSAT booth at the Dayton Hamvention this weekend. Watch www.amsat.org and the AMSAT News Service for more details to follow … Read more
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
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
Robert Bankston, KE4AL, President It has been six months since I was elected president of AMSAT, so I thought this would be an excellent time to bring you up-to-date on what we have been working on and what we have accomplished. In my initial address to the Board of Directors, I laid out my plan … Read more