Satellite
satellite related items
Following the successful launch into obit and after being commissioned, China’s first amateur satellite XW-1 has now been designated by AMSAT.
The first ever amateur satellite XW-1 was launched on Tuesday 15 December and is now in a sun-synchronous orbit about 1200kms above the earth.
The Organisasi Amatir Radio Indonesia (ORARI) in cooperation with the National Institute of Aeronatics and Space continues to develop the 1st Indonesian Amateur Radio Satellite with a voice repeater,
The Global Simulated Emergency Test held on 18 April in the latest GlobalSET had 258 stations registered in all IARU Regions and helped to strengthen the emergency communications preparedness of the a
AMSAT Oscar 27 that failed in December 2008 is back on air thanks to ground control teams who adopted a strategy of draining its batteries to re-set a locked up modem.
IARU Region 1 has invited IARU member-Societies, as well as emergency communications groups to take part in the Global Simulated Emergency Test on Saturday 18 April.
The next scheduled Global Simulated Emergency Test (GlobalSET) was to be in May but has now been brought forward to coincide with World Amateur Radio Day the 18th of April.
The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) was incorporated on 3 March 1969 as an educational organisation and has a strong record of building and launching amateur radio satellites.
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning in Toronto Canada named their International Space Station contact ‘Operation First Contact’ - and it was indeed something very special.
A total of six microsats were launched on 23 January from the Yoshinubo launch facility on Tanegashima Island.
