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- IARU Frequency Coordination September 2026
September has been an unusually eventful month on the IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel’s status pages, hosted by AMSAT-UK at https://iaru.amsat-uk.org/index.php. In addition to the UNNE-1B coordination reported above, the panel completed four coordinations, declined four requests in a single day, and… Read more: IARU Frequency Coordination September 2026 - AMSAT-DL’s ERMINAZ-2 October 2026 Launch on Transporter-18
Re-post from ANS-270: It’s official: AMSAT-DL’s three ERMINAZ-2 PocketQubes – ERMINAZ-2U, ERMINAZ-2V, and ERMINAZ-2X – are set to launch aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday, October 1, at 18:18 UTC (20:18 CEST), AMSAT-DL announced on September… Read more: AMSAT-DL’s ERMINAZ-2 October 2026 Launch on Transporter-18 - UNNE-1B HADES-E2 scheduled on Transporter-18
Re-post from ANS-270: AMSAT-EA’s UNNE-1B (also known as HADES-E2) has moved to the list of completed coordinations on the IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel’s status pages, with a downlink on 436.888 MHz and an uplink on 145.925 MHz now coordinated – just… Read more: UNNE-1B HADES-E2 scheduled on Transporter-18 - Swedish MIST prepping to launch in 2027
MIST has been an on-going project at KTH for over 10 years, allowing students to develop practical experience in engineering for spaceflight. According to the project site https://mistsatellite.space/ the satellite is “prepping to launch in 2027”. Please stay tuned for more updates… Read more: Swedish MIST prepping to launch in 2027 - JAMX01 and BY70-4 Set for August 25 2026 Launch
Re-port ANS-235: Two Chinese science-education satellites carrying amateur radio communications systems are scheduled for launch from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on August 25 aboard a Long March 6C rocket. The first, known as Jing’an Dream Star and carrying the JAMX01 amateur… Read more: JAMX01 and BY70-4 Set for August 25 2026 Launch - MARMOTSat Designated Canada-OSCAR 128
Re-post from ANS-214: On July 7th, 2026, the MARMOTSat satellite was launched on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Developed by the University of Victoria Centre for Aerospace Research, the satellite carries a 2m digipeater and… Read more: MARMOTSat Designated Canada-OSCAR 128 - Satellite kepler reaches six-digit numbers
Repost from ANS-200 but very important to repeat: The U.S. Space Force’s authoritative satellite catalog entered a new era on July 11, 2026, when newly assigned catalog numbers advanced from the five-digit sequence ending at 69,999 directly to six-digit catalog number 100,000.… Read more: Satellite kepler reaches six-digit numbers - Transporter-17 launch 2026-07-07
Space-X Falcon 9 Transporter-17 launch 2026-07-07 contained a large amount of satellites, many of them un-coordinated 70 cm ham radio frequencies. It also will deploy MarmotSat. A lot of information about the satellites at SatNogs:https://community.libre.space/t/transporter-17-rideshare-vsfb-slc-4e-2026-07-07-07-10-utc/14950 The launch at Youtube: - MARMOTSat with 10m downlinkMARMOTSat is a 3U CubeSat currently under development with an Amateur radio focus. It is slated to launch NET June 2026 on SpaceX Transporter-17. Radio Frequencies MARMOTSat will use the following frequencies for TT&C and Amateur experiments: Amateur Experiment Frequency TT&C up-… Read more: MARMOTSat with 10m downlink
- OscarWatch – new satellite tracking software
OscarWatch by Peter @mm9sql is a new desktop satellite tracking multi-platform software. It takes all the best parts from all other tracking softwares and bundles it into one package. Peter have done a lot of work with the radio doppler control part… Read more: OscarWatch – new satellite tracking software - CardSat tracker for M5Stack
From ANS-165: Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, has released CardSat, a free, open-source amateur satellite ground station controller that runs on the M5Stack Cardputer ADV – a credit-card-sized ESP32-S3 computer with a built-in keyboard, color display, and microSD slot. The project lives at https://github.com/prstoetzer/CardSat.… Read more: CardSat tracker for M5Stack - OrigamiSat-2 (FO-126) active on 5.8 GHz
Image: Reception of a 5.84 GHz CW signal from Fuji-OSCAR 126 (FO-126) displayed on an Icom IC-905. [Credit: JA1OGZ] OrigamiSat-2, one of eight satellites launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Kakushin Rising mission for JAXA on April 23, 2026, has now received an official… Read more: OrigamiSat-2 (FO-126) active on 5.8 GHz