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Om man tillhör ett universitet som råkar ha en nästan färdig cubesat liggandes, kan det här vara ett bra läge att få upp den i rymden.

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ESA Call for Proposals: FLY YOUR SATELLITE!

’Fly Your Satellite!’ is an exciting new initiative from the European Space
Agency (ESA) Education and Knowledge Management
Office. It is focused on CubeSat
projects run by university students and builds on the successful ‘CubeSats for
the Vega Maiden Flight’ pilot programme, which culminated in 2012 with the
launch of seven university student-built CubeSats on board the Vega Maiden
Flight.

In the future, this new initiative is intended to
cover the complete development
process of a satellite from concept to launch.
However, the 2013 edition will be
dedicated to teams whose satellite is already at an advanced stage of
development and able to complete the Flight Model assembly by June 2013. One,
two or three-unit CubeSats are eligible.

The opportunity will be open to European
university teams from ESA Member States
or Cooperating States:

* ESA Member States ­ Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

* ESA cooperating States ­ Canada, Estonia, Hungary, and Slovenia.

* The deadline for submitting proposals is 01 March 2013

Further information on the ESA website at
http://www.esa.int/Education/Call_for_Proposals_Fly_Your_Satellite

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Månen

Månen

En vacker video med månens uppgång över Nya Zeeland

http://vimeo.com/58385453

 

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AMSAT-SM HF-nätet 27/1 2013

Hej!

Gick bra med nätet idag.

Deltagare
SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM5HL
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

Det har ramlat in en hel del intressanta punkter.

*Installationsanvisning Fun-cube dongle och MAP65
http://kb5wia.blogspot.se/2013/01/installing-map65-and-funcube-dongle-pro.html

*Astra 2F
Inte amatörradio men väldigt intressant att ta emot en satellitsignal som
inte är ämnad att täcka det aktuella området. Man lär sig hur svårt det kan
vara på mikrovågor.

http://www.satellite-calculations.com/DVB/28.2E/EXPRIMENTAL_2F_footprint.jpg

https://maps.google.no/maps/ms?msid=216961581856503891902.0004d0e1b1a0d77725592&msa=0&ll=59.25465,5.317383&spn=8.483636,19.753418

*ISS
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Soyuz_rockets_will_be_taking_Americans_to_ISS_999.html

*ISS kalender
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/716960main_iss_calendar_2013.pdf

*DK3WN
http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?page_id=29535

*UKube-1 animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CDRz7r5Redw

*OSSI-1
Den lilla satelliten som är byggd enligt systemet öppen källkod har nu klart
med uppskjutning April 2013.
http://opensat.cc/blog/ http://opensat.cc/wiki/

Vi hörs nästa söndag.

73 Håkan SM7WSJ

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Open Source Satellite OSSI CubeSat Launch in April 2013

Open Source Satellite OSSI CubeSat Launch in April 2013

OSSI-1, the Open Source Satellite Initiative satellite, developed by
Hojun Song DS1SBO, is planned to launch in the 2nd quarter of 2013
into a 575 km 63° inclination orbit on a Soyuz-2-1b rocket from the
Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. The 1U cubesat is 100% based
on COTS components. The main payload, the Bion-M1 satellite, antici-
pates a planned launch date of April, 2013.

Reports say OSSI-1 will have a beacon in the 145 MHz band, a data
communications transceiver in the 435 MHz band although actual opera-
ting frequencies have yet to be published. The data communications
transceiver is reported to be using an open protocol, details have
not been released yet.

OSSI-1 also carries a 44 watt LED optical beacon to flash Morse Code
messages to observers on Earth.

The development of the satellite has been documented on the Open
Source Satellite Initiative Blog http://opensat.cc/blog/ and the
Wiki http://opensat.cc/wiki/

Other cubesats on this launch will include:

+ SOMP – downlink on 437.485 MHz including CW, 1k2 and 9k6 BPSK,
AX25 FSK, and AO40 standard 400bit/s BPSK.

+ BEESAT 2 – 4k8 GMSK on 435.950 MHz

+ BEESAT 3 – 4k8 GMSK on 435.950 MHz

+ Dove-2 – Commercial technology demonstration mission.

+ Bion-M1 – Research satellite collaboration between NASA and the
Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems. The mission
will launch an unmanned automated spacecraft carrying
a biological payload into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The
rodents on the Bion-M1 spacecraft will be exposed to
spaceflight conditions for approximately one month.

AMSAT-UK published photos and additional news at:
http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12231

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]

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AMSAT India nyhetsblad

Även AMSAT India har ett nyhetsblad att ladda ner:

http://amsatindia.org/reports/AI-2012.pdf

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TAPR Nyhetsblad PSR #120

TAPRs nyhetsblad nr 120 finns att ladda ner här:

http://www.tapr.org/psr/psr120.pdf