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SPACE! FUNcube-1 is alive, flying high and singing loud! Mike DK3WN has posted this picture of the transponder in operation:  

The launch date for FUNcube-1 has finally been announced. The date to keep an eye on is November 21st 2013, 07:10:11 UTC Details can be found on the FUNcube website, ISL launch blog and a big countdown clock at the … Continue reading →

The video matrix is working! hardware: Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG Software: Martijn Moeling PB0NER Inspiration: Herman Blom PB0AHX

After four years, FUNcube-1 is finally ready for launch end of November 2013, from Yasny launch base, Orenburg Oblast, Russia. The final glue was applied by team mate Gerard Aalbers at the launch site on 23th of October. We will … Continue reading →

The postman made me happy! The BATC DTX1 arrived on my doorstep from the UK. It is working just fine and happily streaming video. To bed…

Yesterday, 28th of September, the first dutch amateur satellite day “Interessedag Amateursatellieten” was held. The idea came from Ivo PA1IVO, Rob PE1ITR and Henk PA3GUO and was also discussed in the train back from the AMSAT-UK colloquium between myself and … Continue reading →

The CanSat launch day was a partial succes. Everything that had to go up, did go up. But due to various weather delays and some delays out of control of the CanSat organisation, we could not launch the 4th CanSat … Continue reading →