November 12, 2014
Rosetta CometLanding
Rosetta #CometLanding webcast by European Space Agency
Watch European Space Agency's Rosetta #CometLanding webcast on Livestream.com. Live webcast from ESA mission control, when Europe's Rosetta spacecraft dispatches the Philae lander to make the first-ever touchdown on a comet. Official hashtag: #CometLanding
October 24, 2014
4M Amateur Radio Payload received
The 4M amateur radio payload with a WSJT JT65B 145.980 MHz beacon was
launched on Thursday, October 23 at 1759 UT.
The Chang’e-5-T1 mission 4M payload launched on
the Chang Zheng CZ-3C/G2 rocket from the LC2 launch
complex at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan.
The first telemetry from the JT65B beacon was received at 1918 UT in Brazil.
The spacecraft will head into a Lunar Transfer Orbit (LTO), before performing
a flyby around the Moon. Radio amateurs are encouraged to receive and report
the signals. http://moon.luxspace.lu/receiving-4m/
See the 4M payload Blog at http://moon.luxspace.lu/blog/
4M Lunar Payload
AMSAT-UK
July 25, 2014
The International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3)
The International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) is a NASA spacecraft that was launched in 1978 to study Earth’s magnetosphere. It was repurposed and renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) in 1983 to study two comets and has been in a heliocentric orbit since then, traveling just slightly faster than Earth. It’s finally catching up with Earth from behind with the closest approach expected in August, 2014.
Since NASA no longer has the capability to receive and command the spacecraft a group of amateurs, with NASA’s permission, decided to do it for themselves.
On March 1-2, 2014 radio amateurs at the Bochum Amateur Radio Facility in Germany were able to detect the beacon signal from the spacecraft over a distance of 43 million km. After some changes to the ground equipment and aligning the receive antenna to the predicted position in the sky, the 2 GHz beacon signal could positively be identified due to its frequency, the position in the sky and the frequency shift due to the radial velocity (Doppler shift).
In June Dennis Wingo KD4ETA and other volunteers succeeded in commanding the spacecraft using the Arecibo dish in Puerto Rico.
Read more at Dennis Wingo KD4ETA blog http://denniswingo.wordpress.com/
Source AmsatUK
Since NASA no longer has the capability to receive and command the spacecraft a group of amateurs, with NASA’s permission, decided to do it for themselves.
On March 1-2, 2014 radio amateurs at the Bochum Amateur Radio Facility in Germany were able to detect the beacon signal from the spacecraft over a distance of 43 million km. After some changes to the ground equipment and aligning the receive antenna to the predicted position in the sky, the 2 GHz beacon signal could positively be identified due to its frequency, the position in the sky and the frequency shift due to the radial velocity (Doppler shift).
In June Dennis Wingo KD4ETA and other volunteers succeeded in commanding the spacecraft using the Arecibo dish in Puerto Rico.
Read more at Dennis Wingo KD4ETA blog http://denniswingo.wordpress.com/
Source AmsatUK
May 30, 2014
Space Buffs Make Contact With Discarded NASA Probe
A group of citizen scientists has commandeered a NASA spacecraft that was launched in 1978 and had gone unused since 1997.
Today the group made first contact with the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) when the spacecraft acknowledged receiving a signal from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, says Keith Cowing, co-director of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, a group of about 20 volunteer space buffs. “We knew we could do this—it’s a vindication,” he says. “It’s sort of like reaching back in time to grab something that otherwise would have been lost.”
Cowing says that the group is now getting telemetry data from the spacecraft. Over the coming days, they will try to understand the health of the spacecraft and its 13 scientific instruments. The spacecraft was launched to study space weather and is due to make a close pass around the moon.
Next month, they plan to instigate a burn with the remaining fuel and move the spacecraft into a new orbit. Also in June, they plan to start communicating with ISEE-3 from a second radio telescope, a 21-meter dish at Morehead State University in Kentucky. This dish is more movable than the massive Arecibo telescope and can better track the spacecraft as it gets closer to Earth, Cowing says.
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project raised more than $150,000 in crowd-funding to support its volunteer efforts.
May 26, 2014
37 satellites on June 19 Yasny Dnepr launch
37 satellites on June 19 Yasny Dnepr launch !!
Deimos 2
Deimos 2 is a small Earth observation satellite, which will carry a 75-centimeter-resolution imager provided by Satrec Initiative of South Korea.
KazEOSat 2 (DZZ-MR)
KazEOSat 2 from the Republic of Kazakhstan is utilizing the latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite technologies from EADS Astrium and its subsidiary SSTL to create a national system.
SkySat 3
SkySat-3 to 15 are commercial Earth observation satellites by Skybox Imaging.
TabletSat-Aurora
The Russian start-up company SPUTNIX designed and built the TabletSat-Aurora technology demonstrator and earth observing satellite.
BugSat 1 (Tita)
BugSat 1 is the first technology demonstration mission for a platform of small earth observation satellites designed by the Argentinan company Satellogic S.A.
SaudiSat 4
SaudiSat 4 is a Saudi-Arabian technology demonstration satellite developed by the KACST .
Hodoyoshi 3
Hodoyoshi 3 is an experimental earth-observing micro-satellite built by the University of Tokyo. It has a 40 m ground resolution.
Hodoyoshi 4
Hodoyoshi 4 is an experimental earth-observing micro-satellite built by the University of Tokyo. It has a 5 m ground resolution.
AprizeSat 9
AprizeSat 10
LatinSat, later renamed AprizeSat, is a constellation of small Low-Earth-Orbit satellites (64 satellites planned) to achieve a global communication system of data transmission and fixed and mobile asset tracking and monitoring (GMPCS). The satellites also carry experimental payloads.
UniSat 6
is the sixth satellite designed and manufactured by GAUSS group.
BRITE-CA 1 (CanX 3E)
BRITE-CA 2 (CanX 3F)
CanX-3 (Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiments), also known as BRITE (BRIght-star Target Explorer), is a mission planned to make photometric observations of some of the brightest starts in the sky
Perseus-M 1
Perseus-M 2
The Perseus-M satellites are small maritime surveillance satellites developed by Canopus Systems.
Flock-1c 1
Flock-1c 2
Flock-1c 3
Flock-1c 4
Flock-1c 5
Flock-1c 6
Flock-1c 7
Flock-1c 8
Flock-1c 9
Flock-1c 10
Flock-1c 11
The Flock earth observing constellation built and operated by Planet Labs (formerly Cosmogia Inc.) consists of 28 triple CubeSats.
POPSAT-HIP 1
POPSAT-HIP 1 is a triple cubesat built by Microspace Rapid Pte Ltd., Singapore. The spacecraft is to demonstrate the functionality of a high resolution optical payload and attitude control propulsion system on a Cubesat Class Nano-satellite.
Tigrisat
TIGRISat is an Iraqi 3U CubeSat built by Iraqi students at the La Sapienza University of Rome with a mission to detect dust storms over Iraq.
Lemur 1
Lemur-1 is a low-Earth orbiting satellite, built by NanoSatisfi Inc.
Lemur-1 will be deployed from the Italian UniSat 6,
QB50P1
QB50P2
QB50P1 is one of two precursor satellites for the QB50 project, which will demonstrate the possibility of launching a network of 50 CubeSats built by Universities Teams all over the world as a primary payload on a low-cost launch vehicle to perform first-class science in the largely unexplored lower thermosphere.
PACE
PACE (Platform for Attitude Control Experiments) is a cubesat project of the National Cheng Kung University of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
ANTELSAT
ANTELSAT is a 2U CubeSat class satellite, which has been developed by the Uruguayan Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de la República (FING), the State Faculty of Engineering, and the national telecom service provider ANTEL. It is the first Uruguayan satellite .
AeroCube 6
The AeroCube 6 cubesat is a 1 kg nanosatellite for technical research.It is built and operated by the Aerospace Corporation.
Duchifat 1
Duchifat-1 is an experimental and educational spacecraft developed and built by students of secondary schools at the Space Laboratory of the Herzliya Science Centre (HSC). It is built to the 1U CubeSat standard.
NanoSatC-Br 1
NanoSatC-Br 1 is the first CubeSat project of Brazil, developed at the Southern Regional Space Research Center in collaboration with the Space Science Laboratory of the Federal University of Santa Maria .
PolyITAN 1
PolyITAN-1 is a CubeSat designed and built by the National Technical University of Ukraine – KPI in cooperation with the Ukrainian HAM radio community. The mission is to launch Ukrainian educational satellite build by KPI students and space exploration enthusiasts.
Source space.skyrocket./ AMSAT FB
Lemur 1
Lemur-1 is a low-Earth orbiting satellite, built by NanoSatisfi Inc.
Lemur-1 will be deployed from the Italian UniSat 6,
QB50P1
QB50P2
QB50P1 is one of two precursor satellites for the QB50 project, which will demonstrate the possibility of launching a network of 50 CubeSats built by Universities Teams all over the world as a primary payload on a low-cost launch vehicle to perform first-class science in the largely unexplored lower thermosphere.
PACE
PACE (Platform for Attitude Control Experiments) is a cubesat project of the National Cheng Kung University of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
ANTELSAT
ANTELSAT is a 2U CubeSat class satellite, which has been developed by the Uruguayan Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de la República (FING), the State Faculty of Engineering, and the national telecom service provider ANTEL. It is the first Uruguayan satellite .
AeroCube 6
The AeroCube 6 cubesat is a 1 kg nanosatellite for technical research.It is built and operated by the Aerospace Corporation.
Duchifat 1
Duchifat-1 is an experimental and educational spacecraft developed and built by students of secondary schools at the Space Laboratory of the Herzliya Science Centre (HSC). It is built to the 1U CubeSat standard.
NanoSatC-Br 1
NanoSatC-Br 1 is the first CubeSat project of Brazil, developed at the Southern Regional Space Research Center in collaboration with the Space Science Laboratory of the Federal University of Santa Maria .
PolyITAN 1
PolyITAN-1 is a CubeSat designed and built by the National Technical University of Ukraine – KPI in cooperation with the Ukrainian HAM radio community. The mission is to launch Ukrainian educational satellite build by KPI students and space exploration enthusiasts.
Source space.skyrocket./ AMSAT FB
April 8, 2014
Amateur Radio-Developed Software Assisting in Search for Missing Flight MH370
04/07/2014
“Wolf’s package is very first-rate software, and I know that there have been other professional uses, but this was quite an interesting one!” Ziegler said.
The software began as a simple DOS-based FFT program, but it is now a specialized audio analyzer, filter, frequency converter, hum filter, data logger and more, and it is available for download from DL4YHF’s Amateur Radio Software site.
Buescher said he was skeptical about the initial “ping” detection by one of the search vessels, but now, he says, “the spectrogram taken by the US team aboard Ocean Shield is convincing.” He said a screenshot from Australian TV clearly shows the “bip-bip-bip” ultrasonic bursts or pings, “just as they should look,” rather than a “just a wobbly carrier that comes and goes.”
“In slow-CW terms, it would be an ‘outstanding signal.’” Buescher said. “Now keeping fingers crossed that the [“black box”] batteries last a bit longer than specified. The experts say the pinger’s battery usually degrades slowly, instead of going QRT abruptly.”
Source ARRL
US Navy personnel helping to look for missing Malaysia Air Flight MH370
are using the signal-processing and analysis package Spectrum
Laboratory by Wolf Buescher, DL4YHF, to analyze recently detected 37.5 kHz
“pings” that may be from the missing plane’s “black box.” Some Spectrum
Laboratory screen shots as seen aboard the Australian Defense Vessel
Ocean Shield were shown on TV. The US Navy personnel are guests aboard
the Australian ship. VLF experimenter Warren Ziegler, K2ORS, said the software
is the same package Amateur Radio experimenters used recently to detect transatlantic
signals on 29 kHz.
“Wolf’s package is very first-rate software, and I know that there have been other professional uses, but this was quite an interesting one!” Ziegler said.
The software began as a simple DOS-based FFT program, but it is now a specialized audio analyzer, filter, frequency converter, hum filter, data logger and more, and it is available for download from DL4YHF’s Amateur Radio Software site.
Buescher said he was skeptical about the initial “ping” detection by one of the search vessels, but now, he says, “the spectrogram taken by the US team aboard Ocean Shield is convincing.” He said a screenshot from Australian TV clearly shows the “bip-bip-bip” ultrasonic bursts or pings, “just as they should look,” rather than a “just a wobbly carrier that comes and goes.”
“In slow-CW terms, it would be an ‘outstanding signal.’” Buescher said. “Now keeping fingers crossed that the [“black box”] batteries last a bit longer than specified. The experts say the pinger’s battery usually degrades slowly, instead of going QRT abruptly.”
Source ARRL
April 4, 2014
Sentinel-1 soundtrack
Published on Apr 3, 2014
Sentinel-1A, the first satellite for Europe's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, is being launched from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on 3 April 2014. It will be lofted into orbit on a Soyuz rocket.
This animation shows some of the critical stages delivering Sentinel-1 into orbit around Earth. After separating from the Fregat upper stage, the satellite takes around 10 hours to deploy its 12 m-long radar and two 10 m-long solar wings. This deployment sequence is unique, choreographed to ensure that both deploy in the safest possible way. This approach also allows power from the wings to be available as soon as possible so that the satellite is independent.
Delivering vital information for numerous operational services, from monitoring ice in the polar oceans to tracking land subsidence, Sentinel-1 will play a key role in the largest civil Earth-observation programme ever conceived.
The animation is set to a track called Sentinel by Mike Oldfield, a world-renowned musician and big space fan.
Credits:
Graphics: ESA/ATG medialab; Music written by M. Oldfield/copyright EMI Virgin
This animation shows some of the critical stages delivering Sentinel-1 into orbit around Earth. After separating from the Fregat upper stage, the satellite takes around 10 hours to deploy its 12 m-long radar and two 10 m-long solar wings. This deployment sequence is unique, choreographed to ensure that both deploy in the safest possible way. This approach also allows power from the wings to be available as soon as possible so that the satellite is independent.
Delivering vital information for numerous operational services, from monitoring ice in the polar oceans to tracking land subsidence, Sentinel-1 will play a key role in the largest civil Earth-observation programme ever conceived.
The animation is set to a track called Sentinel by Mike Oldfield, a world-renowned musician and big space fan.
Credits:
Graphics: ESA/ATG medialab; Music written by M. Oldfield/copyright EMI Virgin
European Space Agency launches radar satellite
Published on Apr 3, 2014
The biggest civil Earth-observation programme ever conceived has begun with the launch of a radar satellite from French Guiana.
The EU's Sentinel-1a spacecraft will be followed into orbit by a fleet of other satellites in the coming years.
Together, they will return an unprecedented volume of data on the state of the planet.
The EU's Sentinel-1a spacecraft will be followed into orbit by a fleet of other satellites in the coming years.
Together, they will return an unprecedented volume of data on the state of the planet.
Why we need radar satellites ?
Published on Apr 2, 2014
The launch of the first Sentinel-1 satellite marks a new paradigm in Earth observation focusing on operational missions to support users for decades to come. This first satellite for Europe's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme carries an advanced radar to image Earth's surface no matter what the weather or if it is day or night. Olaf Trieschmann from the European Maritime Safety Agency talks about the need for radar satellites and how data from Sentinel-1 will be used to monitor oil spills and for maritime surveillance. ESA's Josef Aschbacher talks about how the wide range of services offered through Copernicus will make a step change in the way we manage the environment.
Credit: ESA/EMSA/European Parliament/DLR/ATG medialab/Funnelweb
Credit: ESA/EMSA/European Parliament/DLR/ATG medialab/Funnelweb
March 9, 2014
Radio amateurs receive NASA ISEE-3 / ICE Spacecraft
Radio amateurs have received signals over a distance of 43 million km from the NASA ISEE-3 / ICE deep space probe which was retired from service in 1997.
On March 1st and 2nd, 2014 radio amateurs were able to detect the beacon signal from the retired NASA deep space probe ICE (International Cometary Explorer) at the Bochum Observatory (Germany). After some changes to the ground equipment and aligning the receive antenna to the predicted position in the sky, the beacon signal could positively be identified due to its frequency, the position in the sky and the frequency shift due to the radial velocity (Doppler shift).
For this detection the 20m radio telescope from the Bochum Observatory was used. In 2003, AMSAT-DL converted this former industrial monument into a fully functional groundstation for deep space probes. Since 2009 the facility is being used by volunteers almost full time as ground receive station for data from the STEREO mission with its two spaceprobes monitoring the sun from different viewing angles.
The International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) was launched in 1978 and became the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange point, measuring the interaction between the Earth’s magnetic field and the Sun. It was the first spacecraft to detect the stream of particles (“solar wind”) approaching Earth. In 1982, the spacecraft was renamed the “International Cometary Explorer” (ICE) and diverted to the Moon, where its gravitational pull placed ICE on a heliocentric orbit. In 1985, the comet Giacobini-Zinner was visited (the first time a comet had been encountered by a spacecraft), followed by observation of Halley’s Comet in 1986.
While the instrumentation on board was still functional and fuel for more trajectory maneuvers was available, support for the ICE mission was terminated in 1997, though the spacecraft transmitter was left on. It was last detected by the NASA Deep Space Network in 2008. Its orbit however results in the spacecraft returning to Earth-Moon space in August of 2014. A small propulsive maneuver and lunar flyby could allow ICE to be directed into an Earth-Sun L1 halo orbit and perhaps resume a science mission, depending on instrument health. However in February 2014 a NASA study determined that the required resources to contact the spacecraft were not available anymore and due to budgetary constraints no further contact attempts were planned. In light of the recent observations and the available facilities in Bochum, additional studies about the economic feasibility to add a suitable uplink are being done.
We would like to thank Jeremy Bauman from KinetX Aerospace (Tempe AZ, USA) for providing the ICE trajectory solution which was essential in finding the spacecraft and Jon D. Giorgini from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena CA, USA) for his support.
AMSAT-DL
Dr. Achim Vollhardt DH2VA
email: ICEteam at amsat-dl.org
source Amsat-uk
ISEE-3 – ICE Spacecraft – Image credit NASA
On March 1st and 2nd, 2014 radio amateurs were able to detect the beacon signal from the retired NASA deep space probe ICE (International Cometary Explorer) at the Bochum Observatory (Germany). After some changes to the ground equipment and aligning the receive antenna to the predicted position in the sky, the beacon signal could positively be identified due to its frequency, the position in the sky and the frequency shift due to the radial velocity (Doppler shift).
For this detection the 20m radio telescope from the Bochum Observatory was used. In 2003, AMSAT-DL converted this former industrial monument into a fully functional groundstation for deep space probes. Since 2009 the facility is being used by volunteers almost full time as ground receive station for data from the STEREO mission with its two spaceprobes monitoring the sun from different viewing angles.
The International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) was launched in 1978 and became the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange point, measuring the interaction between the Earth’s magnetic field and the Sun. It was the first spacecraft to detect the stream of particles (“solar wind”) approaching Earth. In 1982, the spacecraft was renamed the “International Cometary Explorer” (ICE) and diverted to the Moon, where its gravitational pull placed ICE on a heliocentric orbit. In 1985, the comet Giacobini-Zinner was visited (the first time a comet had been encountered by a spacecraft), followed by observation of Halley’s Comet in 1986.
Amateur Radio Facility at Bochum
While the instrumentation on board was still functional and fuel for more trajectory maneuvers was available, support for the ICE mission was terminated in 1997, though the spacecraft transmitter was left on. It was last detected by the NASA Deep Space Network in 2008. Its orbit however results in the spacecraft returning to Earth-Moon space in August of 2014. A small propulsive maneuver and lunar flyby could allow ICE to be directed into an Earth-Sun L1 halo orbit and perhaps resume a science mission, depending on instrument health. However in February 2014 a NASA study determined that the required resources to contact the spacecraft were not available anymore and due to budgetary constraints no further contact attempts were planned. In light of the recent observations and the available facilities in Bochum, additional studies about the economic feasibility to add a suitable uplink are being done.
We would like to thank Jeremy Bauman from KinetX Aerospace (Tempe AZ, USA) for providing the ICE trajectory solution which was essential in finding the spacecraft and Jon D. Giorgini from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena CA, USA) for his support.
AMSAT-DL
Dr. Achim Vollhardt DH2VA
email: ICEteam at amsat-dl.org
source Amsat-uk
February 15, 2014
February 14, 2014
The Extraordinary History of Amateur Radio Satellites !!
The Extraordinary History of Amateur Radio Satellites .
Here's a startling fact — more than 73 Amateur Radio satellites have been launched over four decades. The number is astonishing because these sophisticated and ground breaking spacecraft are little known outside the ham radio fraternity.
In fact, private groups of Amateur Radio operators around the globe have built and sent dozens and dozens of Amateur Radio communications and science satellites to orbit since the first, OSCAR-1, was launched on December 12, 1961.
Read more at SPACE TODAY ONLINE .
AMSAT-OSCAR documentary pdf.
OSCAR-1 documentary
Documentary movie of OSCAR 10 & OSCAR 26 .
OSCAR 1 - Historic Satellite at Dayton Hamfest 2011 .
Here's a startling fact — more than 73 Amateur Radio satellites have been launched over four decades. The number is astonishing because these sophisticated and ground breaking spacecraft are little known outside the ham radio fraternity.
In fact, private groups of Amateur Radio operators around the globe have built and sent dozens and dozens of Amateur Radio communications and science satellites to orbit since the first, OSCAR-1, was launched on December 12, 1961.
Read more at SPACE TODAY ONLINE .
AMSAT-OSCAR documentary pdf.
OSCAR-1 documentary
Documentary movie of OSCAR 10 & OSCAR 26 .
OSCAR 1 - Historic Satellite at Dayton Hamfest 2011 .
Integration and launch of AMSAT OSCAR-10
Integration and launch of AMSAT OSCAR-10
With the start of phase III 3B satellite AMSAT OSCAR-10 on the European Ariane rocket L06 was on 16 June 1983 after a 10-year development of a new era in satellite communications initiated. The satellite has been created with the assistance of radio amateurs from all over the world and the construction of the AMSAT OSCAR-10 satellite is a unique example of how amateur radio and science over all boundaries act across nations together.
A film by Werner Haas, DJ5KQ for AMSAT-DL.
With the start of phase III 3B satellite AMSAT OSCAR-10 on the European Ariane rocket L06 was on 16 June 1983 after a 10-year development of a new era in satellite communications initiated. The satellite has been created with the assistance of radio amateurs from all over the world and the construction of the AMSAT OSCAR-10 satellite is a unique example of how amateur radio and science over all boundaries act across nations together.
A film by Werner Haas, DJ5KQ for AMSAT-DL.
ITALY OSCAR 26
Published on Dec 1, 2012
Documentary on preparation and launch of the first Italian HAM radio satellite. September 1993. Encoding and upload from original video master.
The ITAMSAT Packet Radio satellite that later became ITALY OSCAR 26 on orbit.
Documentary on preparation and launch of the first Italian HAM radio satellite. September 1993. Encoding and upload from original video master.
The ITAMSAT Packet Radio satellite that later became ITALY OSCAR 26 on orbit.
February 12, 2014
Echo communications satellite project.
Published on Sep 5, 2012
NASA, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T) and Bell Laboratories
tell the story of the Echo communications satellite project.
NASA, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T) and Bell Laboratories
tell the story of the Echo communications satellite project.
February 9, 2014
Thanks Mario,thanks Funcube-1 Fitter Messages !!!
Hi Nader
I sent Messages Funcube screenshot
Congratulations
Regards, Mario
January 30, 2014
A Year of Weather 2013
EUMETSAT, NOAA ,& JMA
The visualisation, comprised of imagery from the geostationary satellites of EUMETSAT, NOAA and the JMA, shows an entire year of weather across the globe during 2013, with commentary from Mark Higgins, Training Officer at EUMETSAT. The satellite data layer is superimposed over NASA's 'Blue Marble Next Generation' ground maps, which change with the seasons
The visualisation, comprised of imagery from the geostationary satellites of EUMETSAT, NOAA and the JMA, shows an entire year of weather across the globe during 2013, with commentary from Mark Higgins, Training Officer at EUMETSAT. The satellite data layer is superimposed over NASA's 'Blue Marble Next Generation' ground maps, which change with the seasons
January 25, 2014
ARTSAT
The “ARTSAT: Art and Satellite Project” utilizes a satellite orbiting the earth as a “medium that connects everyday life to the universe”. In the course of the project, a variety of interactive works of media art and other artworks will be created.
The project is carried out in a collaborative effort around a core team of over 70 members from Tama Art University and The University of Tokyo. The latter’s team developed a specialized “art satellite” for artistic purposes, while the team from Tama Art University is in charge of producing works based on data from the satellite, operating a ground station, and distributing data.
“ARTSAT1: INVADER(*)”, the world’s first art satellite, has been selected for a piggyback payload on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) H-IIA rocket. The ultrasmall 1U CubeSat, measuring only 10 x 10cm and weighing 1.5kg, is scheduled to be launched in February 2014, after which it will be traveling on a circular, polar sun-asynchronous orbit at an altitude of 407km, and with an inclination of 65 degrees.
Read more at artsat.jp
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