Radio amateur G3YJO on BBC Radio 4

 

Radio amateur Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO, was the guest on the Radio 4 show The Life Scientific that was broadcast on Tuesday, April 20.

Martin Sweeting G3YJO pioneered the original SmallSats revolutions with the UOSAT-1 and UOSAT-2 spacecraft that carried amateur radio payloads and launched in the early 1980’s. They led to the founding of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) of which he is Executive Chairman.

You can listen to, or download, an MP3 recording of the BBC show which mentions amateur radio and AMSAT from the BBC website at https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v7pb

 

 

 read more @ https://amsat-uk.org/

Video decoded from Chinese Lunar Orbiter Chang'e-5 by rOOt

 At the twitter rOOt@r2x0t  posted

 

THIS. IS. JUST. AWESOME. !!! 

 

 

This is video decoded from the 8455MHz high rate down-link

@uhf_satcom received yesterday. All the work on the decoder
and data analysis really paid off in the end! Video shows solar
panel of Chang'e-5 glistening in the sun and dust floating around.

 

Here is full quality download link for the video: change5.mp4 (838kB)

 

http://www.r00t.cz/Sats/Change5

 

 

 Sources 

r00t

@r2x0t   

http://www.r00t.cz/Sats/Change5