Monthly Archives: July 2006

14 Ham Satellites Lost

Some more information here. This is extremely dissapointing news, and must be very disheartning for the University Teams that built the CubeSats. Lets just hope they continue their research and build some more.

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The Mother Ship.

I only just spotted this…. “The European Space Agency today donated a composite satellite image of global land cover provided by its Envisat satellite to the United Nations in Geneva, as a testimony to the current state of our planet, … Continue reading

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iPod

My iPOD’s (3rd Gen) battery capacity has been decreasing over time (no surprise there), but it finally dropped beyond what my patience would tolerate. A few months ago I was looking for a high capacity battery for a Kenwood TH-D7 … Continue reading

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Delicate Manouvers

Meteosat 7 has begun a planned ‘drift’ from 0 degrees to 57.5 degrees East. The reasons and a brief description of some of the issues involved are given here here. It makes for interesting reading.

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