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Cornell Grad Students Go Ballooning (Again)
ballooner writes "A group of Cornell University graduate students are attempting to break the Amateur Radio Ballooning duration record this weekend. The project is a continuation from last year when some other Cornell grad students broke the altitude record. The progress of the team can be tracked via their Twitter feed or by monitoring their APRS beacons. For all the HAMs out there, downlinks are available on a 30m wavelength, too." -
13 Pico-Satellites to Launch June 28th
leighklotz writes "The CalPoly CubeSat Program announced a launch date for its 13 amateur satellites: June 28, 2006 at 19:39:11Z, from the Kazakstan Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Russian DNEPR-1LV rocket. The satellites are made from a kit, and are 10cm cubes." Read on for more info, including links to many of the individual satellite projects.leighklotz continues: "There are also pictures of 14 satellites and info about some of them:
- ION, University of Illinois
- RINCON, University of Arizona
- ICE Cube 1, Cornell University
- KUTESat [also] University of Kansas
- nCube nCube Norweigian University of Science and Technology
- HAUSAT-1 Hankuk Aviation University
- SEEDS Nihon University
- CP1 and CP2 Cal Poly
- AeroCube 1 The Aerospace Corporation
- Voyager University of Hawaii
- ICE Cube 2 Cornell University
These folks have a list of ongoing CubeSat projects. And as always AMSAT is a good organization to join if you have any interest in using or building your own satellites."