[amsat-bb] UK Space Agency's CubeSat Mission Takes Shape

The UK Space Agency has revealed the instruments and experiments that will be launched into orbit onboard the UKube-1 CubeSat in early 2012.

Included are AMSAT-UK's FUNcube boards containing a 435/145MHz linear transponder and 9600bps BPSK beacon.

Read the UK Space Agency press release at http://www.bis.gov.uk/ukspaceagency/news-and-events/2011/Mar/UK-first-cubesa...

You can join the FUNcube Yahoo Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/

AMSAT-UK publishes a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, which is full of Amateur Satellite information. Join online at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK

73 Trevor M5AKA ----