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

[Trevor .]

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-cubesat-mission-starts-to-take-shape 

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 
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