Goonhilly dish tracks the ISS

Goonhilly dish tracks the ISS

Thanks to a lot of effort from the Satellite Applications Catapult team GHY99, the dish we have been loaned at Goonhilly Earth station successfully tracked and received the HamTV signals from the ISS last night.  As the techie picture shows we received a good signal...
Principia Press Conference

Principia Press Conference

Ciaran and Noel from the ARISS attended the Prinicipia press conference and heard Tim Peake talk about how STEM is going to be a very important part of his mission. It was great to see and hear the man himself and we came away very inspired to make the ARISS contacts...
ARISS receiver installed at Goonhilly

ARISS receiver installed at Goonhilly

As part of preparations for the ARISS schools linkup with the British astronaut Tim Peake who starts a 6 month mission on the ISS in December, the ARISS team visited Goonhilly this week to commission a dish to receive the 2.4 GHz HamTV transmissions from the ISS. The...
ISS received at Goonhilly!

ISS received at Goonhilly!

During the ARISS team’s visit to Goonhilly this week, Graham Shirville took the opportunity to see if it was possible to receive the HamTV signal using only a handheld 60cms dish and the Tutioune software – much to the team’s surprise Graham was successful and...