Full scale test of the ARISS station completed

Full scale test of the ARISS station completed

The UK Operations team for ARISS carried out a full scale practice run on Wednesday 9th December at a Basingstoke church hall in preparation for the first ARISS contact with Tim Peake from the UK. The day started early for many of us and once we had assembled, had the...
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...
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...