Space

This page brings you space-related links, ranging from space news to the national space agencies of various countries.

• AMSAT-UK
  The Amateur Satellite organisation of the United Kingdom supports, designs and builds experimental satellites and promotes space education, a newsletter OSCAR News is published quarterly.
• AMSAT
  The goal of the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) is to foster Amateur Radio’s participation in space research and communication.
• ARISS
  Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a volunteer program which inspires students, worldwide, to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through amateur radio communications opportunities with the International Space Station (ISS) on-orbit crew.
• spaceweather.com
  News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids.
• Space Weather Prediction Center
  The Space Weather Prediction Center, part of NOAA’s National Weather Service, provides space weather alerts, forecasts, watches, warnings and near-real-time data characterizing the space environment.
• NASA
  NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America’s space agency.
• BBC Space
  Space information and videos from BBC Science.
• National Space Centre
  The homepage of the UK National Space Centre; the UK’s largest space visitor attraction.
• UK Space Agency
  The UK Space Agency is an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and at the heart of UK efforts to explore and benefit from space.
• ESA
  The European Space Agency portal features the latest news in space exploration, human spaceflight, launchers, telecommunications, navigation, monitoring and space science.
• Russian Federal Space Agency
  Web pages of the Russian national space agency Roscosmos.
• Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page
  A single global reference point for all users in the Amateur Satellite Service to show the most up-to-date status of all satellites as actually reported in real time by users around the world.
• ISS Fan Club
  Provides real-time information about the International Space Station (ISS) and its amateur radio equipment.
• FUNcube
  AMSAT-UK is working on a new amateur satellite project—The FUNcube Project—that features a 435 to 145 MHz Linear Transponder for SSB/CW operation. The project has received major initial funding from the Radio Communications Foundation (RCF) and is being developed in collaboration with ISIS-Innovative Solutions in Space BV.
• FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF SDR
  The FUNcube Dongle Software Defined Radio (SDR) was developed as part of the educational outreach for the AMSAT-UK FUNcube satellite project. Although designed to enable school students to receive the satellite beacon the wide frequency coverage of 64–1700MHz has meant that it can be used for many other applications.