Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen Visits School Aiming to be First in UK to Launch Satellites
(Note. this article contains details and pictures from before the covid shutdown) A team of pupils at Egglescliffe School have welcomed Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen to show him their work to become the first school in the UK to launch satellites into low orbit. Mayor Visits School Aiming to be First in UK to […]
Component Parts Delivery – Update
The RFM95 transceiver has been the major AmbaSat-1 part in short supply but we just received some good news from our assembly partner Mowden: Final parts delivery for the ASSEMBLED version of the AmbaSat-1 Satellite are expected by the end of April. Yay! At this moment we are still looking at an end of May […]
BACKER UPDATE: AmbaSat-1 progress update (email follow-up)
Dear all, This is a follow-up to the recent AmbaSat email you should (hopefully) have received. First, we just wanted to say thank you to everyone for the prompt response regarding the sensor orders. We are beginning to process these now. For those who have emailed with questions, we are working through these and will […]
AmbaSat-1 Satellite Assembly Update – Mowden
A big shoutout to everyone at MOWDEN Controls. They are the people behind the ASSEMBLED version of the AmbaSat-1 Satellite. Over the past few weeks they have diverted their resources to the fight against COVID-19 and were tasked with designing and building ventilators for the National Health Service (NHS) here in the UK. Thank you […]
AmbaSat Awarded EU Grant FUNDING
We’re very pleased to announce that AmbaSat’s application for European Union Grant FUNDING was successful. Thanks to this funding, we are able to build upon the AmbaSat product range, purchase manufacturing equipment and also employ additional staff. More news and a press release to follow.
Online meeting with Interorbital Systems, April 2020
On Monday, AmbaSat Ltd co-founder Martin Platt and Interorbital Systems (IOS) CEO Randa Milliron took part in an online meeting to review progress and discuss next steps related to the AmbaSat-1 Satellite rocket launch. AmbaSat-1 is scheduled to launch onboard Interorbital systems’ NEPTUNE rocket later this year. Martin reported that satellite kit distribution is going […]
Backers – Shipping status of your AmbaSat-1 Satellite Kit
Dear all, In these difficult times, we just wanted to provide a quick update on the shipping status of your AmbaSat-1 Satellite Kit. Supplies from China are starting to come through and we are preparing and shipping kits. So far, we have shipped most of the Sensor 01, 02, 04 & 06 KITS. The ASSEMBLED […]
Tees Valley Mayor visits AmbaSat course, Egglescliffe School
Tees Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen pays a visit to our AmbaSat Satellite class at Egglescliffe School, March 2020. Martin Platt, co-founder at AmbaSat commented “The AmbaSat Satellite building course provides UK students with the ultimate hands-on STEM and Space technology building experience and is an ideal path towards a STEM career. Thank you to Tees Valley […]
Backer Update
Dear all,We were able to dispatch another batch of AmbaSat-1 satellite kits last week. Supplies though are still slow and JLCPCB – our PCB supplier – has indicated that they have shipped another batch of PCBs to us (about 80) so when we receive those we’ll be able to continue with shipping. Apologies for the […]
AmbaSat 10-week course begins
Friday 28th February 2020 – Egglescliffe School & Sixth Form College, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom. An excellent launch today of our first 10-week course at Egglescliffe School & Sixth Form College. Thanks to all staff and the 25 students who are taking part in the satellite course. The introduction PowerPoint presentation is now available for download […]
