Building an AmbaSat-1 – Part 1
Unwrapping, first assembly & launching on OSX From Cloudspot: https://medium.com/@CloudSpout/building-an-ambasat-1-part-i-736132c4f7fb#bdb3 What is AmbaSat-1? To give some background: AmbaSat-1 is the world’s first DIY satellite development kit:It provides basic components (like the motherboard, radio, power) and a selection of sensors that can be attached to the satellite.
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 […]
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 […]
AmbaSat Forum Now Online!
By popular request, the AmbaSat Forum is reinstated and now up and running and can be found at: https://forum.ambasat.com/ Moderators wanted. Please PM on the forum for further details.
Meeting with Mowden – 9th December
We had a really good meeting today with Andy and Neil from Mowden Controls. Mowden will be producing the fully-assembled AmbaSat-1 Satellites and also placing MCU & GAM-9D chips on the kit versions of AmbaSat-1. Mowden specialise in low to medium volume high quality PCB population, product design & development, box build projects and Atex […]
