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First Scottish-Built Satellite Ukube-1 to Launch in 2013:

Posted: 01 Apr 2012 05:08 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/28019


The first satellite to be built in Scotland is due to be launched next
year. UKube-1 is being built at the West of Scotland Science Park in
Maryhill, Glasgow. The United Kingdom Universal Bus Experiment, to give it
its proper name, is a pilot programme from the UK Space Agency to test new
technologies in space. A big idea, perhaps. But the trick is to think
small. The underlying CubeSat concept came originally from America: to
create a satellite 10cm by 10cm by 10cm. That gives you a volume of just
one litre, but that can contain a surprising amount of science in low Earth
orbit. It's a package which costs, by space exploration standards,
relatively little to build and launch.


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Roger Coulter, KT4HV (SK):

Posted: 01 Apr 2012 05:06 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/28018


COULTER, Roger Lee, 66, of Radford, VA, passed away on Friday, March 9,
2012. Roger was the third son of Marion Francis Coulter, Sr. and Margaret
Thompson Coulter. He was born in Wheeling, WV on June 14, 1945. He was a
member of St. Jude's Catholic Church in Radford and was a veteran of the
U.S. Navy attached to the U.S. Marines as a medic. He was a graduate of
Wheeling High School, a graduate of the Ohio Valley School of Nursing in
Steubenville, OH and of the Shadyside School of Anesthesiology in
Pittsburgh, PA. He was a member of the New River Valley Amateur Radio
Club "KT4HV" since 1996 and was a national volunteer examiner coordinator
for amateur radio for 14 years.