Ham Radio CubeSats launched to ISS

An unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp Antares rocket that blasted off from NASA’s Wallops Island launch pad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore January 10, carried aloft an Orbital Sciences Corp (OSC) Cygnus freighter with a bevy of Amateur Radio CubeSats aboard, bound for the International Space Station (ISS).

“We’re in good shape,” Orbital Sciences Executive Vice President Frank Culbertson, ex-KD5OPQ, tol…

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