<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Happy 5th Birthday FUNcube-1</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Five years ago, on November 21, 2013, <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">FUNcube-1</strong> launched into space. Soon, we hope to welcome ESEO (FUNcube-4) and JY1SAT (FUNcube-6) into space. A remarkable achievement by the radio amateur volunteers of AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Since FUNcube-1, we have had FUNcube systems in UKube-1, QB50p1, Nayif-1 and the upcoming ESEO and JY1SAT spacecraft, bringing the total FUNcube payloads launched for STEM education and amateur radio to six.</p><p align="center" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><img src="https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/46801548_2128395130517328_1137759230669881344_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&amp;oh=657be2ede14598f47185a8bf0a6da806&amp;oe=5C7EFF9A" width="100%" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" id="gmail-fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-hasCaption" style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#666666" size="2" style="box-sizing:border-box">First signals received from FUNcube-1</font></span></span></p><p align="left" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">In five years, FUNcube has transmitted for 157,766,400 seconds, with a 256kB frame every 5 seconds, equating to approx 7.5GB of data. Our ground network has recovered 1.7GB. On average, we see 105 daily listeners, receiving 3688 frames per day.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG</strong> has put together a series of video clips showing key moments in the development of FUNcube-1 since 2010. <br style="box-sizing:border-box">Watch them at <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://amsat-uk.org/2018/11/21/happy-5th-birthday-funcube-1/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://amsat-uk.org/2018/11/21/happy-5th-birthday-funcube-1/</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">FUNcube-1 (AO-73) information <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/communications/funcube-1/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/communications/funcube-1/</a></p></div>