Blue Ghost reception

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Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the Moon.

Would it be possible with a minimal setup to receive signals from this mission to the Moon.

With the help of @eelkevisser I was finally able the receive Blue Ghost. A 5 turn LHCP helix on a broomstick (Blue Ghost used LHCP) into a Nooelec wide-band LNA, sysmocom S-band filter, Nooelec down converter and Airspy R2. Pretty awesome.

The antenna was pointed at a fixed location and I used the STRF tools to record the signals over a long period when the satellite was passing.

Doppler measurement:

Blue Ghost 1 Doppler curve

Source: Blue Ghost Mission 1

Gauss Srl

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Dear HAM Community, a QSL Card is a great achievement but what about being thanked directly by a satellite? In a few days, UniSat-6 will thank each radioamateur and enthusiast who has been tracking it during these years. Stay tuned!!

Data received by DK3WN.

An open letter

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This isn’t the first time this topic is brought to our attention but after reading this call I felt obliged to share one of the important parts and a link to the original posting.

Original quote:

“According to the ITU Radio Regulations for the Amateur and Amateur-satellite Services, “Transmissions between amateur stations of different countries shall not be encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except for control signals exchanged between earth command stations and space stations in the amateur-satellite service.” A strict interpretation of this rule means that the specifications of all digital protocols used by Amateur stations should be publicly available, so that anyone is able decode the data. The use of protocols with undisclosed specifications can be seen as a try to obscure the meaning of the data.”

Source: By Dr. Daniel Estévez, an open letter about ESEO telemetry specifications.

Meet the Amateur Astronomer Who Found a Lost NASA Satellite

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Amateur astronomer Scott Tilley made international headlines when he rediscovered NASA’s IMAGE satellite 13 years after it mysteriously disappeared. In this interview with Freethink, Scott discusses his role in the satellite’s recovery, why he enjoys amateur astronomy, and how citizen scientists like him have contributed to our knowledge of space from the space race to the present day.

Source: Scott Tilley and Freethink Media