UWE-3 News: Status report On 21st of May 2016 UWE-3 celebrated 2.5 years in space without any significant failures. Batteries, EPS, OBC and ADCS are fine, nevertheless we were confronted with a minor problem with one of the radios UWE-3 … Continue reading
e-st@r-ii telemetry, received by the 25m dish in Dwingeloo The Netherlands and decoded with the DK3WN e-st@r-ii decoder. It seems the health of this small 1U cubesat is oke, now lets find a way to receive and decode more frames. … Continue reading
Achieving Science with CubeSats: Thinking Inside the Box A great presentation by Thomas Zurbuchen on Cubesats and where we are today. Thomas Zurbuchen holds a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Bern, Switzerland and was a recipient of a … Continue reading
Amsat-DL has announced the P4-A Frequencies for Narrow (NB) and Wideband (WB) transponder on Es’Hail-2 geostationary satellite. It will be launched in December 2016. Latest launch information is Q1/2017. X-Band Downlink: 89 cm dishes in rainy areas at EOC like … Continue reading
Decoding Michigan Exploration Laboratory (MXL) Cubesats with a SDR and Sound-Modem software. The Michigan Exploration Laboratory (MXL) ground-station software by default wants to connect to a physical TNC. For this connection they use a python based daemon that connects the … Continue reading
Lonestar-2 (AggieSAT-4 and BEVO-2) Launched from the International Space Station. Source: Tim Peak on Flickr It was only on the fifth pass that I could receive signals from AggieSAT-4 on 436.250 MHz. Data is send with 9600 baud FSK and … Continue reading