i-INSPIRE-2 activated with the help of the CAMRAS 25 meter dish In the weekend of June 10/11, 2017 volunteers from the 25m dish in Dwingeloo The Netherlands where successful in activating the Australian QB50 satellite i-INSPIRE-2. This satellite is build … Continue reading
Software Modems: Software solutions to decode satellite telemetry. Today we no longer need hardware modems to receive, transmit, decode and encode digital signals. Computers and software make it possible to this all with the help of programs that are made … Continue reading
27 May 2016 – The challenge for the worldwide radio amateur community to start listening out for three new orbiting CubeSats was set on 21 April. ESA’s Education Office published the transmission frequencies of the student-built satellites that were about … 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
Decoding 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 RS232 TNC interface … Continue reading
MCubed-2 appears to be alive again! Michigan Exploration Laboratory (MXL)is quite surprised and excited that MC2 is back. There theory was that an SD card failed and shorted out the flight computer. They will download telemetry to see if any … Continue reading