On this page I will share information on what modes and receiver settings one has to use to successful decode Satellite telemetry. The list of satellites can be found at the frequency page. The mode column will tell what kind … 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
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
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
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