DANDE (Drag and Atmospheric Neutral Density Explorer) Mission DANDE’s mission statement is to explore the spatial and temporal variability of the neutral thermosphere at altitudes between 200 and 350 km (revised to 325-500 km due to being assigned to a … Continue reading
It is been a while for me, but today I had some pretty good SSTV reception from ISS on 145.800, the SSTV mode was martin1. For decoding SSTV data I use MMSSTV. 04-09-2013: The transmissions started late in the pass and I … Continue reading
There is a new SDR# DDETracker plugin. Ian Gilmour (MM6DOS) has created an add-on to the excellent SDR# program which allows DDE compatible software to control the receive frequency in SDR# Required for best results to correct for the Doppler shift when working with satellites … Continue reading
Dr. Chris Bridges (M0GKK) has requested that the ground stations that receive STRaND-1 telemetry to send there .kss files to strand.messages [at] gmail.com The following combination works great when you want to receive and decode the telemetry data: FUNcube Dongle Pro+, … Continue reading
ESTCube-1 has started downloading a new image that it has taken with the onboard camera. I’m going to try once again to decode the image data. One of the problems I face, is a strong local generated carrier on 437.495 that … Continue reading
Just last weekend at the Amsat-UK Collegium, I heard Dr. Chris Bridges say that it would probably be November before we would hear STRaND-1 again, in that period the satellite would go in eclipse causing the system to reset. But … Continue reading