DIY Satellite Ground Station and Network
SatNOGS is an open source ground station and network, optimized for modularity, built from readily available and affordable tools and resources.
Satellites
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are our priority, and for a good reason. Hundreds of interesting projects worth of tracking and listening are happening in LEO and SatNOGS provides a robust platform for doing so.
We support VHF and UHF bands for reception with our default configuration, which is easily extendable for transmission and other bands too.
Networked
We designed and created a global management interface (SatNOGS Network) to facilitate multiple ground station operations remotely. An observer is able to take advantage of the full network of SatNOGS ground stations around the world.
Open
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It, and other projects like it, show the power that new tools like software defined radios (SDR) and 3D printers are putting into Maker hands. Building something like this, for this amount of money, simply wouldn’t have been possible even a couple of years ago.
We are proud to have had an influence on their SatNOGS project, which is an open source ground station and network, optimized for modularity, and built using affordable tools and resources. Essentially, SatNOGS provides a scalable and modular platform to communicate with satellites, accessible to anyone.
The innovative factor about these ground station antennas will be that they are built entirely from common products. No space-age technology will be required to communicate with the satellites that are floating through the cosmos.
the system should allow much more comprehensive monitoring of satellite signals than anybody working in isolation could manage
From the description above we’re sure you agree that this has the potential to be much more than a project between a few friends. This is a movement.
