SatNOGS Activity Update 2019-02-21

SatNOGS Client Update and gr-satnogs , Time to update your stations!

We are very proud to announce new releases for satnogs-client 3 and gr-satnogs 4.

Notable changes on satnogs-client:

  • Support demodulator for Reaktor Hello World 2 satellite
  • Sent observation frequency in metadata
  • Add option for manual power level range in waterfall (there is an issue with this one, there will be an update in satnogs-client-ansible 2 later that will fix this.)

Notable changes on gr-satnogs:

  • Golay (24, 12) decoder
  • Demodulating flowgraph for the Reacktor Hello World Satellite
  • Fix of the baud rate issue in BPSK gr-script

For updating your station through ansible script (satnogs-setup) follow the instructions in this wiki page section 13.

Note that before running satnogs-setup you will need to update the OS and reboot as is described in the instructions.

MySat-1 First Received On SatNOGS network

Excellent work by Mark Jessop scheduling this observation resulted in the first results from the MYSAT-1 via station 232 on this observation. He passed the observation back to MYSAT-1 via their twitter feed and they were thrilled to say he was the first to hear and expressed their thanks.

Dashboard for MYSAT-1

Following on from the above story our fabulous contributor Patrick DL4DP has put together a dashboard for the MYSAT-1 mission which is publicly available here

Decoding eshail 2 go using gr-satellites

Its been a busy week for Patrick! He has also put together this great tutorial post on how he has used gr-satellites to decode the BSPK 400bps beacon on the EsHail-2 QO-100 transponder based on some ideas he had seen from Dani EA4GPZ. Check out this post here on the libre space community forum.

Recent Slow Scan TV images from the ISS


The recent slow scan TV image transmissions from the International Space Station organized by Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) & NASA On The Air (NOTA) as received by SatNOGS 📡 stations globally!

Links to posts on the libre space community forum for each of these ISS SSTV events can be found here;

Feb7-Feb8: https://community.libre.space/t/sstv-iss-ariss-nota-sl…/3436
Feb15-Feb17: https://community.libre.space/t/sstv-iss-ariss-nota-sl…/3437

FOSDEM 2019

A little late with this update but many SatNOGS contributors and team members made the trip to FOSDEM 2019 and got an opportunity to promote SatNOGS and also work together on various projects. A couple of posts on the Libre Space site and the SDR Makerspace site cover the trip and the varied events and activities well. Interest in SatNOGS was, as ever, high and we have seen people we talked to on the booth registering on the Libre Space forum which is great to see.