In order to achieve global coverage, a network of Ground Stations would have to have nodes in places that are not entirely friendly environments. Desert hot, ice cold, gusty, monsoon rainy, mountain dry and forest humid could be some descriptions of possible locations SatNOGS would have to survive in. Apart […]
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Most of the times you would want your ground station to be stable. Secured on a metal beam on top of a building, protected, homed and zeroed where no-one and nothing could disturb it. That is the ideal situation. For those of us though that like adventures and want to […]
Continuing the development of SatNOGS Network, we focused on enhancing the observation results page. Check out how it looks overall: What is new? Timeline The new timeline view gives a quick overview on the data that each ground station collected within the observation timeframe. On the left you can see […]
An important part of the instrumentation of our ground station is the Antennas. Early on the SatNOGS team designed and constructed 2 Yagis for UHF and VHF bands. The UHF Yagi design was essentially a cross Yagi design trying to address the circular polarization issue. Based on the experimental operation […]
The time we’ve all been waiting for, has come. We are proud to release v2 of SatNOGS Ground Station (Tracking Box) with many upgrades and fixes from the previous version. Notably: Redesigned Axis Gear Assemblies. They are now smaller, more robust and reliable based around a much more powerful NEMA […]
Using the first version of satNOGS hardware we figured out that some times due to various reasons (software, mechanical or power malfunctions) the rotator might end up in an unknown position. At that point, the only way to resolve that situation was to manually reset the rotator to home position […]
Stepper motor and axis movement should be accelerated, decelerated and smooth. This is important for a variety of reasons including less strain on the axis and the gears, plus inertia compensation. Agis with Manthos spend some time looking into some options and finally agreed to implement acceleration resulting to smooth […]
Yesterday in Berlin Hackaday announced SatNOGS as the Grand prize winner of the Hackaday Prize 2014. We are excited to see SatNOGS winning the recognition of the Hackaday Prize judges, the Hackaday staff and last but not least it’s awesome community. We believe that the Hackaday Prize contest is a […]
During our quest for reliable Satellite transponder data we came into a sad realization. There is nowhere out there such a thing as a complete transponder database for operational satellites. Having this information is crucial for SatNOGS operations on multiple levels. Observation scheduling, observation job details and mainly ground station […]
It was time for us to test out the designs for our PCB that would take care of the motor control. In a true hackerspace fashion instead of ordering the PCB we decided to built the capacity to produce our own (much needed moving forward). We could not settle for […]