We are excited and thrilled to announce that the SatNOGS network has reached its 2.000.000th observation on the 9th of April! Observation #2000000 got uploaded on the SatNOGS Network by station #6-Apomahon in Nea Filadelfia , Athens, Greece, operated by Dimitris Papadeas receiving data from SOKRAT satellite. The 2.000.000th observation […]
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The time has come for a brand new update! We would like to announce that a new upgrade is available for the SatNOGS Client software. You are advised to check the SatNOGS Client Setup wiki page to find out more about how to upgrade and configure your station. A few […]
Five years ago, 13 November 2014, SatNOGS was announced as the winner of the first iteration of the Hackaday Prize. The 1st iteration of the Hackaday Prize focused on open-source projects that would feature a connected device. The 1st prize winner would either win a trip to space as soon […]
Minutes ago, observation #1000000 got uploaded on the SatNOGS Network by station #2 in Bloomigton, Indiana USA operated by cshields receiving data from UNISAT-6 satellite. This marks the continuous efforts of hundreds of owners of SatNOGS ground-stations operating numerous ground-stations globally (more than 170 stations on-line, more than 90 in […]
LightSail2 solar-sail deployment On our previous post we mentioned making a data dashboard based on data retrieved from LightSail2. Among this telemetry data are date stating the status of the solar sail on-obard LightSail2, the Planetary Society shares lots of info about this deployment. The are lots of information on […]
A Busy Few Weeks for New Satellites, Observations and Dashboards! Between Rocketlab’s “make it rain”, Space X’s Falcon Heavy and the Soyuz launches over the last few weeks we have seen a lot of new satellites launched. Our community has been really busy scheduling observations, helping identify objects from early […]
NepaliSat-1 received by Nepal SatNOGS ground station The SatNOGS network is beginning to receive transmissions from some new satellites deployed from the International Space Station earlier this week. Amongst them it was wonderful to see our Nepali friends at Orion Space receive a signal from NepaliSat-1, Nepal’s first Satellite. The […]
Observations of the ISS Spacewalk Captured On the 29th May cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Flight Alexey Ovchinin, undertook an EVA (spacewalk) outside the ISS to retrieve science experiments, install some new handrails and conduct some other routine maintenance. Numerous successful observations of the EVA were captured by ground stations on the network and you can listen […]
SatNOGS articles in Hackspace Magazine This months Hackspace Magazine has a large feature around space and makers. The article features SatNOGS Libre Space, UPsat and much more. There is a complete tutorial on how to set up a ground station and even a short tutorial on a DIY Slim Jim […]
SatNOGS Community Help Kicksat Mission Our fabulous community and in particular Cees Bassa helped out Zac Manchester in tracking down his Sprite satellites (a single PCB satellite that is around 35mm x 35mm) after they were deployed in a low earth orbit from the Kicksat2 cubesat mothership. Cees has been working on the Dwingeloo […]