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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Akademisk Radioklubb Repair LA1NGS Ground Station This week a story from Trondheim Norway. We love this story because it shows the fabulous co-operative nature of the SatNOGS community. Established in 1923 Akademisk Radioklubb is the oldest amateur radio group in Norway. The group has been using the LA1NGS SatNOGS station […]
Over 300 data contributors to SatNOGS Database That’s right! Over 300 stations are now supplying data to the SatNOGS database. This group comprises of the ground stations on the SatNOGS network and also those stations that chose to add data manually. Huge thanks to everyone in the community working hard […]