[57north-discuss] HackSat One ground station

[Edward Watson]

Sounds great Dave.  Catch up this eve - I know a number of members
have radio licences.

Hopefully this is not the same sat swarm, as it looks a bit bleak at the mo:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/06/25_satellite_swarm_looks_like_going_down_in_flames/

Man, space is hard.

Cheers,
Ed


On 13 May 2014 09:32, Dave Hibberd <d at vehibberd.com> wrote:
> I'll stick my nose in here given I'm mildly qualified to work it out -
> in a previous life I designed and stuck together
> http://www.stacstation.blogspot.co.uk/p/about.html with the help of
> undergrad slaves, uh... I mean project workers and designed the radioey
> bits on a cubesat with academics until they drove me mad.
>
> For receiving satellites/ISS, we're pretty far north, so we'd need a decent
> skyview south (CampGND might be fun to test a mobile setup?). Yagis, or my
> favourites, axial mode helicals, are pretty easy to build, but I've
> never found a rotator solution that I've been happy with - something
> could be built using arduinos and gpredict pretty easily, I reckon.
>
> If we're struggling for trx kit the space can "borrow" my
> currently unloved and unused UHF radio and transmit "under supervision",
> as the amateur license terms dictate if we want to play on the BBS on the
> ISS and the APRS digipeater.
>
> ISS TV, on the other hand, is really exciting - they've got a 2.4GHz
> transmitter beaming DVB that we could receive and display using a
> transverter up there these days...
>
> I'll be about tonight (and can bring radios if wanted) - feel free to bend my ear
> about it all night long (and/or on irc). I don't think I've got any presentations on the
> actual space segment, but I might have one kicking about on ground
> segment design and testing using high altitude balloons, which I
> mentioned when I was half cut on CAH themed thursday!
>
> Hx
>
> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:11:25PM +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote:
>> How are we doing with getting kit together to receive stuff from HackSat
>> One (and/or the rest of the swarm)?
>>
>> The sprites should be being deployed around 20:00 on Sunday:
>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zacinaction/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space/posts/816584
>>
>> Somewhere in my feeds I came across someone else's attempts to pick up
>> the mother satellite with similar kit to what was discussed for us.
>> http://dolske.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/satellite-radio/
>>
>> In other space news the High Definition Earth Viewing experiment is now
>> live from ISS
>> http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload
>> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/917.html
>>
>> 3 out of the 4 cameras it's cycling through are pretty good (for the
>> sake of whoever is responsible for the fourth one I'm hoping it does
>> better with a night pass over somewhere with a decent collection of
>> cities but I haven't managed to catch one yet to see).
>>
>> And to help with figuring out what you're looking at:
>> http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544
>> If you toggle on drawing the footprint that shows where the horizon is
>> from ISS.
>>
>> Robert
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