ESEO in anechoic chamber at ESTEC with Jonas Holtstiege and Pete Bartram
The launch of the ESEO spacecraft has now been confirmed to be on board the SSO-A flight from Vandenberg.
The ESEO microsatellite includes a FUNcube payload which will provide similar telemetry to its predecessors but will have a more powerful transmitter and thus be even easier to hear. For amateurs, this payload will also provide a single channel L/V transponder for FM. These downlinks will be transmitted on 145.895 MHz and the FM transponder uplink will be on 1263.5 MHz with a 67Hz PLL tone required.
A new Dashboard has been developed for this mission and a finalised pre-launch version will available for download within the next few days. In the meantime here is the AMSAT FUNcube Payload Downlink Data document. This gives all the information required to decode the telemetry ESEO_Downlink_Data_1_21a
The new Dashboard will operate in exactly the same manner as those developed for previous missions and general set-up information can be downloaded here: Dashboard Guidance
A new Data Warehouse has also been created. This can be used to view the telemetry from ALL of the FUNcube missions: http://data2.amsat-uk.org/
We expect that the FUNcube telemetry transmitter will become operational after the launch and subsequent to the completion of initial de-tumbling of the spacecraft.
Thanks for your valuable support for this mission!
More information on ESEO is available from ESA Education’s website
https://www.esa.int/Education/ESEO
Information on other SSO-A spacecraft with amateur radio payloads
https://amsat-uk.org/2018/11/14/ssoa-amateur-radio-satellites/