{"id":640654,"date":"2019-12-13T13:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T17:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640654"},"modified":"2019-12-13T13:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T17:09:58","slug":"calling-radio-amateurs-help-find-ops-sat-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640654","title":{"rendered":"Calling Radio Amateurs: Help Find OPS-SAT!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Decoding OPS-SAT\u2019s beacon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

ESA is challenging<\/a> anyone with amateur radio equipment to catch the first signals from OPS-SAT, ESA\u2019s brand new space software laboratory.<\/p>\n

On December 17, the 3U CubeSat OPS-SAT will be launched into low-Earth orbit on a Soyuz rocket from Kourou in South America, together with ESA\u2019s Cheops exoplanet-tracker.<\/p>\n

Lift-off is scheduled for 08:54:20 GMT on Tuesday, December 17. Deployment will begin 15044.6 seconds later (T+15044.6 seconds), expected to be at 13:05:04 GMT.<\/p>\n

15 minutes after satellite deployment, when the UHF antenna and solar array deployment have been confirmed, OPS-SAT will begin transmitting 9600 bps GMSK on 437.200 MHz. The first two passes over Europe are expected on the same evening.<\/p>\n

The OPS-SAT flight control team has developed open source software which allows anyone to receive the 437.200 MHz beacon of OPS-SAT and decode it.<\/p>\n

Full details in the ESA article at http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Operations\/Calling_radio_amateurs_help_find_OPS-SAT<\/a><\/p>\n

OPS-SAT UHF Specification https:\/\/github.com\/esa\/gr-opssat\/blob\/master\/docs\/os-uhf-specs.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

OPS-SAT GitHub https:\/\/github.com\/esa\/gr-opssat\/<\/a><\/p>\n


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