Overview
Implementation of Mach 30 ground station prototypes optimized to listen to "tweets" from space broadcast by Southern Stars CubeSat the SkyCube.
- Subprojects: Ground Sphere CadQuery CAD, Ground Sphere Test Transmitter
Members
Manager: Aaron Harper, Greg Moran, J. Simmons, Jeremy Wright
Developer: Charlie Bellows, Scott Cutler, Tim DeBenedictis
Terms of Service Signers: J. Simmons, Aaron Harper, Jeremy Wright, Greg Moran, Tim DeBenedictis, Scott Cutler, Charlie Bellows
Latest news
Update for LNA production
(20 comments)
The 20dB gain LNA (Low Noise Amplifier) is critical to the receive sensitivity of Ground Sphere, making the difference between a trace of a signal and AX-25 decode.
Testing update for Prototype 1
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RTL-SDR Dongle in Linux
(15 comments)
I wanted to get a better idea of how the dongle gain was manipulated through software. To do this I first got rtl-sdr and SDRSharp running on my Linux machine.
SkyCube Launch Delayed
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Update from Tim
(3 comments)
Lots of news on SkyCube and NPS cubesats
Licensing
- Hardware: Mach 30 Open Design Pledge
- Software: Apache License, 2.0
- Documentation: Creative Commons Attribution