{"id":3061,"date":"2019-12-13T19:50:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T23:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/calling-radio-amateurs-help-find-ops-sat\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T23:50:58","slug":"calling-radio-amateurs-help-find-ops-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/calling-radio-amateurs-help-find-ops-sat\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Radio Amateurs: Help Find OPS-SAT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calling Radio Amateurs: Help Find OPS-SAT!<\/h2>\n

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\"Decoding<\/a><\/p>\n

Decoding OPS-SAT’s beacon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

ESA is challenging<\/a> anyone with amateur radio equipment to catch the first signals from OPS-SAT, ESA’s 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’s 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

Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n

m5aka <\/p>\n

AMSAT-UK<\/p>\n

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Calling Radio Amateurs: Help Find OPS-SAT! Decoding OPS-SAT’s beacon ESA is challenging anyone with amateur radio equipment to catch the first signals from OPS-SAT, ESA’s brand new space software laboratory. 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’s Cheops exoplanet-tracker. 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. 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. 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. Full details in the ESA article at http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Operations\/Calling_radio_amateurs_help_find_OPS-SAT OPS-SAT UHF Specification https:\/\/github.com\/esa\/gr-opssat\/blob\/master\/docs\/os-uhf-specs.pdf OPS-SAT GitHub https:\/\/github.com\/esa\/gr-opssat\/ Get The Details… m5aka AMSAT-UK Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-amsat","tag-amsat","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}