CalPoly CP-16 (SAL-E) Mission

Satellites & Observations Launches
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Cal Poly CubeSat Labs (CPCL) will be launching SAL-E, aka CP-16 on 03/29/2026 on Transporter 16. This is our first mission in a while now! Our last one was Spinnaker 3 (CP15) in Sept. 2021 which unfortunately exploded on the Firefly Alpha Rocket prior to entering orbit…

Info about the mission ( Missions In Development — PolySat )

We’d love for the community to help downlink packets during the first 24-48 hours of the critical period right after launch.

Satellite db entry: SatNOGS DB - SAL-E

Transmitter info will be posted soon, and also updated on db

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Welcome and it is good to see a new Calpoly launch, it has been far to long.

Here a link to the SAL-E system description that I found on the IARU coordination page for SAL-E (CP16)

Based on that information and what was used in the past, my best guess the transmitter will be:

name: SAL-E
norad: 99999
data:
  &tlm Telemetry:
    telemetry: ax25
transmitters:
  9k6 FSK downlink:
    frequency: 436.965e+6
    modulation: FSK
    baudrate: 9600
    deviation: 2400
    framing: AX.25 G3RUH
    data:
    - *tlm

Cal Poly CubeSat Lab 2024-2025 Annual Report

Jan | PE0SAT

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Hi akshaysathish,

Could you provide us complete information on the telemetry format?

Does the team plan on issuing QSL cards in return for showing telemetry receptions?

73
Daniel, dl7ndr

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Daniel,

QSL cards sound like a fun idea! I’ll see if our team can post QSL cards for people who submit telemetry receptions within the first 24h of launch (might change to first 48h), and possibly offer digital cards for any telemetry after that. Still need to confirm with my team though.

We’ll update with the AX.25 telemetry format hopefully within the next three days

Akshay, KO6BQJ

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