Geoscan-Edelveis Images
2024-01-27 09:29:01, 09:31:17 UTC
Data I uploaded to SatNOGS DB
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Nice, it a shame nothing is being transmitted over Portugal…
Thank You Letter! End of the mission!
After 18 months, unfortunately, the time has come to sum up the results of the Geoscan-Edelveis mission. In February, the satellite will burn up in the atmosphere and become a wonderful story. The satellite successfully passed all flight tests and completed all tasks. He sent several hundred photographs of different parts of our beautiful planet (and the Sun). With his help, many educational events were held and many people were inspired to join our cause.
We ourselves learned a lot of new things and gained a lot of experience, both in working with satellites and interacting with radio amateurs and carrying out popularization and educational activities. And all achievements, whatever they may be, are certainly not the limit and we will develop and create more interesting projects.
Let’s share our experience a little and express our gratitude.
To begin with, we submitted an application to the national administration for the formation of a satellites call sign. We got the RS20S.
Afterwards we submitted an application for frequency coordination to the IARU, which is important process for amateur missions. The process may have taken a long time, but thanks to the IARU for agreeing on frequencies and supporting the mission!
Geoscan-Edelveis had a unique package format. To make possible to decode it, a geoscan-deframer was created in gr-satellites (thanks to @PE0SAT and @EA4GPZ). And this library is integrated into SatNOGS using satnogs_gr-satellites (thanks to @SA2KNG). Daniel also implemented an excellent geoscan-tools, with which it was possible to collect photographs that our satellite regularly transmitted. (@jupitersaturn09 and @Foxiks) also helped with this. And @tomasz was the first to take a photo from our satellite. Thanks to everyone who was active and tried to take photos from Edelveis! Thanks to @tammojan for receiving it on the radio telescope! This is awesome!
During the mission, more than 20,000 observations were made on SatNOGS. Thanks @fredy for the planning and also for helping with a bunch of other very important issues!
After data packets started appearing in SatnogsDB, we created the SatNOGS Dashboard for the satellite. It was incredibly helpful (thanks @DL4PD). The most decoded data was received at stations @EU1SAT, @SA2KNG and @PE0SAT! Thank you!
Thank you very much to Dmitry R4UAB for implementing the decoder and telemetry panel on your website and for your help! And also for your great interest in our mission! And so for Alexey RA3PPY for support and kind for about mission!
And, of course, I would like to thank everyone for their interest in the mission and help throughout the entire project! And LibreSpaceFoundation for such a great platform!
Письмо-благодарность. Завершение миссии.
После 18 месяцев, к сожалению, пришло время подводить итоги миссии “Геоскан-Эдельвейс”. В феврале спутник сгорит в слоях атмосферы и станет прекрасной историей. Спутник успешно прошел все летные испытания и выполнил все задачи. Передал несколько сотен фотографий разных частей нашей прекрасной планеты (и Солнца). С помощью него было проведено много образовательных мероприятий и вдохновлено к нашему делу много людей.
Мы и сами узнали много нового и получили большое количество опыта, как в работе со спутниками, так и взаимодействии с радиолюбителями и выполнении популяризаторской и образовательной деятельности. И все достижения, какими бы они ни были, безусловно, не предел и мы будем развиваться и создавать больше интересных проектов.
Немного поделимся опытом и выразим благодарности.
Для начала нами была подана заявка в национальную администрацию для образования позывного сигнала. Нам выпал RS20S.
После мы подали заявку на согласование частот в IARU. Пусть процесс и затянулся, но спасибо IARU за согласование частот и поддержку миссии!
На спутнике Геоскан-Эдельвейс был особый формат пакета. Чтобы была возможность приема спутников был создан geoscan-deframer в gr-satellites (спасибо @PE0SAT и @EA4GPZ). А эта библиотека интегрирована в SatNOGS с помощью satnogs_gr-satellites (спасибо @SA2KNG). Также Daniel реализовал прекрасный geoscan-tools, с помощью которого можно было собирать фотографии, которые регулярно передавал наш спутник. В этом также помогли (@jupitersaturn09 и @Foxiks). А @tomasz принял первым фотографию с нашего спутника. Спасибо всем, кто проявлял активность и пробовал принимать фотографии с Эдельвейса! Спасибо @tammojan за прием на радиотелескоп! Это круто!
За время миссии на SatNOGS было проведено более 20.000 наблюдений. Спасибо @fredy за планирование, а также за помощь с кучей других очень важных вопросов!
После того, как в SatnogsDB начали появляться пакеты данных, мы создали SatNOGS Dashboard для спутника. Он был невероятно полезен (спасибо @DL4PD). Больше всех декодированных данных было принятно на станции @EU1SAT, @SA2KNG и @PE0SAT! Спасибо вам!
Спасибо большое Дмитрию R4UAB за реализацию декодера и панели телеметрии на своем сайте и помощь! А также за большой интерес к нашей миссии! А также Алексею RA3PPY за поддержку и теплые слова о миссии!
Ну и, конечно, хочется поблагодарить всех за интерес к миссии и помощь на протяжении всего проекта! И LibreSpaceFoundation за такую прекрасную платформу!
Last image transmission
From now on we turned on our “Last image transmission”. One image will be sent with period of 8 minutes today and 16 minutes starting from tomorrow all over the world until either satellite will become silent or it will burn down.
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I would like to thank the Geoscan-Edelveis team for being so open and co-operative towards all interested in this technology, it is a great example that it is possible to achieve greatness by working together.
All the best, and I hope there will be new challenges ahead, so we can again work together.
Jan | PE0SAT
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[Geoscan-Edelveis LAST jpg]
$ grep ‘^2024-02-02 09’ 40202geo.csv > 2024-02-02_09.csv
$ cut -c 1-148 2024-02-02_09.csv > 2024-02-02_09_modified.csv
$ python3 process_simple.py 2024-02-02_09_modified.csv
Writing image to: 2024-02-02_09_modified.jpg
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Very nice final image!
And talk about going full-circle… that QR code directs us right here to this thread!
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Hey! Thank you for the question, but it doesn’t seem to fit for topic matter:)
Yes, other department work on different good directions of this technology usage: geodesy, 3D modelling, agro monitoring and other civil infrastructure, also in Asia and Africa. You can find all additional info on the page you linked.
Thanks Geoscan for the Nice pictures on your sat and for sharing your protocol with thé radioamateur community.a question ,Will there be a second geoscan flower in the Future?this geoscan was really Fun to copy…de on7ndr,nico
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Thank you, Nico! Sure! I hope there will be more news soon! I will post it here when there be something concrete!
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thanks for sharing image
thanks eu1sat for your images
on7ndr nico
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2024-02-10 11:36utc
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As Geoscan-Edelveis is decaying, we are starting to generate TLE sets to track it, here is the latest one used in DB and Network:
GEOSCAN-EDELVEIS (RS20S)
1 53385U 24048.30000000 .00000000 00000-0 15358-2 0 02
2 53385 97.3670 329.6294 0007817 133.6392 154.9608 16.28070288 08
geosc_048_v2.dat (1015 Bytes)
sites.txt (5.2 KB)
PS if you schedule in Network please make sure you don’t schedule to far in the future (suggested at most 12h) and please use custom station horizon with value set to 0(zero) in order to have longer in duration observations and more chances to get the satellite if the TLE doesn’t describe very well the orbit.
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New TLE set propagated from @geoscan one:
GEOSCAN-EDELVEIS (RS20S)
1 53385U 22096R 24048.50000000 .00000000 00000-0 15368-2 0 04
2 53385 97.3670 329.9241 0008589 142.4565 239.9343 16.27941787 00
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One more set with some adjustments on the previous one:
GEOSCAN-EDELVEIS (RS20S)
1 53385U 24048.50000001 .00000000 00000-0 15823-2 0 02
2 53385 97.3670 330.0064 0008589 142.4565 238.7673 16.32598608 05
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I’m still trying to get a picture from Geoscan over Portugal but haven’t been successful so far, it either transmits when it’s very low in the horizon or not at all…
Still transmitting over the U.S. East Coast on the 1630utc pass. Unfortunately, not enough elevation here for me to decode – eyes only.
Thankfully, super-station N6RFM up in the U.S. NorthEast got decodes w/ the elevation down to approx. 184 Km!
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