Hello I’m an operator for the 6U CubeSat BlackCAT (Norad ID: 67369). We’re trying to integrate the satnogs network into our mission in addition to the time we have on a commercial groundstation, so that we can get faster alerts for gamma ray bursts. I’m having a little trouble understanding what the next steps are. At this time, I have a gnuradio flowgraph from our bus provider, have added the satellite and transmistter to to satnogs DB, and have requested a dashboard. We are intending to not use a Kaitai decoder, because our bus provider has given us an .exe to parse and unencrypt our raw waveform. I think my current brakedown is how to actually add the flowgraph. Should I fork the satnogs-flowgraphs repository, add my flowgraph, and submit a pull request?
Following on that how appropriate is it to be doing development on flight? Is changing parameters in our flowgraphs semi-regularly until it works going to cause issues with the operator community?
Can you tell something about when and where the satellite is active and with what kind of frames?
I have looked at 402.000 MHz when BlackCAT was passing Europe on the 13th and the 14th but there where no signals present.
It’s very likely that the satellite is not currently transmittinig on UHF. Our main downlink is with KSAT over s-band but we are trying to use UHF stations as a way to send out rapid alerts for gamma ray bursts. This was not the initial plan, but something we are doing as a stopgap
The real issue I’m having is with setting up Satnogs as an operator. We have made succesful contact with our satellite over s-band. I’m just having trouble with the satnogs ground side
Hello. Forking and creating an MR in satnogs-flowgraphs is the way to go. If it needs a special decoder block that is not supported right now it needs to be MRed in gr-satnogs.
I don’t see a problem with a flowgraph that does not work as intended and needs to be updated. For that, one thing you should have in mind is that for a new flowgraph to be integrated, a new release of satnogs-client must be released a the operators to update their stations which might take some time.
