We are very excited to announce the deployment of TAUSAT-1 (Tel-Aviv University, first nano-satellite) from the ISS this coming Sunday (14/03) at 13:05 UTC. After launch it will be silent for approximately 3 hours and then will send beacons every 20 seconds.
March 14 09:15-10:30 - release of satellites OPUSAT-II, GuaraniSat-1 (BIRDS-4), Maya-2 (BIRDS-4), Tsuru (BIRDS-4) and RSP-01 from J-SSOD#14
March 14 10:50-11:45 - release of satellite WARP-01 from J-SSOD#14
March 14 12:35-13:30 - release of satellite TAUSAT-1 from J-SSOD#14
March 14 14:00-15:00 - release of satellite Shizuoka University from J-SSOD#14
So, I’m going to edit the title to track the whole deployment on this thread. @Idan if you have more information about the deployment times of the rest of the satellites please let us know.
Given that in last ISS deployments, spacetrack didn’t publish any TLE set for a couple of days, we may need to produce our own for better results. cc @pierros@cgbsat@PE0SAT@vk5qi
EDIT: Here is a list of the satellites with their IARU coordination links:
By the way, could you provide any frames that we can use as examples to test the kaitai struct for decoding that @DL4PD working on?
With the kaitai struct we will be able to generate a decoder for the frames that will be stored in DB. The decoded results will be used to create a dashboard in our Grafana https://dashboard.satnogs.org.
The protocol and the beacon are identical to those in Duchifat-3.
The raw form in the file is after ax.25 decoding.
I will get back to you tomorrow with packets straight from the ax.25 modem.
Just got an update that the TAUSAT-1 deployment will be delayed by approxiamlty 1 hour due to trouble by NASA. So the current release time is: ~ 14:30 UTC.
I am trying to find a proper name for the kaitai struct that now is used for two different satellites and would like to pick a “system name”. No worries if you can’t provide that quickly - we can do that later on.
Could you probably provide something like a mission patch image or similar to show in the dashboard?
Thank you for sharing all this information.
I wonder the fact that Tausat-1 has moved to ~ 14.30 UTC does that also mean all the other releases moved up 1 hour?