To anyone monitoring this thread, I would like to announce that until further notice, the deployment date for these CubeSats has been moved to no earlier than 2/17 due to the delay of the Cygnus launch. I’ll get back with a new deployment time and date as soon as I know more information.
If by some small chance, deployment stays at tomorrow morning, I’ll let you know this as well, but it is highly unlikely.
Thank you for the info! I’m going to add in the next hour the transmitters to the satellites so to be ready if the deployment will be done tomorrow morning.
Transmitters have been added for all the satellites, also I’ve added AZTECHSAT-1 that will be in the same deployment.
@sarah_srogers and @amandine_on4eya please confirm that the transmitters for your satellites are well defined. Thank you!
Thank you for adding these for us! I suggested a few minor edits to our UHF transmitter, namely making it a transceiver, as we wish to encourage amateur participation with our spacecraft. I do want to note, however, that we don’t have S-Band transmitter. This was de-scoped from the project due to time constraints. Could you please remove the Mode S transmitter from the Phoenix page? https://db.satnogs.org/satellite/99828/
Fixed! Thanks for the extra info and the suggestions.
Following the successful launch of NG-13 today, the deployment of these CubeSats will be Wednesday February 19th, 2020! I’ve listed the CubeSats being deployed on this date as well as their deployment times in the table below
| CubeSat | Downlink (MHz) | Uplink (MHz) | Deployment Time (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|
| RadSat-u | 437.425 | 437.425 | 7:10 |
| Phoenix | 437.35 | 437.35 | 9:35 |
| QARMAN | 437.35 | 437.35 | 11:20 |
| CryoCube | 2261 | 2082.004 | 12:55 |
| AztechSat-1 | 437.3 | 437.3 | 12:55 |
| SOCRATES | 914.7 | 914.7 | 14:30 |
| Argus-02 | 437.29 | 437.29 | 16:00 |
| HARP | 468 | 450 | 16:00 |
| SORTIE | 468 | 450 | 17:40 |
Very nice!
@sarah_srogers and @amandine_on4eya I am not yet done with the decoders integration for your cubesats, but I hope I can find the necessary time until Wednesday…
I’ve just finished scheduling observations for tomorrow (until 21:00 UTC) using ISS TLEs. I’ve tried to share equally the satellites observations on the stations of the Network.
Satellites that have been scheduled:
RadSat-u
Phoenix
QARMAN
AztechSat-1
Argus-02
HARP
SORTIE
For station owners that are going to schedule observations for these objects, please don’t forget to set custom horizon at 0 when you schedule as the TLE are temporary ones.
thanks Fredy! I appreciate all the scheduling work you do. I see some of them scheduled on my station, it’ll be neat to see if data is received.
Not sure if this will reach people in time, but if anyone is interested, we will be live streaming Phoenix’s deployment via twitch here starting at 9:20 UTC: https://www.twitch.tv/phoenixcubesat/
Feel free to join in!
Thanks Fredy!
Good luck to everyone, especially to our frequency buddy Phoenix!
You can watch QARMAN deployment at 11:20 UTC on our website: www.vki.ac.be
A quick update:
Unfortunately not decoded, however with using direwolf on the next good observation (1721170) we have:
[0.4] (Not AX.25)WJ2XOY<0x00>KIOO7Y<0x00><0x03><0x00><0x84><0xa4><0xa1><0x00>hk:1,6,8.03,3.9M,3120350491,0.215,0.267,0.220,9.20,15,19,28,3,0,20,0,0,1
------
dest +%,', 0 c/r=0 res=0 last=0
source %$'' c/r=0 res=0 last=0
000: 57 4a 32 58 4f 59 00 4b 49 4f 4f 37 59 00 03 00 WJ2XOY.KIOO7Y...
010: 84 a4 a1 00 68 6b 3a 31 2c 36 2c 38 2e 30 33 2c ....hk:1,6,8.03,
020: 33 2e 39 4d 2c 33 31 32 30 33 35 30 34 39 31 2c 3.9M,3120350491,
030: 30 2e 32 31 35 2c 30 2e 32 36 37 2c 30 2e 32 32 0.215,0.267,0.22
040: 30 2c 39 2e 32 30 2c 31 35 2c 31 39 2c 32 38 2c 0,9.20,15,19,28,
050: 33 2c 30 2c 32 30 2c 30 2c 30 2c 31 3,0,20,0,0,1
------
Audio input level is too high. Reduce so most stations are around 50.
[0.3] (Not AX.25)WJ2XOY<0x00>KIOO7Y<0x00><0x03><0x00><0x84><0xa4><0xa2><0x00>hk:1,6,8.03,3.9M,3120350521,0.215,0.267,0.220,9.20,15,19,28,3,0,20,0,0,1
------
dest +%,', 0 c/r=0 res=0 last=0
source %$'' c/r=0 res=0 last=0
000: 57 4a 32 58 4f 59 00 4b 49 4f 4f 37 59 00 03 00 WJ2XOY.KIOO7Y...
010: 84 a4 a2 00 68 6b 3a 31 2c 36 2c 38 2e 30 33 2c ....hk:1,6,8.03,
020: 33 2e 39 4d 2c 33 31 32 30 33 35 30 35 32 31 2c 3.9M,3120350521,
030: 30 2e 32 31 35 2c 30 2e 32 36 37 2c 30 2e 32 32 0.215,0.267,0.22
040: 30 2c 39 2e 32 30 2c 31 35 2c 31 39 2c 32 38 2c 0,9.20,15,19,28,
050: 33 2c 30 2c 32 30 2c 30 2c 30 2c 31 3,0,20,0,0,1
------
Audio input level is too high. Reduce so most stations are around 50.
[0.4] (Not AX.25)WJ2XOY<0x00>KIOO7Y<0x00><0x03><0x00><0x84><0xa4><0xa3><0x00>hk:1,6,8.03,3.9M,3120350551,0.215,0.267,0.220,9.20,15,19,28,3,0,20,0,0,1
------
dest +%,', 0 c/r=0 res=0 last=0
source %$'' c/r=0 res=0 last=0
000: 57 4a 32 58 4f 59 00 4b 49 4f 4f 37 59 00 03 00 WJ2XOY.KIOO7Y...
010: 84 a4 a3 00 68 6b 3a 31 2c 36 2c 38 2e 30 33 2c ....hk:1,6,8.03,
020: 33 2e 39 4d 2c 33 31 32 30 33 35 30 35 35 31 2c 3.9M,3120350551,
030: 30 2e 32 31 35 2c 30 2e 32 36 37 2c 30 2e 32 32 0.215,0.267,0.22
040: 30 2c 39 2e 32 30 2c 31 35 2c 31 39 2c 32 38 2c 0,9.20,15,19,28,
050: 33 2c 30 2c 32 30 2c 30 2c 30 2c 31 3,0,20,0,0,1
------
My station is a bit too far north, but should have an IQ file available shortly after https://network.satnogs.org/observations/1721167/ is done. ( about 10 minutes from posting this)
Here is my observation:
https://network.satnogs.org/observations/1724747/
I’ve got something 
@sarah_srogers
This is incredible. Thank you all so so much! The first pass of the ISS over Phoenix is coming up shortly so hopefully we will hear something as well!
QARMAN is also received and we have some decoded frames from it:
https://network.satnogs.org/observations/1724779/
It looks like a QARMAN message too at:
https://network.satnogs.org/observations/1724748/
(Phoenix observation)
First of all: congratulations to all successful deployments!
From a first look at the data, ASU-Phoenix has an issue with the proper encoding of the AX.25 adress field: the source and destination callsigns are encoded in ASCII without shifting left. This might pretend some decoders to work!
