Regarding Observation 14896533 …
@pelt @platypus Do you think this is a valid FrontierSat signal? From the other successful observations it looks like streams of data are rather atypical, but tiny bursts are more common…
Same question for Observation 14898124
In Observation 14896533 at 4:15 the packet says
CTS1
Hello from CalgaryToSpace FrontierSat
Yup, 100% valid and nominal. Sometimes our satellite is only beaconining (perhaps the tiny bursts you’re refering to). Sometimes we do bulk downlink operations to downlink 10KB-10MB-sized files via the SatNOGS network (with gaps between them).
In those two observations (14896533 and 14898124), you’re seeing bulk file downlinks, where the entire file is downlinked, then a pause, then the same thing over again.
Operationally, we downlink most files 10+ times across several SatNOGS observation windows in a 12h period so that any packets missed in one observation can be picked up in another pass and reassembled.