PHASMA Mission (PHASMA-LAMARR & PHASMA-DIRAC)

I’m opening this thread to track and share the updates of the PHASMA mission.


PHASMA is a spectrum monitoring and space-based situational awareness mission from the Libre Space Foundation.

The project is about the design and development of two open-source CubeSats. The two CubeSats are tasked to oversee the electromagnetic spectrum and its use in space so that they will perform a series of experiments.

You can find the GitLab repository of the PHASMA project here.

You can join the dedicated Element/Matrix Channel here.

PHASMA is a programme funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, and the Greek National Recovery and Resilience Fund, Greece 2.0.


PHASMA satellites are going to be launched on Transporter-15 Rideshare: VSFB SLC-4E : 10 November 2025

Some transmission details:

  • UHF Frequency: 400.550 MHz (PHASMA-LAMARR), 400.600 MHz (PHASMA-DIRAC),
  • UHF Modulation: FSK
  • UHF Buadrate: 50k
  • S-band Frequency: 2210MHz (PHASMA-LAMARR), 2208MHz (PHASMA-DIRAC),
  • S-band Modulaiton: MSK
  • S-band Buadrate: 400k
  • Framing: IEEE802.15.4, no reed solomon, ccsds scrambling

After deployment satellites are expected to beacon on both UHF and S-band.

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Thanks for all the information!

Are sample I/Q files available for one or both of the downlinks? It’s always great to confirm a working ground station setup before a satellite is even in orbit.

Thanks!

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We are working on it, as soon as there is an update it will be posted here.

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April 18, 2023

wow. after 2.5 year . congratz