Request to add AEPEX to the SatNOGS DB

Hey all,

I am a command controller from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU). I am a member of the operations team for the Atmospheric Effects of Precipitation through Energetic X-Rays (AEPEX) CubeSat. AEPEX is a 6U mission that will study radiation belt losses through energetic particle precipitation (EPP) in the upper atmosphere, magnetopause shadowing, and wave-particle interactions. AEPEX has two instruments: AFIRE (AEPEX’s Focused Investigations of Relativistic Electrons) and AXIS (Atmospheric X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer).

I can only provide more information on the launch date at a later time, unfortunately. I will keep you all updated!

The title is a slight misnomer, as a temporary NORAD ID has been created already. I highly appreciate that! However, my understanding is that more information is required from the AEPEX team to finalize it.
I created a SatNOGS issue report where you can find more detailed documentation on radios. Please let me know what other information I can provide.

I will, however, submit a pull request for a kaitai telemetry decoder in the next few days. I will post back here, providing both the telemetry parser and some test data.

I have created a pull request for an AEPEX telemetry decoder within gr-satellites. I will reply in thread with a link to that.

Thank you to everyone who has helped build this wonderful community!

Thanks,
Adrian Bryant


Adrian Bryant
Command Controller
Mission Operations and Data Systems
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
University of Colorado Boulder
1234 Innovation Drive
Boulder, CO 80303

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If you’d like to read more on AEPEX’s mission, here is a great paper from SmallSat 2021 with far more detail.

For information on the gr-satellites decoder, here is the pull request. I will reach out once that is completed!

Thanks,
Adrian Bryant

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Good news! The AEPEX decoder is now officially a part of gr-satellites! Kaitai decoder soon

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Merge request opened for the kaitai decoder here: Adding a decoder for 70cm AEPEX Beacons (!413) · Merge requests · librespacefoundation / SatNOGS / satnogs-decoders · GitLab