Transporter-16 Rideshare: VSFB SLC-4E : 2026-03-30 11:02 UTC

Not seeing any valid decodes in the Observation history for VEGAFLY-1… has it been heard on any of the modes?

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Yes, there were only a few observations during the first day after deployment from the deployer, and the signals were too weak for us to decode successfully. Therefore, we are truly looking forward to support from all of you and hoping for a miracle with our satellite VEGAFLY-1.

Thank you all very much for your help and support.

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Unfortunately nothing was seen on today’s pass over the Eastern U.S., but I’ll continue to watch for any signals!

Could you please confirm if the freq (436.655) and modes (cw, 500 & 1000 GFSK) listed on SatNogs are correct?

Thank you!

https://db.satnogs.org/satellite/LPUU-9270-2724-3685-4470#transmitters

Yes, that is fully correct for VEGAFLY-1, but currently, I think you should set up at 500 GFSK mode. Thank you very much!!!

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im late notice that this sat is very interesting

A 1P PocketQube mission. The mission also includes a 2MP camera as an educational payload. This subsystem, composed of a camera and a microcontroller, captures images and sends them to the onboard computer, which then transmits them to the ground station using SSDV via GFSK packets. The primary educational objective is to give students hands-on experience in designing, operating, and understanding the full image transmission process from in-orbit image capture to successful ground reception using real satellite communication protocols.

everyone should follow this sat

hi @vegastargs do you have better photos than this one

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Hi @bali. Thank you for your interest in VEGAFLY-1. Here is an old photo from our laboratory during the testing phase.

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Greetings!

I certainly don’t want to give false-hope, but you may wish to look at this SatNogs observation for VEGAFLY-1:

https://network.satnogs.org/observations/14139485/

… I don’t know what interval you have configured, but this is one of the first waterfalls that I’ve seen w/ narrow enough signals to possibly be your 500 or 1000 GFSK downlink.

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i’m trying to practice using this tutorial
(note: because the gs not provide the artifact .h5 file, im using this script to create .dat file that needed by strf)

and got the result:

rffit -d 14139485.dat -c satno.tle.txt -s 280

./ichnos.sh -t miman.tle.txt 14139485:3

source

miman.tle.txt (147 Bytes)
sites.txt (1.1 KB)
14139485.dat (816 Bytes)
satno.tle.txt (240.1 KB)

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Great work!!

A 2k4 downlink would certainly look like those small-ish packets.

and if replay at gpredict, its more make sense the signal come from miman, when at maximum elevation

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Thank you @K4KDR .
This bandwidth is quite consistent with VEGAFLY-1; however, we currently do not have any operating mode that produces this type of waterfall pattern. This situation could only occur if the satellite is continuously restarting due to issues such as low battery voltage. In addition, if this were the 1000 GFSK downlink mode for image transmission, the transmission period would normally last less than 1 minute, rather than approximately 4 minutes as shown in this observation.

Another important point is that we were unable to decode the signal from this observation, so we cannot confirm that it belongs to VEGAFLY-1.

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68421 Vireon-2 confirmed transmitter on 2240 MHz

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We’ve been tracking CANVAS (temp NORAD ID 98338) using NORAD ID 68635 (OBJECT-J) for the last several weeks with success. Request made in in DB to make 68635 the official NORAD ID for CANVAS..

strf obs from station 2134 as a citation

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68502 Iceye-x76 2269.750 MHz

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We’ve been tracking AEPEX (temp NORAD ID 98864) using NORAD ID 68506 for the last several weeks with success. Request made in DB to make 68506 the official NORAD ID for AEPEX.

strf obs from station 2134 as a citation

Thanks for catching that @EU1SAT ! Corrected

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Dutch satellite SPOQC possible match at 2214.762

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Always interesting when there is ‘new’ news about a past deployment:

https://x.com/planet4589/status/2068427893374390524

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Here is a Hades-SA update:

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confirmed on this observations
2026-06-28 18:44 UTC over :indonesia:

decoded by soundmodem fsk genesis 200 baud + HADES-SA decoder (reply the iq file):

****************************************************
*                                                  *
* HADES-SA (SpinnyONE) Satellite Telemetry Decoder *
*           AMSAT EA - Free distribution           *
*               Version 1.05 (Bytes)               *
*            Compilation : Mar 30 2026             *
*                                                  *
****************************************************
Searching KISS TNC ...
KISS TNC Connected

20260629-05:52:01 : Satellite id 3 (SpinnyONE HADES-SA) packet type 10 (SSDV). E
xpected bytes are 251 for this packet type

*** SSDV frame received on local time 20260629-05:52:01 ***
sat_id    : 3 (SpinnyONE HADES-SA)
image id  : 112
packet id : 36
width id  : 320
height id : 240
flags     : 024
mcuOffset : 053
mcuIndex  : 296
checksum  : BEC638D4
FEC       : E715275B01C65604F18277028B943E9E7E1B9548043B6923A9ABC4BB7427E14F

IQ File

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68505 GEMS2-AMETHYST id’d on 2245 MHz center.
On ITU Space explorer it’s on “2200-2290 MHz” so spot on the middle :wink:

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