TUBIN/TUBSAT-27 Re-Entry

Great news our colleague PistonMiner has published their HiSPiCO modem that can be used to decode the TUBIN S band transmitters.

See their post on Mastodon here:

The GitHub repository (it also shows how to decode IR images :smiley:):
PistonMiner/hispico-receiver: Software receiver for the HiSPiCO transmitter

You can find an IQ recording from our ground station here:
iq_recording_2025-11-07T18-32-11Z.raw

Settings:

  • Center Frequency: 2264.5 MHz
  • Sample Rate: 6 Msps
  • Format: iShort / int16

TUBIN’s S band transmitters at 2263 MHz and 2266 MHz are active for every pass over 10° elevation at our Berlin ground station. It should transmit empty frames if nothing is scheduled, but for most passes we schedule a downlink. Telemetry is mostly transmitted during the weekday afternoon/evening passes and images for the night/morning passes and on weekends.

If you are not within Europe let us know and we will try to sent something during a pass over your ground station.

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