As many of you have probably read, the ISEE-3 Reboot Project was able to successfully send uplink commands to the space craft. This was accomplished through a lot of team work and generous support from the community at large. Balint … Continue reading
Category Archives: Amateur Radio
CNSP Supporting Open Source Payload [syndicated]
The California Near Space project, with the help of several engineers including John Malsbury, Johnathan Corgan, and Ian Kluft, is developing an open source payload design. The objective of this design is to enable new balloon developers with an end-to-end framework with the following capabilities: Global Position and Status Reporting with Iridium Communications Two-Way Communications, […] Continue reading
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February 4, 2014
Uploading Frames to APRS with Python
An upcoming project will be using a redundant communication system that is co-located with an APRS beacon (but won’t communicate in the ham band). In case of APRS beacon failure, we would like to upload position packets from this redundant … Continue reading