Projetos de Satélite

Field notes, long-form guides, recordings, and open-source tools from more than a decade of receiving and decoding satellite signals.

Featured long-form guide · GOES-13 · LRIT

Follow the complete path from building the L-band receiving hardware to recovering weather images: BPSK demodulation, CCSDS frame synchronization, Reed–Solomon correction, packet demultiplexing, and LRIT file assembly.

GOES-13 full-disk infrared image of Earth decoded by the project
  1. Receiving hardware
  2. BPSK demodulation
  3. Frame decoding
  4. Packet demultiplexing
  5. LRIT file assembly

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Satellite field notes

Browse the GOES experiments, NOAA and Meteor reception work, RF hardware, filters, and follow-up investigations.

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Open data

Sample baseband recordings

Download real GOES-13 and GOES-16 IQ captures for developing and validating your own demodulators and decoders.

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First reception

NOAA and Meteor

Start with a home-built QFH antenna, RTL-SDR reception, GQRX recording, and a dedicated 137 MHz band-pass filter.

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Open source

Open Satellite Project

The software and reusable tooling that grew out of GOES Satellite Hunt, including decoding and ground-station components.

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