[amsat-bb] ESEO

[Daniel Estévez]

El 10/12/18 a las 04:31, Ross Biggar escribió:
> Can someone please tell me what is happening with ESEO, has it been tested and is it ready for operation yet?

Hi Ross,

I haven't heard much official information about the status of the
satellite and the progress of the mission. I think the FUNcube payload
is not active yet.

Now that we have a working decoder for ESEO
(https://destevez.net/2018/12/decoding-eseo/), we can watch the
telemetry to investigate about the satellite status.

Mike DK3WN captured some telemetry packets a couple of days ago:
http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=91603

A telemetry parser for these is not ready yet, but the documentation is
available here:
https://www.esa.int/Education/ESEO/Be_the_first_to_catch_a_signal_from_ESEO

>From a quick look by hand at the packets, it seems the spacecraft is in
safe mode and several systems are powered down.

PS: We still have to figure out some small details / check our
understanding about the telemetry format, so it would be good if you can
send us some more telemetry packets in hex as Mike did, so that we can
check our ideas.

73,

Dani EA4GPZ.