brainwagon

In about a month, the ANDE satellite (otherwise known as NO-61) will deorbit. Last night I was out hunting for it, and heard a single AFSK packet which didn’t decode properly. It’s pretty hard to bounce something off it since it only wakes up for 1s out of ever 15s looking for packets. This satellite was apparently launched from the space shuttle after docking with the ISS early this year, and has limited battery power and no solar cells, so it’s understandable.

I’d really like to get one packet through it before its ultimate demise, or at least to successfully decode a packet from it.

In any case, there is a website that tracks the telemetry etc… for it.