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The last days of InflateSail in space

This weekend I had the opportunity to listen to the satellite InflateSail as it spent its last days in space. I was able to receive one of the final passes in the evening 2:rd of september (2017).

I used the follwing hardware:

  • 2 x 13 el Vårgårda Yagi with RHCP polarisation.
  • Alfaspid RAS rotor.
  • Airspy Mini

And a lot of software:

  • SDR Console V3 with integrated satellite tracking and doppler correction.
  • Soundmodem 0.98b with 1k2 BPSK G3RUH.
  • Online Telemetry Forwarder (DK3WN)
  • KISSDump+ (DK3WN)
  • InflateSail telemetry decoder (DK3WN)

This is a picture during the satellit pass (click for full res):

In this is the last decode of telemetry:

By SM0TGU

Webmaster and member of the AMSAT-SM steering group.

3 replies on “The last days of InflateSail in space”

Great achievement ! Congrats ! Trust the satellite owners and Surrey are very happy with your data ! The InflateSail concept has been proven for sure . 73 Albert PD0OXW
PS On a different subject..Plse let yr national Football team lose a match..so Holland still has a chance to go to the next years World Championship hi

Thank you!
And sorry, the Swedish football team is going to the championships this time so we go all in for all matches 🙂

Hi, One of the InflateSail team here! Great work on receiving the data! If you haven’t already, please could you send the data to M0GSN (r.duke@surrey.ac.uk)? We’re grateful for any data, but particularly interested in this final phase.

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