Suffolk Developers - It's only rocket science, DIY satellites

Our thanks go out to Phil Ashby for his incredible talk.

You can watch Phil in action and hear from Suffolk Developers attendees asking questions about making their own satellites.

Is this talk for you? Here are the details -

Summary:

• Satellites, aren't they big/expensive/complicated?

But....why?

A brief history of satellite development => cubesats

How much?

• AMSAT, who dat?

Funding, global co-ordination

Global receiver network :)

HAM radio transponders

Educational outreach (hello!)

• FUNcube mission

2009-2017, FC1 & subsequent iterations

2020+, FUNcube Next, a new hope..

• Telemetry warehouses

SatNOGS

FUNcube warehouse

TLEs (celestrak/NORAD)

Opportunities for ground-based development (eg: Polaris)

• Open source initiatives

Gr-satellites

SatNOGS

Foxsat & FUNcube decoders

Satellite hunters - SpaceX, Chang'e5 & Tianwen1 telemetry :)

FCN

About Phil:

Phil has been a member of the FUNcube software team since 2009, and a licensed radio amateur since 2014. He enjoys playing with embedded processors and writing software at all levels of abstraction, from boot loaders, through software-defined radio modules to distributed systems in the cloud. He retired from paid employment in 2020 to spend more time with his hobbies!