The role of freely available and open-source software in our daily space operations Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther
Introduction Introduction
About my first access to space FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
The students of the FH Aachen Space Operations Facility FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA amateur-radio call-sign of the station: DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 Sachas Part Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Equipment of the Space Operations Facility
Antennas of teleport 1 and 3 FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Antennas of teleport 2 FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 Teleport Eupener Straße - 70 cm circular polarized Yagi: 6.8dBi - LogPer feed (0.8-7GHz) - 3m parabolic dish - RTL-SDR - Rhode & Schwarz EM100 digital (SDR) Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Do it yourself philosophy: FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA Maintenance!! +49 241 600 952 830 Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Receiver / Transceiver FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 • RTLSDR; HackRF • Rohde & Schwarz EM100 (SDR receiver) • ICOM 820 • ICOM 910h • New ICOM 9700 just arrived last week • HLV-770-LPD-LAN (430-440 MHz) RF Power Amplifier (low drive) will arrive soon Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Two exampes what can be done FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA with our EM100 // 3m Dish +49 241 600 952 830 Moon reflection ON0EME (Belgium) - Moon - FHASOF over a total distance of 802.000km (15.10.2018). Peak at almost 1296 MHz). Elevation:12.5° Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Mult-mission control room FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
FHASOF technical facts FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 d d Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
FHASOF technical facts FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 Workforce Structure • 21 active student members • 18 Batchelor students • 2 master • 6 active working groups: • Management • Operators • Flight Dynamics • Documentation • Maintenance • PR & Open-reach • Project direction Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Dachwald • Lead & flight director Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl • Supervising engineer Dipl.-Ing. Engelbert Plescher Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Mission control FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Training & certification FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
FHASOF FHASOF groundstation groundstation 3 teleports setup 3 teleports setup
Brief schematic of the ground-station FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 SGP4 Tracking App VPN Tunnel & TCP/IP GPREDICT, Input JSTRACKER Analog ROTOR CONTROL ROTOR input TELEPORT 1 MyDDE Wrapper DDE/TCP to TCP/IP SGP4 Tracking App HAMLIB HAL Sat. name PUTTY SSH DDE Dynamic Data Server PORT fwd Rigctld & Rotctld RS232 Orbitron Az, El, Freq. Exchange RIG CAT BOX deamon Audio in Conventional usb2RS Transceiver USB snd card Audio out Orbitron DDE Analog Tcp/ip ROTOR Controller ROTOR ROTOR CONTROL input Wrapper TELEPORT 2 PUTTY SSH TCP2DDE PORT fwd HDSDR Client Orbitron DDE Mobile Teleport HDSDR CONTROL PUTTY SSH New!!! Ext. Teleport Wrapper PORT fwd GNU RADIO Etc... Rhode&Schwartz EM100 SDR TELEPORT 3 Orbitron DDE PUTTY SSH DDE HDSDR TCP2DDE HDSDR CONTROL PORT fwd Client Wrapper Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Routing mechanisms – one example FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Controlling the radios and rotors FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA via Hamlib +49 241 600 952 830 Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Demodulation and Demodulation and decoding decoding
Demodulation and decoding FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA +49 241 600 952 830 Conventional MXL GS MXL GS Analogue audio stream KISS Receiver Tcp port 8100 Client Server Input UZ7HO AGW Online KISS SDR Receiver Virtual soundcard SDR Software Digital audio Stream AGW Full sampled Digital audio AX.25 Softmodem To store HK-data IQ-Waves Input VB-Cable IQ-Stream HDSDR, SDR# output Tcp port 8000 Soundmodem.exe As HEX-Files TLM -FORWARDER Input COM5 Serial Data AGW Packet AGW Engine Tcp port 8000 Digital Audio VSP Serial Data MixW output Input COM6 Virtual Serial Port GNU Radio FL-Digi Dedicated Satellite Decoders like GNU Radio is being implemented Funcube Dashboard GNU Radio, etc..... Still experimental for us Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
From telemetry reception to decoding FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA some examples +49 241 600 952 830 Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
GNU-Radio // GR-Satellites and FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA OPS-SAT GNU-Radio decoder +49 241 600 952 830 x x _ __ Taken at max elevation of about 40° Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
Typical software setup with ICOM910h FH Aachen Space Operations Facility Hohenstaufenallee 6 | 52064 Aachen | Germany | DL0FHA or any other analogue Receiver +49 241 600 952 830 - Soundmodem (UZ7HO) - AGW-Online Kiss (DK3WN) - TLM Forwarder (DK3WN) - Telemetry interpretation application for OPSSAT Dipl.-Ing. Sacha Tholl Hannah Walther Head of Ground Segment & Operations Documentation & Management tholl@fh-aachen.de hannah.walther@alumni.fh-aachen.de
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