Received ESTCube-1 Telemetry

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ESTCube-1 ModelI had a couple of nice ESTCube-1 passes this day and I gave it a try.

I used my FUNcube Dongle Pro+, SDRSharp, DDE Plugin and SatPC32. To decode the signals I used my sound card modem setup. This gave me a total of 277 frames that I tried to decode with the ESTCube-1 FM decode software from DK3WN.

SDR Spectrum ESTCube-1

Below is a raw TLM kiss frame:

2013-07-10 11:35:53.570 UTC: [236 Bytes KISS Frame (without CRC)]
ctrl: 3   PID: F0 {UI}   217 Payload Bytes
from ES5E-11 to ES5EC-1: 
   1 > 05 06 00 D5 02 42 51 D1 04 E8 18 09 00 C8 00 00 00 95 02 8E 
  21 > 03 D3 02 6B 03 22 02 99 01 6F 01 66 01 40 01 17 01 13 01 FC 
  41 > 00 2D 01 6B 01 AE 01 0A 02 90 01 67 01 55 01 54 01 C4 01 08 
  61 > 02 9D 01 7E 01 54 01 2D 01 4F 01 B2 01 AD 01 C9 01 99 01 A5 
  81 > 01 7C 01 55 01 31 01 44 01 36 01 15 01 53 01 6E 01 37 01 34 
 101 > 01 79 01 96 01 61 01 58 01 57 01 8A 01 6C 01 CB 01 52 01 A2 
 121 > 01 85 01 94 01 5B 01 79 01 5F 01 60 01 5C 01 3B 01 22 01 57 
 141 > 01 14 01 20 01 0F 01 18 01 0D 01 0E 01 46 01 EA 01 50 01 2C 
 161 > 01 54 01 B0 01 A3 01 9C 01 4C 01 96 01 A9 01 6D 01 2F 01 62 
 181 > 01 4E 01 36 01 50 01 AB 01 9A 01 89 01 42 01 61 01 42 01 3F 
 201 > 01 49 01 9E 01 5F 01 B0 01 A2 01 C7 01 8E 01 99 01 
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Decoded TLM data:

ESTCube-1 TLM 10-07-2013 10:00 UTC

When I used this software it also created a image.raw file but I am unable to convert it into an image. The kiss file can be downloaded at the following location so if somebody else can give it a try, be my guest.

3 thoughts on “Received ESTCube-1 Telemetry”

  1. Hi Jan, try IfanView in 24bpp 640*480 mode rgb you will see the beginnings of an image,I’ve had not much better success with my other downloads from Estcube, hopefully someone else has a better solution ,maybe Colin Hurst knows how to do it ,he produced some good image software for some of the early hamsats. Best of luck….
    Dave
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  2. Hi Dave,

    Thanks for the reply. I will give that a try. I did some experiments with ufraw on a GNU/Linux system but this command line tool did detect any data. Maybe the settings 24bpp 640×480 as input for ufraw will give some output that is readable.

    73 Jan PE0SAT

    • Hi Dave,

      DK3WN has made a new ESTCube-1 decoder version that has the ability to decode the image file. One thing that you have to keep in mind, it takes two days for the Cubesat to download a complete image. This was shared with the community at the Amsat-UK Colloquium.

      73 Jan PE0SAT

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