On Twitter I see successful decodes of telemetry and CW. I monitored a few passes, but either nothing heard, or I got a pulsating carrier with no modulation. I had passes both in sunlight and eclipsed. Are signals from Lightsail2 very weak and is my station too small to handle them? What can I expect? Who on this list has heard Lightsail2? 73 de Hans BX2ABT
Hello Hans,
In SatNOGS we have several good observations[1] of LightSail-2 and some of them with decoded data.
For now there isn't a norad id to describe fully LighSail-2 orbit. However OBJECT A with norad id 44339 is the closest fit. For more updates on LightSail-2 orbit/TLE or for the other satellites of STP-2 launch you can check this thread[2].
73, fredy
[1] https://network.satnogs.org/observations/?future=0&bad=0&unvetted=0&... [2] https://community.libre.space/t/4042/
On 7/4/19 5:52 PM, Hans BX2ABT via AMSAT-BB wrote:
On Twitter I see successful decodes of telemetry and CW. I monitored a few passes, but either nothing heard, or I got a pulsating carrier with no modulation. I had passes both in sunlight and eclipsed. Are signals from Lightsail2 very weak and is my station too small to handle them? What can I expect? Who on this list has heard Lightsail2? 73 de Hans BX2ABT
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