[Board] Fwd: Reg upcoming launch opportunity on PSLV POEM platform

[Steve Conklin]

It seems like a promising engagement. Did you have any specific projects of
ours in mind as an addition?



On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 10:20 AM Michelle Thompson <
mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Potential new collaboration with someone from our MATLAB class.
>
> Let me know your thoughts as soon as possible, and I’ll execute.
>
> -Michelle Thompson
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Rakesh Peter <rakesh at asnaviram.in>
> Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 06:53
> Subject: Reg upcoming launch opportunity on PSLV POEM platform
> To: <mountain.michelle at gmail.com>, Ajith Peter <ajith at asnaviram.in>
>
>
> Dear Michelle,
>
> Rakesh VU3RGP here. We had attended the Mathworks DSP/FPGA coursework and
> were really looking forward to collaborating with ORI for open-source comms
> work.
>
> We are a hamily - our father Peter VU2PJP and brother Ajith VU3EMX are
> active radio enthusiasts with much interest in Satcom experimentation,
> having early memories of Packet Radio through MIR and DO-17 satellites, to
> being the first active station from India on QO100. We have been involved
> with developing SDR systems as a part of our daily work and look forward to
> being part of developing a bird for Amateur Satcom.
>
> ISRO recently have been giving thrust for private space activity in our
> country and have floated an autonomous agency InSpace for providing
> guidance to Academics/Startups interested in the Space sector. They have
> recently announced this opportunity for hosting experimental payloads on
> the spent fourth stage of the PSLV launch vehicle called PSLV Orbital
> Experimentation Module (POEM). I have attached the details herewith. The
> platform will be 3-axis stabilized for a few days and will be available
> non-stabilized for a few months - as per InSpace document attached.  The
> date for submission of proposals is Aug 25th 2023. The potential
> opportunities can come either in Nov 2023 or June 2024.
>
> We were thinking about building an experimental SSTV system with a camera
> capturing live images and transmitting on VHF/UHF bands. Regular APRS
> digipeating
> <https://www.isro.gov.in/media_isro/pdf/PSLV_C45_Launch_Kit.pdf>system
> was previously experimented on POEM by AMSAT India during the PSLV-C45
> mission. Such an SSTV experiment would be interesting to the overall
> amateur radio community since we get to see the regular interest in
> periodic MAI/ARISS transmissions. We have also been following the
> developments with the DVB-FPGA project and happened to wonder whether it
> could also be considered as another potential experiment to be part of this
> payload. Recent work from Evariste F5OEO for running DVB-FPGA on PlutoSDR
> could perhaps be adopted for such a work - either with a live camera input
> or stored playback from memory. This could indeed serve as a mission
> readiness validation for the humongous work ORI has been doing with DVB
> implementation.
>
> Kindly let us know your thoughts on the same. If there are parameters that
> need more clarification, kindly let us know so that we can take it up with
> our contacts at InSpace.
>
> Regards
>
> Rakesh Peter VU3RGP
>
> Some links on POEM payloads for your reference:
>
> Reddit Thread on POEM-2 missions -
> https://www.reddit.com/r/ISRO/comments/12s2t5g/pslvc55_teleos2_mission_updates_and_discussion/
> Description of StarberrySense -
> https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1921167
>
>
> --
> -Michelle Thompson
>
> "Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis."
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