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

[Michelle Thompson]

I don’t. There’s plenty of directions we can go here.

-Michelle

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 08:26 Steve Conklin <steve at conklinhouse.com> wrote:

> 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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-Michelle Thompson

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