[Board] Technical Support Package + standalone HEO/GEO proposal

[Michelle Thompson]

Greetings David,

Kent Britain sent me your Scatterpoint article about the ESA GEO proposal.
I'd like to offer both a technical support package and share our current
HEO/GEO satellite proposal with you.

First is a technical support package from Open Research Institute (ORI) for
AMSAT-UK for consideration in the ESA GEO call for proposals. Consideration
for other purposes and projects at AMSAT-UK are also welcome.

Formal collaboration would be enabled with a memorandum of understanding or
other appropriate documentation.

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ORI brochure explains the organization, lists the board of directors, and
covers the basic vision and areas of expertise. Brochure pdf is attached.

ORI publishes designs as they are created. All work is available through
GitHub.

https://github.com/OpenResearchInstitute
https://github.com/Haifuraiya (GEO/HEO payload specific)

We are able to freely publish communications satellite designs because we
did the United States regulatory work to take full advantage of the public
domain carve-outs in ITAR and EAR.

All of this regulatory work (and more) is available at:

https://github.com/OpenResearchInstitute/documents/tree/master/Regulatory

Highlights of the technical repositories are a DVB-S2 (downlink) encoder,
COBS (uplink) decoder, and polyphase (uplink) channelizer in HDL. Current
HDL block under development is the Opulent Voice uplink demodulator and
decoder.

Opulent Voice is ORI's high definition voice and data protocol, which
includes authentication and authorization. It is designed specifically for
amateur satellite service. An article about Opulent Voice from QEX magazine
is attached.

Lab resources available include Remote Lab West, a fully remote
FPGA-centric RF workbench. We use Xilinx parts. We have a zc706 with
ADRV9009 and a zcu102 with ADRV9002. We have a full floating Vivado license
free for open source amateur radio work. We have a full MATLAB/Simulink
license with all toolboxes free for open source amateur radio work. These
tools, along with Petalinux, are hosted on the Remote Labs computer, which
runs virtual machines on an Unraid server.

Remote Labs are described in detail in the Readme at:

https://github.com/OpenResearchInstitute/documents/tree/master/Remote_Labs

The Readme includes a link to a video presentation about the labs, which
has the following test equipment:

https://github.com/OpenResearchInstitute/documents/tree/master/Remote_Labs/Test_Equipment

Daily engineering is on ORI's Slack account.

https://openresearchinstitute.slack.com

Meetings at ORI are usually virtually, are almost always recorded, and are
uploaded to ORI's YouTube. The account also has presentations, symposium
and forum talks, technical advisory committee work, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMog2ftoC7zfXbvi5ztUK4w

ORI has a Code of Conduct and Developer and Participant Policies, which are
enforced. We are committed to ethical organizational behavior.

If you find our work described in this support package useful, we would
like to be part of the ESA proposal and help build modern and innovative
amateur satellite equipment for international use.

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Here are the high-level documents about the stand-alone HEO/GEO concept,
Haifuraiya.

https://github.com/OpenResearchInstitute/documents/tree/master/Papers_Articles_Presentations/Slide_Presentations/haifuraiya

There are some meetup and workshop videos there.

High-level overview presentation is here:

https://youtu.be/MTk7kyO7eqw?si=qd1dMyyYsIJ9J3QU

An architecture document is here:

https://github.com/OpenResearchInstitute/documents/tree/master/Engineering/Requirements/Architecture

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Thank you,

-Michelle Thompson
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