[Ground-station] Call for meeting participation: Cubesat Work

[Michelle Thompson]

Call for meeting participation:

Dr. Estevez kindly introduced me to Levente Buzás, from University of
Victoria in Canada.

Levente is working on a 3U amateur cubesat that will have
an SDR payload. This payload is based on the Hermes-Lite 2, and will be
used for a 29 MHz down / VHF up linear transponder + CW beacon and to
transmit a low symbol-rate (~80 ksyms) DVB-S2 signal on 29 MHz. They
anticipate a real-time video feed from an on-board camera. This will
capitalize on earlier
experiments by M0DTS

https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2022/11/successful-digital-amateur-tv-tests-on.html

The final goal is to publish the design of this radio as open-source so
that it can be used in other cubesats. This is great news!

We have a meeting Monday 16 October 2023 at 0800 US Pacific time.

Anyone that can help answer technical questions, and/or would like to
participate in supporting this effort, please get in touch and I’ll get you
on the meeting invitation to speak directly to the team.

Attendees from the cubesat project are the attendees will be Evan Moore
(payload), Ben Kellman (C&DH &  EPS), and Levente Buzás (project manager /
TT&C).

The team would like to implement most or all of the required signal
processing for this payload in the FPGA. As many of you know, the
Hermes-Lite 2 has a Cyclone IV with ~22 kLE, but they’re already looking at
larger FPGAs with the same or a similar footprint. This would be where we
might fit in with our Xilinx work.

Please let me know if you can meet. If you can’t make that time, and have
feedback or comments, let me know.

-Michelle Thompson
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