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

[Michelle Thompson]

Thank you to everyone responding to the invitation. Your time, attention,
and expertise are greatly appreciated.

The meetup promises to be a productive event for the University team and
for our Canadian colleagues and volunteers. I'll share a summary of the
content and any action items after the meeting tomorrow.

-Michelle Thompson




On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 12:41 PM Michelle Thompson <
mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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