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Doppler measurements show that Erminaz-2V is object 101095 (2026-227CH). Frequency: 145.920 MHz. Erminaz-2U is now called AMSAT-OSCAR 129 and Erminaz-2V is called AMSAT-OSCAR 130. Both are operational. No signals have been received from Erminaz-2X. @tskelso.bsky.social @planet4589.bsky.social

New blog post: A high sensitivity ADS-B receiver. I present a new ADS-B receiver written in Rust that outperforms existing open source receivers such as readsb: ~3x more messages in typical real world terrestrial scenarios and ~2000x more in simulated LEO scenarios.

🛰️OSCAR - Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio🛰️ Our PocketQube ERMINAZ-2U is now officially AMSAT-OSCAR 129 (AO-129) and ERMINAZ-2V is AMSAT-OSCAR 130 (AO-130)! 💫🏆 #AMSAT #hamradio

JAXA #MMX in contact with DSN Goldstone and doing different data rates.

JAXA #MMX now with higher data rate.. 📡📶

JAXA MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) is alive and transmitting strong downlink signals on X band.. 📡Congratulations!

We bounced a radio signal off Venus' surface! On 17+18 Oct the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope transmitted and Astropeiler Stockert received the echoes, 42 million km each way. We decoded a 10-character message from the echo. We're not finished yet: more echos on 24+25 Oct. www.camras.nl/en/blog/2026...

Doppler measurements show that Erminaz-2V is object 100895 (2026-227N). Frequency: 145.920 MHz. @tskelso.bsky.social @planet4589.bsky.social

Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪

CelesTrak has 18 SDS GP data for 71 objects from the Transporter-18 launch on Oct 1: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... We have already positively matched 4 Planet satellites using their ephemeris-based SupGP data: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Only 67 more to go!

📌Aboard our PICOBUS v2, which flew to space on #Transporter18 a few days ago, was also @amsat-dl.org's ERMINAZ-2 mission, with 3 educational PocketQubes. 🛰️🛰️🛰️ ERMINAZ-2U has been received with the help of SatNOGS 📡, and you can find the observation at: network.satnogs.org/observations...

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Erstmals fliegen Bochumer Satelliten ins All. 🚀 #AMSAT #SternwarteBO #Bochum #NRW www1.wdr.de/nrw/ruhrgebi...

🎉4 years ago, Libre Space Foundation's QUBIK-3 & 4, along with PICOBUS, returned to space aboard Firefly Aerospace's Alpha Flight 2. #ToTheBlack🚀 As we prepare for yet another mission, we celebrate this milestone & keep working to make…𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞! 🌎️🌍️🌏️ www.libre.space

Wir warten gespannt auf den Start 🚀🛰

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ERMINAZ-2 Countdown mit Transporter-18 läuft! #AMSAT #SternwarteBO #ERMINAZ #BOCHUM #NRW #Cubesats amsat-dl.org/countdown-fu...

CelesTrak has pre-launch SupGP data for the #Transporter-18 launch from Vandenberg SFB on 2026-10-01 at 18:17:59.990 UTC: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Deployment of 70 satellites is set to occur 2026-10-01 19:12:24.250 UTC until 2026-10-01 19:23:17.350 UTC.

1/ CelesTrak is offline again as we work to send another 4,500+ IPs using code with HTTP_USER_AGENT: Deno/2.1.4 (variant; SupabaseEdgeRuntime/1.74.3) to the firewall.

 *WE NEED YOUR HELP* to find whoever wrote this code and get them to turn it off or CelesTrak will continue to be unusable.

The earth as seen from ESA's JUICE's JMC. Data still from @amsat-dl.org

JUICE (ESA) images from JMC again. Received by @amsat-dl.org in Bochum :-)

It's official now! Our three ERMINAZ-2U, -2V and -2X PocketQubes are set for launch 18:18 UTC (20:18 CEST) on October 01 with Transporter-18! #AMSAT #hamradio

We are providing an additional €2.7 million to support Rocket Factory Augsburg as it prepares for the first RFA One test flight from SaxaVord Spaceport in the UK. 🚀 Through our Boost! programme, we’re supporting further testing and launch infrastructure ahead of RFA One’s first flight.

Am Mittwoch "besucht" uns die ESA-Jupiter-Mission JUICE gleich zweifach: Im Bochumer Planetarium spricht der Chef eines der Instrumente - planetarium-bochum.de/de_DE/calend... - und JUICE selbst beginnt mit der Beobachtung ... der Erde, vor dem nächsten engen Vorbeiflug: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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New blog post: Decoding the Roman Space Telescope. On August 31 I observed the Roman telescope S-band telemetry with the Allen Telescope Array some time after launch. This post is a summary of the observation, including the telemetry decode and a preliminary analysis.

#OTD 11 September 1985, the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) passed through plasma tail of a comet (Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner), the first spacecraft to do so. ISEE-3 was renamed as the International Cometary Explorer (ICE). directory.eoportal.org/satellite-mi... @science.esa.int

ISAR Aerospace is go for launch at 20:00 UTC (22:00 CEST) www.youtube.com/live/Ss1DUqL...

#RST now ~ 1.5 Msym/s, 780 kb/s data rate according to DSN, likely <7,2> convolutional encoding, classic BPSK.

#RST just turned on by DSN Madrid. Very strong signal, 10 MHz BW on the screen. Data rate 354.5 kb/sec

#BepiColombo came back a bit earlier than expected at 13:48:40 UTC - exciting!!

Indeed we are also watching #BepiColombo from Bochum Observatory with our 20m dish. Weather conditions in Bochum not very favorable at the moment.... it takes 11.5 minutes until signal arrives from 207 Million kilometers at Earth!

"This is our last tango, and it still takes two." - Farewell CLUSTER II-FM8 (TANGO) @operations.esa.int

RST just switched to higher data rate on S-band.

Success! Roman Space Telescope performed a planned mid-course correction burn and is on track to orbit around the second Lagrange point. 🧭🎯 #RST