Is there any website in which people report satellite reception which gets updated atleast on weekly basis?
My team in my spacecraft design class is designing a 1u cubesat amateur radio satellite and I'm the only ham on the team. I don't have much experience in the AMSAT world, so I figured I'd ask here. What sort of features would you want to see in a useful/cool LEO satellite on the amateur bands? What are some common pitfalls that really annoy you?
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 54%. (I'm a bot)
> 'Zombie' Satellite Found By Amateur Radio Operator On COVID-19 Lockdown Scott Tilley, a Canadian ham radio enthusiast, used his spare time during COVID-19 lockdown to track down a signal from LES-5, an experimental communications satellite launched in 1967.
> Some will continue circling as "Zombie" satellites - neither alive nor quite dead. "Most zombie satellites are satellites that are no longer under human control, or have failed to some degree," says Scott Tilley.
> Tilley, an amateur radio operator living in Canada, has a passion for hunting them down.
> He has tracked down zombies even older than IMAGE. "The oldest one I've seen is Transit 5B-5. And it launched in 1965," he says, referring to a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy navigation satellite that still circles the Earth in a polar orbit, long forgotten by all but a few amateurs interested in hearing it "Sing" as it passes overhead. Recently, Tilley got interested in a communications satellite he thought might still be alive - or at least among the living dead. LES-5, built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, was launched in 1967.
> Tilley was inspired by another amateur who in 2016 had found LES-1, an earlier satellite built by the same lab.
> By scouring the Internet, he found a paper describing the radio frequency that LES-5, an experimental military UHF communications satellite, should be operating on - if it was still alive.
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