Collaborate Disseminate
Portability has been a goal of a sizable section of the computing world for many decades now. While the obvious products of this are laptops, there are a number of …read more Continue reading Satellite Internet On 80s Hardware
When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had …read more Continue reading Communicating With Satellites Like It’s 1957
One of the more popular activities in the ham radio world is DXing, which is attempting to communicate with radio stations as far away as possible. There are some feats …read more Continue reading Making the Longest-Distance Radio Contact Possible
The moon is a popular target for ham radio operators to bounce signals since it’s fairly large and follows a predictable path. There are some downsides, though; it’s not always …read more Continue reading Bouncing Signals off of Satellites Other than the Moon
This week, we witnessed a couple of space oopsies as both Starship and New Glenn suffered in-flight mishaps on the same day. SpaceX’s Starship was the more spectacular, with the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 19, 2025
BEESAT-1 is a 1U cubesat launched in 2009 by the Technical University of Berlin. Like all good satellites, it has redundant computers onboard, so when the first one failed in …read more Continue reading 38C3: Save Your Satellite with These Three Simple Tricks
Ham radio enthusiasts, people looking to borrow their neighbors’ WiFi, and those interested in decoding signals from things like weather satellites will often grab an old satellite TV antenna and …read more Continue reading Handheld Satellite Dish is 3D Printed
Space and mystery always spark our curiosity, so when we stumbled upon the story of Skynet-1A, Britain’s first communication satellite from 1969, we knew it was worth exploring. The BBC …read more Continue reading Britain’s Oldest Satellite on the Move: a Space Curiosity
If you’re planning on working satellites or doing any sort of RF work where the signal lives down in the dirt, you’re going to need a low-noise amplifier. That’s typically …read more Continue reading A Lesson in RF Design Thanks to This Homebrew LNA
If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in the ground facilities of a satellite TV operation, you could go banging on the doors or your local station. You’d probably get …read more Continue reading A Look Inside A Canadian Satellite TV Facility