Questions tagged [telemetry]
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Why did Sputnik-1 transmit on both 20 and 40 MHz?
Wikipedia's Sputnik 1 and this answer to Why did Sputnik 1 have four antennas? say that Sputnik transmitted at both 20 and 40 MHz.
Why two different frequencies? Why so far apart?
It's worth noting ...
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What did Sputnik-1 sound like? Did it use multiple tones?
Radio transmissions from Sputnik-1 could be heard on short wave radios around the world.
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A carrier signal only would not be particularly audible to an AM radio listener, was it modulated ...
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What was the first use of analog to digital conversion in a satellite?
This answer to Do the Voyager probes transmit analogue or digital data? states that the Voyagers sent only digital data. This is no doubt mostly because analog data was digitized and store digitally ...
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Besides the (currently down) HDEV, are there other public live video feeds from the ISS?
I am working on spacecraft simulation software, and I would like to validate my ISS simulation that uses ISS-Mimic's code to connect to live ISS telemetry. I already have some early validation done ...
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Why doesn't the SpaceX web-cast show the telemetry, (altitude and speed) for the first stage during recoveries?
On the YouTube videos of SpaceX launch operations, they show altitude and velocity for the 2nd stage throughout the flight, but after stage separation I have never seen telemetry displayed for the ...
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Is there an archive/database of ISS telemetry over time?
I'm trying to find a database of the ISS's telemetry (specifically, its pitch and yaw) over time. All I've found so far is live streaming, like http://www.telemetry.space/, which gives the realtime ...
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Operator access to a cube satellite or any educational satellite
I would like to have free or low-cost access to an existing CubeSat (educational satellite) for educational purposes. I wish to familiarise myself with the end to end command & control activities, ...
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Was the Soviet N1 really capable of sending 9.6 GB/s of telemetry?
On the Wikipedia page for Soviet N1, it says of the control system:
The telemetry system relayed data back at an estimated rate of 9.6
gigabytes per second on 320,000 channels on 14 frequencies. ...
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What exactly turned on the light indicating Apollo 8 was starting to fall towards the Moon?
@PearsonArtPhoto's answer links to the page Apollo 8, 21 – 28 December 1968 by Hamish Lindsay at honeysucklecreek.net from where I have quoted below.
Question: What exactly turned on the light ...
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Satellite Telemetry on the Internet
Are there any web sites that show real time telemetry such as temps, bus voltages etc? Looking for one to follow.
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What does a NASA employee see on their monitor when a robot lands on Mars?
I have seen that many NASA employees (see the picture) were present in the control room when InSight landed on Mars on November 26, 2018.
What I did not see is what exactly those people saw on their ...
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How does this antenna work, with both a feed horn and hyperbolic secondary in front of the dish?
Scrolling through the Roscosmos twitter feed I saw this image of a dish antenna in a recent tweet. Google translate shows that the post says:
Новый измерительный пункт будет построен на Сахалине ...
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How will Icarus aboard the ISS track bird migration?
The question Is it possible to see animals from space? has several answers, and they are all based on optical imaging.
In this answer I describe and show images from the
First count of individual ...
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Is there really a radio on Elon Musk's solar-orbiting Tesla Roadster? Can we communicate with it? [closed]
Various media have reported that there is a radio on Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, now in orbit around the Sun, and that this radio is playing music (for example: BBC reporting that David Bowie's ...
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What data is coming back from Space-X's Starman and his ride? [duplicate]
Other than the video, is any other telemetry or sensory data being beamed back to Earth for science?
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Calibration of Antennae in satellite and in ground station [closed]
How to orient the ground station antenna and that of the satellite just after the launch?
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Does SpaceX use any of Falcon-9's camera data for engineering or status information, or are they “just for PR”?
I've previously asked Roughly how many self-viewing cameras are present in a Falcon 9 LEO mission? asking if it's closer to a dozen or a hundred on a log scale, because I have a hunch there's probably ...
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Distinction between spacecraft data and telemetry - difference in spacecraft resource use?
What is the distinction (if any) between spacecraft data and spacecraft telemetry? Do these terms tend to represent different kinds of information?
While each case is different, in what ways do they ...
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Were the previous Mars landers configured to transmit beacons or data during descent?
The ExoMars Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) Schiaparelli was configured to broadcast a UHF beacon throughout the entry, descent and landing phases using multiple transmitters and ...
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Voyager's distance from Earth
If it took Voyager’s radio signal 4 hours to cross the solar system and reach Earth, roughly how far away in AU was Voyager from Earth when it sent that signal?
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SpaceX second stage altitude decrease?
I was watching SpaceX's launch of the Japanese satellite JCSAT-16 yesterday, and the second stage at a point seemed to decrease in altitude (from 171km to 165km) at about T+00:07:00 in this video. Is ...
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How is engine thrust monitored during flight?
The failure of the Falcon 9 first stage landing during the Eutelsat/ABS mission was attributed to:
thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines
which indicate that engine thrusts are part of the ...
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Will Red Dragon experience a “Communications Blackout” during SRP?
In the recently proposed entry of Red Dragon into the Mars atmosphere, the supersonic retro-propulsion (or SRP, roughly: slowing down using thrusters while still moving against the atmosphere at ...
