It's funny how sometimes things come full circle... :-) (Work-In-Progess stuff in SatDump v2.0.0)

Happy new year everyone! 2026 should be the year of the return of LRIT / HRIT in Europe, as well as quite a few good SatDump additions & v2.0.0... But let's not spoil yet :-)

Paris Nord, last train at 22:30. Of course that excludes suburban traffic, but still far from what most of Europe offers in comparison... And yet, we're still canceling the Paris/Vienna/Berlin NightJets.

MetOp-SG-A1 ( @eumetsat.int ) is now transmitting some data from its MWS and 3MI instruments! Received by @redplanet00.bsky.social. 3MI can be in color, however automating the process will take a bit of time. Support will be pushed to SatDump very soon.

Come già anticipato nel post del NOAA-15 (RIP), adesso anche i satelliti USA futuri sono stati praticamente tutti annullati o lobotomizzati. Ricordo che attualmente nessun satellite USA copre l'orbita delle 08 (ex NOAA 15) e il successore JPSS-3 è previsto... nel 2032!!! bsky.app/profile/afre...

NOAA-15 was decommissioned today at 15:26 UTC, with its AVHRR/3 Instrument still in better state than the last 2 remaining on MetOp-B & C. It wouldn't be so disappointing if this wasn't done for the wrong reasons... Makes you wonder what happened to NOAA.

Receiving @eumetsat.int's MetOp-SG A1's X-Band Direct Broadcast. It is 93.3M QPSK (Huge... Bigger DB yet). 1/2, RS 223 I=4 otherwise with both convolutional vectors swapped. All as expected... Now we just need to wait for EUMETSAT (or well, @esa.int for now) to turn stuff on! :-)

Just got the news that the US Navy will *not* be stopping distribution of DMSP data in the end! As of now it's planned to keep SSMIS data distribution until September 2026.

Here is the thing. Amateurs figure out how to get satellite data needed for hurricane forecasts after the US administration decided to turn off the supply www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/s...

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off - www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/s... "Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff" #trump

Il nostro (mio e di @aang23.satdump.org ) lavoro di decodifica di SSMIS, strumento essenziale per rilevare e caratterizzare gli uragani, ma interrotto per motivi politici, ha attirato l'attenzione del Register che ha dedicato un articolo al nostro #SatDump! www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/s...

Demodulating MTG-I1 raw data @ 26Ghz received in Panska Ves. It is 188M OQPSK 1/2 and RS I=5. Unfortunately, it is encrapted. It's very disappointing considering it's supposed to be public life-saving data... S-Band is not encrypted.

ISS SSTV @ 145.8Mhz is seriously weak this time around... Usually would nearly overload and here it barely gets decent at TCA.

This means weather centers could very well use #SatDump to still get the data they need for hurricane analysis, right now, in real time, with simple equipment. WSF-M also coming. @weatherprof.bsky.social @michaelrlowry.bsky.social @rarohde.bsky.social @altnoaa.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/aang...

It was recently announced that DMSP SSMIS data wouldn't be available - so with @lego11.bsky.social we decided to add support in SatDump :-) Still lacking more samples (IQ) to do projections, but we can already process SSMIS data. Calibration is likely possible as well.

Demodulating MTG-I1 raw data @ 26Ghz received in Panska Ves. It is 188M OQPSK 1/2 and RS I=5. Unfortunately, it is encrapted. It's very disappointing considering it's supposed to be public life-saving data... S-Band is not encrypted.

Today's afternoon NOAA 21 image. A nice pass through my trees. Lots of rain in the interior where they need it.

Proba-V Calibration Moon from the Végétation instrument.

2025-06-02 0326 UTC - Arctic Weather Satellite composites. I'm glad to see this sat is finally transmitting data again! Decoded nicely with #SatDump, after a minor patch to handle bad data caused by interference

Today, UVSQSat-NG was at 5M BPSK (instead of 2.5M the previous days). The same images are yesterday were sent in large, at a higher compression ratio. Here's 2 of the new ones.

I can confirm that our client, @uvsq.bsky.social , operator of UVSQSat-NG, downloads between 20 and 80 megabytes per pass with their Adrelys AGS-3 ground station... running Satdump ! ;) We are very proud to have been involved in this project, both on the ground and in space !

A few more from today... Far too many to post them all.

Today's UVSQSat-NG Dump (@uvsqsat ). This time it dumped at 2.5M BPSK. Over 120 images received total. Here's a few.

UVSQSAT-NG on S-Band. Doesn't seen to be very circular in polarization however.

Et voilà ! PD120. Le WAV a été créé par piSSTV et la modulation FM par luaradio, tout ça sur un plutoSDR qui s'est chargé d'émettre l'IQ généré. 👍 Ca m'a fait une bonne révision je dois avouer 😅 Je vais affiner ça plus tard.

A long-requested feature in SatDump : SSTV Decoding. It'll be present whenever the first 2.x.x versions drop. Here, an example decoding some Robot 36 IQ from FRAM2. PD120 and a few more are supported, but it's still very experimental of course, and I need to optimize some awful test code ASAP :-).

Playing a bit more with Jason-3 data (now over 10GB worth accumulated over a few weeks, except during FRAM2) while working on what will become SatDump v2.0.0 : The South Atlantic Anomaly is very clearly visible in LPT data. Not 100% certain but this normally is a channel @ ~22KeV.

Jason-3 carries a microwave radiometer. Unlike those like MHS, AMSU, MWRI, etc, it only scans a single point at Nadir meant to correlate with the Poseidon-3 radar. Therefore, from a single orbit... You won't see much. And even with 20+ of them, it isn't awesome, but you can see stuff! :-)

A few Proba-2 images. Had been a while since I had last decoded this one.

Jason-3 data dump to Kiruna @ 2215.92, on a RHCP feed even though it's LHCP.

FengYun-3E Telemetry on S-Band

Lots of interference, but PROBA-1 is still alive & well on S-Band. It is also still dumping some data surprisingly... Unfortunately no HRC this time.

My best satellite image yet! All the way from the Sahara to Iceland 😁 Meteor M2-4 LRPT ~14:00UTC

MetOp-C AHRPT moments ago. Weather still seems pretty clear over most of Europe...

As of January 28, 2025, GOES 19 has reached Provisional Validation maturity and is available from NOAA CLASS and AWS. Here is the image processed by SatDump from today, February 7, 2025 1700 UTC.

Sun-compensated, calibrated METEOR-M N°2-4 LRPT with an experimental SatDump version (coming quite soon™), received from Tagliata station (near Guastalla-RE) @aang23.satdump.org

NOAA 19 (dati di @aang23.satdump.org) - la tempesta è veramente impressionante. In ordine: temperatura cima nuvole (si scende a -80°C), microfisica e precipitazioni in tempo reale col MHS. @giuliofirenze.bsky.social

MetOp-B is exhibiting some sort of modulator defect... Great... First : MetOp-B, second MetOp-C.

Ecco l'impressionante tempesta in arrivo su Irlanda e Regno Unito. Si prevedono venti oltre 200km/h sulle Highland scozzesi. (Ringrazio @aang23.satdump.org per l'immagine, dato che io ero impossibilitato a ricevere)

From a METEOR-M2 4 pass @ 14:37 with max elevation 80.7 east, some KMSS crops. First the Danish east coast, second (North) Yorkshire with snow/frost on the Moors and top left the Pennines. Colour channel alignment is difficult.

Using the old to ring in the new. Happy New Year!

NOAA-21 (JPSS-2) pass tonight, automatically tracked. Still far from perfect, quite the opposite, but a nice DNB view anyway!

Thanks to my sister for the new TV for Christmas! Even bigger kudos for picking one with a SoC powerful enough to run some… more useful programs on-board ;)

Here's the GOES-R ABI Color composite from December 17-23, 2024. All composites for the time range were produced automatically by SatDump with the data on NOAA's AWS buckets, along with some help from PowerShell for bulk downloading, and ffmpeg for animation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVpv...

Ecco a voi nuovi dati del KMSS. L'altra volta avevo fatto un thread molto tecnico (sotto), stavolta sarà una selezioni di ritagli dalla strisciata, dato che grezza pesa oltre 1GB. Come noterete, la qualità è migliorata dai primi tentativi 😅 1/tanti bsky.app/profile/lego...

The RER E extension in Paris (finally with decent service) is already pretty useful. And the older MI2N rolling stock doesn't even look that out of place. (Yes, this is my first non-satellite-related post in a while, but why not?)

本日2024年12月22日21時頃に受信した極軌道気象衛星『NOAA-19』からの衛星画像です！📡🛰 夜間なので赤外線チャンネルのみの画像ですが, 太平洋側では晴れ間が広がり陸地の様子が日本海側では発達した雪雲が山地にぶつかる様子が, そして韓国の済州島の南側には大陸からの北風が漢拏山にぶつかり生じたカルマン渦がはっきり写っています.🗾 #SatDump #HRPT

Decoding ESA's EarthCARE, MSI instrument. It's very narrow, only ~180km, at 500m/px. Processing isn't perfect yet, but already got some basic projections working! This is all from a X-Band dump to Svalbard received by Andrew (MrFentazis).

About a week ago in preparation for X-Band tracking, I wrote a little scrip to measure my rotator's tilt using a proper inclinometer (thanks @redplanet00.bsky.social for lending it to me!). Good to see it held up. It's not perfect, but should be more than good enough. 1/x