Having now received most of the items needed, missing the SAWbird (Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) plus a band pass filter) and an adaptor (I’ve one I’m using elsewhere which I can borrow), I’ve been having my first attempts to pick…
GOES 17, also known as GOES West, is a US weather satellite which is in a geostationary orbit 35,700km above the Earth. It was launched in March 2018 and it has a planned life out to about 2036, although based…
As we posted yesterday in “NOAA 9 – Back from the Dead?” it appears that NOAA 9 is far from dead based on our captures of four passes of the satellite over New Zealand over the last 24 hours. Three…
NOAA 9 was one of the early NOAA polar-orbiting weather satellites which was launched in 1984. The last contact was in February 1998. However, it has recently been broadcasting during daylight with a narrow constant frequency. This is most likely…
There are reports on some forums in Russia and Reddit that the Meteor M-1 satellite, which was lost from active service after a failure with the position control system, is now in a stable orientation and testing of the satellite…