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ESEO UHF Beacon Information

08/10/2019

You can find the TLEs here. 

Frequency: 437.00 MHz

Transmission Format: See attachment 1

Modulation Format: GFSK

Beacon schedule:

  • Every 1 minute when in safe mode and just after deployment during the de-tumbling phase

  • Every 1 minutes when in sunlight

  • Every 5 minutes when in eclipse

Beacon Types (transmitted cyclically):

  1. General

  2. Power System

  3. OBDH

  4. AOCS and sensor/actuator

  5. FDIR and TMTC

  6. Payload

Additional beacon (not in nominal rotation): Emergency

Telemetry equations: See attachment 2

Destination Address is: ESEO 

Source Address is: IW4DUL 

The following information is stored in every packet sent from the spacecraft in the Address part of the message, as per AX.25 protocol. 

 First Byte 

Destination Address Subfield 

Source Address Subfield 

A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 

A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 A14 

 

Byte 

ASCII 

Bin Data 

MSB           LSB 

Hex Data 

A1 

E 

10001010 

8A 

A2 

S 

10100110 

A6 

A3 

E 

10001010 

8A 

A4 

O 

10011110 

9E 

A5 

Space 

01000000 

40 

A6 

Space 

01000000 

40 

A7 

SSID 

01100000 

60 

A8 

I 

10010010 

92 

A9 

W 

10101110 

AE 

A10 

4 

01101000 

68 

A11 

D 

10001000 

88 

A12 

U 

10101010 

AA 

A13 

L 

10011000 

98 

A14 

SSID 

01100001 

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