Sounds from Space

 

Sounds from Scientific, Meteorological and Commercial Satellites 2017-today

This part of my audio collection is dedicated to commercial and scientific satellites. I started this separate section when Greg Roberts, ZS1BI in Cape Town, started to convert some of his old recordings from a tape recorder with elastic belt drives to electronic format. Greg is a retired professional astronomer and since 1957 has been actively involved in the tracking of artificial satellites, both by optical and radio means. Click on his picture to the right to get more information about him and his activities.

Greg Roberts ZS1BI

Many thanks to Greg Roberts ZS1BI for getting this section started and to all the other people who kindly contributed: Alois Ochojski DL3PD/SK, Roy Welch W0SL, Sven Grahn, Kurt Ringel DF7FU, Chris Gross, Mike D. Kenny, Brian Hougesen OZ1SKY, Michael Fletcher OH2AUE, Dale Ireland, Alan Banks, Paul Marsh M0EYT, Patrick DK193WN, Mike Rupprecht DK3WN, Loren Moline WA7SKT, Maik Hermenau, Jean-Louis Rault F6AGR, Dick Flagg AH6NM, Don P. Mitchell, Bill Chaikin KA8VIT, Dick Daniels W4PUJ/SK, Patrick Hajagos, Henk Hamoen PA3GUO, Thomas Koziel DG3IX, Tobias Lindemann, Josef Huber, Tetsu-san JA0CAW, Jan PE0SAT, Nils von Storch, Darko 9A3LI, Federico Manzini, Phil Williams, Jos Heymann, Roland Proesch DF3LZ, Davide D'Aliesio IW0HLG, Giulio Manzoni IV3DTB/9V1FC, Fer Paglia IW1DTU, Enrico Gobbetti IW2AGJ, Raydel Abreu Espinet CM2ESP, Flavio PY2ZX, Frederick W. Krappe, Colin Mackellar, Aitor Conde, Davide D'Aliesio IW0HLG, Jean-Pierre Godet F5YG, Milen Rangelov, Francisco EA7ADI, Luc VE2FXL, Roland PY4ZBZ, Rob PA0RWE, Edgar J. Kaiser DF2MZ, Egor UB1QBJ, Graham Leighton G8FXB and Luciano PY5LF.

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Object name
#NORAD

Description

Launch
Date

Weight

NOAA-20
JPSS-1
#43013
(2017-073A) 

NOAA-20, designated JPSS-1 prior to launch, is the first of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites called the Joint Polar Satellite System. NOAA-20 was launched on November 18th, 2017 and joined the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite in the same orbit. NOAA-20 operates about 50 minutes ahead of Suomi NPP, allowing important overlap in observational coverage.

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Nov. 18th 2017

1929 kg

 

INS-1C
#43116
(2018-004F)

INS-1C (ISRO NanoSatellite 1C) is an Indian Nanosatellite developed by ISRO. It carries a Miniature Multi Spectral Imager Technology Demonstrator (MMX-TD). Data sent by this camera is expected to be useful for topographical mapping, vegetation monitoring, aerosol scattering and cloud studies. It was launched on January 12th 2018 on PSLV C40 from India. The expected lifetime is 6 months. Data downlink is in S-Band with 1Mbps. Command and telemetry exchange is handled in VHF and UHF bands.

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Jan 12th 2018

 11 kg

On January 15th 2018 Nico Janssen PA0DLO reported a possible reception of telemetry from INS-1C on 435.085 MHz in 1200 bps FSK AX.25. This has yet to be finally confirmed.

STEP Cube Lab
STEP-1
 
#43138x
(2018-004AD)

STEP Cube Lab (Space Technology Experimental Project CubeSat Laboratory) is a 1U CubeSat mission developed at Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea. Its target is to verify core space technologies researched in universities and industries, and verifying those technologies on-orbit. The 1kg cubesat was launched on January 12th 2018 on PSLV C40 from India into a 600km sun synchronous orbit. A downlink frequency of 437.485 MHz has been coordinated. It was reported that the CW beacon has been received.

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Jan 12th 2018

1 kg

TianYi 2
TY 2
XiaoXiang 2
XX 2
#43155
(2018-008A)

TY 2 is a payload in the satellite XiaoXiang 2 (XX 2). Xiaoxiang 2, also known as Hunan Xiangjiang New Area satellite or TY 2 (Tianyi 2) was launched on the third CZ-11 flight in early 2018 into a 500 km sun synchronous LEO. It carries technology experiments developed by Tianyi Research Institute in Changsha, Hunan province. The up- and downlink frequency is 435.350 MHz for 9600 bd GMSK. An additional up- and downlink is at 2403.000 MHz for 5 Mbit/s OFDM. A third downlink is available at 5833.000 MHz with a corresponding uplink at 5653.000 MHz for 5 Mbit/s OFDM.

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Jan 19th 2018

8 kg

TianYi 6
TY 6
QuanTuTong 1
QTT 1
#43158
(2018-008D)

QTT 1 (Quantutong 1) is a navigation communication integration test satellite developed by developed by Tianji Research Institute. QTT-1 is the first technical verification satellite for the "future constellation programme" which is customized and developed by Tianyi Research Institute for for Beijing-based Quan Tu Tong Co (Full Map Network Co. Ltd.) The satellite is based on the 6U CubeSat satellite platform of Spacety Aerospace Co. It carries navigation, communication, imaging, AIS, and amateur radio payloads.

TY 6 is a payload in the satellite QuanTuTong 1 (QTT 1).

The up- and downlink frequency is 436.100 MHz for 9600bd GMSK. An additional up- and downlink is at 2415.000 MHz for 5Mbit/s OFDM. A third downlink is available at 5845.000 MHz with a corresponding uplink at 5667.000 MHz for 5Mbit/s OFDM.

Jan 19th 2018

8 kg

The 9600bd FSK downlink of TY-6 on 436.100 MHz was received on March 6th 2018 at 10:45 UTC by EA7ADI. Recording kindly provided by Francisco EA7ADI.

 

S-Net
#43186
(2018-014x) 

S-Net is a nanosatellite project of the Technical University of Berlin to investigate and demonstrate the inter-satellite communication technology within a distributed an autonomously operating nanosatellite network. Each of the 3-axis-stabilized satellites measures 24cmx24cmx24cm and has a weight of 8kg. The inter-satellite links are in S-Band. The first 4 S-Net satellites S-Net 1...4 (Tubsat 13...16) were launched on February 1st 2018 on a Russian Fregat-M rocket.

Tracket objects are 43186, 43187, 43188, 43189.
TLEs for S-Net are not yet published.

Downlink: 435.950 MHz.

 Feb 1st 2018

 8 kg

The 1200bd FFSK downlink of SNET on 435.950 MHz was received on April 13th 2018 at 10:30 UTC by EA7ADI. Recording kindly provided by Francisco EA7ADI.

Tanyusha-3
Radioskaf RS-8
43597
(1998-067PJ)  

Tanusha-3 transmits on 437.050 MHz. Its FM transmissions include greetings from students in several languages, including Russian, English, Spanish and Chinese.

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  Feb 13th 2018

 4.8 kg

 

 STARS-Me Mother
43640
(2018-014x)

 Shizuoka University's STARS-Me (Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite - Miniature Elevator) consists of a Mother Satellite and a Daughter Satellite connected by a tether and a crawler.

This is the fourth mission of the STARS series and is constructed to the 2U CubeSat form factor. STARS-Me consists of two 1U CubeSats having basic functions independently, and each satellite communicates with the ground station independently. The two CubeSats are connected by a tether. One of them is called CV, and the other is called HT and are connected by a rigid tape tether. CV has a climber and approximately 3 meter tether, and HT has the tether deployment mechanism consisting of approximately 11 meter tether accounting to a total of 14 meter tether.

As of October 13th 2018 STARS-Me Daughter is not yet separated from the Mother satellite and not yet transmitting.

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  Sept. 22nd 2018

 3 kg

Nepalisat-1
JG6YLF
44331
 (1998-067QG)

NEPALISAT-1 is a small technological CubeSat (1U) built by Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) as the Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite project, which is a cross-border interdisciplinary satellite project for non-space faring countries supported by Japan. Neaplisat-1 is a Cubesat from Nepal. It is part of the 3rd batch of such BIRD satellites and was released together with Uguisu (Japan) and Raavana-1 (Sri Lanka) from the ISS on June 17th 2019.

  June 17th 2019

1 kg

The CW beacon of Nepalisat-1 is using the callsign JG6YLF and was received on August 11th 2019 at 16:30 UTC during orbit #861 on 437.375 MHz by Jean-Pierre F5YG. Recording kindly provided by Jean-Pierre F5YG.

Raavana-1
JG6YLG
44329
 (1998-067QE)

Raavana-1 is a small technological CubeSat (1U) built by Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) as the Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite project, which is a cross-border interdisciplinary satellite project for non-space faring countries supported by Japan. Raavana-1 is a Cubesat from Sri Lanka. It is part of the 3rd batch of such BIRD satellites and was released together with Nepalisat-1 (Nepal) and Uguisu (Japan) from the ISS on June 17th 2019.

  June 17th 2019

1 kg

The CW beacon of Raavana-1 is using the callsign JG6YLG and was received on August 11th 2019 at 14:45 UTC during orbit #860 on 437.375 MHz by Jean-Pierre F5YG. Recording kindly provided by Jean-Pierre F5YG.

UGUISU
Bird JPN
JG6YLE
44330
 (1998-067QF)

UGUISU is a small technological CubeSat (1U) built by Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) as the Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite project, which is a cross-border interdisciplinary satellite project for non-space faring countries supported by Japan. Uguisu is a Cubesat from Japan. It is part of the 3rd batch of such BIRD satellites and was released together with Nepalisat-1 (Nepal) and Raavana-1 (Sri Lanka) from the ISS on June 17th 2019.

  June 17th 2019

1 kg

The CW beacon of UGUISU is using the callsign JG6YLE and was received on August 10th 2019 at 15:40 UTC during orbit #845 on 437.375 MHz by Jean-Pierre F5YG. Recording kindly provided by Jean-Pierre F5YG.

 LightSail 2
44420
(2019-036AC)

The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 CubeSat is a citizen-funded project to send a small spacecraft, propelled solely by sunlight, into Earth’s orbit. It was launched on June 25th 2019 as part of the Prox-1 satellite. It was deployed from the Prox-1 microsatellite on July2nd 2019 in a higher orbit to perform its own solar sailing mission. It deployed its sail on July 23rd 2019. On August 31st 2019, the Planetary Society declared the mission a success, as it had raised the apogee of its orbit by nearly two kilometers in four days after deployment, while lowering the apogee.

LightSail-2 automatically transmits on the frequency 437.025 MHz a 9600bd beacon packet every few seconds, which can be decoded into 238 lines of text telemetry describing the spacecraft’s health and status, including everything from battery status to solar sail deployment motor state. In addition it transmits every 45 seconds a CW signal.

June 25th 2019

 

Luciano PY5LF received the 9600bd telemetry from LightSail-2 and the CW beacon "WM9XPA" on August 1st 2019 at 15:45 UTC on 437.023 MHz in USB. Recording kindly provided by Luciano PA5LF.

Roland PY4ZBZ received the CW beacon of Lightsail-2 at 437.025 MHz on April 6th 2020 at 18:45 UTC. Recording and RF as well as audion spectrum plots kindly provided by Roland PY4ZBZ.

Meteor M2-2
44387
(2019-038A)

Meteor M2-2 is a russian weather satellite in a 815km high low circular orbit.
Here are the downlink frequencies:
APT      137.150 MHz RHCP
APT      137.850 MHz RHCP
LRPT    137.100 MHz RHCP
LRPT    137.900 MHz RHCP
AHRPT 1700 MHz RHCP
AHRPT 1705 MHzRHCP
DA         8128 MHz LHCL
DA         8320 MHz LHCP

July 5th 2019

 2700 kg

The LRPT downlink signal at 137.100 MHz was received on July 9th 2019 at 09:20 UTC by Egor UB1QBJ, when the satellite flew over Russia. At that time the satellite was still in commissioning phase and thus no data was sent. Egor also received the HRPT downlink signal at 1700 MHz, which was also not yet transmitting useful data. Recording and spectrum plots kindly provided by Egor UB1QBJ.

On January 6th 2020 Egor also received the HRPT downlink of Meteor M2-2 during its regular transmissions. Spectrum plot kindly provided by Egor UB1QBJ.

 

JAISAT-1
JAISAT
44419
(2019-038F)

JAISAT was developed by German Orbital Systems for RAIS, the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand. It was launched together with Meteor M2-2.

It transmits on 435.700 Mhz in FM

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July 5th 2019

xxx kg

 

EXOCONNECT
D-STAR ONE
44410
(2019-038AA)

EXOCONNECT was developed by German Orbital Systems. It was launched together with Meteor M2-2.

It transmits on 435.700 Mhz in FM (4k8 9k6 MOBITEX).

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July 5th 2019

4 kg

 

 LightSat
D-STAR ONE
44393
(2019-038H)

LightSat was developed by German Orbital Systems. It was launched together with Meteor M2-2.

It transmits on 435.700 MHz in FM (4k8 9k6 MOBITEX)

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July 5th 2019

4 kg

 

 Lemur 2
100-107
4364x
(2019-038x)

Lemur-2 is the initial constellation of low-Earth orbiting satellites built by Spire. These satellites carry payloads for meteorology, the STRATOS GPS radio occultation experiment, the SENSE AIS-receiver for ship traffic tracking and the AirSafe ADS-B payload.

Together with Meteor M2-2 seven LEMUR-2 satellites (#100...#107) were launched.

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July 5th 2019

4 kg

 

 Sokrat
44404
(2019-038U)

Sokrat was developed by the MSU's Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (SNIP) in Moscow/Russia. The 3U cubesat was launched together with Meteor M2-2. It carries particle and gamma ray detectors to study space weather.

It transmits on 436.000 MHz in FM (4k8 MOBITEX)a and DSTAR

July 5th 2019

xxx kg

PY4ZBZ received the DSTAR downlink Sokrat on January 13th 2020. Recording kindly provided by Roland PY4ZBZ.

 

 AmurSat
AmGU-1
44394
(2019-038J)

AmurSat, which is also known as AmGU-1, carries the Foton-Amur instrument consisting of charged particle and gamma ray detectors to study space weather phenomena. It was developed by Amur State University, in conjunction with the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University (MSU). It was launched together with Meteor M2-2.

It transmits on 436.250 MHz in FM (4k8 MOBITEX)

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July 5th 2019

xxx kg

 

VDNH-80
VDNKh-80
44392
(2019-038G)

VDNH-80 was built by MSU's Institute of Nuclear Physics in conjunction with JSC VDNH and also carries charged particle detectors. As well as studying space weather, the satellites will also fulfill technology development and demonstration objectives. It was launched together with Meteor M2-2.

It transmits on 436.500 MHz in FM (4k8 MOBITEX)

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July 5th 2019

3 kg

 

 UTE-Ecuador
4364x
(2019-038xxx)

UTE-Ecuador is a space weather and ionospheric research mission being carried out by the Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial (UTE) of Ecuador using a three-unit CubeSat. It was launched together with Meteor M2-2.

It transmits on 437.050 MHz in FM (CW, TEXT 1k2 AX.25, TLM 1k2 2k4 4k8 9k6 GMSK, FM Voice, SSTV BW12)

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July 5th 2019

4 kg

 TTÜ100
TTÜSat
MektorySAT 1
Hämarik
Koit
4364x
(2019-038B)

TTÜ100 is an educational 1U-CubeSat developed at the Tallin University of Technology. It was launched together with Meteor M2-2. The mission objective is to test earth observation cameras and high-speed X-band communications. It will perform remote sensing in visible and IR electromagnetic spectrum. TTÜ100 will use the amateur 10.450 – 10.500 GHz band frequencies for high-speed data downlink operations.

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July 5th 2019

 1 kg

OPS-SAT

#44878
(2019-092F)

OPS-SAT is a 3U CubeSat for the European Space Agency (ESA) European Space Operations Center (ESOC) that will allow on-orbit testing and demonstration of experimental and innovative software that may be used in future ESA missions and programs.

The UHF downlink frequency is 437.200 MHz using 9600 bd GMSK with a bandwidth of 25kHz.

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Dec 18th 2019

4.6 kg

SWAMPSAT-2
#45115
(2019-071E)

SwampSat II is a 3U Cubesat built by the University of Florida, USA. One of the mission goals is to test a boom and antenna spooling and deployment mechanism to support a matched very low frequency (VLF, 3...30kHz) antenna.

It was launched on November 2nd 2019 by Cygnus NG-12 from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Launch Pad 0 on Wallops Island, Virginia to low earth orbit. It was released from Cygnus on January 31st 2020 and started its operations shortly after.

SwampSat 2 transmits on 436.3493 MHz.
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Nov. 2nd 2019

3 kg ?

Elektro-L3
Electro-L N3
#44903
(2019-095A)

Elektro-L3 is a Russian Weather satellite built by Roskosmos. It was launched on a Proton rocket from Baikonur into a geostationary orbit on 76 degree East. Its main purpose is to provide weather pictures from Asia, Middle East and the Indian Ocean featuring 3 visual and 7 infrared cameras. The resolution of the visual cameras are 1km/pixel and 4km/pixed of the infrared cameras. The sensor data is transmitted to Earth in X-band with data rates between 2.56 and 15.36 Mbit/s. Electro-L3 also supports the COSPAS-SARSAT-system with a downlink at 1.54 GHz (4 Watts). In addition Elektro collects data from ground stations on 400 MHz and LEOs on 470 MHz and transmits them back to Earth on 1.7 GHz. Finally Elektro-L N3 features a LRIT downlink signal at 1691 MHz.

Dec. 24th 2019

1700 kg

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AMICAL-SAT
#46287
(2020-061R)

AMICal-Sat is a French 2U-CubeSat designed by CSUG-IPAG (Univ. Grenoble Alpes) in cooperation with the Moscow State University to take pictures of the Northern light in order to reconstruct the particle precipitation into the polar atmosphere. It was launched on Sept. 3rd 2020 on a Vega rocket from Kourou/French Guiana.
AMICALSAT transmits a beacon and telemetry on 436.100 MHz and high speed data with 1Mbps GFSK on 2415.3 MHz. The high speed download is only active over Russia or in other regions on demand.

Sept. 3rd 2020

2 kg

On June 6th 2021 at 09:40:34 UTC DD1US received a short burst signal coming from AMICAL-SAT. There was planned to have a 3-5 minute long transmission of a picture with 1Mbps but due to a power problem the transmitter failed. The receive frequency was 2414.960 MHz. An I/Q file of the recording is available on request.

AMAZONIA-1
#47699
(2021-15A)

Amazonia-1 is a brazilian Earth observation satellite. It was launched on an Indian PSLV-DL rocket. Amazonia-1 carries an optical instrument called AWFI, operating in the visible and near infrared band, with a spatial resolution of 40 meters and a swath of around 780 km. In addition, it includes the English Camera RALCAM-3, with a resolution in the order of 10 m, which will complement the images collected by AWFI.

S-band downlink at 2208 MHz with a bandwidth of about 300kHz was successfully received.

Probably the X-band downlink is at 8300 MHz.

Feb. 28th 2021

637 kg

ARKTIKA-M 1
#45xxx
(2021-16A)

ARKTIKA-M 1 was launched on the Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit with an inclination of 63.3 degree, an apogee of about 40000km and a perigee of about 1000km. It is the first of 3 planned satellites which will obtain color images of clouds and Earth's surface  in the Arctic. The ARKTIKA-M satellites also host receivers and transmitters to relay information from weather stations and search and rescue beacons in polar regions.

The following downlink frequencies have been reported:

1698 MHz with a bandwidth of 2 MHz (most likely for weather satellite pictures downlink)

1703 MHz with a bandwidth of 54 kHz (most likely for telemetry)

1544.5 MHz with a bandwidth of 180 kHz (most likely for SARSat)

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Feb. 28th 2021

2100 kg

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Object name
#NORAD

Description

Launch
Date

Weight

If you have further sound tracks from space objects please let me know. I will be happy to post them here on my homepage. Many thanks in advance.

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