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Mr_Sworld
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Have you ladies and chaps seen that Fossasat1 has been launched and is operational?
It's a satellite communications relay that can be operated by a cheap Lora board. In addition to relay services it transmits temperature, light and other data about its current orbit. It'll be used to create a proper global IoT mesh network eventually.
It's not fully operational yet as the main antennas haven't deployed but I should be able to bounce a message off it using a custom high gain antenna. Going to build one tonight and try tomorrow.
You won't need special hardware to do it in a few weeks. I have reached peak nerd.
I managed to get a handshake from the ISS earlier this year but that was with expensive kit and some gnarly Doppler calculations. To bring this geekery to the unlicensed public with low cost is superb news.