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Elektro-L3 Now Drifting West to 14.5°W: L-Band xRIT Could Return to Western...
Back in May, we posted about how Russia's Elektro-L3 geostationary weather satellite was expected to move from 76°E to 14.5°W, which would finally bring an unencrypted L-band LRIT/HRIT downlink over...
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InmarScope: An Inmarsat AERO and STD-C Decoder with Multichannel Decoding and...
Over on the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel, Sarah Rose has released InmarScope, a multichannel L-band Inmarsat decoder that connects directly to an RTL-SDR, Airspy, or HackRF. The software can...
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Receiving US Nuclear Detection Satellite Signals with RTL-SDR, Discovery Dish...
Over on the Saveitforparts YouTube channel, Gabe has documented how he accidentally discovered signals coming from the GPS-satellite-based US nuclear detection system. While scanning the GPS L3...
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Further Tutorials on SatDump Map Projections
Thank you to Paul Maine, who has submitted to us two new SatDump tutorials that he has uploaded to his YouTube channel. These two tutorials follow on from his previous tutorials that we posted a month...
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Saveitforparts: Seeing Satellites with the Discovery Drive and Discovery Dish
Over on YouTube, Gabe from the saveitforparts channel has uploaded a video where he tests out his Discovery Drive and Discovery Dish with L-Band feed for creating sky heatmaps of L-band satellites. If...
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SatDump V2 Image Product Expressions YouTube Tutorial
Thank you to Paul Maine, who has submitted a new SatDump tutorial to us that he has uploaded to his YouTube channel. The new tutorial is the fourth in a series focused on SatDump V2.x. In an earlier...
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L-Band Weather Imagery Soon Coming Back to Western Europe via Elektro-L3
Thanks to weather satellite enthusiast 'Heja Ali' who wrote in to share some welcome news. On February 12, 2026, Roscosmos successfully launched Elektro-L No.5 aboard a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur...
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Build a Cubesat Reviews a Discovery Drive Prototype and Sets up SatNOGS
Over on YouTube Manuel from the 'Build a Cubesat' channel has uploaded a video testing a prototype version of our Discovery Drive antenna rotator. If you are unaware, Discovery Drive is our new antenna...
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Hacking a Secondhand Marine Satellite Dish to Track Satellites with Gpredict
Thank you to Melan / Alex for submitting news about their project, where they reverse-engineered a second-hand Intellian i4 marine satellite dish, which retails new for around €4000 but which they...
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New YouTube Tutorials for SatDump V2.x.x
Thank you to Paul Maine, who has submitted to us new SatDump tutorials that he has uploaded to his YouTube channel. The new tutorials focus on the new SatDump V2.x.x alpha version. The first tutorial...
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Using the NISAR Satellite as an Illuminator for Passive Radar
Over on GitHub, Jean-Michel Friedt has uploaded new code, results, and findings from one of his latest experiments with passive radar. A simple passive radar system uses two coherent receive channels...
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Ground Station: An Open Source SDR Orchestration Platform for Satellite...
Over on GitHub, we've seen the release of a new program simply called "Ground Station", described as a full-featured, open-source software solution for satellite tracking and radio communication. The...
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Discovery Drive Campaign Now Live!
We're extremely pleased to announce that our campaign for our Discovery Drive automatic antenna rotator is now live on Crowd Supply! Pricing is reduced during the campaign period, so check it out soon!...
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Iridium-Sniffer: A Standalone Iridium Satellite Burst Detector and Demodulator
Thank you to Aaron, who is most well known for creating the DragonOS distribution, for writing in and sharing with us a new open-source program he's recently released over on GitHub. The program is...
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Tech Minds: Testing Out A New Signals Intelligence Tool Called Intercept
Over on the Tech Minds YouTube channel, Matt has uploaded a video where he tests out 'Intercept', a new tool for RF signals intelligence with RTL-SDRs and other wireless devices. It is open source with...
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Eavesdropping on Sensitive Data via Unencrypted Geostationary Satellites
Recently, Wired.com released an article based on research by researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland, highlighting how much sensitive unencrypted data many geostationary satellites...
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A Small 11.2 GHz Motorized Radio Telescope with TV Dish and RTL-SDR
Thank you to Kaustav Bhattacharjee for writing in and submitting to us his project, where he created a small 11.2 GHz motorized radio telescope with a TV dish and an RTL-SDR. A full description of...
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A Browsable Archive of Historical Weather Satellite Data
Thank you to Meti for writing in and sharing his browsable archive of historical weather satellite data (further information here). The archive is designed to store weather satellite data, whether in...
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Amateur Weather Satellite Reception Beyond NOAA POES
With the recent decommissioning of NOAA POES (NOAA-15, NOAA-18, NOAA-19), many amateur weather satellite hobbyists might be asking themselves if the hobby is now dead. While NOAA POES satellites were...
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Moving SatDump Towards V2.0.0
Over on the SatDump blog developers Aang23 and Lego11 have recently uploaded a post discussing their plans to move SatDump towards Version 2.0.0. SatDump is currently the most comprehensive and popular...
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