ESEO UHF Beacon Information
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):
- General
- Power System
- OBDH
- AOCS and sensor/actuator
- FDIR and TMTC
- 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 | 61 |