Hard to stay consistent with life keeping me busy, but I'm excited to be back! There's a lot to figure out, but thankfully there are a lot of resources out there :) Thanks for watching!
Super cool! I love the ambition, it is inspiring! Here’s are a few ideas. 1. Cameras are always cool but they require a lot of bandwidth and power so probably not the most practical ever (someone needs to put 360 camera in space at some point). 2. A Temperature sensor that streams the temperature as it orbits. 3. It would be cool if you could install your own ham repeater (I just found a ham book yesterday so I don’t know how practical that will be lol). Please keep us updated with all the details. It will be interesting to see what the process is.
A ham repeater is definitely an option. AMSAT has a lot of information on their satellites, so I could definitely learn a lot there! Cameras have a big plus, considering I'm doing this on RUclips, but I think you're right that I'd likely need a higher-bandwidth communication channel to get anything back to Earth. Definitely something to look into!
Oh, that's cool. Looking forward to progress updates. So, IDK, maybe too ambitious, but de-orbiting space debris, even just the tiny stuff, would be a benefit to all mankind.
I really like that idea - it's generally beneficial to everyone, but it's also super challenging. And how cool would it be if it could beam down some video of the approach and "grab" manoeuvre!
Dude make a self learning AI and put it in space! Im not sure what it would learn but it would definitely be the first of lots more powerful ones to come! Maybe like a solar powered GPU or something although idk how it would cool itself
Welcome back, Mike, glad to have you back. I think an amateur imaging sat would be pretty rad, but if we're honest, everybody has access to satellite imagery nowadays, even by SAR. Still, it'd be nice if you could pull it off. You're in Canada, you could use it for wildfire observation? Volunteer up-to-date imagery to firefighting services?
Hi. I've just come across your video and though your idea is great. What if you created a cube sat that tested how much light is needed to make it visible from the ground at different parts of the day. You could also test which colors could be seen better if you used multicolor LEDs and test how many lumen are required to make it happen.
I love the idea of including a super-bright LED that could be seen from Earth. I recall reading that the first privately made cubesat was something like that. I'll see if I can find the details and maybe do a video! It would be very cool to be able to blink out a message that you could see from the ground :)
I think collecting GPS information would be interesting especially since it could see many more satellites than down on the ground. Would need a special module though since most don’t work above an 100,000 feet. A ham radio relay would also be interesting. Wikipedia satellite. Chooses a random page from an offline archive to broadcast for an hour. Or the most basic a corner cube radio reflector to measure telemetry from the ground.
NET 2025.. imaging would be cool but I guess the stabilisation would be more costly than the camera. Software defined radio might double up for downlink comms and measure LEO background radio noise. Maybe measure the cosmic microwave background too? Radio noise map of the world.. big balls and clear skies
Yeah, it's definitely a lot of work, and I'm just doing it on the side :) The attitude control and stabilization is something I haven't done much research on. I'm thinking my first one I may just design to be tumbling? I guess it depends what else it's going to do!
Interesting project How about building a two part cube set which could separate into two identical mass units with the ability to track their separation and have one of those units exhibit a different magnetic or volumetric profile? Too complicated? Of course it would need to relay to earth 0:23 the separation and ideally the leading trailing identity of the two components Cheers
Yes! Definitely one I've been thinking about. Drones have become so popular - as space activity increases people might want to get the same view of things in orbit. I'm really interested in the new work on satellites that maintain, refuel, or even guard other satellites! There's also a lot of interests in satellites that can grab and de-orbit space junk on their way back down to clean up some of that orbital debris. So many possibilities :) Thanks for watching!
@@MikeOnSpaceyour satellite won't be able to grab space junk unless it had an incredibly robust locating, tracking and had the ability to change its orbit to match the space junks orbit, then intercept and course match, and then it would have to have even more power to pull it down into the upper atmosphere. You're not going to have the power capability in a 1u sat that at best would have 14 watts of solar and an articulating ion thruster, not even close to the theoretical power requirements to do that. You'd be hard pressed to have something capable of this even using chemical thrusters, nuclear would be your only realistic power option and you really need much more mass to move space junk... So maybe start with like a 64u size minimum. A junk hunting satellite is a cool idea though.
Yes, absolutely! That's actually a huge area of investment for the US Space Force. They call it Space Situational Awareness (SSA) - basically tracking what's going on in Earth's orbit, and increasingly Lunar orbit. Most SSA is being done from the ground today, but there's lots of activity putting more capability in-orbit. The challenge is that space is big :) Definitely something I want to look into more though. Thanks for watching!
I'd be happy to help with electronics design. I'm an EE with 35+ years of experience in many areas of electronics, with a major focus on embedded systems. Let me know if I can help. 🙂
Yeah for sure! I'm going to start the high-level component design soon, so feedback there would be awesome! I'm thinking about different formats for those details videos - do you think a live stream would be interesting for something like that? It would be cool to have some more interactive discussion!
@@MikeOnSpace I'm sure that a live stream would be nice for some. I've got an unusual schedule that seems to change quite a lot at the last minute, so that is not my preferred format. Most design work that I do seems to work nicely with email exchanges, as drawings and documents fit that format better than video chats. But this is your channel and your project, so let me know what you want and I'll do my best to help as I can.
Yeah, I think that would be interesting. I've been thinking of a digital mode repeater, to store and retransmit messages as it orbits. Are you an operator yourself? I'll need to upgrade my license to Advanced as we call it in Canada - to allow me to transmit with a homebrew radio!
Break a silly record. Like fastest spinning satellite. Or most expanded (might struggle to complete with project Echo). Or make it glow in the dark. Or make it visible from the ground my making it combust.
there's really nothing you can do with a 1U sat that hasn't been done before. but you can make it spin really fast in zero G for shts and giggles using a flywheel.. have it send you data on how fast its spinning. but i think the limit is going to be half the motor rpm if the flyweel half the weight as the whole unit. due to newtons law equal and opposite reaction. on earth the motor would be fixed in space and the spindle would be turning at full speed. would be hard to use solar on it to keep it powered if its spinning.
For me, I have no problem at all repeating what someone else has done - just doing it at all is a huge win in my book :) The intentional spinning is interesting - normally people think about DEspinning! Could be fun ;)
No one has done a space based standalone IRC server. Could run your favorite IRC client and radio transceiver and communicate on an international level but through the satellite and not rely on the internet. Pretty nerdy thing and the ground hardware to interface with it would be the difficult part i think
For sure! I've already learned a lot about building satellites from watching a lot of the AMSAT content. I've listened to beacons on UHF but I haven't made any contacts through a satellite yet. Maybe a good topic for when I'm thinking about ground stations to stay in communication with the satellite in orbit! Thanks for watching!
I do think digital is particularly interesting for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, since they orbit so quickly! A typical LEO satellite might circle the Earth every 90 minutes of so. It's feasible to have an async conversation with anyone on Earth if you're patient enough :)
@@MikeOnSpace no clue 😂. I just remembered a story that the first person to put a DNS onto the moon may claim the .lun TLD. (Which might be wrong).. Layer 4 would be UDP. Then TCP, then probably not Wi-Fi.... The protocol itself is quite lean by design iirc. Direct access for sat nerds somehow. It would be fun if there was an Internet gateway so that average nerds like me could use it. Maybe against payment. Maybe with mailed/emailed certificates. I smell a finance opportunity.
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Welcome back buddy. Looking forward to following the progress of this.
Hard to stay consistent with life keeping me busy, but I'm excited to be back!
There's a lot to figure out, but thankfully there are a lot of resources out there :)
Thanks for watching!
Super cool! I love the ambition, it is inspiring! Here’s are a few ideas.
1. Cameras are always cool but they require a lot of bandwidth and power so probably not the most practical ever (someone needs to put 360 camera in space at some point).
2. A Temperature sensor that streams the temperature as it orbits.
3. It would be cool if you could install your own ham repeater (I just found a ham book yesterday so I don’t know how practical that will be lol).
Please keep us updated with all the details. It will be interesting to see what the process is.
A ham repeater is definitely an option. AMSAT has a lot of information on their satellites, so I could definitely learn a lot there!
Cameras have a big plus, considering I'm doing this on RUclips, but I think you're right that I'd likely need a higher-bandwidth communication channel to get anything back to Earth. Definitely something to look into!
Good luck!
UHF Amateur Radio Repeater expand the possibility to communicate between radio stations far separated. But better testing new protocols like LoRa.
I second looking into LaRaWAN/The Things Network as your comms
Oh, that's cool. Looking forward to progress updates. So, IDK, maybe too ambitious, but de-orbiting space debris, even just the tiny stuff, would be a benefit to all mankind.
I really like that idea - it's generally beneficial to everyone, but it's also super challenging. And how cool would it be if it could beam down some video of the approach and "grab" manoeuvre!
A satellite that has an SDR and sends down wide band power scans (i.e. rtl_power pictures) is one idea that came to mind
Dude make a self learning AI and put it in space! Im not sure what it would learn but it would definitely be the first of lots more powerful ones to come! Maybe like a solar powered GPU or something although idk how it would cool itself
Welcome back, Mike, glad to have you back.
I think an amateur imaging sat would be pretty rad, but if we're honest, everybody has access to satellite imagery nowadays, even by SAR. Still, it'd be nice if you could pull it off.
You're in Canada, you could use it for wildfire observation? Volunteer up-to-date imagery to firefighting services?
Hi. I've just come across your video and though your idea is great. What if you created a cube sat that tested how much light is needed to make it visible from the ground at different parts of the day. You could also test which colors could be seen better if you used multicolor LEDs and test how many lumen are required to make it happen.
I love the idea of including a super-bright LED that could be seen from Earth. I recall reading that the first privately made cubesat was something like that. I'll see if I can find the details and maybe do a video!
It would be very cool to be able to blink out a message that you could see from the ground :)
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I think collecting GPS information would be interesting especially since it could see many more satellites than down on the ground. Would need a special module though since most don’t work above an 100,000 feet.
A ham radio relay would also be interesting.
Wikipedia satellite. Chooses a random page from an offline archive to broadcast for an hour.
Or the most basic a corner cube radio reflector to measure telemetry from the ground.
This is my favorite of all the comments
this is gonna be awsome!!!
I'm excited! I love to build :)
werer have you been Mike? glad to see you back.
Normal life getting in the way ;) It's good to be back though!
NET 2025.. imaging would be cool but I guess the stabilisation would be more costly than the camera. Software defined radio might double up for downlink comms and measure LEO background radio noise. Maybe measure the cosmic microwave background too? Radio noise map of the world.. big balls and clear skies
Yeah, it's definitely a lot of work, and I'm just doing it on the side :)
The attitude control and stabilization is something I haven't done much research on. I'm thinking my first one I may just design to be tumbling? I guess it depends what else it's going to do!
Interesting project
How about building a two part cube set which could separate into two identical mass units with the ability to track their separation and have one of those units exhibit a different magnetic or volumetric profile?
Too complicated?
Of course it would need to relay to earth 0:23 the separation and ideally the leading trailing identity of the two components
Cheers
Ambitous! How about payload that tracks / observes / photographs SpaceX launches or Starlink satellites?
Yes! Definitely one I've been thinking about. Drones have become so popular - as space activity increases people might want to get the same view of things in orbit.
I'm really interested in the new work on satellites that maintain, refuel, or even guard other satellites! There's also a lot of interests in satellites that can grab and de-orbit space junk on their way back down to clean up some of that orbital debris. So many possibilities :)
Thanks for watching!
@@MikeOnSpaceyour satellite won't be able to grab space junk unless it had an incredibly robust locating, tracking and had the ability to change its orbit to match the space junks orbit, then intercept and course match, and then it would have to have even more power to pull it down into the upper atmosphere. You're not going to have the power capability in a 1u sat that at best would have 14 watts of solar and an articulating ion thruster, not even close to the theoretical power requirements to do that. You'd be hard pressed to have something capable of this even using chemical thrusters, nuclear would be your only realistic power option and you really need much more mass to move space junk... So maybe start with like a 64u size minimum. A junk hunting satellite is a cool idea though.
Is it possible to identify and monitor other satellites that would be nearby in orbit?
Yes, absolutely! That's actually a huge area of investment for the US Space Force. They call it Space Situational Awareness (SSA) - basically tracking what's going on in Earth's orbit, and increasingly Lunar orbit.
Most SSA is being done from the ground today, but there's lots of activity putting more capability in-orbit. The challenge is that space is big :) Definitely something I want to look into more though.
Thanks for watching!
I'd be happy to help with electronics design. I'm an EE with 35+ years of experience in many areas of electronics, with a major focus on embedded systems. Let me know if I can help. 🙂
Yeah for sure! I'm going to start the high-level component design soon, so feedback there would be awesome!
I'm thinking about different formats for those details videos - do you think a live stream would be interesting for something like that? It would be cool to have some more interactive discussion!
@@MikeOnSpace I'm sure that a live stream would be nice for some. I've got an unusual schedule that seems to change quite a lot at the last minute, so that is not my preferred format.
Most design work that I do seems to work nicely with email exchanges, as drawings and documents fit that format better than video chats. But this is your channel and your project, so let me know what you want and I'll do my best to help as I can.
Ham repeater?
Yeah, I think that would be interesting. I've been thinking of a digital mode repeater, to store and retransmit messages as it orbits.
Are you an operator yourself? I'll need to upgrade my license to Advanced as we call it in Canada - to allow me to transmit with a homebrew radio!
Break a silly record. Like fastest spinning satellite. Or most expanded (might struggle to complete with project Echo). Or make it glow in the dark. Or make it visible from the ground my making it combust.
there's really nothing you can do with a 1U sat that hasn't been done before.
but you can make it spin really fast in zero G for shts and giggles using a flywheel.. have it send you data on how fast its spinning.
but i think the limit is going to be half the motor rpm if the flyweel half the weight as the whole unit. due to newtons law equal and opposite reaction.
on earth the motor would be fixed in space and the spindle would be turning at full speed.
would be hard to use solar on it to keep it powered if its spinning.
For me, I have no problem at all repeating what someone else has done - just doing it at all is a huge win in my book :)
The intentional spinning is interesting - normally people think about DEspinning! Could be fun ;)
No one has done a space based standalone IRC server. Could run your favorite IRC client and radio transceiver and communicate on an international level but through the satellite and not rely on the internet. Pretty nerdy thing and the ground hardware to interface with it would be the difficult part i think
Dude doesn't it cost like $4 million to launch a smallsat?
No. He touched on cost in the video.
dude, you disappeared
Yeah, I needed some time to focus on some personal stuff, but things have settled down now - so I'm back to it!
@@MikeOnSpacewelcome back! hopefully we see some good stuff.. as usual ;)
Huh one year…
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Amateur radio repeater! 🤔🤔🤔
For sure! I've already learned a lot about building satellites from watching a lot of the AMSAT content. I've listened to beacons on UHF but I haven't made any contacts through a satellite yet. Maybe a good topic for when I'm thinking about ground stations to stay in communication with the satellite in orbit!
Thanks for watching!
Another idea is something digital, like a packet digipeater or even something like a BBS?
I do think digital is particularly interesting for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, since they orbit so quickly! A typical LEO satellite might circle the Earth every 90 minutes of so. It's feasible to have an async conversation with anyone on Earth if you're patient enough :)
DNS Server
Interesting - how would you want to be able to make queries?
@@MikeOnSpace no clue 😂. I just remembered a story that the first person to put a DNS onto the moon may claim the .lun TLD. (Which might be wrong).. Layer 4 would be UDP. Then TCP, then probably not Wi-Fi.... The protocol itself is quite lean by design iirc. Direct access for sat nerds somehow. It would be fun if there was an Internet gateway so that average nerds like me could use it. Maybe against payment. Maybe with mailed/emailed certificates. I smell a finance opportunity.