Re: Usage of GNU Radio for small spacecraft

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Thank you to all who have contacted me regarding this. Luckily I have
received a large number of replies, both by email and on some social
media platforms, so I have not been able to reply one by one.

I have now written a draft of the revised section about GNU Radio for
this report, and in one week we will be sending this to NASA. I have
posted the draft in the #satcom channel in the GNU Radio Matrix chat in
case anyone wants to give feedback before the deadline:

https://chat.gnuradio.org/#/room/#satcom:gnuradio.org

The paragraph for which I was collecting example use cases reads as
follows. As I mentioned, it is quite general, but it seems a good
summary of all the information I have received.

"
In the small satellite industry, GNU Radio is frequently used as part of
the ground station, both for standard protocols such as CCSDS and for
custom modems. Some commercial groundstation-as-a-service solutions that
support GNU Radio modems are Azure Orbital Ground Station and AWS Ground
Station. Another example is the open-source community-driven SatNOGS
network. GNU Radio is also very useful for prototyping and lab testing.
Additionally, some small satellites run GNU Radio on-board, usually as
part of a highly flexible SDR payload.
"

Best,
Daniel.

On 14/09/2023 23:03, Daniel Estévez wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> NASA is updating their technical report "State-of-the-Art of Small
> Spacecraft Technology": https://www.nasa.gov/smallsat-institute/sst-soa
> They have asked us to revise the section about GNU Radio (page 298 in
> the report).
>
> I would like to extend this section with a few sentences mentioning the
> wide variety of applications in which GNU Radio is used with small
> spacecraft, specially in industry, but also in university and amateur
> missions. I know there are many different and interesting ways in which
> GNU Radio is used, but not so much information is available publicly (or
> is scattered). I would like to write a brief overview.
>
> If you're using GNU Radio in relation to a small satellite mission, can
> drop me an email in list or directly with a couple of sentences about
> what you use GNU Radio for? The update I'll write for the report will be
> very general and not mention names of companies or specific projects,
> but I'd like to give an wide an accurate umbrella of applications. If
> you have references to existing publications, it would be interesting to
> include those as well.
>
> Best,
> Daniel.