This discontent with the nature of existing satellite reception software led to the formation of the Open Satellite Project. Also, some of the available DSP stuff wasn’t working correctly for GOES 13.” “The documentation of the LRIT specification – the GOES 13 protocol – was very bad, and sometimes incomplete. “Most of the software when I started a few years ago, decoding GOES 13, was either closed-source or broken,” he recalls. While Teske, and the other contributors to the Open Satellite Project, aren’t alone in their quest to receive these signals from space, open-source software to support his new-found hobby proved thin on the ground. It’s amazing to receive and decode stuff, even if the output data isn’t very useful.”Įxisting Software “Closed-Source, or Broken” But to know that there is something up in the sky that is sending something back and to actually see the signal that is coming and its content, its a totally different thing. “Images from satellites are always amazing. They’re signals from space,” he explains of his fascination with the concept. “I have studied electronics and computing since I was two years old, and one day, a few years ago, I saw that I could receive weather satellite images at home. Developer Lucas Teske has a very clear reason for having started the Open Satellite Project, an ongoing effort to develop open-source software for the receipt and decoding of satellite data using software-defined radio (SDR) hardware including the LimeSDR family.

Software for digital satellite receiver