gr-satellites December 2020 monthly release. This includes support
for several new satellites and other improvements.

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Added

• PDU add metadata block
• PDU Head/Tail block
• Lucky-7 image receiver
• Support for custom SIDS servers
• Support for AISTECHSAT-2 custom protocol
• Support for BOBCAT-1
• Support for BY03
• Support for FossaSat-1B and FossaSat-2
• Support for NEUTRON-1
• Support for SPOC
• Support for TTU-100
• Support for VZLUSAT-2

Changed

• Replaced boost::bind() by C++ lambdas
• Refactored Reed-Solomon decoder C++ blocks
• Refactored CCSDS deframer blocks to allow more generality
• Make --clk_limit parameter relative to samples per symbol
• Updated AISTECHSAT-2 transmit frequency
• Definitive NORAD IDs for NETSAT 1-4

Removed

• Deprecated Astrocast 9k6 deframer in favour of the new CCSDS Reed-Solomon deframer
• Deprecated CC11xx remove length, Header remover and Strip AX.25 header in favour of PDU Head/Tail

This is a bugfix release

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Changed

• Fixed bug in S-NET deframer

gr-satellites release v3.5.1

This is a small bugfix release.

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Changed

• Added final NORAD ID for DEKART
• Fixed bug in SALSAT CRC calculation

gr-satellites release v3.5.0

This release includes support for several of the satellites in the 2020-068 Soyuz launch.

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Added

• Option for generating correct recording timestamps by playing back at 1x speed
• Option for listing the supported satellites in gr_satellites
• Mobitex and Mobitex-NX deframer
• Support for SALSAT
• Support for MEZNSAT
• Support for satellites using Mobitex and Mobitex-NX (D-STAR ONE, BEESAT, TECHNOSAT,
  AMGU-1, SOKRAT, DEKART)
• Support for NETSAT 1, 2, 3, 4
• Support for NORBI
• Support for KAIDUN-1

Fixed

• Bug with Reed-Solomon decoder that prevented building on i386 since v3.3.0

gr-satellites release v3.4.0

This release includes support for the satellites in the Arianespace Vega VV16 launch that transmit on Amateur bands (regardless of IARU coordination status)

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Added

• SatYAML file for STRAND-1
• Audio source in gr_satellites
• SatYAML file for AmicalSat
• SatYAML file for UPMSat 2
• Support for NASA-DSN convention in CCSDS concatenated frames
• Support for TRISAT
• TCP KISS server and ZMQ PUB socket to send decoded frames
• CSP fragmentation flag
• SatYAML file for ION-MK01

Changed

• Enable full printing of construct strings

gr-satellites release v3.3.0

This release includes support for building with MSVC
in Windows and other improvements

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Added

• Documentation for installing with conda
• SatYAML file for GO-32
• KISS output from gr_satellites and the KISS file sink includes timestamps
• Support for building with MSVC in Windows

Changed

• Telemetry conversion formulas for BY02
• JY1SAT SSDV decoder utility now uses KISS files as input
• Removed dependence on libfec. The Reed-Solomon codes from libfec are now included in gr-satellites.
• Added 4k8 modulation to SpooQy-1

Fixed

• Bug in Telemetry parser block when used from GRC
• Delphini-1 SatYAML file
• Stray line in Lucky7 deframer GRC block

gr-satellites release v3.2.0

This release brings improved integration with the Harbin Institute of Technology telemetry proxy.

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Added

• Option not to add a control byte in PDU to KISS
• Connection to the Harbin Institute of Technology telemetry proxy from Telemetry Submit

Fixed

• Bug that prevented the NORAD field from appearing in Telemetry Submit

gr-satellites release v3.1.0

Changelog

Added

• Example flowgraphs from gr-kiss
• Support for CAS-6
• Option to disable scrambler in CCSDS deframers
• Note about volk_profile in the documentation
• Missing .yml grc file for LilacSat-1 deframer
• Support for BY02
• Command line options for satellite decoder block and components
• More documentation about --dump_path

Changed

• Do not use DC-block in AFSK demodulator
• Remove second lowpass filter in BPSK demodulator
• Improvements in LilacSat-1 demuxer and deframer
• Ported NRZI encoder and decoder to C++
• Re-encode frame in SMOG-P RA decoder to check decoding correctness

Fixed

• Cmake warning when searching for libfec
• Minor corrections to documentation
• Bug in HDLC Framer

Removed

• Deprecated SMOG-P packet filter block

This is the first official release in the v3 series of gr-satellites.

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Changes since 3.0.0-rc1

Added

• Download instructions in documentation
• Support for AO-27
• Support for FALCONSAT-3
• Test for unknown keywords in SatYAML files

Fixed

• Test execution in gr-satellites is not yet installed
• Minor typos in documentation
• Added missing af_carrier to AFSK SatYAML files
• swig and PythonLibs are now mandatory when running cmake
• Missing import in AFSK demodulator

Removed

• Deprecated LilacSat-2 flowgraphs in apps/

gr-satellites first release candidate for v3.0.0

If everything goes well with this release candidate, v3.0.0 is planned for the beginning of June.

Changelog

Large refactor release bringing new functionality and improvements. This is an overview of the main changes:

Added

• gr_satellites command line tool
• Satellite decoder block
• Components
• SatYAML files
• File and image receiver
• Sphinx Documentation

Changed

• Performance improvements to the demodulators

Removed

• A number of deprecated low level blocks

gr-satellites bugfix release for 2.3.0

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Fixed

• Bug in telemetry submitter caused by HTTP 400 error

gr-satellites bugfix release for v1.8

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Fixed

• Bug in telemetry submitter caused by HTTP 400 error

gr-satellites bugfix release for 2.3.0

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Fixed

• Bug in FUNcube telemetry parser

Bugfix release for 1.8

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Added

• Support for construct 2.10

Fixed

• Bug in FUNcube telemetry parser

This releases focuses on optimizing the demodulators

Highlights:

• Demodulators using Symbol Sync block for clock recovery
• Improved FSK demodulator filtering
• Optimized loop parameters

gr-satellites February 2020 monthly release

Changelog

Added

• Support for SMOG-P and ATL-1 at 2500 and 12500 baud
• Support for construct 2.10

Fixed

• Bug with DC block and AGC of SMOG-P and ATL-1 potentially causing crashes

This release focuses on the file and image receiver

Highlights:

• Generic file and image receiver framework
• Image decoders using the new framework
• Clean up of deprecated telemetry parser blocks

gr-satellites January 2020 monthly release

Changelog

Added

• Support for SMOG-P and ATL-1
• Support for DUCHIFAT-3
• Support for OPS-SAT
• Standanlone decoder for AAUSAT-4
• Support for FloripaSat-1
• BME telemetry forwarder

Changed

• Replaced AO-40 synchronizer by more general distributed synchronizer
• Replaced AO-40 deinterleaver by more general matrix deinterleaver

This release focuses on deframers and extending the support to most satellites supported by gr-satellites v2

Highlights:

• Many new deframers
• Many new SatYAMLs
• BME telemetry submitter
• Transports