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Virginia Tech Ground Station - VTGS The Virginia Tech Ground Station (VTGS) is a research initiative led by the Hume Center and funded by the College of Engineering.

The Virginia Tech Ground Station (VTGS) is a research initiative led by the Hume Center and funded by the Department of the College of Engineering to design and build a satellite ground station for use in satellite communications and space communities. The Hume Center hopes to use the VTGS to support Space@VT in their studies, as well as act as a satellite ground station for commercial and amateur radio satellites. VTGS provides research and extracurricular opportunities to engage and educate students. These students are the hands and minds behind the construction and future operation of the ground station. The VTGS is tentatively scheduled to be in operation by August 2015.

22/08/2016

A NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute with the RockSat-X payload was successfully launched at 7:33:30 a.m. EDT, Aug. 17, 2016. The payload reached an apogee of 95...

Raising and installation of the 3.0m Dish Kit from RF Ham Design at the VTGS. Many thanks to the VT Rocksat-X team and ...
07/05/2016

Raising and installation of the 3.0m Dish Kit from RF Ham Design at the VTGS. Many thanks to the VT Rocksat-X team and other Hume Center folks for assisting in the installation. S-Band satellite communications here we come!

Successful demodulation of AO-73's telemetry downlink via a crosslink event with FO-29 at the VTGS during the 20150506 -...
07/05/2016

Successful demodulation of AO-73's telemetry downlink via a crosslink event with FO-29 at the VTGS during the 20150506 - 1647(ish) UTC pass!!! Congratulations to the students in ECE-4644 that accurately predicted the event with their class project simulation software and were present for the crosslink event (and got the extra credit!). The signal was received and recorded using GNU-Radio and post-processed to tune out doppler shift and extract the packets (6 packets recovered so far!). Also congratulations to Paul, N8HM who also monitored the event and recovered 9 packets with the Funcube Dashboard software!

01/12/2015

Check out an Engineer's Forum Magazine article about the Ground Station! http://www.ef.org.vt.edu/2015/11/signals-to-space-the-virginia-tech-ground-station.html

Signals to Space: The Virginia Tech Ground Station 2015-11-132015-11-28 Engineers' Forum Articles, November 2015 By: Vidya Vishwanathan In a small parking lot off of Prices Forks Road stands a miniature brick building surrounded by antennas; this is the Virginia Tech Ground Station (VTGS). Priding…

16/09/2015

Undergraduate students building a QB50 satellite simulator with hardware radios in order to validate the GNU Radio SDR flowgraphs we will use to talk to the OGMS-SA satellite

The Genesis of the VTGS
16/09/2015

The Genesis of the VTGS

Accumulation of equipment in the VTGS Shack
16/09/2015

Accumulation of equipment in the VTGS Shack

Initial NOAA Weather Satellite Experiment at the VTGS using KJ4QLP's Antennas
16/09/2015

Initial NOAA Weather Satellite Experiment at the VTGS using KJ4QLP's Antennas

The progress of the antenna and support equipment installation outside the VTGS
16/09/2015

The progress of the antenna and support equipment installation outside the VTGS

Collaboration between VTGS and University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) to support the OGMS-SA Cubesat Mission
16/09/2015

Collaboration between VTGS and University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) to support the OGMS-SA Cubesat Mission

16/09/2015

LAICE Overflight of VTGS during Summer 2014

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