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Abstract

Through a prior collaboration, we have built a motorised satellite dish capable of tracking objects in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and monitoring their communication.

In this project, you will use this dish to build a satellite discovery and monitoring system, tracking known and suspected satellites to discover characteristics of their communication. This project can be taken in a variety of directions depending
on interest, including adapting existing protocol decoders to survey capabilities, building new decoders, or analysing signals at the physical layer.

Interested students should have some experience with communication protocols, but no prior experience in radio communication is required.

For a related project working with FPGAs, see “SparSDR++: Using FPGAs for Wideband Satellite Reconnaissance”