It's only rocket science, DIY satellites

Summary:

• Satellites, aren't they big/expensive/complicated?
But....why?
A brief history of satellite development => cubesats
How much?

• AMSAT, who dat?
Funding, global co-ordination
Global receiver network :)
HAM radio transponders
Educational outreach (hello!)

• FUNcube mission
2009-2017, FC1 & subsequent iterations
2020+, FUNcube Next, a new hope..

• Telemetry warehouses
SatNOGS
FUNcube warehouse
TLEs (celestrak/NORAD)
Opportunities for ground-based development (eg: Polaris)

• Open source initiatives
Gr-satellites
SatNOGS
Foxsat & FUNcube decoders
Satellite hunters - SpaceX, Chang'e5 & Tianwen1 telemetry :)
FCN

About Phil:

Phil has been a member of the FUNcube software team since 2009, and a licensed radio amateur since 2014. He enjoys playing with embedded processors and writing software at all levels of abstraction, from boot loaders, through software-defined radio modules to distributed systems in the cloud. He retired from paid employment in 2020 to spend more time with his hobbies!