I didn't know you could embed CSS animations in an SVG file.<p>It's a thing of beauty: <a href="https://nyan-sat.com/assets/licensed/orbital_comparison.svg" rel="nofollow">https://nyan-sat.com/assets/licensed/orbital_comparison.svg</a><p>Be sure to view page source.
I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the hilarity of the domain name. For those who don't get it: it's a play on the name of the nyan-cat meme: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyan_Cat" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyan_Cat</a>
"Oh yeah, you want a seriously righteous hack, you score one of those orbiting satellites, man. You know, satellites they use to like, do cosmology, and look for oil and stuff?"
US Air Force Space Security Challenge 2020: Hack-a-Sat<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22991947" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22991947</a>
Be sure to check out <a href="https://www.hackasat.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hackasat.com/</a> this weekend as part of DEF CON!
I have always wanted to do something with satellites. Especially with SpaceX and global satellite internet coming. What can I do/learn? What will be valid in the next 5-10 years? I'm not sure where to start.
The shame here is that the PCB isn't easily available. I can supply pan/tilt kits and SDRs, but I can't even get a CAD of their PCB to order a batch.
I'm surprised (but maybe I shouldn't be) that there's no mention at all of antennas. I guess it's a lot easier to get a signal from something in line of sight above you.
I hope they leave this up after DEFCON. It looks really easy to follow and I would like to get back into hacking on hardware when I got a bit more time.
I wish there were a simple and easy way to connect to a satellite, at the same kind of level of effort as .. say .. connecting to a BBS in the 80's .. and access it, just like an 80's BBS - i.e. upload a message, wait for a response while the thing flies overhead/across the globe, etc.<p>I guess this project kind of achieves that in a way. If you can build the hardware you can access a very elite messaging system.<p>It just seems to me to be a great place to put a BBS. I wonder if there are satellites up there that have that kind of interface ..