Ground Station

Ground Station

Full documentation coming soon. This page is a placeholder covering what exists today; a complete guide (setup, transport details, dashboard walkthrough) will follow.

PWNCUBE is operated from PWNSAT-C3, the same ground-station software used to operate FlatSat — a single instance supports both platforms, with a platform selector shown right after login.

What it does today

• Commands over USB — a dedicated transport talks to the board's USB gadget console (see Hardware Anatomy and CCSDS Protocol), translating SPP telecommands into the board's own command-line interface.
• Telemetry over USB or RF — sensor, mission, and ground-station telemetry can be read either through that same USB link or over the air, using an RTL-SDR/HackRF bridge tuned to PWNCUBE's downlink (916 MHz, identical parameters to FlatSat).
• A live dashboard — sensors, thrusters, mission status, ground-station handshake state, ground track, and an Operations panel to issue commands (including the debug-only GPS_OVERRIDE injection used in Attack 04) — all decoded in real time, no encryption step needed since PWNCUBE's downlink is unencrypted by default.
• No decoder rewrite needed — because PWNCUBE's telemetry frames were deliberately built byte-compatible with FlatSat's, most of C3's existing decoders work against PWNCUBE unchanged.

Not covered here yet

Setup instructions, the ground station's own repository, and a full protocol walkthrough of the USB transport are not published yet. Check back, or open an issue on this repository if you need this sooner.