CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

5.5.0, 4.12.0, 3.19.0 - 2023-12-28

Added

• Auto-Polarization Python block
• --fm-deviation option to AFSK Demodulator
• TLE to Doppler file Python script
• HADES-D deframer and example decoder
• Support for CLARKSAT-1
• Support for ENSO
• Support for GALASSIA-2
• Support for Hayasat
• Support for IRIS-C
• Support for KAFASAT
• Support for PEARL-1C and PEARL-1H
• Support for SCOOB-II
• Support for VELOX-AM
• Support for VERONIKA

Fixed

• BME Telemetry Submitter GRC file
• SNET Deframer GRC file typo
• AF deviation in SALSAT SatYAML file
• Added missing SanoSat Deframer GRC file

Changed

• Ported Manchester Sync block to C++
• CPU usage improvement for Selector block
• Final NORAD ID for EIRSAT-1

5.4.0, 4.11.0, 3.18.0 - 2023-08-28

Added

• BME telemetry websocket submitter
• Modified selector block
• Support for AHMAT-1
• Support for ARCUBE-1
• Support for CubeBel-2
• Support for CUBESX-HSE-3
• Support for IRIS
• Support for KUZGTU-1
• Support for MONITOR-2, MONITOR-3 and MONITOR-4
• Support for MRC-100
• Support for NANOZOND-1
• Support for NEUDOSE
• Support for SpeiSat
• Support for SNIPE-1, SNIPE-2, SNIPE-3 and SNIPE-4
• Support for STRATOSAT-TK1
• Support for SVYATOBOR-1
• Support for VIZARD-METEO
• Support for UmKa-1
• Support for UTMN-2

Fixed

• BER simulation
• GRC file for USP AX.25 crop
• GRC file for PDU Head/Tail
• NORAD IDs for AzaadiSAT, FOSSASAT-1B and FOSSASAT-2
• Sensitivity loss in AFSK demodulator in IQ mode
• Uninitialized variable warning in varlen_packet_tagger

Changed

• Increased RA decoder passes to 40

5.3.0, 4.10.0, 3.17.0 - 2023-06-02

Added

• 19k2 FSK mode for KUZBASS-300
• CAS-5A image receiver
• Getters and setters for Doppler Correction block
• Support for AZAADISAT-2
• Support for CIRBE
• Support for INSPIRE-SAT 7
• Support for gr-difi time tags in the Doppler Correction block
• Support for SPINO

Fixed

• CSP packet ID endianness in csp_header.py
• Default NORAD ID in Satellite Decoder block
• Framing for CYCLOPS (USP instead of AX.25)
• Several bugs in the Doppler Correction block
• Typo in the Submit block that caused a bug when using the start time option

Changed

• HDLC Framer passes the input metadata to the output
• Use print instead of print_pdu in Hexdump Sink
• Use start time in KISS Server Sink.

5.2.0, 4.9.0, 3.16.0 - 2023-01-29

Added

• Support for BDSat-2
• Support for CAS-5A
• Support for CIRBE
• Support for HKSAT
• Support for INS-2B
• Support for MARIO
• Support for NUTSat
• Support for SharjahSat-1
• Support for SS-1
• Support for TRISAT-R

Changed

• Doppler Correction block: use constant frequency before start of file
• Doppler Correction block: use logging instead of printing
• Marked Fixedlen Tagger block as deprecated

Fixed

• Throttle mode when used with --wavfile
• MTCUBE-2 NORAD ID

5.1.1, 4.8.1, 3.15.1 - 2022-11-19

Fixed

• RMS AGC block in aarch64 systems

5.1.0, 4.8.0, 3.15.0 - 2022-10-24

Added

• Support for AzaadiSAT
• Support for BlueWalker 3
• Support for EIRSAT-1
• Support for GEOSCAN-EDELVEIS
• Support for HSU-SAT1
• Support for JAGSAT-1
• Support for Light-1
• Support for 10 Sputnix satellites in 2022-08-09 launch
• Support for SelfieSat
• Support for TUMnanoSAT
• Phase Unwrap block
• gr_satellites --satcfg to read default arguments from file

Fixed

• AALTO deframer GRC file
• FSK demodulator with negative deviation in non-IQ mode
• Python bindings for 8APSK Costas Loop

5.0.0, 4.7.0, 3.14.0 - 2022-07-22

Added

• 8APSK Costas loop block
• Custom SIDS telemetry server for PicSat
• Doppler correction block
• File receiver for QO-100
• Fixed length to PDU block
• Support for ALFACRUX
• Support for ASTROBIO
• Support for CELESTA
• Support for CTIM 70 cm sw_stat beacons
• Support for FORESAIL-1
• Support for GREENCUBE
• Support for MIMAN
• Support for MTCUBE-2
• Support for PLANETUM-1
• Support for RANDEV-1
• Support for SNUGLITE-II
• Support for STEP-CUBELAB-II
• Support for SUCHAI-1
• Support for QO-100 multimedia beacon

Changed

• Main branch only supports GNU Radio 3.10
• Modernize logging and remove usage of Boost
• Sync to PDU blocks now use Fixed length to PDU

Fixed

• NORAD IDs for OreSat0, PlantSat and TEVEL constellation

4.6.0, 3.13.0 - 2022-05-09

Added

• Support for BDSat
• Support for D-STAR ONE LightSat
• Support for Eaglet-I in BPSK mode
• Support for INS-2TD
• Support for INSPIRESat-1
• Support for OreSat0
• Support for PlantSat
• Support for SanoSat-1
• Support for SUCHAI-3
• New generic CRC blocks
• Telemetry parsing for CSP v2

Changed

• Improved NRZI decoder block
• Refactor code using CRCs to use the new blocks
• Updated example GRC files to GNU Radio 3.10
• Deprecate Print Header block

Fixed

• Codec2 UDP sink under GNU Radio 3.9
• KISS server sink under GNU Radio 3.9
• UDP source under GNU Radio 3.10

Removed

• Leftover files for D-STAR ONE telemetry parser

4.5.0, 3.12.0 - 2022-02-19

Added

• Support for GNU Radio 3.10
• Support for DELFI-PQ
• Support for EXP-1
• Support for GASPACS
• Support for GT-1
• Support for HUMSAT-D
• Support for IRIS-A
• Support for TARGIT
• Support for the TEVEL satellites
• Support for XW-3
• Telemetry parser for Delfi-C3

Changed

• Final NORAD ID for CUAVA-1
• Final NORAD ID for Grizu-263A

Fixed

• Bug in sx12xx_packet_crop under GNU Radio 3.9
• Bug in --kiss_in mode
• NORAD ID for KSU CubeSat

4.4.0, 3.11.0 - 2021-11-03

Added

• Support for BINAR-1
• Support for CUAVA-1
• Support for CUTE
• CCSDS Uncoded Deframer block

Changed

• Default output path for file receiver changed to current directory
• Added 9k6 mode to BEESAT-1

Fixed

• CSP header parsing in AAUSAT-4 and BY70-1 telemetry parsers
• YUSAT deframer

Removed

• Deleted unused test_satellites.cc test code

4.3.1, 3.10.1 - 2021-09-11

Changed

• Do not swap CSP header endianness in AX100 and U482C deframers
• Final NORAD ID for LEDSAT

Fixed

• Fatal error of the image receiver if feh can't be run

4.3.0, 3.10.0 - 2021-08-20

Added

• Support for DHABISAT
• Support for ION SCV-003
• Support for IT-SPINS
• Support for JAISAT-1
• Support for LEDSAT
• Support for QMR-KWT
• Support for RAMSAT
• Support for SOAR
• Support for TUBIN
• Ability to change frame length in fixedlen_tagger block

4.2.0, 3.9.0 - 2021-06-18

Added

• Support for CubeSX-HSE in 1k2, 2k4 and 4k8 modes
• Support for CubeSX-Sirius-HSE in 1k2 and 2k4 modes
• Support for OrbicraftZorkiy in 2k4 mode
• Support for KAITUO-1B
• Support for DIY-1
• Support for MIR-SAT1

Fixed

• Runtime bug in AALTO-1 deframer
• Duplicated printing with --hexdump and unknown telemetry
• Bug in FSK demodulator with IQ mode and high baudrate

4.1.0, 3.8.0 - 2021-04-24

Added

• USP deframer
• Env variable GR_SATELLITES_SUBMIT_TLM to force/disable telemetry submission
• Ability to disable AX100 ASM+Golay scrambler in SatYAML and GRC block
• Support for BCCSAT 1
• Support for CUBE-L
• Support for GRBAlpha
• Support for NanosatC-BR1 and NanosatC-BR2
• Support for SIMBA
• Support for SMOG-1
• Support for SPUTNIX satellites: OrbiCraft-Zorkiy, CubeSX-HSE, CubeSX-Sirius-HSE, KSU CubeSat
• Support for STECCO
• Support for TAUSAT-1 and TSURU
• Support for UNISAT-7
• 2k4 downlink for MEZNSAT

Changed

• In gr_satellites, do not disable non-telemetry datasinks in --hexdump mode
• Reformatting of Python code according to PEP8

Fixed

• RS basis options swapped in CCSDS Reed-Solomon encoder GRC block

4.0.0 - 2021-03-06

Added

• Support for DELFI-n3xt

Changed

• Final NORAD for UVSQ-Sat
• Document that --wavfile allows OGG/FLAC

3.7.0 and 4.0.0-rc1 - 2021-02-19

Added

• Read sample rate from WAV files automatically
• PDU Length Filter block
• Example decoder for NEXUS 19k2 pi/4-DQPSK telemetry
• Support for AALTO-1 CC1125 mode
• Support for CAPE-3
• Support for DELFI-C3
• Support for EXOCUBE-2
• Support for Grizu-263A
• Support for IDEASSat
• Support for MiTEE-1
• Support for SOMP 2b
• Support for UVSQ-SAT
• Support for YUSAT-1

Changed

• Add filter before quadrature demod for IQ input FSK demodulator

Fixed

• Runtime error when the baudrate is too high for the sample rate
• Errors about wrong Reed-Solomon message size with OPS-SAT deframer
• Bug in SIDS submit URL encoding
• Bug with SatYAML files in platforms not using UTF-8
• Build problems with clang

3.6.0 - 2020-12-04

Added

• PDU add metadata block
• PDU Head/Tail block
• Lucky-7 image receiver
• Support for custom SIDS servers
• Support for AISTECHSAT-2 custom protocol
• Support for BOBCAT-1
• Support for BY03
• Support for FossaSat-1B and FossaSat-2
• Support for NEUTRON-1
• Support for SPOC
• Support for TTU-100
• Support for VZLUSAT-2

Changed

• Replaced boost::bind() by C++ lambdas
• Refactored Reed-Solomon decoder C++ blocks
• Refactored CCSDS deframer blocks to allow more generality
• Make --clk_limit parameter relative to samples per symbol
• Updated AISTECHSAT-2 transmit frequency
• Definitive NORAD IDs for NETSAT 1-4

Removed

• Deprecated Astrocast 9k6 deframer in favour of the new CCSDS Reed-Solomon deframer
• Deprecated CC11xx remove length, Header remover and Strip AX.25 header in favour of PDU Head/Tail

3.5.2 - 2020-10-21

Changed

• Fixed bug in S-NET deframer

3.5.1 - 2020-10-17

Changed

• Added final NORAD ID for DEKART
• Fixed bug in SALSAT CRC calculation

3.5.0 - 2020-10-08

Added

• Option for generating correct recording timestamps by playing back at 1x speed
• Option for listing the supported satellites in gr_satellites
• Mobitex and Mobitex-NX deframer
• Support for SALSAT
• Support for MEZNSAT
• Support for satellites using Mobitex and Mobitex-NX (D-STAR ONE, BEESAT, TECHNOSAT, AMGU-1, SOKRAT, DEKART)
• Support for NETSAT 1, 2, 3, 4
• Support for NORBI
• Support for KAIDUN-1

Fixed

• Bug with Reed-Solomon decoder that prevented building on i386 since v3.3.0

3.4.0 - 2020-09-12

Added

• SatYAML file for STRAND-1
• Audio source in gr_satellites
• SatYAML file for AmicalSat
• SatYAML file for UPMSat 2
• Support for NASA-DSN convention in CCSDS concatenated frames
• Support for TRISAT
• TCP KISS server and ZMQ PUB socket to send decoded frames
• CSP fragmentation flag
• SatYAML file for ION-MK01

Changed

• Enable full printing of construct strings

3.3.0 - 2020-08-11

Added

• Documentation for installing with conda
• SatYAML file for GO-32
• KISS output from gr_satellites and the KISS file sink includes timestamps
• Support for building with MSVC in Windows

Changed

• Telemetry conversion formulas for BY02
• JY1SAT SSDV decoder utility now uses KISS files as input
• Removed dependence on libfec. The Reed-Solomon codes from libfec are now included in gr-satellites.
• Added 4k8 modulation to SpooQy-1

Fixed

• Bug in Telemetry parser block when used from GRC
• Delphini-1 SatYAML file
• Stray line in Lucky7 deframer GRC block

3.2.0 - 2020-07-14

Added

• Option not to add a control byte in PDU to KISS
• Connection to the Harbin Institute of Technology telemetry proxy from Telemetry Submit

Fixed

• Bug that prevented the NORAD field from appearing in Telemetry Submit

3.1.0 - 2020-07-11

Added

• Example flowgraphs from gr-kiss
• Support for CAS-6
• Option to disable scrambler in CCSDS deframers
• Note about volk_profile in the documentation
• Missing .yml grc file for LilacSat-1 deframer
• Support for BY02
• Command line options for satellite decoder block and components
• More documentation about --dump_path

Changed

• Do not use DC-block in AFSK demodulator
• Remove second lowpass filter in BPSK demodulator
• Improvements in LilacSat-1 demuxer and deframer
• Ported NRZI encoder and decoder to C++
• Re-encode frame in SMOG-P RA decoder to check decoding correctness

Fixed

• Cmake warning when searching for libfec
• Minor corrections to documentation
• Bug in HDLC Framer

Removed

• Deprecated SMOG-P packet filter block

3.0.0 - 2020-06-03

Changes from 3.0.0-rc1

Added

• Download instructions in documentation
• Support for AO-27
• Support for FALCONSAT-3
• Test for unknown keywords in SatYAML files

Fixed

• Test execution in gr-satellites is not yet installed
• Minor typos in documentation
• Added missing af_carrier to AFSK SatYAML files
• swig and PythonLibs are now mandatory when running cmake
• Missing import in AFSK demodulator

Removed

• Deprecated LilacSat-2 flowgraphs in apps/

3.0.0-rc1 - 2020-05-17

Large refactor release bringing new functionality and improvements. This is an overview of the main changes:

Added

• gr_satellites command line tool
• Satellite decoder block
• Components
• SatYAML files
• File and image receiver
• Sphinx Documentation

Changed

• Performance improvements to the demodulators

Removed

• A number of deprecated low level blocks

2.3.2 - 2020-05-16

Fixed

• Bug in telemetry submitter caused by HTTP 400 error

2.3.1 - 2020-04-11

Fixed

• Bug in FUNcube telemetry parser

2.3.0 - 2020-02-05

Added

• Support for SMOG-P and ATL-1 at 2500 and 12500 baud
• Support for construct 2.10

Fixed

• Bug with DC block and AGC of SMOG-P and ATL-1 potentially causing crashes

2.2.0 - 2020-01-01

Added

• Support for SMOG-P and ATL-1
• Support for DUCHIFAT-3
• Support for OPS-SAT
• Standanlone decoder for AAUSAT-4
• Support for FloripaSat-1
• BME telemetry forwarder

Changed

• Replaced AO-40 synchronizer by more general distributed synchronizer
• Replaced AO-40 deinterleaver by more general matrix deinterleaver

2.1.0 - 2019-11-01

Added

• Support for Luojia-1

Fixed

• Corrected FACSAT NORAD ID

2.0.0 - 2019-10-10

Added

• Support for GNU Radio 3.8
• Support for 4k8 in ESEO decoder

Removed

• Support for GNU Radio 3.7

1.8.1 - 2019-10-07

Fixed

• Bug with FUNcube telemetry submitter in some flowgraphs

1.8.0 - 2019-10-04

Added

• Światowid image decoder
• Support for Taurus-1
• CCSDS blocks from SOCIS

Fixed

• KISS and HDLC blocks from gr-kiss in some flowgraphs

1.7.0 - 2019-08-31

Added

• Support for EntrySat
• Support for Delphini-1
• Support for AmGU-1
• Support for Sokrat
• Support for BEESAT-9
• Support for Lucky-7
• Support for Światowid 9k6 protocol

Removed

• Telemetry submitter for EntrySat

Fixed

• Bug in FUNcube telemetry parsing

1.6.0 - 2019-07-05

Added

• Support for SpooQy-1
• Generic 1k2 AFSK AX.25 decoder

Fixed

• Bug in AAUSAT-4 decoder

Removed

• SatNOGS telemetry forwarders for satellites not coordinated by IARU

1.5.0 - 2019-05-01

Added

• Support for AISTECHSAT-3
• JY1SAT SSDV decoder
• Support for MYSAT 1

Fixed

• Bugs in FUNcube telemetry parser

1.4.0 - 2019-04-07

Added

• Support for 1KUNS-PF in 9k6 mode
• Support for AISTECH-2
• Support for EQUiSat
• Support for QO-100
• Support for AstroCast 0.1 new protocol and 9k6 mode

Fixed

• Bugs regarding malformed or unknown frames in Funcube tlm decoder

1.3.1 - 2019-01-06

Fixed

• Bug in the Reed-Solomon decoder (affects ESEO decoder)

1.3.0 - 2019-01-05

Added

• Support for FMN-1
• Support for Shaonian Xing
• Support for Zhou Enlai
• Support for TY 4-01
• Support for FACSAT-1
• Support for INNOSAT-2
• Support for Reaktor Hello World
• CC110x decoder
• Support for 3CAT-1
• Generic FSK AX.25 decoders
• Support for JY1-Sat
• Support for Suomi 100
• Support for PW-Sat2
• Support for ESEO
• Generic Reed-Solomon decoder
• FUNcube telemetry submitter
• Support for ITASAT 1
• Support for D-STAR One
• Support for Astrocast 0.1
• Support for LUME-1

Changed

• Update to construct 2.9

Fixed

• Miscellaneous bugs

1.2.0 - 2018-09-20

Added

• feh fullscreen parameter for image decoders

1.1.0 - 2018-09-01

Added

• Support for TANUSHA-3 PM
• 9k6 support for ExAlta-1
• Some extra checks in LilacSat-1 image decoder

1.0.0 - 2018-08-02

First gr-satellites release using semantic versioning