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Receiving Real-Time Imagery From Russia's Meteor-M N2 Satellite

Posted by timothy on from the is-this-glasnost-or-perestroika? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Meteor-M N2 is a low orbit Russian weather satellite which broadcasts live weather satellite images, similar to the APT images produced by the NOAA satellites. But Meteor digital images are however much better as they are transmitted as a digital signal with an image resolution 12x greater than the aging analog NOAA APT signals. Radio enthusiasts are receiving images with hacked cheap digital TV dongles. There is even the AMIGOS project which stands for Amateur Meteor Images Global Observation System: users around the world can contribute Meteor images through the internet to create worldwide real-time coverage.

26 comments

  1. wanted by kqc7011 · · Score: 2

    A viewer for these images like MODIS Today does.

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  2. Is it common for sat signals to be unencrypted? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Of course this is how it should be, and meteo data isn't secret anyway, but don't they want to sell the data? Note that this satellite was launched only 1 1/2 years ago.

  3. Could a google map mashup be made using this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    .. Let's see all those spots Google has blurred out at various govt's request :)

  4. M2 is offline by Pikoro · · Score: 4, Informative

    This story must be crazy old because M2 is offline and has been for a while. M1 is available but it's tumbling and nobody's sure when it's going to quit. Complete tutorial on how to do these kinds of decodes, plus normal NOAA APT reception here: http://init.sh/?p=275

    Full disclosure. I own init.sh. No ads on the site.

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    1. Re:M2 is offline by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      The article is dated from yesterday.

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    2. Re:M2 is offline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Only the SAR (radar) on the M2 died. The optical imaging component is working just fine.

    3. Re:M2 is offline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the youtube video showing how to do it is dated from 2014...

    4. Re:M2 is offline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      WTF are you talking about? M-2 isn't offline. It just launched in 2014:

      https://directory.eoportal.org...

    5. Re:M2 is offline by Pikoro · · Score: 1

      M2 is running but not giving out a usable signal that can be decoded. It's been jumping between 137.100Mhz and 137.900Mhz for a bit but still no usable images.

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    6. Re:M2 is offline by Pikoro · · Score: 1

      I'd really love to see some recently decoded images then because nobody else can get anything out of it. What's your secret?

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    7. Re:M2 is offline by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

      To quote an AC, whose reply may be lost to those without a low threshold:

      Only the SAR (radar) on the M2 died. The optical imaging component is working just fine.

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    8. Re:M2 is offline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Looks like it might be in the middle of a testing routine.

      On January 15, 2015, Roskosmos announced that the flight testing of the Meteor-M No. 2 satellite had entered a final phase. The press-release stressed that the prolonged testing was the result of a long list of checks and the complexity of procedures providing the correct operation of onboard systems and high quality of remote-sensing data. The statement went on to say that all calibration and testing efforts provided enough data to conclude that the spacecraft had been ready for operations. By that time, Russian meteorological agency, Rosgidromet, joined Roskosmos in processing the satellite's data, the space agency said.

      http://www.russianspaceweb.com/meteor_m2.html

    9. Re:M2 is offline by kmike · · Score: 1

      Is this it?
      http://meteor.robonuka.ru/gall...

    10. Re:M2 is offline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unfortunately, those are all tagged as M1.

  5. B.o.B by gregmon · · Score: 1

    Who is going to break it to B.o.B? http://science.slashdot.org/st...

    1. Re:B.o.B by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's worse, that you put this ignorant attention-seeking bullshit on here, or that you had an actual slashdot link for it?

  6. Old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Quick search reveals this have been done long time ago, this page is dated 2010: http://www.r00t.cz/Sats/LRPT

    Also this is civilian Russian satellite, just like NOAA sats are and it's quite well documented (for Russian sat that is).
    So yes, it's thing nr #101 you can do with cheap RTL dongle, but it's nothing new.

    1. Re:Old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Meteor-M N1 failed and is now a tumbling satellite. The Meteor-M N2 of this article was launched on July 2014.

  7. Doing It With Lunix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those that don't want to use Windows, here's an ugly tutorial for Decoding Meteor M2 Satellites with Ubuntu.

    I'm disappointed that I wasn't able to find a standalone app, perhaps for a Raspberry Pi that would simply output the desired images without having to do all tha manual recording and decoding through a GUI.

    1. Re:Doing It With Lunix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apps!

    2. Re:Doing It With Lunix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Maybe this can be helpfull: a python script to generate an image from the raw data https://gist.github.com/mraspaud/84e79fc3d5ee7075b628