Fwd: Small satellite computer

[Tim McDonough <tim@mcdonough.net>]

Thought this might be of interest. Red Hat in space.

APRS - (Amateur radio Position Reporting System) GPS and other data are 
transmitted from mobile and fixed stations. There are services where you can 
search for specific stations and watch their progress. I'll report "how to" 
once they make the information available.

Tim

--- Original Message ---
To: Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion <qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU>
Sent: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 12:27:08 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Small satellite computer
 
>
>    New Mexico State University and the Air Force are going to launch a
>satellite into orbit having a Kodak digital camera taking pictures,
>an APRS HT will be sending out it's gps position and telemetry data
>for any Ham who wants to watch it pass over head.
>
>    I am helping get the computer working properly. It is a tiny 88486
>CPU with just a few ports and a 32 meg flash memory is all it has
>period! The operating system is Linux Red Hat version 7.2 with a
>2.4.19 kernel. It turns out you win when you put everything you need
>into the kernel and use no modules.
>
>    I bought a Garmin GEKO 201 GPS unit which is simply a great one.
>It's equipped to use WASS accuracy data and 2 or more can be used in
>a differential GPS configuration and get accuracy of 2 inches.




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