Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Satellite Control Center
The Satellite Control Center at UT-Austin is a fully redundant operational ground station located on the top floor of the Aerospace Engineering building on the university campus. It is operated by UT-Austin students under faculty supervision. The ground station includes two UHF/VHF Yagi antennas with 16.8 dBc of gain. A 3-meter S-band dish is also available. Groundstation hardware includes IC-910H VHF/UHF transceivers, ICOM PS-125 transceiver power supplies, and plasma display screens. Ground station software includes MacDoppler for Cocoa, Windows Hyperterminal, MixW, and ONEStop. ONEStop is a software program that allows remote users to access multiple ground facilities to capture and record vehicle passes and resolve scheduling conflicts between different satellites.
Address
W.R. Woolrich Laboratories
210 E. 24th Street Room 403
Austin, TX, 78712
