Downloading Live Images from Satellites in Outer Space - GOES receiver

This video will walk you through the steps to download images from satellites in outer space as they are being captured, specifically from the GOES constellation of satellites. GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, and the constellation is made up of 3 satellites that take images of the earth and beam them back down. With a proper dish, a raspberry pi, and an SDR, anyone on the surface of the earth can receive and decode these images.
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[@the-mailmann]

Clicked for the mohawk, stayed for the RF wizardry!

[@ElementX32]

Yes, the mohawk got my attention and the high intelligence and great teaching style forced me to become a subscriber and watch this video back to back. Thank you sir for this video and I'm an instant fan.

[@EddieVfgi]

Thank you, that's cool, I was decoding inmarsat ACARS signals which was pretty easy, in preparations for GOES 16. Meteorology has been my hobby for over 40 years so now it's time to up my hobby. Thanks your video will help. Thanks for taking the time out and making this video.

[@tekspeditionplanet9109]

Excellent vid. I have my antenna and NOOELEC parts, just need to get my butt out there and put it together. Wish I had enough hair for a style like yours!

[@jasonprivately1764]

Outstanding presentation

[@o0julek0o]

Whatcha... uhh... whatcha doing with all those ATMs?

[@MyNextShotWontMiss]

You don't have multiple ATMs laying around? Get your shit together man, everyone has them 😂

[@o0julek0o]

@@MyNextShotWontMiss shit you’re right.

[@teekay7930]

Maybe running an atm business? Idk

[@letsgorodriguez]

Probably running a atm side hustle or doing security testing for a company

[@iblackfeathers]

very nice. thanks for sharing how to do this. i would imagine one of the next steps would be to not write directly to the microsd card. constant read and writes will wear it out over time. rpi 4s can boot off usb depending on the firmware it is running. some have used a rather cheap ssd to boot off and there is a noticeable speed difference. or you can keep the micro sd card for the system and boot files and just move the logging data to an external source and keep your syncthing backing up the data from that. it would compartmentalize the points of data write failures into more manageable sections… instead imploding the entire thing if the micro sd card fails for whatever reason.

[@ElementX32]

I'm a licensed ham operator and my family and I are in the process of buying 10 acres of land in the country and I would like to have a setup like this to track the weather, to learn and to have fun.

[@FourthMatrix]

How do we find out what satellites are out there broadcasting in ways we can capture? Are there any satellites which broadcast the Southern hemisphere where Antarctica is clearly visible?

[@drtoothpaste]

Dope hair dude!!

[@laureven]

Gold on KZbin :) Regardss

[@dodgerammopar360]

The Nooelec RTLSDR has bias Tee and so you dont have to plug in the LNA

[@mr3748]

Hi Hacked, would this work for other GOES satellites as well? GOES 10 for example? I am in South Africa, I can get the part pretty cheap locally however thoses satellites would be problematic to detect. GOES 10 are nearly directly over Africa. Would the setup work for that as well?

[@catsdontboot8735]

GOES 10 has decommissioned in 2009 according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_Operational_Environmental_Satellite

[@TheBurnsStuff]

I bought the NooElec GOES kit from Amazon after struggling with a 2.4ghz modified WiFi dish antenna. No matter what I did, I couldn't even get under 1200 vits with the wifi dish. I tried every single mod I could find. It was frustrating seeing other people getting this to work and I just about gave up. Tell you what, this NooElec kit works like a charm. I already had the Pi setup so it was basically plug and play. I plopped the NooElec dish on the same pole I used for the modded dish, roughly pointed it and BAM! vits down to 250 and receiving packets. After some fine adjustments, I'm now in the mid-high 50s for vits. This thing is rock solid. I'd be interested in seeing how you process the images after you get a bunch. I have 6gb of images that I need to use somehow, other than just scrolling through them lol.

[@ElementX32]

Im new to this and was wondering if there's a way you can have a motorized satellite setup that will autotrack and point to the satellite, rather than having to manually point to it. Not that there's an issue with doing it manually, however i was thinking that with a satellite tracking system you could get the best signal possible. Im not sure if im wording it correctly, so hopefully you know what I'm asking

[@UnumDeum]

I am pointed at GOES-18 and getting some nice images, but I only get band 13 from GOES-16. Anyone else have the same thing going on or is my configuration not correct?

[@yungerallenelectricalcontr6415]

I got power to saw bird from NoELEC, why did you power from an external source?

[@frankywatte5646]

which stations do you receive with that antenna on your head?☺😋

[@mirochlebovec6586]

this guy should make a tuttorial on how to make a sattelite listening cyberdeck

[@jjrobiso]

Can you run multiple SDR’s and SDR programs on 1 Pi? Like running an SDR running an ADS-B program, one SDR running this GOES program, and one SDR running RF receive/scanning program like SDR#?

[@Drenov]

Jessuzz! FFS don't be a slob, mount the equipment in the box securely rather than just leaving it flapping around. A few sticky mounting pads and cable ties would do!

[@anonymous_friend]

Would an unused dish network satellite work for this?

[@fioredeutchmark]

I’m pretty sure you could have saved yourself the $300 and just used your hair.

[@endisnear1]

One day I'll do

[@w8cptCptDon]

So i cannot get a signal! My pi is set up properly all the software works as it should. I have the same antenna. I tried it at a 45⁰ angle instead of horizontal like yours. I flipped the reflector...nothing under 2203! Any ideas i have the nooelec sdr and Goes filter too...ugh

[@anonymous_friend]

Did you figure it out?

[@w8cptCptDon]

@@anonymous_friend yes turn the gain up to 40 or more!

[@videodude8137]

How about downloading images from satellites on earth?

[@PATCHEZinSPACE]

12:16 = siri cameo lol

[@aminsherif9551]

Hi .let me ask bothom line,you buy this stuff and you able to get live image from international space ?OR hacking chanell? OR what?

[@Fulcrums29]

Cut this guys head antenna first 😂

[@franksemi_modular]

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[@aminsherif9551]

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[@RoboPlaysYT]

Bros hair 💀

[@thedarthsidious66]

Bro needs to go for the weatherman haircut.

[@failedrockstar]

You realize that geostationary orbit is not outer space right?

[@eliasjohnson7801]

Where does space begin? For purposes of spaceflight some would say at the Karman line, currently defined as an altitude of 100 kilometers (60 miles). Others might place a line 80 kilometers (50 miles) above Earth's mean sea level. - NASA

[@Gkc57Ii]

Geostationary orbit is about 35,000km high. Space by international convention begins at 100 km. So a geostationary satellite is in space.

[@NoReverse77]

Commit to the hawk and shave the sides or shave it all off.

[@fo4mm209]

Not for joe average😑

[@teekay7930]

Not everything is for “Joe average”

[@omegadroidzero]

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