{"id":2592,"date":"2019-07-08T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2019-07-15T09:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T09:08:52","slug":"apollo-11-hab-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=2592","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11 HAB Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This flight is planned for <strong>Tuesday 16th July<\/strong> and will commemorate the launch of Apollo 11 on this day in 1969, 50 years ago.  I want to make it special, so the flight will have a few new things all designed to try and recapture the technology of the &#8217;60s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Payload<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary payload is a Revell Apollo 11 kit, assembled in the configuration flown from the Earth to the Moon.  For more details see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=2510\">my blog post on the build<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/image-13-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission Control<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mission Control was a central part of every NASA spaceflight, and everyone has seen the Apollo-era mission control room with its flickering monitors and flashing lights.  I built an emulation of such a console as a web page back in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=2209\">Telnet Flight<\/a> a couple of years ago, so I decided to start with that and build a new web app for my Apollo flight.  You can read about how this works in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=2522\">blog post<\/a> about the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/image-20-1024x905.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The web app <a href=\"http:\/\/hab.daveakerman.com\/dash\/apollo\/Apollo.html\">online here<\/a>, and currently features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>YouTube streaming (from launch)<\/li><li>SSDV images from the primary tracker<\/li><li>Google map (not SNUS) with balloon, chase car and on-board landing prediction<\/li><li>3D visualisation of the view from the payload<\/li><li>Raw data screen<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trackers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The current plan is for flight to carry 3 trackers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Pi tracker with wide-angle camera sending telemetry and monochrome (of course!) SSDV (869MHz band).<\/li><li>Pi tracker telemetry only (434MHz band LoRa)<\/li><li>AVR tracker (434MHz band LoRa <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Payload IDs and frequencies etc will be updated here when decided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Streaming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The launch will be streamed over YouTube, viewable within the dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Receiving<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope to have a lot of receivers for this flight.  Now, because the dashboard works from a custom web server and not Habhub, you will need an up-to-date <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PiInTheSky\/lora-gateway\">LoRa gateway<\/a> to provide data for the dashboard.  You will need <strong>V1.8.30<\/strong> issued on 26th June, or later, <strong>and<\/strong> you need to add this line to gateway.txt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>EnableHABLink=Y<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that done, telemetry will up uploaded to the hab.link server, as well as Habitat if you have that enabled.  SSDV is not affected and is sent to Habitat only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This flight is planned for Tuesday 16th July and will commemorate the launch of Apollo 11 on this day in 1969, 50 years ago. I want to make it special, so the flight will have a few new things all designed to try and recapture the technology of the &#8217;60s. 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