XML schema

[pa3weg]

* frequency should be in Hz.
* how about centerfreq, bandwidth instead of upper/lower bounds.

I agree with the CF / BW combination, and this is also how we are building the IARU database at the moment.
Frequencies are ALWAYS in Hz in any formal communication with ITU, so indeed that should always be the case.

[pa9tv]

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<response version="v1">
    <satellite id="sat0">
        <name>Oscar 7</name>
        <alias>AO-7</alias>
        <catalog-number>74089B</catalog-number>
        <international-designator>1974-089-B</international-designator>
        <transponder>
            <bandwidth>100000</bandwidth>
            <rxfrequency>145900000</rxfrequency>
            <txfrequency>29450000</txfrequency>
            <inverting>false</inverting>
        </transponder>
        <transponder>
            <bandwidth>50000</bandwidth>
            <rxfrequency>432150000</rxfrequency>
            <txfrequency>145950000</txfrequency>
            <inverting>true</inverting>
            <confirmation>
                <callsign>OZ1MY</callsign>
                <time>2015-04-29 00:46:00</time>
            </confirmation>
        </transponder>
        <beacon>
            <frequency>2304100000</frequency>
            <status>inactive</status>
        </beacon>
        <telemetry>
            <frequency>29502000</frequency>
            <modulation>CW</modulation>
        </telemetry>
        <telemetry>
            <frequency>145977500</frequency>
            <description>Mode U/V (B) TLM Beacon</description>
            <modulation>CW</modulation>
        </telemetry>
        <telemetry>
            <frequency>435100000</frequency>
            <description>Mode U TLM Beacon</description>
            <modulation>FSK</modulation>
        </telemetry>
        <owner>http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=1031</owner>
        <phase>ORBIT</phase>
    </satellite>
    <satellite id="sat1">
        <name>UWE-3</name>
        <catalog-number>39446</catalog-number>
        <phase>ORBIT</phase>
    </satellite>
    <satellite id="sat2">
        <name>FUNcube-3</name>
        <alias>EO79</alias>
        <launch-date>2014-06-19</launch-date>
        <phase>ORBIT</phase>
    </satellite>
    <satellite id="sat3">
        <name>AMSAT Phase 3C</name>
        <alias>P3C</alias>
        <alias>AO-13</alias>
        <phase>DECEASED</phase>
    </satellite>
    <satellite id="sat4">
        <name>AMSAT Phase 3E</name>
        <alias>P3E</alias>
        <image>https://www.p3e-satellite.org/en_EN/images/p3e_09.jpg</image>
        <logo>https://www.p3e-satellite.org/en_EN/images/p3e_logo.jpg</logo>
        <phase>PRELAUNCH</phase>
    </satellite>
    <satellite id="sat5">
        <name>ARISS</name>
        <alias>ISS</alias>
        <alias>Zarya</alias>
        <catalog-number>25544</catalog-number>
        <international-designator>1998-067A</international-designator>
        <image>http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/spacecraft/iss.jpg</image>
        <phase>ORBIT</phase>
    </satellite>
    <satellite id="sat6">
        <name>Delfi C3</name>
        <alias>DO-64</alias>
        <catalog-number>32789</catalog-number>
        <international-designator>2008-021G</international-designator>
        <beacon>
            <frequency>145870000</frequency>
            <status>inactive</status>
        </beacon>
        <telemetry>
            <frequency>145870000</frequency>
            <description>Telemetry beacon</description>
            <modulation>BPSK</modulation>
            <symbol-rate>1200</symbol-rate>
            <protocol>AX25</protocol>
        </telemetry>
        <phase>ORBIT</phase>
        <qsl-contact>
            <email>Delfi@TUdelft.nl</email>
        </qsl-contact>
    </satellite>
    <satellite id="sat7">
        <name>FUNcube-1</name>
        <alias>AO73</alias>
        <alias>AO-73</alias>
        <telemetry>
            <frequency>145935000</frequency>
            <description>Telemetry beacon</description>
            <modulation>BPSK</modulation>
            <symbol-rate>1200</symbol-rate>
        </telemetry>
        <phase>ORBIT</phase>
        <datawebsite>http://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/</datawebsite>
    </satellite>
</response>


I have supporting java classes with jaxb annotations.

[g4dpz]

Hi,

A few observations:

A satellite may have more than one alias, depending in the source: AMSAT / Celestrak

Should telemetry be a child of beacon

73

- Dave

[pa9tv]

A satellite may have more than one alias, depending in the source: AMSAT / Celestrak

I agree, if only to catch dominant spelling variants. or ISS/Zarya case.

Should telemetry be a child of beacon

True, you can view telemetry as a specialization of a beacon. In any case, if they share properties, these should be equally named.
I would not make it a child element in the xml, because i cant see any physical dependency other than the satellite.
Telemetry can be used as a beacon in a rf listeners case, i agree.
How would you differentiate between a CW beacon only and a telemetry-beacon only situation.
In a client it would require testing for the existence of properties of the beacon, or adding an extra element 'beacon-implementation' which existence can be tested.

In the underlying object model you could make telemetry a derivation of beacon, but how do you model a transponder into this. If you want this to drive your receiver, the objects could all implement an interface with freq, mode, bw. But this will be up to the implementors of the clients. If you do it in java, it would be my preferered approach.

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   <satellite id="sat3">
        <name>AMSAT Phase 3C</name>
        <alias>P3C</alias>
        <alias>AO-13</alias>
        <phase>DECEASED</phase>
    </satellite>


[pa9tv]

Reading the topic about WX sats, it would be meaningful to include the type of data that is sent if we model WX data as telemetry.

[pa9tv]

Modelling issue APT.

AM subcarrier, modulated with FM.

multiple approaches:
- fixed modulation types AM, FM, APT, etc. which need additions on new modulation forms.
- describe the first detector, and optional the second.
- free field to describe popular name of modulation.

[pa9tv]

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    <satellite id="sat8">
        <name>NOAA 15</name>
        <alias>Advanced TIROS-N (ATN)</alias>
        <catalog-number>25338</catalog-number>
        <international-designator>1998-030A</international-designator>
        <telemetry>
            <frequency>137620000</frequency>
            <description>APT picture transmissions</description>
            <modulation>FM</modulation>
            <modulation-name>APT</modulation-name>
        </telemetry>
        <telemetry>
            <frequency>137350000</frequency>
            <description>POES Direct Sounder Broadcast, charged particle spectrometer</description>
            <modulation>PSK</modulation>
            <modulation-name>TIP Digital split phase 67deg</modulation-name>
            <symbol-rate>8320</symbol-rate>
        </telemetry>
        <phase>ORBIT</phase>
    </satellite>


[g4dpz]

I should prefer the catalogue number to be the primary key.
Java Long, MySQL bigint(20) and standard for Hibernate/JPA @id

[pa9tv]

I should prefer the catalogue number to be the primary key.
Java Long, MySQL bigint(20) and standard for Hibernate/JPA @id

Are there any satellites without a satcat number? If none, indeed a good primary key.