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- [ Hacker Supreme's - Hacker Directory V#22 ]
- [ Compiled & by: Ninja Squirrel & Logan-5 ]
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- This article will deal with Satellite hacking, CB info, and car phone systems.
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- Satellite Control
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- Companies try to build satellites to last for as long a time as possible.
- Unfortunately, for the companies, things in space can happen unexpectantly and
- suddently. Take that satellite released by the space shuttle. It's orbit
- carried it way off the correct altitude. The company's only hope was to fire a
- rocket on it in order to bring it to the correct place.
- Now think...how does one on the ground fire a rocket in space? Radio!
- Gee, if the company could change the orbit, maybe we can too. Sound
- interesting?
- Of course we were not the first to think of this. The satellite companies
- have worried about this for a long time. There are stories about top secret
- codes, frequencies, and protocols required to 'nudge' one of those babies.
- The only problem is that-there is little information about this out there.
- If you have any info, make a text file, and let others know of your knowledge.
- But let me tell you all I know about a simple satellite whose telemetry is
- known well.
- OSCAR 6 was a satellite sent up in order to take in amateur signals
- between 145.9 and 146.0 MHz, and re-transmit them between 29.45 and 29.55 MHz
- using a transponder. Early in 1976, OSCAR 6 began to have battery problems.
- The telemetry allowed the ground command stations to shut the satellite off at
- regular intervals to prolong the useful life of the satellite.
- Now we know the satellite sent out telemetry reports at a certain
- frequency (OSCAR 7 was 29.502 and 145.972 MHz). And it sent them out in the
- form of Morse code at about 20 wpm. Information rate of spin, power use, and
- temperature were sent out at 20 wpm. This seems to suggest that the control
- might have also used morse code. Strangely enough, there was never any
- information in the American Radio Relay League magazine about just how they
- control the OSCAR satellites. (Hams know what's safe and what's crazy also)
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- Suggestions: Don't overlook RTTY when trying to Satelhack (Satellite
- hacking). Also, chances are the owners will figure out what you did, so
- 'downing', the ultimate for a satelhack, is pretty difficult.
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