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[account ↗] [repo ↗] APPLICATION ★ 4745 827 ● active (last update 1 month ago)
reviewed by: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

This is a full-stack, self-hosted satellite ground station, not a data-research repository, though it contains substantial orbital-data ingestion, telemetry parsing, and signal-processing components. The application connects software-defined radios (RTL-SDR, Airspy, UHD, SoapySDR, SDRplay) to a real-time web UI for satellite tracking, hardware control, IQ/waterfall visualization, demodulation, decoding, recording, and observation scheduling. The backend is Python with FastAPI/Socket.IO, SQLAlchemy/Alembic, multiprocessing workers, and pub/sub broadcaster components; the frontend is React/Redux Toolkit/Material-UI. The user-facing system manages rotators and rigs via Hamlib, propagates TLE/OMM orbital elements, predicts passes, applies Doppler correction, schedules automated observations, and exposes file browsing, telemetry analysis, and audio transcription through external AI providers.

RATING8.5/10
QUALITY8.0/10
MAINTENANCEactive
DRIFTmedium
CONTRIBUTORS4
VELOCITY0.92
OPEN ISSUES9
CLOSED ISSUES35
LAST COMMIT1 month ago
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The LLM identified 4 files worth highlighting for reuse:

Thread-safe fan-out broadcaster that distributes IQ sample chunks to multiple subscribers while collecting per-subscriber statistics. It isolates the hard problem of multiplexing a high-rate sample source across consumer threads/processes and is reusable in any SDR, audio, or sensor streaming pipeline.

file: backend/pipeline/streaming/iqbroadcaster.py ↗ | tags: #pub-sub #realtime-streaming #thread-safety

Generic binary payload analysis engine that probes unknown telemetry blocks for hex dumps, float/uint sequences, string content, entropy, and timestamp-like patterns. This is a practical forensic/data-inspection utility that can be extracted and applied to any unknown packet-format reverse-engineering task.

file: backend/telemetry/payloadanalyzers.py ↗ | tags: #telemetry #heuristic-analysis #data-exploration

Path traversal guard enforcing that user-controlled file operations remain inside allowed roots and that generated filenames are safe for SigMF artifacts and output bundles. The pattern is directly reusable in any file-serving application that must protect against malicious path input.

file: backend/common/pathguard.py ↗ | tags: #security #path-validation #file-access-control

Pluggable adapters for ingesting orbital elements from CelesTrak, Space-Track, and generic HTTP endpoints, with strict URL validation, provider-specific parsing, and circuit-breaker behavior. The adapter/registry approach generalizes well to any multi-source external data synchronization subsystem.

file: backend/tlesync/source_adapters.py ↗ | tags: #adapter-pattern #data-sync #rate-limiting
Last analyzed: 2026-09-04 20:36:55.475654
Next check: 2026-09-11 20:36:55.468882
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