🚨 Someone just open sourced a full satellite ground station. You can now pull live data straight from space to your hard drive. It's called Ground Station. It tracks satellites, controls antennas, and decodes radio signals from orbit. All from a web dashboard on your laptop.
No internet needed. Just a $30 SDR dongle and an antenna.
Here's what it does:
→ Tracks hundreds of satellites in real-time with orbital predictions
→ Auto-controls your antenna to follow satellites as they pass overhead
→ Streams live radio signals from space through your SDR
→ Decodes weather satellite images from METEOR-M2
→ Decodes SSTV, FSK, GMSK, BPSK, and AX.25 packets
→ Records raw IQ data with full metadata for playback
→ AI-powered transcription of intercepted voice transmissions
→ Schedules automated recordings so you capture passes while you sleep
Here's the wildest part:
You can set it to automatically detect when the ISS or a weather satellite is about to pass over your location, point the antenna, record everything, decode the data, and save it. All hands-free. You wake up to fresh satellite images on your hard drive.
This is the kind of setup universities and government labs spend tens of thousands building.
A Raspberry Pi, an RTL-SDR, and this repo. That's your ground station.
2,474 commits. Actively maintained. Built with Claude Code and Codex.
100% Open Source.