# sgoudelis/ground-station

Browser-based ground station suite for satellite tracking, SDR reception, hardware control, and telemetry decoding

Repository: https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ground-station
Language: JavaScript
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: antenna, fft, python, radio, react, rig, rotator, satellite, satnogs, sdr, space, tle, waterfall, ground-station, bpsk, fsk, weather
Last push: 2026-08-26T17:31:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 81/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 83, longevity 39
- inputs: {"age_days": 550, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 32, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 127}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4725, forks 827 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:57.580792+00:00)

## What it is
Ground Station is an open-source, browser-based application suite for tracking satellites and celestial targets, controlling station hardware like rotators and radios, and receiving, decoding, and recording SDR signals. It combines orbit visualization, multi-target tracking consoles, waterfall FFT analysis, packet/telemetry decoding, and scheduled observations in a single web interface.

## Use cases
- track satellites and predict passes from a browser
- control an antenna rotator and radio rig during satellite passes
- receive and decode satellite telemetry with an SDR
- view a live waterfall/FFT of SDR signals
- schedule and automate satellite observations
- decode APRS/AX.25 packets from satellites
- record raw IQ from weather satellite passes

## When to choose
- you run or want to build an amateur satellite ground station
- you need integrated tracking, hardware control, and SDR decoding in one web UI
- you want scheduled, automated satellite observations
- you work with SatNOGS-style setups, rotators, and TLE-based tracking

## When to avoid
- you need a lightweight CLI-only satellite tracker
- you only need orbit prediction without SDR reception or hardware control
- you need a commercial-grade professional ground segment for operational spacecraft

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, data-visualization, audio-processing, image-processing, scheduling, developer-tools
- domain: astronomy, analytics
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: ground-station, satellite-tracking, sdr, waterfall, tle, rotator-control, telemetry-decoding, satnogs, bpsk, fsk, weather-satellites, react, python, radio, amateur-radio, web, linux

## Member repositories
- sgoudelis/ground-station (main) score 81

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:57.580792+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:19:04.541756+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:57.580792+00:00, sha dbe7edf03e52)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.