UPLINK OPEN · ACCEPTING CREWS
ORBITAL
FREQUENCY
EST·2025 / Δ7
COORDINATES
40.7°N · 74.0°W
NEW YORK / GROUND STATION 11
WINDOW
14 — 15 NOV
48H CONTINUOUS BUILD
BAND
X-BAND · 8.4 GHz
THE DEEP DISH PAVILION
Deep space is a software problem. Forty-eight hours to prove it.
Orbital Frequency gathers ground-station operators, flight-software engineers, RF hackers, and orbital-mechanics nerds in one room — and points them at real telemetry, real link budgets, and real constraints.
No slide decks. You arrive, you pick an orbit, you form a crew, and for two continuous days you build systems that have to actually close the loop with a signal. Mentors from operating spacecraft sit at every table.
continuous build window
crews on the floor
in mission prizes
live ground stations
CHALLENGE
TRACKS
CHOOSE YOUR ORBIT
GROUND SYSTEMS
Build the dish-side stack: scheduling passes, decoding downlinks, parsing telemetry frames, and surfacing it on a console operators actually trust.
SDR
CCSDS
TELEMETRY
ON-BOARD AUTONOMY
Flight software that thinks for itself. Fault detection, safe-mode logic, and edge inference that survives radiation, latency, and a one-shot uplink.
FDIR
RTOS
EDGE-ML
LINK & PROTOCOL
Squeeze the channel. Coding schemes, delay-tolerant networking, and protocols that hold a connection across a deep-space round trip measured in minutes.
DTN
FEC
LINK-BUDGET
MISSION
TIMELINE
TWO DAYS · ONE CONTINUOUS WINDOW
FRI · 14 NOV
SAT · 15 NOV
FLIGHT
CREW
MENTORS FROM OPERATING SPACECRAFT
DR. NOOR HAMADI
GROUND OPS · DSN-14
ELIAS KOVÁC
FLIGHT SOFTWARE LEAD
MAYA OKONKWO
RF / LINK ENGINEER
SAM REINHOLT
ORBIT DYNAMICS
ACCESS
PASSES
SECURE YOUR DOWNLINK SLOT
STANDARD ENTRY
STANDARD
$75
FREQUENTLY
ASKED
MISSION BRIEF · READ BEFORE UPLINK
Open a frequency with us.
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