Slow-Scan TV from the International Space Station (ISS) was on the air again late in December 2019. The ISS SSTV event was in memory of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
Receiving SSTV Images From the ISS
We had our satellite station running to track the ISS and capture the SSTV images during the event.
There were quite a few good ISS passes over our area during the event and we were able to capture some nice images.
The video above shows the reception of an SSTV image from the ISS. The images are transmitted on the 2m band using a standard SSTV format. We use a program called MMSSTV to decode the transmissions and display the images.
It’s pretty easy to receive these images – it can be done with an HT, hand-held antenna, and a laptop. The video above shows how to receive an image from the ISS this way. You can read more about what’s involved in setting up equipment and software to receive and decode these images here.
Image Gallery
We had fun receiving the SSTV event images. The gallery above contains all of the images that we received as part of the event. For future events, keep an eye on the ARISS SSTV Blog.