This is a superb (overdue!) initiative… getting motivated people involved in defining and demonstrating the future of space communications in an open-source, collaborative/competitive, lots-to-learn hands-on way. Trust me: once you’ve hand-calculated a checksum and put it on a hand-crafted packet, you’ll never want to do it again. Learn how operations software does it for real.

Reading standards is hard work – even knowing where to start with some of them is a multi-day challenge. Instead, help implement reference models for some of the newest protocols – fill gaps that will address service coordination, extend the internet into the solar system, simplify and secure spacecraft operations and communications, and establish some of the baselines for the next wave of lunar/cislunar/asteroid exploration.

Deets for the peeps about the bleeps:
https://esa-competition.amsat-uk.org/about

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