One dish, one satellite, one log.

Nobody had openly decoded this Russian satellite's space-weather beacon. We did.

Read down to the byte, the electrons and protons it counts in orbit, matched to the official published data. Not weather from space. Weather of space.

The first one we caught ourselves

The L2 decode read someone else's recording. Elektro-L5 we received on our own dish, decoded twice over on independent chains, and read through to the instruments inside: both particle detectors' own energy-sweep spectra, off our own antenna.

A signal that moved

A Chinese weather satellite quietly changed its downlink, so the public tools no longer lock it. We measured the new waveform from scratch and proved the decoder on a reference recording. The wall now is signal strength: the 60 cm dish is too small to pull the image.

Full disks, and a hidden chart channel

The Korean downlink gives the live full-disk timelapse, and on the same signal a second channel of the weather service's own charts that almost nobody saves. We pulled out 13 of them and the daily broadcast plan.