Learning Outcomes:
Indicative course content (to be further developed): Components and subsystems of a spacecraft (EduCube); Radio communications; signal encoding/decoding and protocols; ground stations; link budgets; Waterfall diagram; Doppler correction; data rates; VHF/UHF; S-band; on-board data handling; transceivers; basics of spacecraft operations; passes; uplink/downlink; pass planning; mission control software; gpredict; dashboards; data analysis; troubleshooting; safe mode recovery; interpreting house-keeping data. Practical aspects of spacecraft operations using EIRSAT-1 FlatSat and the spacecraft.