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CCSDS invites European amateur satellite operators, students, educators, and academic researchers to participate and to help advance open, interoperable space communication technologies. This invitation is issued with the support of ESA, in partnership with Goonhilly Earth Station, CCSDS, AMSAT-UK, and AMSAT-DL, as part of the CCSDS Outreach Initiative and Competition. The competition focuses on open, standards-based communications, with particular interest in: • Open-source reference implementations • Software-defined radios and protocol stacks • Ground and space communications experimentation To support open-source contributors and project teams, the project partners will organise: • 📅 Introductory Webinar: on 14th January 2026 – Technical scope, interfaces, and evaluation approach • 🧑‍💻 Prototype Hackathon: March 2026 at Goonhilly Earth Station, Cornwall, UK – A collaborative development sprint to accelerate working prototypes Further information on the initiative and competition is available here: 🔗 amsat-uk.org/2025/12/08/ccsd… Queries and an indication of your interest in participation may be directed to [email protected] Best regards, David Johnson, G4DPZ Hon Sec, AMSAt-UK Senior Software Engineer, Goonhilly Earth Station On behalf of ESA, Goonhilly Earth Station, CCSDS, AMSAT-UK, and AMSAT-DL

CCSDS Outreach Initiative and Competition for future cislunar amateur radio payload. @esa , in partnership with @goonhillyorg Earth Station, @CCSDS , @AmsatUK , and @amsatdl , are launching a competition to develop high-quality reference implementations of selected CCSDS protocols. amsat-dl.org/en/ccsds-outrea…