SatDump is a popular program used to receive and decode images and other data from various weather satellites. SatDump works great RTL-SDR Blog dongles and with our Discovery Dish, an easy-to-use dish and feed for receiving L-band and other weather satellites. Recently SatDump version 1.2.1 was released, which brings several new features including:
- Meteor-M Calibration – Temperatures and radiances are now available from the Meteor-M infrared channels, including enhancements like Cloud Top IR.
- Archive Loader & EUMETSAT Archives (and EUMETCAST) Support: Metop, Meteosat, Sentinel-3 and more! – Users can now open data from the EUMETSAT archives in SatDump.
- Windows ARM64 Support – One of the few SDR programs that has Windows ARM64 support.
- JUICE Support – JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) is an ESA probe tasked to study three of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, namely Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. During a recent Earth slingshot it was possible to receive.
- AIRS and CERES Support – Hyperspectral sounder and radiation budget instruments on the Aqua satellite
- Arctic Weather Satellite Support – AWS is a weather satellite recently launched in July 2024 with 1707 MHz downlink and similar parameters to METOP, so it should be accessible to many.
- IASI (imaging channel) Calibration – Calibration for the hyperspectral sounder onboard METOP satellites.
- GOES-R L2 Product Support – Pre-processed models from NOAA that include Rain Rate per Quarter Hour, Land Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, and more.
- GOME Fixes – True Color for METOP satellites.
- Miscellaneous AVHRR and MHS Fixes – Calibration stripes and other strangeness is less likely to occur even with a bad signal.
- Miscellaneous Composites – Many new composites are available.
- Automatic Filename Templating – Customizable filename templates
- More Quality-of-Life Features – Various tools and warnings added
- RFNM Support – Support for the new RFNM SDR
- Library Directory Fixes on Linux – Fixes SatDump on Gentoo and OpenSUSE among others.
- Advanced Mode – Lets you change all TLE settings, composite configs, default pipeline settings, and more
- Themes – Various new themes added
- More Satellites Support – Initial support for XMM-Newton, VERONIKA and ACE
- Experimental Windows XP Support – A special version of SatDump now runs on Windows XP SP3.
- Various Bug Fixes
