The Sean Madden Memorial Space Program started off as a running joke by Derek Erdmann  while my successor as the Head of Mentoring at the Society of Software Engineers.  I ran with it.

What am I doing with it?  Teaching myself orbital mechanics mostly.  Endgame?  To live-track Earth satellites in real-time with mobile, embedded, and desktop applications along with satellite dish autoalignment.

Roadmap:

• Learn Orbital Mechanics
• Track Satellites in Real-Time
• Experiment and learn signals processing with the RTL-SDR project
• Determine how to auto-align a satellite dish based on the satellite tracking algorithms above.
• Use the dish and the signals processing bits to receive weather signals from satelllites.

Resources: SMMSP On OwnCloud

Get The Codes: SMMSP On GitHub