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Introducing RockBLOCK

  • What's RockBLOCK?
  • RockBLOCK versions
  • About Iridium
    • About Short Burst Data (SBD)

Physical Specification

  • Photographs
  • Dimensions
  • Environmental specification
  • Mounting
  • Connectors / Wiring

Electrical and RF Specification

  • Power supply
  • Power Consumption Guidance
  • Serial interface
  • RF specification
  • Network Availability and Ring Alert pinouts

Using RockBLOCK

  • The RockBLOCK data cycle
  • Transmit ASCII data
  • Transmit binary data
  • Receive data
  • Ring Alerts
  • Messaging between RockBLOCKs
  • What's the time?
  • Checking the signal strength
  • Compressing your data
  • Adaptive Retry
  • Switching RockBLOCK 9603 antenna mode

RockBLOCK Web Services

  • Iridium contract costs
  • RockBLOCK Management System
  • Integration with your application
  • ThingSpeak

Help & FAQs

  • Further reading
  • FAQs
  • Asking for help

Academic Papers

  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
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2014

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The RockBLOCK was featured in the following academic papers/theses in 2014:

RasPiNET: decentralised communication and sensing platform with satellite connectivity

Author(s): Eiko Yoneki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2645672.2645691
Date: 2014

Lightweight avionics platform to access atmospheric environmental science

Author(s): Michael F. Bessant
URI: http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9198
Date: 10/2014

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