and this flow add both: transmitter and satellites to each observation.
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It is a pitty that the satellite image is not always available. That would make the dashboard awesome.
This project seems really nice. I feel tempted to build my own ground station. If I can use a discone antena that is lying around then it is missing only to find a RTL SDR dongle.