1. A rapidly deployed modular telemetry system comprised of: at least one flight computer; at least one microcontroller; at least one FPGA component configured with CCSDS compliant software, said FPGA being operatively connected with said at least one microcontroller; at least one error-checking encoder component operatively connected with said microprocessor to perform at least one error-checking protocol; at least one flight computer interface operatively connected with said at least one FPGA and said at least one flight computer; at least one receiver deck; at least one transmitter deck; and at least one power source.