Questions, comments and general chit-chat
Please use this thread to discuss anything that doesn't fit into any other category, from mission names to pub quizes.
View ArticleCubeSat Social
Looks like the CubeSat social is going to be the last friday of term - meet 15:45 at the departmental tea and then shuffle over to the old horse. Enough time to get warm for end-of-term night at the...
View ArticleMission Name
Right, time to start thinking about a name. Definitely some cool acronym me thinks, and borderline respectable: C.a.f.f.e.i.n.e. would be cool, while B.e.e.r. just isn't acceptable… ;-)
View ArticleADCS Specs
Have any of you guys worked out the pointing accuracy that we are getting out of magnetoresistors? And what's the torque we can get out of magnetorquers?
View ArticlePayload Specs
Have you worked out yet what the detectable flux is going to be? I make it something around 10.000 impacts on 2cm2 over 9 months, does that sound about right to you? What area can we sensibly use?...
View ArticleOBDH Specs
Have you put any thoughts into how to store recorded data? I know the CubeSat kit main board has an SD-card connector but Tim tells me that SD cards are extremely vulnerable to radiation and we'll...
View ArticleYou know SEDS are doing a cubesat, right?
It's a wiki, like ours. It's a bit confused, but they've done a lot of evaluation of components and suchlike, and it's a useful guide for people to talk to as well, as they're in much the same...
View ArticleThe MHX-2400 DP, Development Platform
This is qouted to cost (including shipping) $1,730 Canadian dollers or about ~850 GBP. Includes 2 MHX 2400 wireless radio modems 2 MHX 2400 Development Boards 2 MCX to RPTNC antenna cables 2 RPTNC 2.4...
View ArticleComs Supported by cubesat
The two companies that make compatible modems and transivers for cubesat are...
View ArticleAn Overview the CubeSat Kit
The contents of a CubeSat Kit (P/N 711-00227), CCW from bottom left: Solid-wall 10x10x10cm CubeSat Kit Flight Model with FM430 Flight Module inside, CubeSat Kit Development Board, USB cable,...
View ArticleCUBESAT COMMS MEETING NOTES 13/03/2007, 5.30pm – 7pm SRC
LED BY: Andy Thomas, Jon Heath (two experienced ham-radio operators) & Daniel Brandt (Uni. of Leicester) CUBESAT TEAM: Comms team: Joanne Askew, Neil Gray, Ryan Laird. Also present: David Acreman,...
View ArticleSystem Requirements for CubeSat Uplink/Downlink:
Microcontroller collects data from payload/satellite systems and converts to stream of 8-bit binary numbers - onboard data handling Modulator frequency modulates 8-bit binary numbers into something...
View ArticleCommunication bands
Radio Broadcast Bands Digital Satellite Radio 11.3260GHz – 12.3435GHz Short Wave Radio 3200kHz – 21840kHz Band II VHF Radio 87.7MHz – 107.9MHz Television Broadcast Bands 474MHz – 850MHz Utility Bands...
View ArticleHere's a damned useful list of documents
I couldn't think of a better place to put this, but the CalPoly university maintains a directory of information files that they think are useful for cubesat builders. It's here. Cheers.
View ArticleCubesat Name
http://www.celtnet.org.uk/gods_l/luned.html I was thinking of Leicester University Near Earth Detector LUNED after the Welsh Godess of Desire and good fortune.
View ArticleNew seperate OBDH section
Can we have a new OBDH section seperate from PSU? I would create it myself, but I'm new to this kind of wiki and I'm afraid I'd make a pigs ear of it. Pete
View ArticleList of cubesats, including subsystem overviews...
"This list is meant to give an overview over the success rate, mission and payloads, communication, attitude and orbit determination and control systems along with links to the various projects. Only...
View ArticlePower supply stats
Righto guys, I'm designing this sensor circuit and the accuracy will greatly depend on how 'clean' the power supply is. If the voltage is steady even under varying loads from the other subsystems then...
View ArticleCassini CDA
From previous post, after digging through the search engine, I have found this page http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/inst-cassini-cda-details.cfm#DA In summary The dust analyzer (DA) consists of...
View ArticleCubesat Developer's Workshop reports
Phil's log: Phildate: About thirty hours after we boarded the damn plane. We arrived more or less safely at the Super-8 at about one in the morning, local time. It's been a pretty rough journey to be...
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