arissat-1 arrl and tapr digital communications conference september 16, 2011
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ARISSat-1ARRL and TAPR
Digital Communications ConferenceSeptember 16, 2011
ARISS
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
• International Working Group• Europe, Japan, Canada, Russia, USA• Volunteers• http://www.rac.ca/ariss/
SuitSat-1
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuitSat• http://www.aj3u.com/blog/• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suit
SuitSat-2
• Improvements:– Solar Panels– Provision for up to four experiments– Cameras– Linear Transponder
• Work Began Spring 2007
Part of “The Crew”Over 50 people worked on SuitSat-2/ARISSat-1
Dayton HamventionMay 2009
ARISSat-1
• July 2009– Due to safety issues and space constraints, Orlan
suit #27 was placed into Progress vessel 33 and released from the ISS
• Begin work on space frame to house SuitSat-2 components
• Projects gets a new name: ARISSat
Block Diagram
Space Frame
Don’t Mock Me
Prototype
The “Stack”
The Stack
SDXSDX
IHUIHU
PSUPSU
ICBICB
DTMF DecoderDTMF Decoder
Assembly
Software Defined Transponder
Internal Housekeeping Unit
Power Supply Unit (PSU)
RF
Command Receiver
Solar Panels
• 6 High efficiency panels donated by NASA from SMEX project
• 19” x 10.5”
Solar Panels
Assembly
Solar Panel Covers
Solar Panel Covers
Solar Panel Simulator
Powering ARISSat-1
Solar Max Power Point Converters
MPPT Heatsink
Assembly
MPPT Test Fixture
MPPT Test Fixture
Orlon Suit Battery
Cameras
Cameras
Mirrors
SSTV Image
Control Panel
Control Panel
Antennas
Thermal-Vacuum Testing
Thermal-Vacuum Testing
Coming Together
Coming Together
Flight #1 Complete
Vibration Testing
Shipping
Crating
“Take me to your planet Houston”
Progress 41Launched January 28, 2011
On the ISS
DeploymentAugust 3, 2011
Uplink Antenna
Operations
Operations
• Linear Transponder– 70cm/2m U/V, Inverting
• FM– Voice Announcements– SSTV– Telemetry
• CW ID– Telemetry and Callsigns
• BPSK– Telemetry and Experiment Data
Telemetry Program
Telemetry Submissionsas of September 14, 2011
Over 100,000* telemetry frames received!
(* includes duplicates)From over 35 countrys
Telemetry Online
SSTV Gallery
YouTubeSearch “ARISSat”
Websites
• Official ARISSat-1 Website– www.arissat1.org
• Radio Amateur Satellite Corp.– www.amsat.org– http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/ARISSat/
ARISSatHowTo.php• ARISSat-1 Telemetry– http://www.arissattlm.org/
• SSTV Gallery– http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/SSTV/