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$50SAT - MO76
Eagle2
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21st November 2013, 07:11. Dombarovsky air base
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Howie DeFelice AB2S Systems Engineer in commercial VSAT
Michael Kirkhart KD8QBA Electronics engineer, hardware hacker, amateur radio operator
Stuart Robinson – GW7HPW Computer Network Support
Professor Robert Twiggs Professor of Space Science
The Team
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The PocketQube Concept
Pioneered by Professor Twiggs
Smaller satellites, lower launch costs
Based on 50mm cube format
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The PocketQube Concept
Simple to build
Bring the construction within the remit
of schools and colleges
Off the shelf commercial components
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What's a PICAXE?
PICAXE – based on PIC micro controller
Easy to understand
Easy to program
On board firmware
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Morse Beacon
Low power
Minimum Requirements
Report on battery and charge
Can be turned off remotely
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Would other radios fit in a 50mm cube?
Direct modulation mode
Packet handler
Frequency agile
Minimum distance required - 600kM
100mW FSK 1-2kM range
RFM22B
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Caerphilly to Machen – 8km
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Cardiff to Mendips
40km
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Uplink Budget Calculation
I estimate the threshold level to receive consistent packets to be about 18 dBm TX power for the 40 Km link.The estimated signal strength at the receive end of the 40Km link would be -99 dBm. The typical BER performance for an FSK demodulator for a BER of 10E-6 is about 15 dB Eb/N0, which should be roughly equivalent to S/N. Assuming that this is the case, that would make our estimated sensitivity or Minimum Discernible Signal, MDS) -99dBm - 15 dB = -114 dBm. That's about 7 dB below spec, but the data still had some assumptions involved. Given the circumstances of the test the only conclusion I would make is that things are probably pretty close to optimum. The one piece of missing information is RFM22 noise figure. For a space application this is the most important factor in evaluating link performance because it adds directly to the MDS: MDS = -174(dBm/Hz) + 10 Log BW (Hz) + NF (the BW here refers to the pre-detection bandwidth, 15 KHz for a typical FM receiver) Making the assumption of a 15 KHz bandwith and backing into the previously assumed MDS of -114 dBm would give us a NF of 18 dB. However, we need to remember that this testing was done with the antenna as the signal source so this NF number includes the NF of the antenna, in this case an almost isotropic source. With that in mind, the 18 dB number is reasonable and is useful when evaluating the in orbit performance of the receiver. Using a system noise figure of 18 dB and a required S/N of 15 dB, I recalculated the required uplink power at about 5 deg elevation and overhead. At 5 deg elevation, a slant range of about 2600 Km, you would need an EIRP of 55 dBm, or 36W into a 10 dBi beam. At 90 deg elevation (overhead) you need an EIRP of 28 dBm or less than a watt into an omni. Based on this, I think we have a viable communications link over most of the pass.
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Uplink Budget Calculation
in Summary
At 5 deg elevation, a slant range of about
2600 Km, you would need an EIRP of 55
dBm, or 36W into a 10 dBi beam.
Based on this, we have a viable communications link over most of the pass.
At 90 deg elevation (overhead) you need an
EIRP of 28 dBm or less than a watt into an omni.
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Design of $50SAT
Do the minimum to prove the concept
Watchdog and latch up protection
RFM22B
PICAXE 40X2
40mm boards
Philosophy – you can’t add simple
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$50SAT Clean Room Facility
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Development Model
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Prototype PCBs
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Current monitor
4 sets of TASC solar cells
Construction of $50SAT
4 x LTC3105 MPPT and charger board
Solar power
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Battery
and
RFM22
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Monitoring & Reporting
EEPROM corruption
Flash corruption test
Voltages
Currents
Detect the RFM22B 'smart' restart issue
SEU RAM check
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Communications
FSK RTTY
1Kbps data telemetry
Fast Morse data – 120WPM
Encoded the charge and battery volts
Morse callsigns – 5
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The Flight Model Build
Michael Kirkhart
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Command Uplink
Meanwhile.....
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Software errors, despite all the testing !
Pointing the solar panels at the Sun !
Spin fading ?
Battery – well not really
What we got wrong
Time below 0C – much longer than expected
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Open source and public
FSK RTTY
Digital telemetry – viable satellite comms
Kept it simple
Amount of testing
It Worked !
What we got right
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Professor Twiggs
Finally - Thanks to:
Morehead University
GAUSS Group - University Roma
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Chantal Cappelletti, Universidade de Brasília
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NEXT ?