Autonomous Solar Powered Suborbital Satellite
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Authors
Shaer, Azza
Flourantin, Jeffery
Murthy, Venkatagiri Srinivas
Shagloof, Fahad
Pallis, Jani M.
Issue Date
2014-03-28
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
Keywords
Faculty research day , Engineering , Satellite
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Abstract
We are going to Launch an autonomous CanSat that consists of a container and a payload. The payload will deploy from the container and will gently descend and safely land one raw hen egg. CanSat will be launched in a rocket then deployed from it at an altitude of about 670 meters or higher. Upon deployment from rocket, container and payload shall descend at 12 meters per second using any passive descent control system. At an altitude of 500 meters, the payload shall be released from the container. Payload will free fall with a descent rate of 10 meters per second or less. Temperature and pressure data will be collected every second in each of the payload and container. Power must be harnessed from the environment. Thin sheets of solar cells will be used to harvest energy. A three-axis accelerometer will be used to measure the stability and angle of descent of the payload during descent. Data will be sent from the transmitter in bursts and retrieved at the ground station through a transceiver. All data will be displayed in real time and saved on a computer in the ground station.