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Testing Program For Kysat‐1, Jason Robert Bratcher
Testing Program For Kysat‐1, Jason Robert Bratcher
University of Kentucky Master's Theses
Years of success in the aerospace industry has taught Kentucky Space several lessons. This thesis will summarize the accomplishments in an attempt to formulate a well-defined program for designing and testing small spacecraft in an environment with strict financial restraints. The motivation for producing this well-defined platform for testing small spacecraft arose when Kentucky Space became the liaison between NASA and its customers for the NanoRacks and CubeLab module program. Having a solid program for testing small spacecraft will allow future student programs to easily set standards for experiment payloads. Also by discussing obstacles for smaller programs such as restraints …
A Novel Message Routing Layer For The Communication Management Of Distributed Embedded Systems, Darren Jacob Brown
A Novel Message Routing Layer For The Communication Management Of Distributed Embedded Systems, Darren Jacob Brown
University of Kentucky Master's Theses
Fault tolerant and distributed embedded systems are research areas that have the interest of such entities as NASA, the Department of Defense, and various other government agencies, corporations, and universities. Taking a system and designing it to work in the presence of faults is appealing to these entities as it inherently increases the reliability of the deployed system. There are a few different fault tolerant techniques that can be implemented in a system design to handle faults as they occur. One such technique is the reconfiguration of a portion of the system to a redundant resource. This is a difficult …