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Cubesat Electronic Power System, Benjamin Lynch, Callie Wallace Jun 2014

Cubesat Electronic Power System, Benjamin Lynch, Callie Wallace

Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Theses

Cube Satellites are small satellites used by NASA and other non-governmental space companies as a cost-effective means to get a payload into space to perform research and develop new technologies. The Robotic Systems Lab at Santa Clara University has designed and launched several Cube Satellites over the last ten years. We will be continuing the design of a 3U CubeSat began by a senior design team last year. The goal of this project is to design and build an electronic power system (EPS) for the CubeSat. The EPS must be able to power all system components, including the communication board, …