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Payload Processing Aboard An Open Source Software Cubesat, Jon Sand, Kyle Goehner, Christoffer Korvald, Josh Berk, Jeremy Straub
Payload Processing Aboard An Open Source Software Cubesat, Jon Sand, Kyle Goehner, Christoffer Korvald, Josh Berk, Jeremy Straub
Jeremy Straub
The Open Prototype for Educational NanoSats (OPEN) is a system that focuses on reducing spacecraft mission costs. It provides a set of designs that is freely available to anyone online. The OpenOrbiter CubeSat provides designs to create a small satellite using economical materials available allowing a parts budget of under $5,000. One aspect of this design is CubeSat payload processing software. This is the process of taking a single image, or multiple images taken at the same time, and manipulate them. This manipulation an include compression, mosaicing, super resolution, or any combination thereof. The first step in this process is …
The Development Of Payload Software For A Small Spacecraft, Kyle Goehner, Christoffer Korvald, Jeremy Straub, Ronald Marsh
The Development Of Payload Software For A Small Spacecraft, Kyle Goehner, Christoffer Korvald, Jeremy Straub, Ronald Marsh
Jeremy Straub
The OpenOrbiter project is a multi-department effort to design and build a small spacecraft which will demonstrate the feasibility of the Open Prototype for Educational NanoSats (OPEN) framework. This framework will reduce cost of small spacecraft creation by providing design plans for free. The focus of the payload software group is to design and implement an onboard task processing and image processing service. Currently the project is in the development phase and most large design decisions have been made. This poster presents the major design decisions that have been made for the payload software and how they will affect the …
Sensor And Computing Resource Management For A Small Satellite, Abhilasha Bhatia, Kyle Goehner, John Sand, Jeremy Straub, Atif Mohammad, Christoffer Korvald
Sensor And Computing Resource Management For A Small Satellite, Abhilasha Bhatia, Kyle Goehner, John Sand, Jeremy Straub, Atif Mohammad, Christoffer Korvald
Jeremy Straub
A small satellite in a low-Earth orbit (e.g., approximately a 300 to 400 km altitude) has an orbital velocity in the range of 8.5 km/s and completes an orbit approximately every 90 minutes. For a satellite with minimal attitude control, this presents a significant challenge in obtaining multiple images of a target region. Presuming an inclination in the range of 50 to 65 degrees, a limited number of opportunities to image a given target or communicate with a given ground station are available, over the course of a 24-hour period. For imaging needs (where solar illumination is required), the number …