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- How many people have wanted to work on something that went into space? – Everybody
- How many people have actually done that? – about a dozen
- How about if every kid could answer “tes” to that question
- Cubesats – Small standard way to luanch tidy stats – 10cm cubes
- ArduSat – Kickstart – June 2012
- Feb 2013 – Revises design of board
- Mar 2013 – New design built
- June 2013 – Hardware integrated and built – ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X
- 3 Cubesats Launched to ISS include the 2 ArduSat’s
- Need to upgrade/update Experiments in flight
- Browser based updates
- Code sent via Internet to california, run on duplicate of satellite
- Transmitted to satellite
- Distributed to one of the nodes
- CubeSat System bus
- Supervisor node controls smaller nodes
- Stores stuff on Sd card
- Allocates experiment to node, powers up the node
- sends it via “serial port” to node
- Supervisor controls Power and reset and serial for each node
- node thinks it is just a stand-alone off the shelf Ardino
- Satellite
- 4-6 month life
- 12-15 experiments
- If allocated in 1 week blocks we can sell those for $300 each
- So much backlog and interest is plan to launch 30 ArduSats/year for next 5 years
- Make Satellite available
- Flyable version costs approx $50k
- Replace flying modules with open-source parts
- TODO
- Release of designs without attracting the lack helicopters
- Flight computer design
- Terrestrial sensor suite design
- Development of education material
- Wait there is more…
- Water powered cube-sat
- 5kg total mass, 2.5kg of water propellant
- On kickstarter
