Session
Technical Session VII: Student Scholarship Competition
Abstract
This paper describes the approach taken by the ION-F student team in designing a common Command and Data Handling (C&DH) subsystem for three different nanosatellites. It outlines the requirements of the satellites and reasons behind the decision to develop a custom board. The design is based upon industrial-grade components and centered on a Hitachi SuperH RISC Processor. The C&DH subsystem contains a 16 MB telemetry buffer, a digital and analog interface subsystem, and a DMA-oriented CMOS camera framebuffer. Students are fabricating these boards with the assistance of Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University. This design will be flown by three different satellites, which are all part of a single formation-flying mission.
Command and Data Handling Subsystem Design for the Ionospheric Observation Nanosatellite Formation (ION-F)
This paper describes the approach taken by the ION-F student team in designing a common Command and Data Handling (C&DH) subsystem for three different nanosatellites. It outlines the requirements of the satellites and reasons behind the decision to develop a custom board. The design is based upon industrial-grade components and centered on a Hitachi SuperH RISC Processor. The C&DH subsystem contains a 16 MB telemetry buffer, a digital and analog interface subsystem, and a DMA-oriented CMOS camera framebuffer. Students are fabricating these boards with the assistance of Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University. This design will be flown by three different satellites, which are all part of a single formation-flying mission.
