Session
Poster Session 3
Location
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Abstract
The CubeSat standard has become one of the most popular frameworks for co-curricular and extracurricular student satellite projects, yet its integration into formal curricula for space systems engineering remains limited.
Accessibility concerns:
- Students encountering satellite design for the first time face a learning curve when working with flight-representative hardware.
- Time constraints of undergraduate semesters limit the technical depth covered in a single course.
- Existing educational platforms often lack subsystem flexibility and fidelity needed to deliver an authentic systems engineering experience.
Presented is the 831Sat, a custom single board platform that provides core satellite subsystems:
- Central Processing Unit
- Electrical Power System
- Inertial Measurement Unit
- Radio
- Solar Power Input
- Actuators
- Thermal Management
- I/O and Power Bus Expansion
The 831Sat aims to make introducing rigorous, hands-on space systems engineering education more accessible and more closely aligned with authentic industry practice.
Document Type
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831Sat: A CubeSat Subsystem Platform for Space Systems Development Education
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
The CubeSat standard has become one of the most popular frameworks for co-curricular and extracurricular student satellite projects, yet its integration into formal curricula for space systems engineering remains limited.
Accessibility concerns:
- Students encountering satellite design for the first time face a learning curve when working with flight-representative hardware.
- Time constraints of undergraduate semesters limit the technical depth covered in a single course.
- Existing educational platforms often lack subsystem flexibility and fidelity needed to deliver an authentic systems engineering experience.
Presented is the 831Sat, a custom single board platform that provides core satellite subsystems:
- Central Processing Unit
- Electrical Power System
- Inertial Measurement Unit
- Radio
- Solar Power Input
- Actuators
- Thermal Management
- I/O and Power Bus Expansion
The 831Sat aims to make introducing rigorous, hands-on space systems engineering education more accessible and more closely aligned with authentic industry practice.
