- Satellite bus
- –Hope to decide and send out a contract this week
- –Best candidate so far: NanoAvionics Ltd.
- Open issues: SDR and ADCS and TT&C
- Communication
- 1.Communications in satellite bus
- Frequency license
- Possible issues to have SDR in the same misión
- Workshop with NKOM in August?
- 2.Ground station
- Meeting last Tuesday
- Working on requirements
- Communication architecture on wiki (overview first – then requirements)
- SDR mission
- Mission statements & objectives
- Will share with rest of group soon
- Processing
- No update
- Quick-start guide for cameras on GDrive
- Camera control
- No updates until F-18
- •Testing
- Flight test: hopefully by the end of July (V6). No gimbal for the first test foreseen.
- Difficult to send stuff to Svalbard, the camera has not been delivered yet. UPS doesn’t deliver to Svalbard.
- Backup: use V4
- Tank test: met with Aksel+Geir last week. Planning for August. Lots of data to learn more about it!
- Lakes with bloom data? Send ideas to Elizabeth
- Flight test: hopefully by the end of July (V6). No gimbal for the first test foreseen.
From Mariusz:
- Working on MAR
- Trade studies on orbit studies (varying RAAN vs. semi-major axis vs. inclination) in STK Analyzer
- Each simulation takes about 2.5 hrs, so need patience here
- Determining access times to targets (Froya, Svalbard, Barents, Monterey Bay, Baltic, Azores)
- Optimization study/parametric study
- Contingency analysis on orbits
- Detailed description of mission phases for each pass where sat is imaging/operational
- Takes much more work than I predicted. But needs to be done properly. One person doing this will take time..
- Working on multi-objective optimization formulation for remote sensing problems (publication material) with NASA folks. Useful for future missions too. Intend to make an open source tool.
- Working on slew maneuver formulation and controller design.
- V4 cameras to be picked up today (they were at my home on Monday 2nd July but did not call me on beforehand or when they were at my door). Will probably keep them for a week or two before sending them to Raphe and Ajit.