Updated schedule for HYPSO in detail incl. schedule showing critical events (PDR, CDR, EM and FM arrival)
Org. structure discussion
Status and schedule of ground station design/implementation/test — fundamental question is….when will we have a GS in TRD up and running?
Charting of schedule for all ‘critical’ folks from now till Dec 2019 — time off/holidays etc — this is important to plan ahead for things we know, so we can deal with things we don't
Status of plans for (undergrad + Masters) student recruitment to launch/checkout/test/operate s/c
How to have more faculty engagement (besides TAJ) in all meetings where critical issues are discussed
Check on plans for academic work for Evelyn, Mariusz, Elizabeth, Alberto — how/when/where in the light of a very tight next year for launch prep (see item #4 above in particular)
Status of recruiting non-critical folks (e.g. development of web pages, helping setup ground station networking etc) for HYPSO
Status of Fortuna/IdleTechs and a schedule by when they will depart from all s/c activities
Next Friday: visit from Christian Hauglie-Hanssen (new director of NSC) + Frank Udnæs and others
Strategic discussion on micro-satellites in Norway
TAJ has already asked for 500 MNOK for infrastructure application - deadline 10 October (writing in September). Martin Ludvigsen is lead.
Spaceport Trondheim preliminary dates 5-9 September 2019
SDR Mission
The frequencies that are we want for the SDR mission are not the same as the ones that are on the satellite.
NKOM might care
We can use a GPU if things are like this.
Power budget?
The power budget is not a problem because the power available is much bigger than anticipated
And we would run these operations in the off-season of the algal bloom
Does the switching work between the radios as expected?
Mission objectives:
Set up a radio link between the satellite and autonous vehicle - establishing the network
Plus multi-user schemes for arctic nodes with Arctic ABC
Schedule
We can see what hardware fits within the satellite bus
Will now test and see which hardware is suitable to the mission
Plan schedule next week (20th-24th of August)
Open items:
Antenna switching
NKOM allowance
The radio in the first mission will be different from the second mission
There is a risk of adding a second payload to the satellite, but there will be decision gates where the maturities of the payloads will be assessed and then decided
We have a mission redundancy by having two payloads
PDR: research goals and requirements for SDR plus conops
Ground station
The lead time is quite long for the companies who are not GOMSpace
Need to look at Kongsberg SpaceTec too
Will need more formal quotations in the next iterations after we rule out some of the companies
The satellite will be in space in end of next year
The ground station should be here next summer - so we have half a year to work with it
Open access of ground stations - SatNogs
Gives us possibility to use other people's ground stations
Can the satellite be hijacked? Is there a risk?
We need to get an overview of the infrastructure needed for ground operations
Both the ground station itself
And supporting blocks
Communication where internet is the end point
The less changes we do with the infrastructure at NTNU the easier it is to keep the permissions we have
Will recruit a new set of people for Fall-19/Spring-20 to work on it
Holidays
Should be able to organize the schedule and people around the holidays
Recruitment
Will not focus on recruiting more people to the project now
Will focus on creating content to publish on the NTNU web page
If people volunteer to do something, they can go ahead
Idletechs
Agree that the collaboration hasn't been optimal
No parts have gotten what they expected or wanted
Too little follow up
Wanted to get help on how their software could be useful for the smallsat and help us implement it
Did not happen
Both Idletechs and we are quite unhappy about it
They are looking at how we can work together
Specific deliverables and resources
Will look into how the money can be reallocated as well with NSC
We are not dependent on them and their contribution
Roles
How to ensure faculty engagement or not
The team has not been fully engaged the past year/or a good enough team
Working on how to do this better this year - to become a team and work together and find the passion and ownership we need to execute the project
The faculty should act as advisors, need to make this possible
ADCS
Critical to have enough momentum on this
Need more simulations and testing
Look into what people and resources can support Mariusz on this