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1. By: PROSSATeam
“Space weather? That’s our mission!”
A.K.A. KNOWLEDGE
ARDUINO - KICKSAT -ARDUSAT

2. INTRODUCTION
• As researchers, we are constantly updating our ideas and our
projects.
• As part of our job we have been searching for new technologies
that can help us complete our mission: space weather research.
• In order to study the space weather we have searched for different
equipment and instruments that can provide important data to our
research. Some of these are: Arduino, KickSat and ArduSat

3. SPACE WEATHER?
It is the concept of changing environmental conditions in near-between sun and earth
space. It is the description of changes in the ambient plasma, magnetic fields, radiation,
and other matter in space caused by the sun.

4. ARDUINO

5. OUR WORK WITH ARDUINO
• We put to work the temperature
and humidity sensors.
• We create a graphic of the
humility data.

6. HUMIDITY SENSOR DATA

7. ARDUINO DATA TRANSFER
• EasyTransfer arduino-library
• Arduino Sending
• Arduino Receiving
• Serial Port
• TX Transfer pin
• RX Receiver pin

8. ARDUSAT

9. WHAT THE ARDUSAT WILL
USE TO WORK?
Some of the primary equipment onboard the
satellite will include Accelerometer, Gyroscope,
Camera, Geiger Counter, Infrared Thermometer,
Light Sensor, Magnetometer, Spectrometer, Sun
Sensors (Photodiodes) and Temperature Sensors.

10. WHY AN ARDUSAT?
• ArduSats are based on CubeSats, but CubeSats alone are still fairly
expensive—a few hundred grand. ArduSats are cheaper satellites and more
accessible that can be created by students or anyone interested in building a
satellite.

11. CAN WE USE AN ARDUSAT TO
STUDY SPACE WEATHER?
• Yes, the ardusat satellite has many sensors but the sensors that are used for
the ArduSat satellite depend on what are your expecting to analyze in your
investigation.
• Also some CubeSats have been send to study Space Weather, like the RAX
satellite and the RAX II.
• Since the ArduSat is a modificated CubeSat it can be modified to study the
Space Weather.

12. WHAT SENSORS WE CAN USE?
• Special Sensor Auroral Particle Sensor
• Special Sensor Ion & Electron Sensor
• Special Sensor Magnetometer
• Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager
• Special Sensor Ultra-violet Spectrographic Imager

13. KICKSAT

14. SPACECRAFT “SPRITE”

15. UPDATING OUR KICKSAT
KNOWLEDGE
“The project”
• When?
• Who’s idea?
• Who funded it?
• Why?
• The launch

16. • Antenas – is a V-shaped half wave dipole with a 50 ohm
impedance
• Microcontroler – is a Texas Instrument MSP430, which is an ultra-
low power 16-bit RISC mixed-signal microprocessors.
• Transceiver – is a UHF (437 MHz) transceiver capable of
transmitting at a maximum power of 10 milliwatts.
SPACECRAFT “SPRITE”
HARDWARE

17. SPACECRAFT “SPRITE”
HARDWARE
• Magnetometer and Gyroscope – Vector sensors. Combining
the information of both sensors, the sprite attitude determination
can be calculated.
• Solar Cells - TASC are made from the offcuts of larger square and
octagonal solar cells.

18. SPACECRAFT “SPRITE”
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Radio:
• Signals from Sprites are being received using a Yagi antenna
with an additional 23 decibels of attenuation between the
antenna and the LNA.
• Each Sprite is assigned a unique Gold Code
• The frequencies assigned to the KickSat mission.
• 437.240 MHz – Sprites
• 2.4 GHz – KickSat

19. SPACECRAFT “SPRITE”
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Ground Station:
• Individuals and groups are encouraged to have their own.
• Ground Stations will be based on GNU Radio
• FUNcube Dongle antennas can be used

20. SPACECRAFT “SPRITE”
SOFTWARE

21. IN-PROCESS/FUTURE WORK
• Installation and development of the different programming codes for each
satellite project
• Green House hardware design and creation
• PROSSATeam Network Pages updates
• Banner Printing
• ArduSat modifications for space weather research
• Arduino microcontrollers communication programming

22. WEB PROMOTION
• Gmail – prossat.nasa@gmail.com
• Facebook Page –
https://www.facebook.com/pages/PROSSATeam/207996689351464?ref=hl#
• Twitter Account – https://twitter.com/PROSSATeam
• Slide Share Page – http://www.slideshare.net/PROSSATeamNASA
• Tumblr. Blog – http://prossat.tumblr.com

23. TO BE CONTINUED…