Transcript Jazzy Title - Victorian Space Science Education Centre

Introduction to the Project
PROJECT HORUS
Importance of Satellites to Australia
Remote Sensing for Agriculture
Effect of drought on wheat crops
in Western Australia
Weather Forecasting
Communications
Jabiru-2 communications
Satellite – late 2014
CubeSats compared to Satellites
Satellites
CubeSats
Can be big - size of bus
Small – cube 10cm on one side and usually
weighs about 1kg
Can be expensive
Mulit-millions to billions of
dollars for interplanetary
missions
Usually has its own rocket for
launching
NASA Aqua Satellite
4.81m x 16.70m x 8.04m, Launch mass
2,934kg
Made of off the shelf electronics
A full space launch of a CubeSat is about
$100,000, although space agencies do offer
free launches
Piggy-backs on a launch vehicle
1U CubeSat in space (10cm on side) Launch mass 1kg
High Altitude Balloons as Launch Vehicles
High altitude balloon launches can reach
heights of over 30km – a third of the way to
space and very much cheaper than a full space
launch!
Sometimes balloon launches can be used for unusual objects
Yoyo in space
Chair in Space!
And you can do this as well!
In this project you will fly your own CubeSat on a high
altitude balloon and take your own spectacular pictures!
CubeSat Project
Your brief is to design, develop and fly your CubeSat, using a high-altitude
balloon as your launch vehicle and undertake experiments that you will
design and analyse
You need to take into account:
Technical or engineering aspects such as
launch parameters and correct operation of
the payload
Scientific aspects – what useful
experiments/observations can be done
using the equipment available
Sometimes there is conflict between
technical and scientific aspects
Some Design Issues
GoPro camera can be aligned in a number of ways but
because of stacking of CubeSats only bottom CubeStat can
have camera pointing down – which direction other cameras
and why?
Memory card – how much data can be stored?
Matching GPS data with images
Plus others that you will find out about as you go through the design
process!