Open Source CubeSat Workshop 2020

Session

Room #1

12 Dec 2020, 14:15

Conveners

Room #1: Talks

• Manthos Papamatthaiou
• Red Boumghar (Libre Space Foundation)

Room #1: Lightning Talks

• Artur Scholz (LibreCube Initiative)
• Red Boumghar (Libre Space Foundation)

Room #1: Discussion/Tutorial

• Eleftherios Kosmas (Libre Space Foundation)

Room #1: Talks

• Pierros Papadeas (Libre Space Foundation)
• Artur Scholz (LibreCube Initiative)

Room #1: Lightning Talks

• Red Boumghar (Libre Space Foundation)
• Manthos Papamatthaiou

Room #1: Discussion/Tutorial

• Red Boumghar (Libre Space Foundation)

15. SatNOGS - State of the Union

12/12/2020, 14:15

talk

An overview of the SatNOGS project, a network of satellite ground stations around the world, optimized for modularity, built from readily available and affordable tools and resources.

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite launches rate increases with the participation of old and new entities. In this growing environment SatNOGS provides a scalable and modular solution to track, receive telemetry,...

16. DOCKS – An open-source software suite for space mission profiles

12/12/2020, 14:35

talk

The growing pace of the NewSpace has resulted in a significant rise in space missions, and consequently, a need for mission profile tools. Though many tools already exist in the market, either they are not capable of doing the complete mission profile or have high costs, which make them unsuitable for many. To overcome this gap, an open-source software suite targeting scientific nanosatellite...

30. OpenSatCom: Open Source development methodology models for satellite communications

12/12/2020, 14:55

talk

[OpenSatCom][1] is a [European Space Agency][2] activity implemented by [Libre Space Foundation][3] in collaboration with Inno3 aiming to assess the relevance of open-source methodology models for the satellite communications sector, where such models can provide benefits and how can the European Space Agency contribute to assist relevant existing or new open-source projects.

A major output...

20. Progress and Developments in Open Source Electric Propulsion at Applied Ion Systems

12/12/2020, 15:15

talk

The state-of-the-art in the field of open source space technologies has continued to progress rapidly in recent years. While significant advances have been made, there are several key areas where accessibility remains a challenge. One of these critical areas requiring further focus on in the open space hardware area is that of propulsion, which still remains prohibitively expensive for most...

40. AcubeSAT, a 3U CubeSat to probe gene expression in LEO: technical & programmatic updates

12/12/2020, 15:35

talk

AcubeSAT is a 3U CubeSat designed to perform a biological experiment, probing the dynamic regulation of gene expression of eukaryotic cells in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), utilizing advances in Synthetic Biology and MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems). Besides potential experimental readout, our goal is to demonstrate that the payload design can be utilized for a variety of applications,...

5. Power Conditioning and Distribution Unit for 1U CubeSat

12/12/2020, 16:10

lightning talk

The Power Conditioning and Distribution Unit (PCDU) as an essential part of a Electrical Power System (EPS) of each satellite. It's purpose is to regulate the power coming from solar panels and to manage batteries in order to supply constant power as needed to the satellite electronics.

We have embarked in developing an open source PCDU to be used in 1U (single unit) CubeSats (or larger),...

10. 'New comer' ground station challenge : demodulate data

12/12/2020, 16:14

lightning talk

The NewSpace era has seen the rise of various new actors, especially in the field of telecommunications. For example, the SatNOGS network ([SatNOGS website][1]) allows people from around the world to receive data from CubeSat missions with their own ground station, as an open source project.

In this context, the CCERES team (Paris Observatory) is a 'new comer': we operate a ground station...

29. Design, Fabrication, and Measurement of On-Board UHF Turnstile Antennas with Optimized Radiation Patterns

12/12/2020, 16:18

lightning talk

In this study, on-board UHF turnstile antenna systems for CubeSat applications are designed in a simulation and optimization environment in order to obtain different radiation requirements. A turnstile antenna is a configuration with four monopoles that are placed circularly with successive $90^\circ$ phase differences between them. The preference of turnstile structures in CubeSat systems is...

7. Code in Space

12/12/2020, 16:22

lightning talk

Code in Space is an international opportunity where students from around the world can submit proposals to upload their code to a nanosatellite orbiting the Earth. The code will be executed by the satellite’s onboard computer and will be tested under real space environment conditions. The code executions test results will be transmitted back to Earth via a satellite ground...

22. Manchester CubeSat Research Group

12/12/2020, 16:26

lightning talk

University students have little to no experience in real life satellite design. The Manchester CubeSat Research Group helps educate and upskill space enthusiasts’ students from different fields of study. Currently we are designing a bus intended for a mission range of 200 to 400 km, 50° to 90° inclination, circular orbit, 3U CubeSat with sufficient power and link budget to accommodate various...

36. SunrIde a Student Venture to Democratise Access to Space

12/12/2020, 16:30

lightning talk

SunrIde is the Sheffield University Nova Rocket Innovative Design Engineering project. Fundamentally we aim to allow students and in future the broader public to experience and access near space environments and gain the skills and trainings necessary to pave the way for a revival of the UK space industry. Established in 2017 SunrIde engineers have been working tirelessly to expand and...

35. How to contribute to open source

12/12/2020, 16:45

tutorial

In this tutorial we will give a brief introduction of how most free & open source projects are developed these days, we will summarize the differences between GitLab and GitHub (arguably the two most popular platforms to host source code nowadays) and make a git walk-through to make our first contribution to a (dummy) project.

Attendees will not need to have anything installed, just a...

34. Goodbye TLEs, hello OMMs!

13/12/2020, 14:10

talk

Tired of squinting at punched cards to find out the orbit of your satellite? Fear no more! Two-Line Element sets, most widely known as TLEs, are coming to and end, and a not-so-new format, OMMs, is set to have a huge relevance in the coming future. But what tools do you have at your disposal to deal with this format? And is it really a format, or a family of them? As part of the OpenSatCom...

32. What the hell was that?

13/12/2020, 14:30

talk

Sending a satellite to space is easier than ever before. Cubesats are relatively inexpensive but at the same time they are capable enough to track ships, watch for earthquakes, or even observe exoplanets. "Ease of launch" does not mean "ease of operation", though; the satellites send a wealth of telemetry back to earth, and turning that flood of information into action is difficult. This...

9. Orbit.M - An Open-Source Software for LEO Orbit Maintenance in Python

13/12/2020, 14:50

talk

What is Orbit.M?

Orbit maintenance analysis tends to be rather rigorous with commercial software like STK, or tedious if you have to develop your own simulator in code. Orbit.M offers to the OSCW audience an open-source, graphical, easy-to-use,...

28. A Dual-Redundant CubeSat Flight Computer Based on Raspberry Pi

13/12/2020, 15:10

talk

The DualPi Flight Computer is a low-cost CubeSat on-board computer design based around a redundant pair of Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 devices, for fault-tolerant operation in warm-to-hot redundant modes. This OBC design is the outcome of a long-running project developed at the Surrey Space Centre by undergraduate Electronic Engineering students from the University of Surrey. The design...

25. Library Space Technology Network

13/12/2020, 15:30

talk

Since May 2019, librarians at the Center for Astrophysics together with staff from the Libre Space Foundation have been piloting a new initiative called the Library Space Technology Network (LSTN). The aim of LSTN is to broaden access to space technologies through a network of public libraries who have agreed to install SatNOGS-powered ground stations on their roofs, and engage their...

12. Phoenix - An open source orbital cloud infrastructure

13/12/2020, 16:10

lightning talk

Phoenix is a project launched last October as part of the Federation initiative.

The Phoenix project aims to design, build and put into orbit the first bricks of an orbital cloud (a shared IT infrastructure in orbit). This cloud will be based on a decentralized and modular architecture.

Any organization on a global scale could contribute to its deployment by incrementally adding...

8. Portable QO-100 Software Defined Ground Station

13/12/2020, 16:14

lightning talk

I would like to talk about my ongoing project "Portable QO-100 Software Defined Ground Station" which is being documented in "https://github.com/barisdinc/QO100-Partable"
The main idea is :
- As cheap as possible
- As small as possible
- As open as possible
- PORTABLE

Based on Arduino Nano uSDX as SDR TRX as IF transceiver at 50MHz, it has dual receivers to have lock to beacons...

21. The OpenSource in Space Podcast

13/12/2020, 16:18

lightning talk

Open-source projects are great but discovering new projects is not that easy and keeping up-to-date with existing projects on a deeper level takes time and often a founded understanding of the project is necessary since these teams lag dedicated PR departments.
But what if a central hub would exist where the makers themselves could explain their ideas and thoughts and - even more convenient -...

27. Mechanical design for space applications using open source tools

13/12/2020, 16:22

lightning talk

During 2019 and the longest year ever recorded, Libre Space Foundation designed, built and delivered for launch 2 picosatellites named Qubik 1 and 2, and a picosatellite deployer named PICOBUS. Is open source CAD/FEA/CAM software mature enough to give answers in real world problems? This is the story behind the mechanical design, FEA analysis and construction of space hardware while chasing...

33. Pico Fluid Dynamic Actuators in CubeSats

13/12/2020, 16:26

lightning talk

As CubeSat capabilities continue to expand as the number of missions increase each year, the Attitude Determination and Control or (ADCS) subsystem is a major hurdle for CubeSat developers to undertake. The ADCS subsystem commonly contains actuators that are used to change the attitude of a CubeSat by means of reaction wheels. This proposal aims to present the use of alternate novel pico Fluid...

3. SDNx DebriSat: Detecting Milli Space Debris In the Low Earth Orbit

13/12/2020, 16:30

lightning talk

About half a century’s space programs have littered the Earth’s orbit with more than 22,000 man-made objects of a size larger than a softball and hundreds of thousands of tiny fragments. This increasing number of space unused debris are causing serious threats to the present and future outer space activities, in area of both government (military, intelligence, and civil) and...

6. Demo on writing/loading/installing/executing your code on OPS-SAT

13/12/2020, 16:45

tutorial

OPS-SAT is a mission that runs a system on module with ARM-9 processors and an FPGA (Cyclone 5) coding environment. The ARM has a Linux Ångström distribution with Python3, Java, C++, and C available. On top of that ESA is providing a framework that experimenters can use to deploy on-board experiments in a App-like way. All this is available for experimenters to use for free until Nov 2021 and...