Open Source CubeSat Workshop 2020

Session

Room #2

12 Dec 2020, 14:15

Conveners

Room #2: Talks

• Artur Scholz (LibreCube Initiative)
• Nikoletta Triantafyllopoulou (Libre Space Foundation)

Room #2: Discussion/Tutorial

• Fernando Martin

Room #2: Talks

• Manthos Papamatthaiou
• Eleftherios Kosmas (Libre Space Foundation)

Room #2: Discussion/Tutorial

• Eleftherios Kosmas (Libre Space Foundation)

31. An Open Source Implementation of the ECSS PUS Services in Rust

12/12/2020, 14:15

talk

We will present an ongoing project of software development for ECSS PUS-C services in the new robust and fast programming language [Rust][1]$[1]$. [Vision Space Technologies][2]$[2]$ started this open-source project called [Prust][3]$[3]$. The standard ECSS-E-70-41C$[4]$ is a packet utilization standard (PUS), defining the packet structure and a set of standard services. Its recent iteration...

2. r2cloud - how to build distributed ground station network alone

12/12/2020, 14:35

talk

In this talk I would like to give an overview of how I built [r2cloud][1] and [r2server][2] - distributed ground station network. I will cover the key design and organizational decisions that worked and didn't.

The key topics are:

• Why open source and what it would mean from organizational point of view.
• Key design and technologies that help running r2cloud alone.
• Why it is...

14. Cronos sounding rocket

12/12/2020, 14:55

talk

Cronos is a hybrid-fueled sounding rocket engineered by the student team White Noise in close collaboration with and under the auspices of Libre Space Foundation. It is a project designed and manufactured in an open and participatory manner.
Cronos is designed to lift 4kg of deployable, payload mass, housed right below the airframe’s nose cone. Its paraffin wax and nitrous oxide hybrid...

19. Charting the development of the Open Source Space Ecosystem

12/12/2020, 15:15

talk

Having witnessed the impact that an Open Source approach has made in many segments of the software industry, numerous teams around the world are embracing the Open Source philosophy to implement systems throughout all segments of the space industry and adjacent sectors.
Open Source Space systems have the potential to change paradigms about how space missions should be implemented; to...

18. OLLO - A 3U Open Access astronomical telescope mission

12/12/2020, 15:35

talk

Open Little Luminary Observatory - OLLO is a small orbital telescope system concept aimed to provide an open access platform for astronomical observations. OLLO’s mission is to create an open, interactive tool allowing everyone to access and request images of astronomical objects, such as planets, nebulae or star clusters. This concept aims to bring astronomy and science closer to the public....

23. Python Implementation of CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP)

12/12/2020, 16:45

tutorial

CFDP is the CCSDS File Delivery Protocol, which is similar to FTP but designed for application in space communication, mainly spacecraft to ground communication and vice-versa. CFDP is a CCSDS standard and has been published many years ago but has not yet been used widely in space. Upcoming missions, like ESA's Euclid and JUICE missions will make heavy use of CFDP.

Also, CFDP plays a...

24. Standardization of CubeSat PC/104 Connector

12/12/2020, 17:15

discussion

The so-called PC/104 connector is present at almost any CubeSat board. It derives from the PC/104 standard, which uses a stacked configuration of boards that use this connector to route power and data through dedicated pins. There is, as the name suggests, a total number of 104 pins that can be used.

This connector was likely first used by Pumpkin, one of the earliest CubeSat vendors, but...

26. MetaSat: Metadata for SmallSat Missions

13/12/2020, 14:10

talk

The variety of SmallSat missions range from from high school science education programs to interplanetary communication support, and the ways people document their missions are as diverse as the missions themselves. To improve information sharing between missions and across systems, librarians at the Center for Astrophysics together with staff from the Libre Space Foundation have worked to...

17. Nanospace, an open source tool to help concurrent engineering teaming in cubesat preliminary design

13/12/2020, 14:30

talk

Designing a cubesat requires close interrelation between different fields, with respectively strong level of expertise, all the more so as development progresses.

Nanospace is a tool designed to ease interaction between expert tools and a graph database. It is not a heavy client application, but a web oriented one. The front-end, Nanospace-UI, an Angular GUI, is accessible through a...

11. An Open-Source on-board computer platfom for CubeSats

13/12/2020, 14:50

talk

We will present an ongoing project of hardware development for CubeSat applications. [Vision Space Technologies][1] has been working on this project known as [VST104][2] since mid 2020. Our goal was to design and open-source a small family of hardware boards in the PC104 format. The effort was aimed to onboard computers (OBCs) and their development & testing auxiliaries. At the moment, a...

37. Doppler Based Orbit Determination with Optimization

13/12/2020, 15:10

talk

Space Situational Awareness (SSA) is becoming more and more important as the number of satellites is increasing. The body of knowledge for SSA relies on the tracking data to determine the orbit of artificial objects in Earth orbit. Determining orbit is basically obtaining the state vector, that is the position and velocity vectors, or equivalently obtaining the classical orbital elements at a...

13. QUBIK Twins: The unplanned mission of an unbuilt satellite to be integrated into a deployer that does not exist

13/12/2020, 15:30

talk

[Qubik 1 and Qubik 2][2], are 2 PocketQube open-source satellites, designed, developed, integrated and delivered together with a PocketQube deployer ([PICOBUS][3]) to be flown as part of to participate in the [DREAM Payloads Program][4] of the inaugural launch of Firefly Alpha rocket.

The Qubik twins are tasked to perform Launch and Early Operations Phase (LEOP) Satellite Identification...

4. Restful Data Storage and Visualization

13/12/2020, 16:45

tutorial

For operation of a satellite mission (and other projects) it is a very common need to store and display large amounts of data. We can group such data in two categories: planning data and timeseries data. Planning data typically consists of records that contain time ranges and ancillary information (such as for booking of groundstation contact times), where as timeseries data is composed of...