Open Source CubeSat Workshop 2025

Session

Poster Tea Time

25 Oct 2025, 11:30

Serafio of the Municipality of Athens

26. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ESP32-BASED ON-BOARD-COMPUTER FOR A 1U CUBESAT EDUCATIONAL PROTOTYPE

Mr aristo davino (Gadjah Mada University)

Poster

The growing need for hands-on space technology education demands affordable,
easily accessible learning kits that let students build and test core satellite subsystems.
Existing CubeSat kits such as HeptaSat, KitSat, and OpenOrbiter are costly, imported,
and lack local support, limiting adoption in Indonesia. This research addresses that gap by
designing and partially implementing a...

10. Multi-Functional Optical Ground Station Testbed and Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator

Manfred Niehus (Physics Department ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa)

Poster

This contribution presents the development of an experimental testbed and hardware-in-the-loop simulator for a multi-functional optical ground station (OGS) being established in Portugal. The system is centered around a 43 cm Planewave CDK17 telescope mounted on an L500 Alt-Az platform, enhanced with a Planewave Series 5 focuser and a custom-designed optical breadboard integrated at the...

19. On-Board Computer for a 1U CubeSat (AEGIS SAT-01) Towards Debris Free Missions

Prof. Manfred Niehus (Polytechnic of Lisbon)

Poster

This work describes the hardware and software design and implementation for a 1U CubeSat satellite on-board computer. The primary goal was to create an embedded system capable of coordinating tasks, collecting data from various sensors, and managing communication with ground station, all within the tight energy and memory constraints of a small and cheap low-power microcontroller in...

4. Open-Source Multi-Domain CubeSat Architecture for Search and Rescue

Ernest Adjei (Erasmus Mundus Masters Student in IoT Cybersecurity)

Poster

CubeSats are increasingly used as low-cost communication relays, but their convergence with drones, trail-side environmental IoT sensors, and ground control stations creates new challenges in security, resilience, and interoperability. Search and Rescue (SAR) missions provide a compelling case where these systems must interoperate under constrained and adversarial conditions. Rapid...

25. Space Based Precipitation Measurement with a CubeSAT

Varun Dwarakanath (Assistant Professor)

Poster

Precipitation measurement is necessary to study the rainfall patterns and predict the rainfall and storms. There are multiple ground based radars that perform this functionality. CSU-CHILL is one such example where ground based radars are used precipitation measurement. Maintenance of these radars are difficult and expensive. The proposal is to now use CubeSAT and develop a doppler Radar as...