On-board data handling for cubesat using raspberry Pi
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Date
2018
Authors
Muhammad Hakiim Zainudin
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Outer space is such a mysterious place, full of questions, and we humans tend to seek for
the answers. That’s why human develop space exploration. From this development,
satellite was born. The development of satellite alone help human in many ways. Satellite
has become a device that very important to human in so many fields. Nowadays, satellite
has evolved, to smaller size, and cheaper in price. It is called CubeSat. A CubeSat is a
small cube with size of 1U which is 10cm x 10cm x 10 cm, and consist of power supply,
on-board controller, payload and transmitter. On-board data handling helps to control the
satellite automatically. It also helps a satellite to gather various data from payload and
collect information about the condition of the satellite. There’s a lot of data handling
being developed right now such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Basic-X24. Arduino and
Basic X-24 widely used in CubeSat on-board data handling but Raspberry Pi still in
development. Raspberry Pi hold a lot of potential to become one of the on-board data
handling for CubeSat. There’s only a few of CubeSat that contain Raspberry Pi that really
go to space such as Pi-Sat. Raspberry Pi can be said a lot more powerful in term of
processing power but has a few problems in the development to launch in space because
Raspberry Pi not generally build to go to space. Raspberry Pi always need a modification
to sustain harsh environment of space.