The last couple of weeks have mainly consisted of paperwork here at Fossa Systems, for a specific reason though! We are very proud to announce that our FOSSASAT-1 satellite request has been submitted to the International Amateur Radio Union and the International Telecommunications Union and is finally in process. This will be the first Spanish...
Today we have a pretty exciting update, quite a bit of thing have happened since last week mostly regarding the outreach of the project. I had the opportunity to give a brief presentation about the FOSSASAT-1 project at the Open source CubeSat Workshop in the European Space Astronomy Center in Madrid last week. This was an...
We are back with a new update! Richard had been hard working on the website and as you can probably tell it has had a major update, hopefully this will make it easier to navigate the different aspects of the website. Last weekend we presented our FossaSat-1 project at the IberRadio 2018 Spanish Radio Amateur conference,...
Hello Everyone! Today we have a major hardware development and administrative leap to share! The beacon system has been tested and all of its functions work as intended, the MPPT board has also been assembled and testing is underway, so it works exactly as designed based on our current stage of testing. Thanks to this...
Hello! Very good news, the satellite’s beacon system – that manages system information and the main communication transceiver – has reached version 1. It can transmit using LoRa modulation, FSK modulation and also supports the RTTY protocol using AFSK modulation.
Development is really coming along at the moment. Julian is hard at work engineering the hardware with Chris and Richard is working on the Ground Station control panel. The deployable solar panel design is completed and the hinges are soon to be manufactured by a to be an announced CNC company based in China! We’re...
The solar panel structure of the satellite has arrived and is partially assembled, the milling of aluminium brackets is still underway but we are satisfied with the current state of the structure. We are still waiting to receive the electronic components to start testing the custom MPPT & Beacon PCB’s that have also arrived.
software review We have ran our first software review which was very positive and the code was almost bulletproof C, we have still got a few more in-depth reviews to go through and also using the JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Lab) standard as a baseline for our software quality. Hardware prototype with deployment system Here’s...
Hello, We have been working hard since the last post and have some great news! Julian has ordered prototype PCBs for the Atmegas and the MPPT board is in development as we speak. Richard has implemented some automatic tuning for the ground station to connect to the satellite and is documenting all the code using...
Beacon system ALPHA PCB DESIGN The first version of the beacon PCB has been completed and will soon be sent for manufacturing after some slight tweaks, it is a very simple board with basic watchdog functionality, a transmitter, an Atmega 328P AU and some basic voltage and current sensors. The design will be stack-able with...
