It’s been nearly 3 months since our last development update and we are pleased to come back with great exciting news! Make sure to follow us @FossaSys for daily updates on our development and advances! Satellite Development and Testing Since our last update, the satellite has undergone extensive testing in a wide range of...
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Latest information on our progress towards launching the picosatellite FOSSASAT-1.
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,...
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...
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...
Beacon system ALPHA prototype Arduino code for the Beacon System has been written and integrated with the hardware. This is a big step forward in testing because it allows for testing on a workbench. If you are developing software for Arduino but don’t have access to hardware use this simulator https://www.tinkercad.com/