The MSU Cube Sat Program

 

ABSTRACT

The Electronic Engineer Faculty of Buenos Aires University in currently cooperating with Universidad Tecnologica Nacional and the Argentine amateur satellite community in a full scale development of a new cubesat initiative . Know as the MSU-1 (micro satelite universitario), program, the project’s goal is to produce student engineered satellite capable.

 

ObjetivEs OF THE MISSION

Figure 1 – MSU-01 Orbit Configuration (boom, solar panels and antennas deployed)

 

STRUCTURE

 

 

 

CONFIGURATION

 

ON BOARD CONTROL SUBSYSTEM

Terminal node controller (TNC)

 

Telemetry

Variables sampled:

 

Deploy and Command Unit

 

COMUNICATION SUBSYSTEM

AFSK Transmitter

 

 

Fig.3 Transmitter module

FSK Transmitter module is divided as:

Low power Colppits oscillator, mixer and frequency multiplier amplifier stages.

Power Stage Class C amplifier.

Antennas System

Two monopoles of metallic strip of (/4, one for the transmitter and another for the receiver.

Receiver

Constructed with CI at frequency of 145.990 MHz.

Power Subsystem

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