DIY Instruments for Amateur Space: Inventing Utility for Your Spacecraft Once It Achieves Orbit

DIY Instruments for Amateur Space: Inventing Utility for Your Spacecraft Once It Achieves Orbit, 9781449310646 (1449310648), Maker Media, Inc, 2013

What can you measure and what are your limits when orbiting in space? Learn about what physical quantities you can measure and how to design and parameterize your sensor loadout. Learn to go beyond just flying a camera and optimize your mission goals. Explore what you can play with using your own personal satellite.

Build a sensor, and you’ll own a slice of the universe. Were we to describe or define a state-of-the-art sensor for a picosatellite, you could probably find a weblink to a team already launching something way cooler. Instead of listing specific gear, then, we’ll work out how you can design your own sensor loadout. Knowing how to do this will future-proof your work and let you keep advancing the picosatellite field.

That doesn’t mean we won’t take a peek at some of the way cool sensors available currently. We’ll also look at the protocols for wiring up sensors, covering I2C, TTL, Serial, and SPI; analog and digital; and a host of other concerns.

We’ll examine the types of remote sensing possible and the bandwidth required. In this book, we’ll also look at mechanical structures and technology efforts that CubeSats can explore.

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