Project:HackSat One

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Flux has pledged for a Kicksat satellite dev kit. It's due in May 2012.

First Steps

Get some MSP430 experience. Several people in the space have mentioned having boards.

We have at least 3 MSP430 devkits in the space, The toolchain is a bit icky tho, but I think we have enough incentive to fix that now.

The Hardware

We don't get to design the hardware on this mission, just program it.

  • controller: TI CC430, MSP430 core with a radio: http://www.ti.com/product/cc430f6137
  • sensors: temperature + one other TBC (KickSat are taking suggestions)
  • radio: we can transmit what and when we like (subject to solar power) but data rate is only a few bits per second

Experiment

Any ideas for what we can actually do with it once its in orbit?

Ground Station

We need one of these.

Resources

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