One of our students, Miguel Gallego, has just earned earned the STK Certificate.
STK (named Systems Tool Kit in the latest version, Satellite Tool Kit in earlier versions) is a powerful simulation software from Analytical Graphics, Inc. Here at the ETSI Telecomunicación we use it mainly for scenarios involving spacecraft mission design and communication link analysis but it has also many powerful features in the areas of aircraft, radar and UAV simulations. Systems Tool Kit is a very effective and visual tool to replicate the concepts learned during our degree. It can be also integrated with Matlab to do a post-processing analysis of the scenarios.
The STK Certificate is an online test supervised by AGI that evaluates your knowledge of the STK suite and over several additional analysis modules. It is a renowned certification in the space industry, it is also offered free of charge to our students.
We thank Analytical Graphics, Inc. for the academic licences and for the opportunity to undertake the STK Certification test.
Visita a la estación 16-11-2012
Ayer viernes realizamos una visita de la estación y de nuestra antena a un grupo de alumnos de primero interesados. Les explicamos en qué consiste el proyecto TelCUBE y las actividades que estamos organizando dentro de él. Siendo alumnos de primero es normal que todavía no se entendieran algunos tecnicismos, pero una cosa si abundaba, ¡la curiosidad!
¡Gracias a Diego Vilca por organizar la visita!
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Presentaciones COMM y ADCS
Acabamos de subir las últimas presentaciones:
A lo largo de estos días nos iremos comunicando con los distintos grupos de trabajo. También estamos trabajando en crear un grupo de Google con distintas secciones para que sea más fácil la coordinación y la colaboración en ficheros compartidos. Esperamos que esté en funcionamiento durante la semana que viene, ¡os iremos avisando!
- Presentación 15 de octubre del sistema de COMM y primeras tareas aquí .
- Presentación de sistema ADCS aquí .
A lo largo de estos días nos iremos comunicando con los distintos grupos de trabajo. También estamos trabajando en crear un grupo de Google con distintas secciones para que sea más fácil la coordinación y la colaboración en ficheros compartidos. Esperamos que esté en funcionamiento durante la semana que viene, ¡os iremos avisando!
Presentación tareas
Ya está subida la presentación de ayer: Presentación de tareas TelCUBE
Os recomendamos a todos que echéis un vistazo a los documentos de la bibliografía de las áreas que os interesen.
Os recomendamos a todos que echéis un vistazo a los documentos de la bibliografía de las áreas que os interesen.
Presentation uploaded
Thank you all for coming last thursday!
We have uploaded the presentations from last week for anyone interested or anybody who could not attend.
Here is the first one: Presentation 1: TelCUBE
And the second one, concerning our activities so far: Presentation 2: Activities
If you want to participate, even though we have a list of all the attendants to the presentation, we prefer you write us to telcube.join@gmail.com. Indicating what year you are on and (if you want) what area of the project are you most interested in (there is a lot to do in multiple areas: electronics, programming, antenna design, signal analysis, automatizing the ground station, etc).
And last but not least yesterday we finally made the webcam work (after having some problems bringing the power from the ground station all the way up to the roof). Now we can use it while we follow satellites to check out the movement of the antenna. The next step is to find out how to integrate it on the website for everyone to see (ideas on how to do this are welcome :) ).
We have uploaded the presentations from last week for anyone interested or anybody who could not attend.
Here is the first one: Presentation 1: TelCUBE
And the second one, concerning our activities so far: Presentation 2: Activities
If you want to participate, even though we have a list of all the attendants to the presentation, we prefer you write us to telcube.join@gmail.com. Indicating what year you are on and (if you want) what area of the project are you most interested in (there is a lot to do in multiple areas: electronics, programming, antenna design, signal analysis, automatizing the ground station, etc).
And last but not least yesterday we finally made the webcam work (after having some problems bringing the power from the ground station all the way up to the roof). Now we can use it while we follow satellites to check out the movement of the antenna. The next step is to find out how to integrate it on the website for everyone to see (ideas on how to do this are welcome :) ).
ISS Cubesats and TelCUBE Presentation
Today in
between 14:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC five new cubesats will be launched into orbit
from the International Space Station. Out those five cubesats, four will be emitting in amateur radio bands
(in VHF or UHF).
More information about the cubesats here: http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/2012/iss-amateur-radio-cubesats-to-deploy/
Ground stations around the world are being asked to try to
receive the telemetry during their operation.
At TelCUBE
we will be listening!
Interested in participating? Interested
in other space-tech activities we are working on? Check this link also (when it works... :) ): http://dat.etsit.upm.es/?q=node/14841
Come check us out next Wednesday (10th October) at
14:15 in the A-140!
Working on the ETSIT-UPM UHF/VHF ground station
As many of
you know, lately we have been busy installing a ground station at the
ETSIT-UPM. It is almost complete and we will continue in September tweaking it
so that it will be soon into full operation.
We also
want to thank Miguel Salas that helped us with a program of his own creation to
make measurements of the S parameters and the SWR.
We have
already received several beacons from different amateur satellites ( see for
example this youtube video). We also have
recorded another small video from the reception of the morse code beacon
emitted by the CO-57. A Cubesat launched in 2003!
After August
our work will focus on adjusting the software to our antenna so it is possible
to easily save sound files of the signals received and decode them.
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| Screenshot of Spectrum Lab as an example (we also are using MixW and Ham Radio Deluxe) |
The control
of the preamplifiers and the polarizers from the antenna is done by an arduino:
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| Polarizers (up) and amplifiers (down) |
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| One of the preliminary set ups |
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| One of the measurements made in VHF. |
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| Juan and Ramon enjoying the sun. |
Don't forget to follow us in Facebook and in Twitter. Also remember that everyone is welcome to participate in this project :).
Have a nice summer holiday and see you in September!
Have a nice summer holiday and see you in September!
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| Bye! |
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