Last Tuesday the technical development of the mur.sat began with an kick-off meeting. The goal of the meeting was to define workpackages and, in order to satisfy rule 37 of Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design, find workpackage leaders.
After a brief introduction to the people involved and the project itself we made ourselves familiar with the basic design goals we want to meet and which constraints we have. For now we split the project into the following workpackages:
- Testenvironment – test equipment and scenarios
Team: Ernesto Rico-Schmidt (leader), Takashi Linzbichler - Satellite Base Infrastracture – powermanagement, mechanical design, thermal design
Team: Christain Pointner (leader), Bernhard Tittelbach, Takashi Linzbichler - Communication
- radio (satellite – groundstations) – layer 1-2, link budget, antenna design, modulation, etc.
Team: Patrick Strasser (leader), Bernhard Tittelbach - Logical Protocol – higher layers of communication (satellite – space center)
Team: Bernhard Tittelbach (leader), Erik Unger, Patrick Strasser, Christian Pointner
- radio (satellite – groundstations) – layer 1-2, link budget, antenna design, modulation, etc.
- Satellite OS – Basic Operating System, Interface to payload applications
Team: Takashi Linzbichler (leader), Christoph Holas, Bernhard Tittelbach, Christian Pointner - Balloon – legal issues and planing of a balloon launch for testing the hardware
Team: Christoph Holas (leader), Reni Hofmüller - Weblog – blog about new and intresting stuff
Team: Christain Pointner (leader), all other package leaders
Thats it for now. We surely will have some more packages in the future but this list should be enough to get started. We are also looking for people who are interested in the project and would like to be part of the team. Just write an e-mail to sat@mur.at if you are interested.