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Wes M. Watson
9.7cm
Solar cell
Acknowledgements:
Dr. Garrett Jernigan - Project adviser
Dr. Lynn Cominsky - SSU faculty adviser
Ben Cunningham & Hunter Mills - Debugging help
i3 AppBoard microcontroller
5cm
Abstract: Students at SSU have been working on small satellites known as CubeSats for several years , and we
intend to launch another by January. In anticipation of designing its power system - the most common failure
2
point for CubeSats - I spent the spring semester studying and analyzing electronic components, simulating
charge cycles, and getting familiar with the microcontroller and Logo language it will employ.
Generic equation:
Specific equation:
Voltage: v/V
Further information:
1. T-LogoQube: http://universe.sonoma.edu/T-LogoQube/
2. The First One Hundred CubeSats: A Statistical Look
Swartwout, M. (2013): JoSS, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 213-233
NiCad batteries