I am Dwi Cahyono, I am very interested in this MSc programme at UDE [University of
Duisburg Essen], actually for my major (electrical telecommunication engineering) and my research now, that is about nanosatellite technology and I am focusing in Remote Sensing Payload (RSPL) and communication, transmission that is the spearhead of our research team in my satellite research laboratory in Telkom Institute of Technology right now. Fortuitously, I am the leader of that laboratory. And every day I have to manage this team well. So I need a lot of knowledges to share and give it to all of my member team. So I would like to learn all about the satellite technology, communication technology, embedded technology and all the space technology for supporting me to develop my research laboratory. This is a very good chance to grab it all I hope. So I hope it can be my best experience to bail out the knowledges and share it between me and your affiliation of MSc programme in UDE. I am sure it can be a powerful goal to make a good culture in Electrical Telecommunication and Space technology as a satellite vehicle. As long as know that Germany is one of brief country in technology, and the culture and also the environment that suitable with my passion as an Indonesian people. The strategic position of the country for learning both the academic and cultures. Now, I have finished my final project (assignment) also about nanosatellite, focusing in On-Board Data Handling of Remote Sensing Payload. So I hope I can share it and get the knowledges from this programme in UDE. It will be an amazing exchange knowledges I think. And also I am doing my project research about the S-Band ground station in my campus to support the nanosatellite that still I built with my team. As long as we know that these topics, both Satellite and its Ground Station is a symbol of telecommunication engineering. So I would like to bring it strongly with my passion in this field in the future. Now, I also join to the INSPIRE (Indonesian Nano-Satellite Platform Initiative for Research & Education) that as a consortium to study and discuss and also do the research to develop nanosatellite (minisatellite technology). And this is my big chance to involve in a national project and also institutional project that build my autonomy, confidence and skills. In the end of my college, I have given a appreciation and this is the first time that I could huge my honor from my Rector because of the charter of the outstanding graduate from my faculty. That was an amazing moment, and I have to responsible of that. So, it is very close relation between my current study, research and this program. I hope I can join to this program fully. - I have decided to take one part/ subsystem in a small satellite topic as my thesis in my Master, because it is inline with my research in Bachelor degree, that is nanosatellite system. And here is the hypothetical thesis that I will do. The IT Telkom Satellite Society (ISS) Research Laboratory at Institut Teknologi Telkom, Bandung has been developing and building an Remote Sensing Payload nanosatellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) since 2009. The first nanosatellite that is still in designing and developing is ITT-Sat-1, and according to the ISSs roadmap it will be launched in 2015. And it is also Indonesians first nanosatellite that built by student. The ISS Research Laboratory (ISSRL) was established to handle as a facility where the ITT-Sat 1 could be designed and develop and also for continuing the satellite and ground segment research. Currently post graduate and lecturers engineers at Institut Teknolog Telkom are developing nanosatellite focusing on Remote Sensing Payload application. This nanosatellite missions have advantage that can be an earth observasion science and education as well. ITT-Sat-1 consist of several subsystems and one of them is Remote Sensing Payload (RSPL) subsystem. It consists of Camera modul, On-Board Data Handling/ Control Data Handling, Memory, and Transmitter modul. Designing a new, small dimension and low power camera payload system for the nanosatellite fits perfectly into the scenario.
- And this is the summary of my abstract thesis in Bachelor degree. The electronics and materials technology over the past decade provide new breakthroughs in the development of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) field one is on satellite technology. Currently ,satellite has been getting development in miniaturizing dimension and components to the level of 1 kg weight. Nanosatellite is a class of satellites less than 10 kg in weight. One of the component subsystems that are in remote sensing payload nanosatellite which is contained within OBC (On-Board Computer) and in the application called OBDH (On Board Data Handling). The presence of the platform OBDH nanosatellite payload subsystem is very important, because to serve the flow of data from the camera and the transmitter. In this project, it will be designed and realized OBDH-based on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). Because FPGA has many advantages over commonly used conventional microcontroller. In the development of space technology implementation for FPGA resistant to radiation effects in a parallel mechanism in the internal system that is ideal for future space applications, higher computational capability, low power consumption, small hardware size, and many others. FPGA-based OBDH in this thesis are designed to set the process and control bits data input from the camera to the SDRAM and to the transmitter output from the SDRAM to be sent to the Ground Segment. Components are required as input the output information in the form of camera payload TCM8240MD, internal SDRAM FPGA board. Communication used between the camera and FPGA with I2C bus protocol (Inter-IC). This FPGA will be encoded in VHDL language. Software used in a VHDL design is WebPack XILINX ISE, ModelSim, XSTOOLs Utilities. The execution and realization was be conducted in the supporters laboratory such as Digital Techniques and Microprocessor and Interfacing Laboratory. FPGA used is a Xilinx Spartan-200A XuLA with a maximum operating frequency of 384 MHz because of its small dimension and low power consumption, and digital camera 1.3 Megapixels TCM 8240MD with the OBDH dimension is 7.5 x 8.4 x 2.5 cm an 3 and the power is 513.178 mWatt and the mass total is 51.75 gram. Going forward, the algorithm is programmed with VHDL language will be generated into the ASIC to strengthen and make it solid logic gates in the VHDL language in future space technology.