Satellite payload designed by students only
In the first quarter of 2023– for the centennial of its Amateur Radio Club – the Budapest University of Economics and Engineering is going to launch its next satellite, the MRC-100. A generous offer was given to several other universities to place their payload on the MRC-100. The University of Szeged also received this offer, and besides the payload of academic researchers, a student group has also been presented with the opportunity to build their own module.
The group of Ferenc Móra Collage for Advanced Studies accepted the challenge with pleasure! Despite the short deadline, the student team successfully developed a design, and thanks to Eurocircuits’ sponsorship, the circuit was realized. We would like to take the chance to thank them for their generous support.
The Ferenc Móra Collage for Advanced Studies and Dormitory has been organising talent care programs for fifty years. For many years now, we have been organising our Interdisciplinary Conferences, giving a public platform for the lectures of internationally and nationally recognised guests and holding our iconic wine tastings. The students of this dormitory voluntarily do additional research and classes besides their curriculum, we have approximately four courses each day organised by enthusiastic students. Since the spring semester of 2021, radio communication and electrical courses have been organised. In 2022 an SSTV reception from the ISS wasn’t far from the participants, they enjoyed it greatly!
This year, on the last day of September, a unique offer was given for the students to create their payload for the MRC-100 satellite. We have accepted the opportunity with great pleasure. Immediately we began brainstorming about the experiments the card should do with the participation of Physics and Engineering students. Finally, the primary experiment was designed to be a noise measurement of the ADC controller. The question is if the noise on the AD samples in the used STM microcontroller is dependent on the radiance of space. Measures will be done at different parts of the trajectory.
The secondary experiment is the jitter measurement of the other modules. The common bus will let us listen and measure the bit rate of the other modules. As a result, we expect to see whether the timing is as important and sensitive point of the design as we see it now.
Our third experiment is about our local culture. In this mode of operation, the satellite will transmit our local student sayings and quotes to show the diversity of our community.
Our fourth experiment simply measures the magnetic field through the PCB. We expect to see the magnetic exposure of our module.
Our fifth and final experiment is a simple temperature sensor, so we will see the temperature of the module.
For further information, visit our website. (Unfortunately in Hungarian language only, please use Google Translator or equivalent)
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