OreSat0.5

OreSat0.5 is an open source, student-designed 2U CubeSat being built by the Portland State Aerospace Society that is scheduled to deploy in low earth orbit in Q1 of 2024. Oresat0.5 is a technology demonstrator for the next OreSat mission and must demonstrate our attitude determination and control system (ADCS) and a prototype of our Cirrus Flux Camera (CFC)short wave infrared (SWIR) sensor. The purpose of this work was to continue development ofOreSat0.5 through four internships: Mechanical, Electrical, Software, and Firmware. Our mechanical engineering intern worked in OnShape CAD on designing and prototyping our two deployable antenna systems: the UHF (436 MHz) and L band (1.2 GHz) radio monopole antenna deployer and the S band (2.4 GHz) helical antenna deployer. Our electrical engineering intern worked on building the six solar modules required forOresat0.5, and preparing the inventory system for building the rest of the OreSat0.5 cards and boards. Our firmware engineering intern worked on adding features to the C3 (Command, Communication and Control) v6 card, and executing firmware development on ChibiOS using an STM32F439 microcontroller. Our software engineering intern worked on integrating and extending the capabilities of the coreOreSat0.5 communications infrastructure, including the Java-based “Yamcs” ground station software and on-board Python-based flight software. Software was moved to Docker containers to follow industry best practices, increase deployment confidence, and reduce the complexity of managing multiple environments.