Pocket Mission ControlNicholas Phillips
Ashley Whetter
Will Colaluca
Giannis Kaoullas
Pakizat Masgutova
Dominic Moylett
Dr. Kirsten Cater
James Savage
Zahra Bozorgi
James Daniell
Francis Xavier Kwong
Fraser McQueen-Govan
Clau Octavian Soare
Michael Johnson - JA
Brief• Mobile App for interacting with personal
spacecraft• Background• Technical Challenges• Inspiring an open source, open access,
personal space age.
CubeSat, Chipsat, Thin-Film
• Low Cost
• 4kg CubeSat carries many smaller craft
• 10g ChipSats can have MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes
• <1g Thin-Film craft are a system on a chip
A Short History
• JA Launching KickSat in September 2013
• 2nd Year Undergraduate Group Project Oct 2012 – May 2013
Why this app?• Interactivity and control to users• Smartphones are the current big thing• Greater exposure for CubeSat projects• Generate public enthusiasm for open source
space• Easier for CubeSat projects to have an app• Answer many research based questions
System Architecture• Processing Data
• Sanitizes Data
• Harvesting Data• HTML Scraping• Data Formatting
http://rax.engin.umich.edu/wp-content/themes/twentyten/gs/gs_client_public.php
http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt
System Architecture• Harvesting Data
• HTML Scraping• Data Formatting
• Processing Data• Sanitizes Data
• Presenting Data (API)• RESTful Standards• Open to all
• Scalable and Flexible
The Mobile App
• - Android and iOS
• 3D Spacecraft Models
The Mobile App
• - Android and iOS
• 3D Spacecraft Models
• Time-lapse data graphing
• Customisable and dynamic
What Makes This Special?
• Useful for CubeSat projects
• Awesome features like Augmented Reality
• Open Source• Code Quality• Flexible• Open Source, Open Access Personal Space
Age
Future Work• Open Source in June
• It’s your project – take part!• [email protected]
• iCubeSat.org CubeSat Workshop• 28th - 29th May 2013
• Thanks to Dr. Kirsten Cater