The Next Gen Avionics SURP focused on getting System Board II, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab’s next generation avionics board, up to speed. The topics focused on during this project were systems engineering, computer science, and electrical engineering.
CubeSats have become popular in academia and the aerospace industry for educational, technology demonstration, and scientific missions. Cal Poly CubeSat Laboratory is working to expand this with the creation of the Interplanetary Spacecraft Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployer, or ISP-POD. This deployer functions as a carrier, supporting CubeSats on their interplanetary journeys and deploying them into space when the time comes. With these tasks, comes the challenge of managing the extremes of the interplanetary thermal environment. We endeavored to research and understand the thermal environment and its effect to enable the design of a thermal system capable of protecting the ISP-POD and its CubeSat payloads.
SiMPI is a simple and easy way to do linear algebra math calculations with multiprocessing on clusters.
Thermals are regions of rising hot air formed on the ground through the warming of the surface by the sun. In this project we train an algorithm to automatically predict the location of a thermal to allow for longer and environmental friendly flights
