Rowen Warren, Cubesat Tracker, Temporary End.
Our Sat Tracker is still not fully functioning. We ran into too many technical problems by the time school started back up, and while I would have looked forward to seeing this project through to the end, I was happy with our result for the stage of the project. This is the beginning of the […]
Rowen Warren, Cubesat Tracker, Satellite Tracking.
This will be a shorter update focusing less on “what could be” and more on what we will do. You can look in Nate Ives’ blog post to see more about the construction of the tracker. I want to go over satellite tracking a little in this post. For any satellite in low earth […]
Rowen Warren Cubesat Tracker, Project Intro
The main focus of this project is to create an arm that tracks satellites to receive radio signals from them. There are two Facets to this project, the Mechanical Arm that uses rotors to point an antenna at a passing satellite, and the RF area of radio reception and signal processing. Those are the requirements, […]
Nate Ives, Cubesat Tracker 3
Nearing the deadline for finishing the project, the start of school, we’re starting to get a bit worried because we have all of the components set up inside the box but a few of the computer chips wont work with each other so we have been troubleshooting that for a bit. We even got in […]
Nate Ives, Cubesat Tracker 2
In the middle of the project we thought we had a solid design and ordered some of the parts of the satellite tracker of which most showed up on time but a few were delayed for a while. Our time working is mostly spent running from the post office to Ace to get our parts […]
Nate Ives, Cubesat Tracker 1
Over the summer, Rhys, Rowen, and we’re building an autonomous satellite tracker. It essentially follows satellites through the air tracking their orbit to be able to transmit and receive data. The satellites we will be tracking will mostly be university satellites and weather satellites and attempt to get data from them. For our project we […]
