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 have decided to replicate a tracker that Elwood Downey had already created.
The plan for our tracker was to get a tripod that holds a box containing the computer chips and data for the tracker in its base with the antenna on top. The antenna would be mounted on two gears that rotate both horizontally and vertically so that it can actively follow the satellite across the sky. Some things we would like to add onto the design later on were things like a waterproof aspect could be useful, but aren’t sure if this is really the smartest idea since there is so much precious technology that we wouldn’t want to risk messing up.
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