A picture of the cube sat
This week in my internship I have been running different tests on the flight batteries. These are the batteries that will be put onto the cube sat when it is sent into space. I have been charging and discharging these batteries in order to get data about both of these cycles. After I run each test, I put the data into a spreadsheet and create different graphs that show the relationships between things such as current vs voltage or voltage vs capacity. This next week I will be working with my mentor to create a charger that can charge and discharge two different battery packs at the same time. This will be very useful because the cube sat will be running off of two different battery packs instead of just one. At the moment I am doing tests on just one battery pack but after we build this new charger I will be testing both of the battery packs simultaneously.
The cube sat has still been encountering some errors, but most of the major errors have been corrected. The thermal vacuum testing is finished for the moment, and the cube sat will soon go into pressure testing, which simulates the amount of pressure that the cube sat will see during take off. The cube sat must pass this test in order to get onto the space shuttle.
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