Wireless sensor payload design for sounding rocket

Sachin Shetty, Min Song, Robert Ash, Ersin Ancel, Kenneth Bone

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Abstract

A quick turnaround Sub-Orbital Student Experiment Module (SubSEM) sounding rocket experiment has been designed and built to initiate the Old Dominion University wireless spacecraft bus project for the Mid Atlantic Institute for Space and Technology. The sounding rocket was launched on the 7th of June 2006 from NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. This wireless sounding rocket experiment is the first step directed toward replacing wired data interfaces with their corresponding wireless counterparts for low-cost access to space. The sounding rocket experiment is designed to achieve the twin objectives: Wireless sensor network data acquisition on board the payload and Radio Frequency (RF) environmental characterization in the Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) frequency domain. The wireless sensor data collected on board provided us valuable information needed to simulate the RF environment that will exist in future space flights.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication22nd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 2007, CATA 2007
Pages295-300
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2007
Event22nd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 2007, CATA 2007 - Honolulu, HI, United States
Duration: 28 Mar 200730 Mar 2007

Publication series

Name22nd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 2007, CATA 2007

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 2007, CATA 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu, HI
Period28/03/0730/03/07

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