Documentation and source files for the CAD of the BIRDS5 satellite
Note
Source CAD file in Fusion 360 is too large (147MB) for github. A link to an external cloud storage platform will be added soon.
The Mission Statement of the Project is:
Build Uganda and Zimbabwe’s first satellite while improving the standardized bus system for future missions, giving continuity to the satellite development of Japan and previous missions from BIRDS-1,2,3 and 4.
The project is led by Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan and involves students from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Trinidad and Tobago, and Japan.
Satellite Names: Taka (Japan), ZIMSAT-1 (Zimbabwe) and PearlAfricaSat-1 (Uganda)
Stakeholders: Uganda Science, Technology and Innovation Office of the President, Zimbabwe National Geospatial And Space Agency (ZINGSA), and Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) for Japan.
Project duration: 2018-2022
CubeSat: 1U (10x10x10) cm3, 2U (10x10x20) cm3
Weight: 1.13kg
Launch Date: 21st November 2022
BIRDS-5 has 5 main missions in total; attitude visualisation, Imaging classification Mission (IMG-CLS) and Store & Forward (SF- WARD), Particle Instrument for Nano-satellite(PINO), APRS-Digipeater mission (APRS-DP)
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├── 1U Drawings
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│ ├── 10_1U_STD.pdf
│ ├── 12_1U_STD.pdf
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│ ├── 1_1U_STD.pdf
│ ├── 2_1U_STD.pdf
│ ├── 3_1U_STD.pdf
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│ ├── 5_1U_STD.pdf
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├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── Screw list.docx
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