- Trevor Morse (Computer Science)
- Peter Fetros (Computer Engineering)
- Tysen Buster (Mechanical Engineering)
- Hanna Salian (Computer Science)
- Byron Bowles (Mechanical Engineering)
- Melissa Dow (Electrical Engineering)
NASA Ames has a long-standing partnership with the University of Idaho, particularly in their senior design projects. This repo contains work from the 2017-2018 project, entitled "Advanced Communications System for Suborbital Flight."
The project goals were three-fold:
- Integrate an Iridium 9523 into the communications system.
- Prototype a Zigbee mesh network for the communications system.
- Adapt a model of a Tube Deployed Re-Entry Vehicle for housing and safely returning the communications system.
This project is an app designed for running on ArchLinux on a Raspberry Pi. It handles serial communications between the Pi, an Iridium 9523 (in an NAL A3LA-RS), and a GPS receiver (GlobalSat BU-353S4). See the project's README for more info.
This program is designed to run as a client server setup on the Raspberry Pi and a server. The server is running an instance on Amazon’s AWS EC2 service running Apache.
This is a standalone program that focuses on sending and recieving data through the main UART on the Raspberry Pi in order to communicate with the Xbee module. See the project's README for more info.
The following people and organizations provided support for this project:
- NASA Ames
- Marc Murbach
- Austin Tanner
- Jon Wheless
- ISGC
- University of Idaho
- Dr. Feng Li