Beta
ManageSearchChatDiscover
246364

Proposed OBC Prototype for CubeSat

Article

Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

OverviewSimilar Items

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

The Cube Satellite (CubeSat) is an ideal solution to gain access to space in terms of budget and integration time for research and experimental science payloads. The On-Board Computer (OBC) is considered to be the main subsystem of the CubeSat among others. It manages all the tasks taking place within the satellite. Its main function is to interpret the orders from Earth, treat and return the results. This paper surveys a previously developed CubeSat OBCs with focus on the characteristics of the embedded system used in the design and implementation phases. Then, it presents the design, development and implementation process of a prototype OBC hardware and software for CubeSat. The proposed software architecture is implemented as a prototype on one of STMicroelectronics boards. The choice of this development board was highly motivated by the mission of the CubeSat. Finally, a series of tests are successfully conducted to evaluate the proposed architecture.

DOI

10.21608/iugrc.2021.246364

Keywords

CubeSat, OBC, OBC Hardware, OBC Software

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abdalrahman

MiddleName

Elazab

Affiliation

Department of Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

mohamed.elazab080@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Fikry

MiddleName

Ehab

Affiliation

Department of Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

ahmedfikry059@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Nasr Eldeen

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

sirghandy@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Sherif

Last Name

Hussein

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

s.hussein@mtc.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Elshafey

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

m.shafey@mtc.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

5

Article Issue

5

Related Issue

34928

Issue Date

2021-08-01

Receive Date

2022-06-27

Publish Date

2021-08-01

Page Start

316

Page End

322

Article File

IUGRC_Volume 5_Issue 5_Pages 316-322.pdf

PDF . 1.2MB

Link

https://iugrc.journals.ekb.eg/article_246364.html

Detail API

https://iugrc.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=246364

Order

246,364

Type

Original Article

Type Code

762

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

The International Undergraduate Research Conference

Publication Link

https://iugrc.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Proposed OBC Prototype for CubeSat

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023