Date
Venue
HP Oak Room
Event Details
PhoneSat is a project investigating whether Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, and in particular a smartphone, can be used as the basis of a capable and ultra low-cost satellite. The Nexus One smartphone provides the core functionally of PhoneSat 1.0, which utilizes the phone’s integrated 1 GHz processor, 500 MB of RAM, 16 GB SD card, 5 Megapixel camera, 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis magnetometer, and the open-source Android operating system. In this talk we'll present results of three high-altitude balloon experiments conducted in the first half of 2011 as part of the test campaign to flight qualify PhoneSat 1.0. These tests served various functions, including testing the phone and accompanying hardware in the extreme environment of high altitude and low temperature, testing the operational capability of the onboard software, developing procedures and gaining experience with ground operations, and testing the UHF radio link over large distances. We'll also describe how we'll use a low-bandwidth radio coupled with a capabale computer to obtain high resolution imagery of the Earth.
Speaker Bio
Michael Safyan is an Aerospace Engineer on the PhoneSat project. He began his involvement with the project as an intern in 2010 and has since assumed the role of lead Communications Engineer. He earned his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at UCLA and his M.Sc. in Space Studies at the International Space University.
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