project-structure

This repo is purely for discussing and planning the whole project’s structure - what will communicate with what and how, how software will be organised, etc - whole “schema”

Contributing

All discusion and changes will be done through Pull Requests and Issues - commiting directly to master is officially illegal here

_{Inserting emojis into every single header is also required, and not respecting that will be punished 🔪}

Table of Contents

• Mission
  • Measurements of atmospheric pressure and temperature with subsequent data analysis
    • Key goals
  • Demonstration of cansat system for rescue operations during natural disasters
    • Key goals
    • Optional goals
• Satellite
  • Satellite launch
  • Sensors aboard
  • Satellite 2 ground communication
• Ground station
• Ground back-end server
• Front-end
• Further data analisys
• Gantt timeline chart

Mission

Measurements of atmospheric pressure and temperature with subsequent data analysis

Key goals

• Measure of pressure and temperature outside the cansat.
• Radio transmission of measurements data in minimal rate one packet per second.
• Calculation of altitude based on atmospheric pressure.

Demonstration of cansat system for rescue operations during natural disasters

Key goals

• Design system that meet following requirements:
• low cost of produce
• high accuracy
• Access to information about position(GPS), altitude (barometer), temperature, acceleration
• Take photos from the thermovision and visible range camera.
• Mark on photos all obstacles (to protect rescuers) and places where people could possibly be.

Optional goals

• Investigate fire resistant biofiber composite with which body of cansat will be build
• Pointing geographical coordinates of marked obstacles/humans.

Satellite

How the cansat sattelite will look and work to help us do the mission?

Satellite launch

How we will actually launching the sattelite (that is take it to 1.5km above)?

Sensors aboard

Satellite 2 ground communication

How our satellite will communicate with the ground station?

Ground station

What is ground station and how it will work and pass us the data ?

Ground back-end server

Back-end server takes care of receiving data from ground station,
parsing and processing it, and serving it to the front-end.
It also caches and saves any data that it received, in case satellite would fall apart

It is written in Python, and uses Flask to serve a REST API

Front-end

Our front-end is a dashboard that will show us what is currently happening with the sattelite while it’s in the air - for example, a map showing where the sattelite is right now, animation (like at SpaceX) about in what stage of the mission it currently is, etc

It is built in Flutter, and compiled to a web app. It gets data form the server through REST endpoints, probably instantly, through localhost, since they will be hosted on same computer

Further data analisys

What we will further do with the data beyond the elements above?

Gantt timeline chart

// You can view the code-block it in gantt-chart.md