Tagged with: ground station


PROPOSAL

ITU is a partner of the Danish Student Cubesat Program, DISCOSAT. We launched our first satellite DISCO-1 into Low Earth Orbit in April 2023 and we will launch a second DISCO-2 in 2024. In this project you will gain experience with automating live satellite operations and communications, completing a groundstation at the Rued Langaards Vej site for use with both satellites. The DISCO satellite …
Supervisors: Julian Priest
Semester: Fall 2023
Tags: satellite, ground station, software defined radio, automation, csp

PROPOSAL

The DISCO-2 satellite will have accelerated machine learning capability based on the inclusion of a Coral TPU ML accelerator module. This will allow images taken by the satellite to be analaysed on satellite using a variety of ML models, with only select images sent back to Earth. This approach allows for more flexibility in image aquisition and saves downlink bandwidth which is very constrained …
Supervisors: Julian Priest, Robert Bayer
Semester: Fall 2023
Tags: satellite, ground station, software defined radio, automation, csp