swarm.space is a commercial company providing low-bandwidth satellite connectivity using ultra-small (quarter cubesat unit) satellites in a low orbit. Swarm satellites cover every point on Earth, enabling IoT devices to affordably operate in any location. Swarm uses a form of LoRa network. While ground terminals for satellite networks traditionally were both big and expensive, modems and antennas …
Supervisors: Sebastian Büttrich
Semester: Fall 2022
Tags: Satellite, IoT

LoRa is a relatively new long-range low-power standard allowing for battery powered pocketsize nodes to transmit over 100s to 1000s of kilometers. ThingSat is a CubeSat communication payload constituted of an electronic board of several LoRa transmitters and a patch antenna operating in (868MHz, 2.4GHz). It is a guest payload of a shared 3U CubeSat. Available projects under this platform include …
Supervisors: Sebastian Büttrich
Semester: Fall 2022
Tags: Satellite, IoT