Braxton Technologies training Satellite controlled by Serializer

jsummerour — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:14:10 GMT

One of our customers, Braxton Technologies, recently sent us this information regarding a training Satellite they've developed that utilitizes the Serializer at it's core. :cool: This is actually around the 2nd or 3rd training satellite they've developed using the Serializer (I've posted those pics below as well). They use the Serializer Cpp Lib that James Y. Wilson wrote last year, to control the actions of the Satellite.

Here is an excerpt of their email to us regarding the use of the Satellite at the 24th National Space Symposium (2008).

[ Braxton recently updated our web-site to include a blurb about my RoboSat

http://www.braxtontech.com/a_news_Sym08.htm

It was a big hit, in fact, I’ve been asked to create a 4’ by 3’ working model of a Spy Satellite (pretend but intended to look conceptually real). My payload will include a spy camera, and they want it to be visible from above the booth at the next Symposium.

We used the existing model robot for presenting the Science of Satellite Operations to the local Civil Air Patrol and for a Kids Day event at Raytheon. Again, this is a big hit! ]

Here is an excerpt of their email to us regarding the use of the Satellite at the 23rd National Space Symposium (2007).

[The National Space Symposium ended on Thursday. I must say that my company management informed me that the Robot Satellite was one of the big attractions at the Symposium. I was able to draw NASA, Ball Aerospace, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and others to our booth to play with and command our satellite from our software. Other competing companies had software displays but none were able to demonstrate there capabilities as we did.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for your support. It was a hit. I'll try to send you action movies of the capabilities. I was able to de-spin with simulated LED thrusters, deploy each solar array individually, deploy a high gain antenna, perform a sun finder maneuver and individually command each solar array to point as directed. I had configured a temperature sensor on the voltage regulator and one for ambient temperature. Two light sensors to detect light sources. I used the compass to aid in z-Axis rotation commanding. Using the TTL to the EB505 Bluetooth connected wireless to my laptop. I was able to incorporate an interface module to intercept commanding from our application and direct it to the satellite.

Truly amazing!! So successful, my management has directed me to build a few more professional models to be used for satellite training and demonstrations. I can't begin to tell you how much new business we may get out of this.]

rdas

rdas — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:54:38 GMT

hey guys...here's a link to my groups senior project: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CAam8mw9Xw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CAam8mw9Xw[/url]

we used the serializer for the microcontroller and we had a lot of fun making it. so i thought i'd share it with you.

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Frank B — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:52:13 GMT

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Frank B — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:08:18 GMT

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Braxton Technologies training Satellite controlled by Serializer

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