ARISSat-1 ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference September 16, 2011.

ARISSat-1ARRL and TAPR

Digital Communications ConferenceSeptember 16, 2011

ARISS

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station

• International Working Group• Europe, Japan, Canada, Russia, USA• Volunteers• http://www.rac.ca/ariss/

SuitSat-1

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuitSat• http://www.aj3u.com/blog/• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suit

SuitSat-2

• Improvements:– Solar Panels– Provision for up to four experiments– Cameras– Linear Transponder

• Work Began Spring 2007

Part of “The Crew”Over 50 people worked on SuitSat-2/ARISSat-1

Dayton HamventionMay 2009

ARISSat-1

• July 2009– Due to safety issues and space constraints, Orlan

suit #27 was placed into Progress vessel 33 and released from the ISS

• Begin work on space frame to house SuitSat-2 components

• Projects gets a new name: ARISSat

Block Diagram

Space Frame

Don’t Mock Me

Prototype

The “Stack”

The Stack

SDXSDX

IHUIHU

PSUPSU

ICBICB

DTMF DecoderDTMF Decoder

Assembly

Software Defined Transponder

Internal Housekeeping Unit

Power Supply Unit (PSU)

RF

Command Receiver

Solar Panels

• 6 High efficiency panels donated by NASA from SMEX project

• 19” x 10.5”

Solar Panels

Assembly

Solar Panel Covers

Solar Panel Covers

Solar Panel Simulator

Powering ARISSat-1

Solar Max Power Point Converters

MPPT Heatsink

Assembly

MPPT Test Fixture

MPPT Test Fixture

Orlon Suit Battery

Cameras

Cameras

Mirrors

SSTV Image

Control Panel

Control Panel

Antennas

Thermal-Vacuum Testing

Thermal-Vacuum Testing

Coming Together

Coming Together

Flight #1 Complete

Vibration Testing

Shipping

Crating

“Take me to your planet Houston”

Progress 41Launched January 28, 2011

On the ISS

DeploymentAugust 3, 2011

Uplink Antenna

Operations

Operations

• Linear Transponder– 70cm/2m U/V, Inverting

• FM– Voice Announcements– SSTV– Telemetry

• CW ID– Telemetry and Callsigns

• BPSK– Telemetry and Experiment Data

Telemetry Program

Telemetry Submissionsas of September 14, 2011

Over 100,000* telemetry frames received!

(* includes duplicates)From over 35 countrys

Telemetry Online

SSTV Gallery

YouTubeSearch “ARISSat”

Websites

• Official ARISSat-1 Website– www.arissat1.org

• Radio Amateur Satellite Corp.– www.amsat.org– http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/ARISSat/

ARISSatHowTo.php• ARISSat-1 Telemetry– http://www.arissattlm.org/

• SSTV Gallery– http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/SSTV/