Space applications

"guido pagana" <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:38:20 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.gps.opensource
Message-ID <006f01c42855$edfeda90$9909c082@zirconio>
Hi everybody,
my name is Guido Pagana and I work for the Politecnico di Torino, a
university for engineers in Italy.
We are developping a picosatellite to be projected and used by students.
We want this picosatellite to have an information about its position, so
that a GPS receiver is to be installed on it.
Some questions:
1.our project is a picosatellite (dimensions: 10cm x 10 cm x 10 cm), which commercial device do you think is most suitable - the power consumption must be very low as well, less than 2 W -
I was thinking about the SIgtec MG5003 (300$) , has anyone a better suggestion?
2.our project will be, of course, an open source project.
I think we will need a Kalman filter to predict orbit and velovity of the picosatellite.
Has anyone any experience on it?

Thanks in advance

Guido

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Guido Pagana
Research Engineer
Politecnico di Torino - Dipartimento di Elettronica
Tel. +39 011 564 4182
Fax +39 011 564 4099

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