SRP 5- Components
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Electrical Components |
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Deckplate 1 |
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Measures Gyroscopic Motion and accelerations |
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Measures data from solar sensors to determine rocket attitude and spin rate. |
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Measure GPS data. One board on the rocket is used for in flight trajectory correction. The ground station board is used primarily for tracking the rocket and collecting locational information |
Senses ultraviolet light intensity |
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The probes will be used to map the relative ion and electron densities in the D-Region of the ionosphere |
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Assortment of measurement devices used to develop temperature characteristics of the payload |
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Deckplate 2
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Performs primary data sanitization before it is passed on to other boards for data procesing and transmission. |
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The heart of the communication system on the rocket. All information from other boards meets here to be processed before transmission. Stacks multiple input streams into a single data stream and sends to the base station TMTX. |
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Deckplate 3 |
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The 3-axis magnetometer, fabricated by students at Tokai University, is used for attitude determination and detecing perturbations in the magnetic field caused by current systems in the plasma. |
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The flight instrumentation board contains a pressure sensor, an ambient temeperature sensor, and a thermocouple for measuring payload skin temperature. |
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Deckplate 4 |
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The battery pack provides power for all the electrical components of the rocket. |
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Deckplate 5 |
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The power board converts the voltage level from the battery pack into the voltage levels required by the cicuit board used on the payload. |
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Deckplate 6 |
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The radio receivers in conjunction with the loop antenna will be used to determine the plasma cutoff frequency. This provides a calibation point to reference the relative measurements from the probes. |
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Mechanical Components |
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The payload frame consists of 4 longerons and 5 decplates. The deckplates provide mounting area for the SRP5 electronics, and the longerons hold these deckplates in place. |
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Outer covering of the rocket. Provides protection for the hardware inside as well as essential for adequate aerodynamic control. |
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Each aluminum deckplate provides a mounting structure for payload electronics |
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The nosecone is made of fiber glass which is RF transparent. The nosecone is what allows the rocket to glide through the area in a precise fashion |
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The umbilical block allow access to electrical connections inside the payload tube. Prior to flight this is how we will access the systems on the rocket for pre flight testing and charging of the power systems. The shown image is of one of the umbilical blocks where the electrical wires will head back to the control station |
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A door that detaches during flight to expose certain test equipment to the appropriate environments |
