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This is the page for the [[SEDSAT-2]] Payload team. Payload design notes are filed in '''[[:Category:SEDSAT-2 Payload]]'''.

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== Team ==
The Payload team is made up of students at the '''University of Wales, Aberystwyth''' and '''University of California, Berkeley'''.

=== Students ===
*[http://protoforge.org/users/User.php?id=15& Tom Nordheim] (subsystem leader)
*[http://protoforge.org/users/User.php?id=21& Torjus Eidet]
*[http://protoforge.org/users/User.php?id=23& Brynjar Larssen]
*[http://protoforge.org/users/User.php?id=40& Jeff Page]
*[http://protoforge.org/users/User.php?id=22& Yuki Takahashi]
*[http://www.michael-clarke-blog.com Michael Clarke]
*Stephen Rooney

=== Adviser ===
*[http://users.aber.ac.uk/dpb/ Dr. Dave Barnes]

=== Current Activities ===
*Implementing a simple camera application involving image capture and storage.
*Producing an imaging platform for development of flight software.

== Payload Documents==
* [http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/SEDSAT-2_Payload_Design_Review_III Payload Payload Design Review III] (10.02.2009)
* [http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/Image:Payload_brief.doc Payload marketing brief] (31.12.2008)
* [http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/SEDSAT-2_Payload_Design_Review_II Payload Design Review II] is now available (06.04.2008).
* [http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/SEDSAT-2_Payload_Design_Review_I Payload Design Review I] is now available (30.12.2007).
*''See [[SEDSAT-2_Primary_Payload|Primary Payload]] for details and interface tables.''
*''[[SEDSAT-2_Payload_Design_Notes_20070517|Payload Design Concepts]].''
*''See [[SEDSAT-2_Payload_Selection_Study|Payload Selection Study]] for details on the proposed payloads.''

==Interface Tables==
{{SEDSAT-2 Interface Payload}}

== Useful links ==
===Meeting notes===
*Payload meeting [http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/SEDSAT-2_Payload_Meeting_Notes notes] [2009].

=== Specifications ===
*[http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/media/Documents/Developers/CDS%20R9.pdf CubeSat Design Specification] (~2MB)

=== Background info ===
*[http://www.cdi.org/PDFs/SSA3Johnson.pdf Objects in earth orbit] (~4MB)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity-gradient_stabilization Gravity boom] on Wikipedia (rather scanty article, a better source would be appreciated)

=== Other projects ===
*[http://www.raumfahrt.fh-aachen.de/ Aachen COMPASS-1] (lots of useful info)
**[http://www.raumfahrt.fh-aachen.de/download/Phase%20B%20Documentation.pdf Phase B Documentation] (5MB, but worth the download. Chapters: Payload p. 4, ADCS p. 11, Comms p. 69, CDH p. 97, Power p. 117, Thermal p. 131, Structure p. 173)
*[http://mtech.dk/thomsen/space/cubesat.php List of cubesat missions] (general)
*[http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/cubesats.php Cubesat information] (general)
*[http://polysat.calpoly.edu/CP2_docs.php CalPoly PolySat CP2] (nice overview, and check the payload budget at the end!)
*[http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cubesat/index-e.html XI-IV and XI-V] (immensely successful cubesats from UTokyo)
*[http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prism/subsystem/O/index-e.html UTokyo CubeSat2 aka "PRISM"] (interesting optics subsystem)

=== Software ===
*[http://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/model/engrmodel.html ORDEM2000] (orbital debris engineering model from NASA)
*[http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html Orbiter] (free space flight/orbital mechanics simulator)

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