UH PueoSat Course (Spring 2010)

The University of Hawaii's PueoSat course, supported by the College of Engineering and UH Small-Satellite Program, is intended to provide freshman and sophomore engineering students with an introduction to spacecraft systems engineering in eleven (11) one-hour classroom/lab sessions. The PueoSat course serves as the Walk stage in the UH Small-Satellite Program's Crawl > Walk > Run > Fly teaching philosophy. Students who successfully complete this course are encouraged to participate in the Program's Run and Fly stages as upper-division undergraduate and graduate students.

This semester, the course is led by UH Small-Satellite Program students John Salle, James Ah Heong, and Wei-Hann Chen.

The course will utilize the EyasSat, a fully functional nanosatellite designed by the U.S. Air Force Academy and Colorado Satellite Services, and a modified version of its accompanied curriculum. EyasSat demonstrates six traditional satellite subsystems of a satellite bus: Structural, Electrical Power (EPS), Data Handling (DH), Communications (Comm), Attitude Determination and Control (ADCS), and Thermal subsystems.

This SIP group is intended as an online classroom and meeting place for course instructors, participating students and affiliated faculty to post course material, homework assignments, related discussion topics, and relevant photos and videos.

Course Topics (by week):

(1) Introduction to Satellites
(2) Subsystems Overview + Structures
(3) Electrical Power Subsystem
(4) Electrical Power Subsystem Lab
(5) Command & Data Handling + Lab
(6) Communications + Attitude Determination & Control
(7) Attitude Determination & Control Lab
(8) Thermal
(9) Thermal Lab
(10) Integration Lab
(11) Semester Wrap Up