Enclosure for CATSat-1, a Secondary Payload

Mechanical Team: Andrew Nguyen and Tina Li

Electrical Team: Chase Yasunaga and Adrianna Saymo

Software Team: Glenn Galvizo and Christianne Izumigawa

Mentors: Amber Imai-Hong, Miguel Nunes, Eric Pilger, Lance Yoneshige, Isaac Rodrigues
March 2015 - May 2016

Payload Overview

• NMSR Team of the CubeSat Technology Research and Development Project

• CATSat-1 (CubeSat Applied Technologies Satellite)

  • White Sands, NM

    • Altitude >110 km (70 miles)

  • Secondary payload on a NASA sounding rocket

    • No external access

    • No ground communication

  • Post-flight data analysis

  • Payload

    • 2 flight IMUs

    • Updated flight computer (OBC)​

Mission Success

• Valid IMU data

  • Characterization data

  • Baseline data

• Estimated flight path

  • Altitude: +/- TBD meters

  • Final coordinate: +/- TBD meters

Mechanical Team Role

• Responsible for design, analysis, and fabrication of the enclosure 

• Design an enclosure to protect the components for the duration of the project

  • During testing, shipping to integration, launch

• Work on the physical system layout (how it is packaged) in order to find possible problems and solutions

• Integration and testing

• Environmental testing