Sarah Rogers, Phoenix CubeSat Design, Development, and Testing | Space Engineering Podcast 4

Sarah Rogers is an aerospace engineer and the mission manager / systems engineer for the Phoenix CubeSat from Arizona State University (ASU).
Sarah worked on the Phoenix CubeSat for 5 years, since she was a Freshman at ASU to finishing her Graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering. The Phoenix CubeSat is a 3U CubeSat with the objective to take thermal images of cities in order to measure the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. The other objective of the mission is to be an educational platform for university students on all aspects of spacecraft design: phxcubesat.asu.edu/
Sarah has her own podcast called The Art of Space Engineering, which I am a big fan of. Similarly to this podcast, she brings on engineers in the space industry and has long-form conversations on their expertise. I highly recommend listening to her podcast. Here are the links:
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Links to the Space Engineering Podcast (KZbin, Spotify, Google Podcasts, SimpleCast):
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Link to Orbital Mechanics with Python video series:
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OUTLINE
0:00:00 | Introduction / Overview
0:02:00 | Phoenix CubeSat overview
0:05:06 | How Sarah got involved with Phoenix CubeSat
0:08:27 | ASU ground station (communications systems)
0:09:45 | Taking an image, sending data to onboard computer, downlink to ground station
0:17:31 | Radio frequencies trades (UHF, amateur radio frequencies)
0:20:15 | Omnidirectional antenna trade
0:22:17 | Flatsat for development and testing for sending files via radio
0:29:11 | How to structure a communications packet
0:31:24 | Spacecraft heartbeat data
0:37:40 | Communications passes geometry (orbits, azimuth and elevation)
0:44:47 | Flight computers trades
0:52:18 | I2C and UART protocols
0:53:39 | ADCS and camera UART port switch
1:01:00 | Spacecraft schedule files
1:06:09 | NASA Goddard Core Flight System (CFS) software
1:11:22 | CubeSat space protocol (CSPs)
1:16:30 | Flatsat I2C power problem and resolution
1:22:28 | ADCS testing
1:28:41 | Flatsat day in the life test
1:34:59 | Process of descoping as project manager
1:43:15 | Sarah is writing a book on university CubeSat development!
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[@arshiaboorboor7142]

Sarah is awesome. She has helped a lot in the beginning phases of RebelSat-1!

[@ashokdarbhe5664]

i am an aerospace engineer and this podcast series is helping me gain knowledge a lot!!! Thank you for these videos.

[@alfonsogonzalez-astrodynam2207]

That is great to hear! Please feel free to share the podcast and the videos with anyone else who you think would also learn from them, thats the best way to support the channel!

[@karuntejabokka4360]

thankyou sir for providing these interviews i hope you come up with more videos like these

[@alfonsogonzalez-astrodynam2207]

There's lots more of these coming! I'm glad you're enjoying them

[@patrickcrouch49]

Another excellent and detailed interview with a great focus on the technical parts of cubesat design, launch, and management. The documentation of the project on the ASU site is really great, too.

[@alfonsogonzalez-astrodynam2207]

I really appreciate your feedback! Sounds like between your comments in Brian's and Sarah's video, you like these types of discussions going a bit more into the hardware design and testing. I'm a little more out of my comfort zone when talking to people about hardware as opposed to mission designers so I feel that my questions aren't as in depth in these cases, so its good to hear that people like you are still finding them interesting and useful