Majida Halaweh

ELA 11
18 February 2014
Relation to Industry: Eletrial En!ineerin!
"ard# $aob% &A 'ew (tandard%& Ed% Ryan )radley% Popular Science Feb% 2012: 2*+24% ,rint%
-his artile is interestin! due to the onnetions to the eletronis lessons I learned in
-ehnolo!y lass% -he to.i o/ the artile is an e0ellent e0a1.le o/ so1ethin! .re2iously
assu1ed o1.liated that is now bein! .ratially 1ass+.rodued%
)e!innin! in 1333# the reation o/ s1all satellites bea1e standardi4ed% A s1all ube
desi!n was reated and dubbed the CubeSat
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% It has enou!h s.ae /or solar .anels on the
outside# with a computer motherboard
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# and a /ew additional .arts in the inside% -he 1ain
reason these satellites were reated was to do li1ited e0.eri1entation in s.ae at a lower ost
than ty.ial satellites% (o1e o/ the e0.eri1ents inlude .hoto!ra.hin! earth# 1onitorin! earth
weather .atterns and loo5in! at space weather
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% -he 6ube(ats# the ro5et7s payload
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.a5ed onto ro5ets and one the ro5et lea2es earth7s at1os.here# the Poly Picosattelite
Orbital Deployer
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sends the1 into orbit% At least 80 6ube(ats ha2e been launhed into s.ae
sine 2001 and 1ore are bein! built at this 2ery 1o1ent%
E2ery 6ube(at ontains eletronis that 2ary /or the .ur.ose o/ that .artiular satellite% In
the 9:reen )o0; lesson about ontrol lo!i# 1any thin!s that I learned an be a..lied to the
6ube(at7s iruitry% -hese inlude li1it swithes# ladder dia!ra1s# lo!ial ele1ents <A'=# >R#
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6ube(at is the na1e !i2en to the ubial satellite%
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A o1.uter 1otherboard is the 1ain iruit board
in eletroni de2ies%
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-he ter1 9s.ae weather; eno1.asses natural .roesses that our in the near+
earth en2iron1ent that an a//et satellites and s.ae tra2el%
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A .ayload is the ar!o that the ro5et is
arryin!%
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-he ,oly ,iosattelite >rbital =e.loyer is a s.rin! loaded ja5+in+the+bo0 ontainer%
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'A'=# '>R# '>-?# and relays% -he use o/ li1it swithes is to tri!!er one thin! to ha..en a/ter
another% -his would be es.eially use/ul in the e0.eri1ents ontained within the ubes beause
there is no hu1an inter/erene to ensure a series o/ e2ents ha..ens within an e0.eri1ent% Laddar
dia!ra1s are used to draw out the iruit and e2erythin! that is onneted to be/ore atually
reatin! the iruit% Lo!ial ele1ents are the buildin! blo5 o/ eletronis% 'eedless to say# they
are in e2ery ty.e o/ eletroni% -he /untions they .er/or1 2ary /ro1 a sa/ety !uard to turnin!
so1ethin! on <li5e the 6ube(at when it is initially de.loyed /ro1 the ro5et?% -he ti1e+delay
relays are used /or si1ilar .ur.oses as the li1it swithes e0e.t that their reliane is on ti1e
rather than on a swith bein! .ushed# to deter1ine when to start the ne0t e2ent% -he eletronis
within the 6ube(at ontain 1uh 1ore o1.liated o1.onents than those listed abo2e@
howe2er# an understandin! o/ the basi ele1ents is essential to reate the 1ore o1.liated
.arts%
Fro1 readin! this artile# I learned that the s.eed these ubes are built and .ut into s.ae
has inreased !reatly% A student ould desi!n an e0.eri1ent in their /irst year o/ olle!e and
ha2e it in s.ae be/ore the end o/ their senior year% -his artile showed the a..liations o/ the
1atters bein! studyin! in shool%