The CubeSat LAB
provides students interested in space with an opportunity to work on a real satellite and its payload development and operation. Furthermore, it is an extension of the lecture 'Grundlagen Raumfahrtelektronik und Primärmission' for students who wish to expand their knowledge of space.
Goal - Extend the reach of Space at the TU Hamburg
Except for the lectures and research work of the Smart Sensors Group there is no contact point for students to space. We want to change this!
By creating an environment where students can develop parts for the universities and Hamburgs first satellite. For now the focus lays on developing electronics and software for the core avionics and payload of a 1.5U satellite. This process extends from the idea for a component to launch into orbit to the operation of the satellite and evaluation of the data.
Who is it intended for?
The target audience are students of the electrical engineering and information technology programs in atleast their third semester. Still all motivated and interested people are welcome. There are enough tasks and jobs to do for everyone. Nevertheless it is favourable to have basic understanding of electronics or software development.
Tasks
The scope of things that need to be done for a successful mission is very large. This ranges from the development of electronics and software for the payload and its integration in to the satellite bus to the organisational tasks like legal questions or contact to the industry for support.
Specific tasks are creating schematics and routing PCBs, soldering and testing those, writing the firmware and integrate it to the given system. There are also more general tasks like power and thermal management, reliable data handling and the attitude determination and control system. Also building our infrastructure like a server, workshop and a ground station are relevant duties.
Teamwork
The Lab is completely student organised and run by Thorbjörn and Jannik as supporting 'supervisors'. We want to establish a diverse, motivated and interdisciplinary active working group where we can learn from each other and have fun while accomplishing our mission.
THHOR - TUHH Orbital Research
is the choosen name of the student group and represents its goal of creating a place at the TU Hamburg for all space-related work.
Our Mission - HANS - Hamburg Autonomous Northern Lights Survey
Our current goal is the acquisition of data from Auroras. We want to take pictures of occurring Auroras and measure environmental data at the same time. Due to the limited bandwidth of the datalink between the satellite and our ground station we need to evaluate the data on the on-board computer.
THHOR has now its own website you can find here. More information will follow soon.
Group organisation
Change lays in your hands! We don't wait for change to happen out of nowhere, but want to create our own mission with input from everybody in the group.
For this no hierachy is needed and everybody who is motivated to do so is welcome to contribute. We won't hold your hand or show you the way, we are students ourselves motivated by the purely egoistic thought of putting stuff into space (and learning a lot about space while doing so). This doesn't mean we won't help if you have questions, you just shouldn't expect us to guide you all the way to the solution, because we don't know the way, just some people who could help.
It is mandatory to attend our 2h weekly meeting, it's a group effort after all. Apart from that we have a weekly working meeting, which should be joined in person.
Further we like to attend space related events in Germany and travel there together.
Check out THHOR for the latest news and information on our project!
Want to join?
If you want to participate join the StudIP course with PW: 'smartsensors' and check out the introduction summary.
Still want to join? -> Contact us via mail: sms-cubesat@tuhh.de and tell us what you are interested in or what you want to do to support the team and mission. ChatGPT generated walls of text will be ignored. We just want to see why you are interested in joining, not hire you :D
Contact persons
Project Funding
The CubeSat LAB plays a fundamental role in the innovative way of teaching which is the key field of the EduSat research project. The EduSat research is funded by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre as part of the call for proposals Freiraum 2023 under project number FR-113/2023.
