Master Thesis - OUFTI-1
Master Thesis - OUFTI-1
Master Thesis - OUFTI-1
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Figure 2.17: Pictures of the ADCS components [25]<br />
2.3.5 Electronic cards and battery support<br />
<strong>OUFTI</strong>-1 disposes of ve electronic cards. These cards are all based on the P C 104<br />
standard [26]. The particularity of this standard is the P C 104 connector. This device,<br />
with 104 pins welded on it, allows a direct connection between all the cards of <strong>OUFTI</strong>-1.<br />
The PCBs are all made of Flame Resistant (FR) 4 that belongs to the class of Glass Fiber<br />
Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) material.<br />
The conguration for these cards, shown in Figure 2.18, is based on the following<br />
requirements:<br />
• The FM 430 card is placed in the bottom of the satellite, because it is on this card<br />
that the access ports are placed. So, these ports have to be placed in front of the<br />
holes of the chassis provided for this purpose, which are situated on the base plate.<br />
• The OBC 2 card is placed just above the FM 430 card. The reason is that these two<br />
cards have to communicate continuously so, to avoid a complicate cabling path, they<br />
are placed as close as possible one from the other. These two cards are managed by<br />
the student in charge of the OBC subsystem [27].<br />
• Then, we choose to integrate the EPS card, because it is on this card that there<br />
is most components and, consequently, it is the card with the greatest mass. So,<br />
its location aects seriously the position of the CoG and, to respect the CubeSat<br />
standard requirement on the CoG location, it is better to place it as close as possible<br />
from the CubeSat geometric center.<br />
• For the same reason, the battery support comes next. Further detail will be available<br />
on chapter 3.<br />
• The fourth card is the xEPS one. The reason is the same that one for the two OBC<br />
cards (these cards have to be linked by several wires). However, in addition, we<br />
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