ARDUSAT, an Arduino-based cubesat providing students with the opportunity to create their own satellite experiment and collect real-world space data

Abstract

Short for "Arduino Satellite", ArduSat is an open-source Nanosatellite, based on the CubeSat standard. The extensive Arduino sensor suite on board gives students the opportunity to create their own satellite experiments and collect real-world space data using the Arduino open-source prototyping platform. From March until May 2014, two undergraduate physics students from Hassell University used the downloadable ArduSat Software Development Kit which allowed them to design the command sequences they used to conduct their experiments.