Make – DIY Instruments for Amateur Space

Make – DIY Instruments for Amateur Space
Inventing Utility for Your Spacecraft Once It Achieves Orbit
Sandy Antunes
Table of contents
Preface
Why Sensors on Satellites Make Sense
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments

1. Understanding Measurement
   Brainstorming
2. Introduction to Instruments
   Parameterizing a Mission
   Mission Domains
   Licensing
   Look at Past Missions
3. By Wavelength
   The Spectrum
   Gamma and X-rays
   Ultraviolet
   Violet and Blue
   Cyan and Green
   Yellow and Orange
   Infrared
   Microwave, Submillimeter, and Radio
4. Fundamental Detector Types
   The Eternal Fight: Resolution Versus Brightness
   Active Detectors
   Tradeoffs
   Imaging Detectors
   Mapping Coverage to Pixels
   Sampling and Bandwidth Calculations
5. Detectors and Instruments and Sensors, Oh My!
   Attitude
   Passive Attitude Control
   Active Attitude Control
   Pointing Observations
   Sensors
   Deployable Payloads
   Transmitter
   Microchip Satellites
   Repeaters and Reflectors
   Solar Sail
   Operational Demo
   Sample Names
6. Colors and Brightness
   Brightness
7. Resolution, By the Numbers
   Detector Bins
   What About Noise?
   At a Glance
   Filters
   Spectral Filters
   Image Masks
   Digitization
8. Noise
   Signal-to-Noise (S/N)
   Types of Noise
   Adding Noises
9. Calibration
   Response Function
   Calibration Protocols
   Solution!
   Problem
   Standard Candles Aren’t
   Remember Degradation
   Real Versus “Book” Voltages
10. Protocols
    Sensor Readout Theory
    Wiring Sensors and Sampling
    Clocks and Sampling Rates
    Synchronous and Asynchronous
    I2C
    I2C Sequence Primer
    I2C Examples
    TTL/UART/Serial/RS232
    SPI
    Controller Area Network
    Musical Instrument Digital Interface
    About Standards
11. Instrument Modes
    Dynamic Range
    Defining Multiple Instrument Modes
    Example Modes For a Magnetic Sensor
    Cadence
    Triggering
    Non-Photon Detectors (And in situ)
    CPUs
    Raspberry Pi
    They Fight!
    Communications Limits
    Amateur (HAM) Radio
12. Off-the-Shelf Sensor Hardware
    Shopping
    Particle Damage
    “Project Calliope” Sample Sensor Loadout
    ArduSat Sample Sensor Loadout
    Sensor Integration
13. Committing, Freezing, Moving Forward
    Buy Many
    Lego-Style Versus Custom Shop
    A. Exercises
    JWST Build-a-Satellite
    Solve a Decadal Problem for All of Humanity
    About the Author
    Colophon

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