Over the last few days our team was preparing all of our subsystems for a test in a cold chamber at – 40°C.
The test will be done tomorrow at “va-Q-tec”, a company that is primarily specializing in insulation
News
Gedex-Service is sponsoring connecting elements
The company “Gedex-service” is sponsoring a great part of screws, nuts and other connecting elements we will need to integrate our experiment into the REXUS module. The company is specialised on a wide range of connection elements made of stainless steel.
Make sure to visit their website at www.gedex-service.de !
Basic OS is finished
Two days ago Sven finished the implementation of the basic OS, on which the horizon-detection algorithm will run. The operating system is based
Hot gas inrush simulation
On Tuesday we did a simulation of hot gas inrush which occurs during the flight of the REXUS rocket, to test the camera’s ability to withstand temperatures above 200°C.
thermal test of lens finished successfully
This Week we tested our lens under rough thermal conditions like those occuring during the flight of the REXUS rocket. The purpose of the test was to determine if the recent Design of our
new components have arrived!
Yesterday some new items have arrived, including the MIO-2260 Board, a small embedded computer which will be used as our Core System. Since today was the last exam for this semester, we’re looking forward to start implementing a first prototype of our operating system in the next few days, even if a few thermal and vacuum tests are still need to be done!
first components tested under low-pressure conditions!
On June 20th we tested four DC/DC Converter in the vacuum chamber of the Chair of Information Technology VIII at our university under low-pressure conditions (up to 0.1mbar) with the help of Oleksii Balagurin, to ensure that the electrolytic capacitors which are used