Pocket Mission ControlNicholas Phillips

Ashley Whetter

Will Colaluca

Giannis Kaoullas

Pakizat Masgutova

Dominic Moylett

Dr. Kirsten Cater

James Savage

Zahra Bozorgi

James Daniell

Francis Xavier Kwong

Fraser McQueen-Govan

Clau Octavian Soare

Michael Johnson - JA

Brief• Mobile App for interacting with personal

spacecraft• Background• Technical Challenges• Inspiring an open source, open access,

personal space age.

CubeSat, Chipsat, Thin-Film

• Low Cost

• 4kg CubeSat carries many smaller craft

• 10g ChipSats can have MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes

• <1g Thin-Film craft are a system on a chip

A Short History

• JA Launching KickSat in September 2013

• 2nd Year Undergraduate Group Project Oct 2012 – May 2013

Why this app?• Interactivity and control to users• Smartphones are the current big thing• Greater exposure for CubeSat projects• Generate public enthusiasm for open source

space• Easier for CubeSat projects to have an app• Answer many research based questions

System Architecture• Processing Data

• Sanitizes Data

• Harvesting Data• HTML Scraping• Data Formatting

http://rax.engin.umich.edu/wp-content/themes/twentyten/gs/gs_client_public.php

http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt

System Architecture• Harvesting Data

• HTML Scraping• Data Formatting

• Processing Data• Sanitizes Data

• Presenting Data (API)• RESTful Standards• Open to all

• Scalable and Flexible

The Mobile App

• - Android and iOS

• 3D Spacecraft Models

The Mobile App

• - Android and iOS

• 3D Spacecraft Models

• Time-lapse data graphing

• Customisable and dynamic

What Makes This Special?

• Useful for CubeSat projects

• Awesome features like Augmented Reality

• Open Source• Code Quality• Flexible• Open Source, Open Access Personal Space

Age

Future Work• Open Source in June

• It’s your project – take part!• volunteer@PocketMissionControl.org

• iCubeSat.org CubeSat Workshop• 28th - 29th May 2013

• Thanks to Dr. Kirsten Cater