This project has added more functionality to the power subsystem in the PANSAT satellite project started four years ago. A battery charge tracking system has been created which will send the satellite main computer a signal recommending that non-critical systems be powered down during low-power times, such as during an Earth caused eclipse, or when the battery charge falls too low. Different secondary DC-DC converters were selected to increase efficiency for the power provided to the different subsystems of the satellite.

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Creator

• Kolb, Monica Anne
• Meyer, Jeffery

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042308-202941

Advisor

• Labonté, Robert C.

Year

• 2008

Date created

• 2008-04-23

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2020-12-03