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Títol: Electrical Power Subsystem Functional and Environmental Testing for the 3Cat-4 mission

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: PARK, HYUK

Departament: FIS

Títol: Electrical Power Subsystem Functional and Environmental Testing for the 3Cat-4 mission

Data inici oferta: 03-02-2020     Data finalització oferta: 03-10-2020


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Nom del segon director/a (UPC): Lara Fernandez
Departament 2n director/a:
 
Paraules clau:
CubeSat, NanoSat, Space Engineering
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
The project will consist of two
parts:

The Functional Test aim is knowing
how the Electrical Power
Subsystem (EPS) responds, for
example sending commands
stablished
by its protocol and check if the
output is the desired one.

On the other hand, the
Environmental Test aim is
verifying the
thermal behavior of the EPS and
compare it to its thermal
analysis.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
This document explains in detail what knowledge is important in order to develop an environmental and functional study of the Electrical Power Supply (EPS) P31u V8, and it can be applied to the other similar power system devices. Also, the results and extracted conclusions of the test are exposed.

Initially, it introduces information on the CubeSats, the mission which the document is based on and the verification test that will be performed. Subsequently, the basic knowledge of the work is disclosed, although it is important to have a medium knowledge about electricity and electronics as well.

Afterwards, it explains how to carry out the configuration of the subsystem and the different tests to, finally, perform the functional and environmental test in a thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC) and extract results.

Much of the procedures and specifications of the TVAC test, as well as its results, can be found in the annex. The sections in the body of the document are a summary that contains the information that is considered most important, but in the annexes the explanation is much detailed. The documents presented in the annexes and the different tests have been made by the author and a colleague from the laboratory and also from the University, Albert Rodríguez, who has helped a lot during the project.

Finally, the conclusions evaluate the results obtained previously and decide whether the test has been successful or, on the other hand, there have been behaviors of the EPS that cannot be accepted which therefore made the test fail.

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