Near Space Engineering

The NASA Ames Research Center is responsible for various cube satellites, suborbital experiments, and high altitude balloons. The goal of this project is to design a new revision of a circuit board that both enables a modem to connect to the internet and supports auxiliary equipment for NASA’s activities.

Deliverables
Design and program a PC104 telemetry board driven by an Intel Edison. The board would at minimum support an Iridium 9523 data modem, a camera, and have enough general purpose output to drive other miscellaneous equipment such as a cold gas system.

Dip Trace Software
Dip Trace is used to design a printed circuit board (PCB) layout. A PCB electrically connects all the necessary components in a compact space.

Intel Edison
The Intel Edison is the processor that will be used for this project. It contains a high-performance, dual-core CPU and a single-core microcontroller that supports complex data collection in a low-power package.