TechEdSat-11 Spacecraft

6U-XL bus size, Largest TES Exo-Brake Yet: 2.0m². Gen-2 TES SDR S-band Radio, NOAA Radio.

6U-XL bus size, Largest TES Exo-Brake Yet: 2.0m². Gen-2 TES SDR S-band Radio, NOAA Radio.

The next two BrainStack payloads will fly the next generations of the NVIDIA® TX2 and Kapoho Bay. TechEdSat-11, targeted to launch in late 2023, will fly the NVIDIA® TX2-I GPU, a more rugged version of the TX2. In an updated experiment, the GPU will execute a learning model on a sample image set while in orbit and compare processor and model performance and results with that of a ground control. This new software experiment is being developed by Caleb Adams of the NASA Ames Intelligent Systems Division, with hardware development and integration performed by the TES team.

We flew TechEdSat-11, which demonstrated autonomous scheduling of commerical space communications services:

• Software onboard the spacecraft recognized the need to transfer data.
• A request message was sent to the ground via the Iriudium constellation.
• Our software on Earth processed the request, identified a ground station, and requested a contact with AWS via their Ground Station Scheduling API.
• After receiving the confirmation, the spacecraft began downlinking data at the scheduled contact start time.

• CatSat
• KUbeSat-1
• MESAT-1
• R5-S2-2.0
• R5-S4
• Serenity III
• SOC-i
• TechEdSat-11