Open Tasks

This is a living document, please update it on a regular basis

ADC - Attitude Determination & Control

Contact: @Sebastian G.

Last updated: 15. September 2025

• GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Integration - contact @Hanjo Schnellbächer

  • mainly in python

    • https://gitlab.com/tudsat-cubesat/adcs/generic-gnss-toolbox/-/tree/development?ref_type=heads

  • already there: preliminary tool suite with propagator

  • on-board: data storage and downlink plan, interface with OBC

    • translation of TC - Telecommands

  • on-ground: tool suite for orbit determination and propagation

  • operational strategy

    • command strategy

    • ops procedure to TC and OBC applications

  • integration of data budget tool

  • transform to ILRS data format

    • https://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/data_and_products/formats/cpf.html

  • optimization of all above

  
  

AIV - Assembly Integration & Verification

Contact: @Piotr Antczak

Last updated: 25. März 2025

• Help define NCR (non-compliance-report) procedures and resolve steps to streamline what happens when we encounter a problem during testing/assembly

• Creation of/Help out STC with the creation of the assembly procedure

COM - Communication

Contact: @Andrei Foroponov

Last updated: 12. Mai 2026

• Fix Ground Station

• Assemble RF transmission system

• Implementation of driver for EnduroSat transceiver/antenna (hardware responsible)

• Responsible person for satellite-ground-link

• Test definition for functional and acceptance test campaign

MC - Mission Control

Contact: @Andreas Giebel

Last updated: 25. März 2025

• Test definition for functional and acceptance test campaign

• Test of Transceiver functionality and its AX.25 support

• Implementation of a routing and caching service, e.g. with Python or Node.js

  • support for multiple ground stations / data links

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OBDH - On-Board Data-Handling

Contact: @Timo Freitag

Last updated: 02. April 2025

• Test definition for functional and acceptance test campaign

• Driver integration

  • ADCS

  • payload

  • EnduroSat power

  • EnduroSat comms

• Application development

  • power

  • thermal

  • automation

  • FDIR - Fault Detection, Isolation & Recovery

  • system state management

  • ADCS

  • comm

• Execution platform development

  • lifecycle implementation

  • context management

  • error reporting

  • packet stores

  • command sequence automation

  • PUS protocol handling

  • parameter statistics and monitoring

  • File transfer protocol

OPS - Operations

Contact: @Hanjo Schnellbächer

Last updated: 25. März 2025

• Test definition for functional and acceptance test campaign

• Finalization of Maneuvers and Procedures

  • Safe Mode

  • LEOP - Launch & Early Operation Phase

  • Commissioning

  • Decommissioning

• Translation of procedures into telecommands in collaboration with OBDH and MC

• Devise Operator Training plan and materials

• Operator Training

PAY - Payload & Research

Contact: @Adrian Kaßmann

Last updated: 25. März 2025

• Test definition for functional and acceptance test campaign

• Camera Integration/implementation

• payload software (written in C)

  • payload application on the OBC

  • Software on the payload board

    • Implementation of task routines

    • Communication Protocol between PAY & OBC

    • Bootloader

  • Software PAY-Interface board

    • PC Software to communicate with payload board (Python?)

    • CAN-Logger, mimic OBC

PWR - Power

Contact: @Ben Schaekermann

Last updated: 25. März 2025

• Test definition for functional and acceptance test campaign

• Driver Implementation/ Interface with OBC

STC - Structure & Thermals

Contact: @Adrian Kaßmann

Last updated: 25. März 2025

• Support Thermal Simulation

• Satellite integration/fit check

• Maintenance of the 3D model

SYS - System Engineering

Contact: @Pia Lenhardt

Last updated: 25. März 2025

• Requirements Verification (planning)