Yep, but students love reinventing the wheel ;).
I agree though, my dream for years has been an open source CubeSat bus design that covers say 80% of academic CubeSat use cases and can be modified by the user for the other 20%. Unfortunately I have very little free time these days with family commitments.
Well, the point of a student's project is to reinvent the wheel.
One should limit the number of wheels being reinvented each time, though. What would also reduce the time-to-space of those projects. The design should cover 100% of the CubeSat, so the students can redesign any part they want.
>Yep, but students love reinventing the wheel ;).
And ... professors love making students reinvent the wheel
I thought professors loved making students by the latest version of the book they wrote discussing how the wheel was invented
And that
Seems like we have similar thoughts as we wrote more or less the same comment 10 minutes apart :) Would love to chat about this, maybe we figure out a way to get there? Email is on my profile.
Email sent. I am generally very busy with family commitments but happy to stay in touch.
have you seen https://github.com/the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5 ? sadly I don't have the FPGA skills to play with it, but the features are very cool
Not just students TBH...
> I agree though, my dream for years has been an open source CubeSat bus design that covers say 80% of academic CubeSat use cases and can be modified by the user for the other 20%
Surely this, or something like it, exists?
Not really. There are a couple of open source projects (LibreCube being the biggest example) but they aren't flight-ready.