Last week was spent in redesign of a rover and ground station. It was done by three main reasons –
a) ground station needs to be build and 3D models for 3D printer has to be finalized.
b) clearance of a rover needs to be increased.
c) needs to increase solar power harvesting surface.
Korolev initial intention (same as Von Brown) was a planet Mars, not the Moon. Facts about researches done in that program in 1960-1970 – artificial gravity and anabiosis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kr2mmf0g2A
in 1960 Valery Kubasov (that time young engineer from ballistic group, after- cosmonaut on Souze) started to work on trajectory calculation on Mars mission, craft's components, weight of a TMK.
One checkbox implementation in mission control web interface - real-time data for orientation vectors for ground station antenna. == Same xml file used for visualization of a CubeSat trajectory, also used to feed antenna control.
Communication, packages of commands, re-design from standard modem communication implementation, flush memory buffer to speed up data transfer, triple flush memory with majority voting (protection from radiation damage).
Visualization of calculated trajectory in simulator to generate commands for (a) ground station and (b) craft/cubesat. GPS satellites traject's simulation for proper calculation of a craft/ground station positions.
Last travisual.xml file includes trajectory of the moon in last 60 minutes (it shows polyline how moon rotates around earth) and also coordinates (trajectories) of (up to 10) satellites - on a server (http://24.84.33.246/SatCtrl/travisual.xml) tra.exe running now in loop and output updated travisual.xml - (click couple times on the http://24.84.33.246/SatCtrl/travisual.xml it is constantly updated - in processing of the file needs to handle a non-finished-write-to-the-file cases)
Last week's changes
Thanks Vera!
This is sample ugly animation of two years ago.
The Earth In the central point, the moon is the ellipse.
Lost in 1971 Mars-3 found on Mars. By analyzing pictures from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
On Mars-3 lander was a rover “Prop-M” designed by Kemurdzhian’s team, similar design used Selenokhod. Post interesting, in a Russian, with Google translate possibility on the page.
In the beginning was the word:
. . само собою как-то приключилось,
Я их обидеть не хотел,
Я просто делелал что хотел,
Я просто делеал что хотел - и получилось.
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