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Managing Cubesat Payloads Using LEGO®
No full textTaylor University Computer Science & Engineering, in collaboration with NearSpace Education, is initiating a broad-participation, multi-year effort to enhance space-awareness and offer students career-impacting opportunities to build and fly satellites that have a LEGO®-robotics-based payload.
We built a prototype flat sat to test and demonstrate our LEGO satellite concept. The satellite uses NearSpace Launch’s Dream Big 1/2U bus to manage power, radio communications, and any other non-payload activity such as attitude control. Using the Dream Big bus makes building the satellite technically and financially feasible for a small team without significant satellite experience.
The payload consists of the LEGO robotics Spike Prime and LEGO EV3 control boards jointly managing a set of sensors. We have three categories of sensors: actual LEGO sensors, 3rd party sensors build to work with LEGO robotics, and sensors that are not designed to work with LEGO. Some sensors are connected to the Spike Prime, and some to the EV3. The Spike Prime controls payload operations, such as collecting data from sensors connected to the SPIKE Prime, requesting sensor data from the EV3, collating the data into a packet, and handing the packet to the flight radio for transmission to Earth via the Iridium satellite network.
Back on earth, we receive the packets, storing and processing them. Finally, we can automatically post mission information – including sensor data charts – to X (Twitter) and plan to post to other social media platforms. We can make satellite orbit tracking Internet-available using a 3-D model of the Earth. We plot the packet transmission locations and display the contents for each received packet.
A successful full-path test from the flat sat — through the Iridium network and back down to earth — took place at NearSpace Education took place on Thursday, July 17.
Conference site: https://www.smallsateducation.org
The Catholic Church and Their Response to the Rise of Human Rights Abuses by the Military Regimes in Argentina and Brazil: A Comparative Analysis on the Argentine and Brazilian Church from the 1960’s to the 1980’s
No full textThis study is primarily focused on the Catholic Church\u27s role in Argentina and Brazil throughout the 1960\u27s to 1980\u27s. It explores the historical and political context of Latin America amidst Cold War influence which resulted in the rise of military dictatorships who resorted to violence due to their strong political views. The Catholic Church, at the time, was experiencing deep internal tension which, in some cases, lead to an unfortunate lack of action despite their vast influence and their ability to aid their communities in need
Infestations Stored in a Jam Jar
Full text linkInfestations Stored in a Jam Jar is a collection of fiction and poetry that delves into the inner mind of characters using a variety of genres. The collection creates a scrapbook of pieces, forming a textured exploration of the human experience through subgenres like persona poetry and flash fiction. Each piece approaches themes of fear, time, the artistic mind, and forgotten memories under varying lights of horror, dystopia, and reminiscence. The title is from the newest and last piece of the collection, “Somewhere in a Spider Neighborhood,” referring to the buried memories and thoughts that are lost to time and negligence in the human mind. It is the purpose of Infestations Stored in a Jam Jar to recover those stories lost in the mind of the author and, hopefully, speak to the stories hidden in the readers
Reconstructing Belief: Understanding the Mental Health and Faith Development of Adolescents
Full text linkThis content argues that a proper understanding of James Fowler’s Theory of Faith Development can help ministry workers, specifically youth group volunteers, better minister to the emotional and spiritual needs of students within the Church who are doubting and deconstructing their faith
