GAUSS started to design and build a new educational microsatellite, EduSAT, with the aim to involve a number of young students in an experimental practical space program. The idea is to involve students of high school overall space mission design and realization phases to manufacture a real satellite payload. The purpose of moving “hands-on-education” from University to high school is to educate young generations of students to space related topics, closing up these disciplines usually so far from high school experience and subjects trying to stimulate the interest in scientific careers which is in dangerous decreasing nowadays overall industrialized countries . GAUSS efforts in this direction, during last two years, permitted the establishment of a new educational program for students of high schools: “Astronautica in classe”. Students learn, directly from university professors, researchers and students the principles of celestial mechanics, use didactical software, design and built a satellite mock-up and participate directly to the activities of the Ground Station San Pietro in Vincoli (SPIV), located at School of Aerospace Engineering, with a real time connection by internet. In the framework of this project, students of high schools will be directly involved in the payload design and realization, so well as in the telemetry data reception when satellite will be in orbit. At the same time, students will design and build a small technological demonstrator to understand the complex architecture of a space system. They will try to design the technological demonstrator structure, will test simple electronic boards in the laboratory and will manufacture easy solar arrays with terrestrial solar cells. Other goal of this project is to test in orbit new ideas and technological solutions to reduce costs of small space programs in order to support the applied and basic scientific research in space field. In this paper the results of the educational activity with young students of high schools is showed an main architecture of this satellite is depicted.
F. Graziani, F. Santoni, C. Marchiori, F. Piergentili, M.L.Battagliere (2007). An educational microsatellite for high school students. s.l : s.n.
An educational microsatellite for high school students
PIERGENTILI, FABRIZIO;
2007
Abstract
GAUSS started to design and build a new educational microsatellite, EduSAT, with the aim to involve a number of young students in an experimental practical space program. The idea is to involve students of high school overall space mission design and realization phases to manufacture a real satellite payload. The purpose of moving “hands-on-education” from University to high school is to educate young generations of students to space related topics, closing up these disciplines usually so far from high school experience and subjects trying to stimulate the interest in scientific careers which is in dangerous decreasing nowadays overall industrialized countries . GAUSS efforts in this direction, during last two years, permitted the establishment of a new educational program for students of high schools: “Astronautica in classe”. Students learn, directly from university professors, researchers and students the principles of celestial mechanics, use didactical software, design and built a satellite mock-up and participate directly to the activities of the Ground Station San Pietro in Vincoli (SPIV), located at School of Aerospace Engineering, with a real time connection by internet. In the framework of this project, students of high schools will be directly involved in the payload design and realization, so well as in the telemetry data reception when satellite will be in orbit. At the same time, students will design and build a small technological demonstrator to understand the complex architecture of a space system. They will try to design the technological demonstrator structure, will test simple electronic boards in the laboratory and will manufacture easy solar arrays with terrestrial solar cells. Other goal of this project is to test in orbit new ideas and technological solutions to reduce costs of small space programs in order to support the applied and basic scientific research in space field. In this paper the results of the educational activity with young students of high schools is showed an main architecture of this satellite is depicted.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
