Abstract
Within the context of bilateral cooperation between Turkey and Tunisia, a Project called 'Development of Intelligent Control Modules for Nano Satellites' was initiated in May 2015. Due to political changes in both countries the Project could effectively start on May 2016. The project aims at developing nanosatellite based water quality monitoring within the MENA region. Turkish side consists of researchers from Istanbul Technical University, while Tunisian team has two intuitions, University Monastir of and University of Sfax. Project involves 8 team visits, 4 in each country. In those meetings, teams agreed on a mission and related payload. The mission is monitoring dam water parameters (levels, salinity, pollution, temperature, etc.) in Tunisia using ground sensor data. The Tunisian team is responsible of development of ground sensor system and contributing to the control of the nanosatellite. Space segment main duty is store and forward. Therefore a 2U CubeSat is found appropriate. Currently ground sensors are foreseen to transmit data in VHF band. However based on recent developments, a transmission at 920 MHz is also of interest.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies, RAST 2017 |
Editors | M.F. Unal, A. Hacioglu, M.S. Yildiz, O. Altan, M. Yorukoglu |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 477-482 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781538616031 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Aug 2017 |
Event | 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies, RAST 2017 - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 19 Jun 2017 → 22 Jun 2017 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies, RAST 2017 |
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Conference
Conference | 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies, RAST 2017 |
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Country/Territory | Turkey |
City | Istanbul |
Period | 19/06/17 → 22/06/17 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 IEEE.
Keywords
- Autonomous
- MENA region
- Nano-satellite
- Water-quality monitoring
- sensors