Team JHK Project TIC

Personnel Supreme Commander Jarrod Marsh

Personnel Mistress of Money, Transactions, and Work No One Else Wants to Do Hallie Baer

Personnel Minister of Paperwork, Bureaucratic Nonsense, and Design Review Koren Smith

PDR Presentation Team JHK Experiment TIC February 27, 2003

Science Objective Our goal is to learn if IR radiation is dependent on temperature or altitude in the upper atmosphere. We are also going to study temperature as a function of altitude during ascent.

Payload Design The payload will be constructed out of a BASIC Stamp and be connected to an infrared sensor and a thermistor. The sensors will be interfaced to the BASIC Stamp through an ADC channel. A timing chip will also be included to coordinate the data with GPS data taken by the balloon systems. There will be a camera facing the side of the box that will take pictures at certain intervals.

Fabrication and Testing The first step will be to design the circuitry for the sensors and chips. While waiting for the parts to be delivered over the next several weeks, we will finish mounting all the basic components of the circuit. When the ADC, RTC, and sensors arrive, we will begin testing with an oscilloscope before we mount the chips. The final test will to suspend the payload above a surface and determine if the readings taken match the actual data.

Fabrication Test List Circuitry –Design –Construction and Testing Testing –ADC Attach power source Input simulated data Use oscilloscope to measure from output pin

Fabrication Test List (cont.) –RTC Attach power source Send command to begin transmitting time Use Basic Stamp to interpret signal

Mission Operations The payload will be launched and tracked from the ground. Upon recovery the EEPROM will be downloaded and the data converted to temperatures and light intensities to determine if a correlation exists between the two.

Weight Budget Item Weight CanSat 85g Thermistor 10g Sensor 300g Camera 30g Memory Chip 50g Warming Device 100g Total Weight 575g

Data Analysis Temperature and IR light intensity will be measured every ten seconds during the flight. All data will be stored on board and recovered with the payload. Software needs to be developed to convert voltages from the sensors to temperature and IR light intensity.

Power Budget Still waiting on specs for some parts

Master Budget ItemEstimated Cost Infrared Sensor$200 Thermistor $20 Digital Camera $40 Warming Device $20 Memory Chip $20 ADC Chip $5 $305

Timeline PDR2 daysMon 2/24/03Tue 2/25/03 Build PDR Presentation3 daysTue 2/25/03Thu 2/27/03 PDR Presentation0 daysThu 2/27/03Thu 2/27/03 Mardi Gras Break Begin Construction Design5 daysMon 3/3/03Fri 3/7/03 Receive and Install Sensors5 daysMon 3/10/03Fri 3/14/03 Install Power/ Begin Testing5 daysMon 3/17/03Fri 3/21/03 Work on CDR4 daysMon 3/24/03Thu 3/27/03 CDR Due0 daysThu 3/27/03Thu 3/27/03 Work on Interface5 daysMon 3/31/03Fri 4/4/03 Testing/ Begin Calibration5 daysMon 4/7/03Fri 4/11/03 Construction of Box5 daysMon 4/14/03Fri 4/18/03 Begin Preparation for Flight5 daysMon 4/21/03Fri 4/25/03 Work on FRR4 daysMon 4/28/03Thu 5/1/03 FRR Due0 daysThu 5/1/03Thu 5/1/03 Preparation for flight5 daysMon 5/5/03Fri 5/9/03 Final Exams5 daysMon 5/12/03Fri 5/16/03 Flight Operations5 daysMon 5/19/03Fri 5/23/03

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Credits 1. Online Source: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), February 16, 2003, Online Source: Online Journey through Astronomy, February 16, 2003, Online Source: NASA Website, February 16, 2003, Online Source: Earth Zone Website: Absorption, Radiation, & Greenhouse, February 23, 2003, Online Source: University of Chicago, February 23, 2003, Online Source: Caltech University, February 23, 2003, Online Source: Seiko Instruments, February 23, 2003, 8. Catalog Source: Edmund Industrial Optics, Optics and Optical Instruments Catalog, 2002, p. 191 Online Source: US Sensor Corporation, February 23, 2003,

And of course… Thanks to the JHK team for putting up with me…