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Curriculum

Course catalogue

Applied training for engineers building and operating small satellites — written from AfriOrbit's own CubeSat, satellite-IoT and avionics material.

CubeSat Development

The full subsystem-by-subsystem programme: space systems, structures, thermal, power, on-board computing, communications, attitude control, payload and ground segment.

Foundation

Introduction to Space Systems

What a satellite is, how the CubeSat standard happened, and the systems engineering that holds a mission together

The foundation course. Satellite classification, the history that produced the CubeSat, Kenya's place in it, and a working command of the systems engineering lifecycle.

3 h4 lessons

Rocketry Avionics

From blinking an LED to a flight computer that logs a full trajectory — the twelve-step firmware ladder used on the Morgan State rocketry programme.

FoundationHardware1 simulator

Flight Computer Firmware

Twelve steps from a blinking LED to a data logger that survives a flight

AfriOrbit's Morgan State University avionics progression, one concept per step, ending in a working CSV flight recorder on an ESP32 with a BMP280 and an MPU6050.

5 h6 lessons