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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.

Intermediate1 simulator

Electrical Power Subsystem

Generate, store, distribute and control — the subsystem that causes a quarter of all on-orbit failures

Three sessions: EPS fundamentals, the design process with real sizing arithmetic, and the hardware development flow from SPICE to a PC/104 board.

7 h10 lessons
Intermediate1 simulator

On-Board Computer and Data Handling

The processor, the flight software, and the data budget that decides whether your images ever reach the ground

System architectures, flight software design, radiation effects on computing, and a fully worked data budget.

4 h5 lessons

Satellite-to-IoT

LoRa, the SX1278, edge device design and the store-and-forward architecture that connects remote sensors to a spacecraft.

IntermediateHardware1 simulator

LoRa for Satellite IoT

Spreading factors, airtime, and the configuration on AfriOrbit's own edge device

How LoRa trades data rate for range, what that costs in airtime, and how the SX1278 on the AfriOrbit IoT Edge Device is actually configured.

3 h4 lessons