Spacecraft Power & Data Handling

The foreseen lectures are:

• Introduction to OBDH (Alessandra Menicucci)

• OBDH hardware components (Alessandra Menicucci)

• OBDH basics of software programming (Alessandra Menicucci)

• OBDH HW/SW interfaces (Alessandra Menicucci)

• EPS basics, photovoltaics & solar cell behaviour (Jasper Bouwmeester)

• Solar array configuration & deployment (Jasper Bouwmeester)

• Storage, regulation, distribution & protection (Jasper Bouwmeester)

• Space radiation environment and effects on space OBDH (Alessandra Menicucci)

• Plasma and magnetic fields environment and effects (Iklim Akay)

• Fault tolerance techniques (Alessandra Menicucci)

• Guest lecture(s), e.g. on basics of artificial intelligence (guest lecturer)

• Q&A lecture (Alessandra, Jasper and Iklim)

Note that small changes in allocation and order are possible. The final set of lectures and its order will be communicated on BrightSpace