Flight Software Development for the EIRSAT-1 Mission

The Educational Irish Research Satellite, known as EIRSAT-1, is a student-led project to design, build, test and launch Ireland's first satellite. The on-board software for this mission is being developed using Bright Ascension's GenerationOne Flight Software Development Kit. This paper pr...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-08
Main Authors: Doyle, Maeve, Gloster, Andrew, O'Toole, Conor, Mangan, Joseph, Murphy, David, Dunwoody, Rachel, Emam, Masoud, Erkal, Jessica, Flanaghan, Joe, Fontanesi, Gianluca, Favour Okosun, Rakhi Rajagopalan Nair, Reilly, Jack, Salmon, Lána, Sherwin, Daire, Thompson, Joseph, Walsh, Sarah, Daithí de Faoite, Javaid, Umair, McBreen, Sheila, McKeown, David, O'Callaghan, Derek, O'Connor, William, Stanton, Kenneth, Ulyanov, Alexei, Wall, Ronan, Hanlon, Lorraine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cubesat
Education
Firmware
Payloads
Software
Software development tools
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Summary:The Educational Irish Research Satellite, known as EIRSAT-1, is a student-led project to design, build, test and launch Ireland's first satellite. The on-board software for this mission is being developed using Bright Ascension's GenerationOne Flight Software Development Kit. This paper provides an overview of this kit and of EIRSAT-1's on-board software design. Drawing on the team's contrasting experience with writing entirely custom firmware for the mission's science payloads, this work discusses the impact of using a kit on the software development process. The challenges associated with the educational nature of this project are the focus of this discussion. The objective of this paper is to provide useful information for other CubeSat teams assessing software development options.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2008.09074