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CubeSat - TRIY

During the days of 22 to 25 April 2009, held the Annual Workshop of Developers CubeSats in its sixth edition in the University of California located in San Luis Obispo, in the southwestern United States. The workshop aims to gather new participants and experts to show different developments, proposals, success stories and unsuccessful missions that have developed since last year. This edition had a participation of 56 papers that innovative proposals raised during the four days of congress. Among the most notable was the participation of founder Dr. Bob Twiggs CubeSat standard by Stanford University who presented a new standard called PocketCube, which is a satellite peak of ¼ part of the CubeSat standard, and is intended to ¼ cost of its predecessor. This new standard technology trend converges to the miniaturization of systems comprising the satellite, reducing the number of separate components for integration in a single integrated circuit, in turn reduces the power consumption of the satellite and the weight of it, being a light load to launch rockets. Within the overall participation of the workshop was remarkable the willingness of attendees to launch its satellite in the near future, the vast majority were just waiting to launch or delivery of test results prior to the launching of satellites.

Most participants were young students of undergraduate and masters who had made the project an average of two years or less, also highlighted the involvement of a large number of students attending high school, who used the platform to solve CubeSat problems in the area of mathematics, electronics and physics. Innovative ideas were presented to solve the problem of stabilization of CubeSats in space as well as improvements in hardware and new methodologies for handling the peak-satellite. The Hispanic American countries who attended the workshop were to Mexico and Peru. In Peru, members of the Electrical and Electronics section of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and headed by Dr. Jorge Heraud, showed their intention to launch a Bucket PocketCube mode in a period not exceeding three years, also have with a construction project of an earth station for sending and receiving information with an antenna 21 meters in diameter, which excited the participants of the event, as it provides a great opportunity to maintain communications with the crossing by that CubeSats region of Peru. The Peruvian team emphasized its willingness and intention to invite to participate in this great project. Mexico had a presence in CubeSats Developers Workshop sixth version through participation at the Robotics Institute of Yucatan (TRIY) who intend to pursue the design, construction, technology integration, launch and tele-operation of CubeSat standard through a 3U pico-satellite, which carries a payload robotics as an experimental model of orbital stabilization, called TRIY-SAT I. The idea is to perform an operations center (earth stations) located in the Yucatan Peninsula, which offers features ideal for tele-operate satellites due to geographical location and topography of the place. The Yucatan Robotics Institute has highly qualified personnel in the area of telecommunications, microelectronics, robotics and software development, who joined the project as a multidisciplinary research team. One goal is to link together with the Sergio Arboleda University in Colombia, who are an experienced group in the area of pico-satellites in orbit have already Freedom I device, so the team may seek advice TRIY in the various steps of the satellite design flow. This project aims to be a starting point for future missions where the objectives are the development and integration of new technologies for future exploitation and use and marketing to benefit the community.

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September 2009. Eng. Olmo Alonso Moreno Franco. The Robotics Institute of Yucatan.