BIRDS4-SolarPanel

Documentation for the Solar Panel Boards used in the BIRDS4 Satellite

About the BIRDS4 Program:

The Mission Statement of the Project is:

“By successfully building and operating first satellite of nation, advance toward indigenous space program in each country”

The project is led by Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan and involves students from Philippines, Paraguay, Nepal, Turkey and Japan.

Satellite Names: Tsuru (Japan), Guarani-1 (Paraguay) and Maya-2 (Phillipines)

Stakeholders: Paraguayan Space Agency, Polytechnic Faculty of National University of Asuncion, and Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) for Japan.

Project duration: 2018-2022

CubeSat: 1U (10x10x10) cm3

Weight: 1.13kg

Launch Date: 21st February 2021

BIRDS-4 has 1 main missions in total; APRS Store and forward mission

Organisation structure

├── .gitattributes
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── Solar panel
    ├── +X
    │   ├── B4_FM_+X_SOLAR_PANEL_v2.brd
    │   └── B4_FM_+X_SOLAR_PANEL_v2.sch
    ├── +Y
    │   ├── B4_FM_+Y_SOLAR_PANEL.brd
    │   └── B4_FM_+Y_SOLAR_PANEL.sch
    ├── +Z
    │   ├── B4_FM_+Z_SOLAR_PANEL.brd
    │   └── B4_FM_+Z_SOLAR_PANEL.sch
    ├── -X
    │   ├── B4_FM_-X_SOLAR_PANEL_v2.brd
    │   └── B4_FM_-X_SOLAR_PANEL_v2.sch
    ├── -Z
    │   ├── B4_FM_-Z_SOLAR_PANEL.brd
    │   └── B4_FM_-Z_SOLAR_PANEL.sch
    └── B4_FM_solar_panel_List_20190923.xlsx

Caution

The files .sch and .brd files in this repositiry were created using Eagle software.

For those that want to import these files into KiCAD7 here's how you do it or KiCAD5.1 here's how you do it.

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