KSat Stuttgart | Helmholtz-Cage: Putting it all Together @KSatStuttgart | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 51 minutes ago.
In the last video of this series, we show the final assembly of the magnetic test stand. The frame is made from aluminium profiles. After a thorough cleaning to remove most dust particles, the structure and coils were brought into the institute cleanroom. There, the coils were mounted and everything wired up, ready for initial tests and operations. A new bachelor's thesis has already started, during which the test stand will be precisely characterized and calibrated.
This #HelmholtzCage test stand is being built for the CubeSats #EIVE of Uni Stuttgart IRS and our own #SOURCE. Its purpose is to place a satellite or magnetic sensor in the middle and then generate an arbitrary magnetic field around it. This way we can recreate the fields in orbit and test that the spacecraft measures them correctly and computes the correct attitude control commands. We can even simulate spinning by rotating the field. The sizing and design was done in a previous thesis, this video series shows the process of actually building it. The work on this test stand is done in a bachelors thesis as part of the EIVE project of the Institute for Space Systems (IRS) at the University of Stuttgart.
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In the last video of this series, we show the final assembly of the magnetic test stand. The frame is made from aluminium profiles. After a thorough cleaning to remove most dust particles, the structure and coils were brought into the institute cleanroom. There, the coils were mounted and everything wired up, ready for initial tests and operations. A new bachelor's thesis has already started, during which the test stand will be precisely characterized and calibrated.
This #HelmholtzCage test stand is being built for the CubeSats #EIVE of Uni Stuttgart IRS and our own #SOURCE. Its purpose is to place a satellite or magnetic sensor in the middle and then generate an arbitrary magnetic field around it. This way we can recreate the fields in orbit and test that the spacecraft measures them correctly and computes the correct attitude control commands. We can even simulate spinning by rotating the field. The sizing and design was done in a previous thesis, this video series shows the process of actually building it. The work on this test stand is done in a bachelors thesis as part of the EIVE project of the Institute for Space Systems (IRS) at the University of Stuttgart.
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