MPEG Multi Purpose Experiment Gondola

OBDH_on_a_generic_balloon_platform.pdf - Johannes Reldin, Department of Space Science. - 0,7Mb. Introduction: The whole project has its roots in the BEXUS project that was started in 2002 as an opportunity for students at IRV in Kiruna to participate in a real space project in cooperation with SSC and Esrange Space Center. The project became annual with BEXUS 2 that was launched in 2004. After the degree project VECI Versatile Experiment CAN Interface, which was done for SSC/Esrange in Kiruna on bachelor level in 2004, some loose ends was still left to tie up due to lack of time and a final and fully tested design was not possible to finish within the projects time plan. The design was tested in a small scale on the BEXUS 3 flight from Esrange in 2005 as a part of the MPEG, Multi Purpose Experiment Gondola platform. Again, lack of time limited the possibility to make a good evaluation of the system with suggestions to design changes. Many references to VECI Versatile Experiment CAN Interface will be done in this report and will simply be referred to as the VECI report which is available at IRV.

User_manual_3P_and_batteries.doc - Mikael Koivunen, Department of Space Science. - 4,1Mb. Introduction: 3P is a PDU designed for balloon platforms, especially aimed for the student platform called MPEG. The MPEG platform was formed in a joint project where three independent C-level degree projects - 3P, MMP, LINA/VECI - were merged together in 2004. However, this manual concentrates solely on 3P and the batteries. 3P is able to supply the entire platform as well as the experiments used onboard. The idea with 3P is to have a flexible, portable and user friendly unit making it easy to remove the unit e.g. for placing it into other platforms. Moreover, it offers opportunities for the experiment developers to configure 3P for matching the experiment requirements.