Avionics

About the team

The avionics team is responsible for the design and development of the on-board computer that all our vehicles carry inside. Thet flight computer is splitted into a stack of printed circuit boards and is capable of sending the data coming from all the sensors to our ground station. They also help with all the electronics involving: ignition, recovery, ground equipment and test benches.

The avionics team is in charge of all the electronic design and simulation of the circuits including both analogue and digital to better understand in-flight conditions and other aspects pertinent to the vehicles. They also design and assemble all of the PCBs used in our electronic systems. The team is also in charge of power system design and analysis to deliver the power requested by the sensors actuators and controllers, as well as telemetry links for long range communications with our vehicles. They also develop the ground station and are now working on developing control systems design to stabilize our vehicles.

We love to design circuits and share our ideas with the rest of the team. We always try to find the most optimal and efficient solution to our projects and all the improvements that we have implemented during the past years have led us to implement flight computers on PC Boards. As a part of STAR, we dream with the idea of ​​seeing our electronics fly and of course, as well as the rest of the association, we show interest in space.

Highlight Projects

EOS

Eos is a flight computer that includes communications, control, power and recovery subsystems in a modular stackable stack that allows the expansion of avionics with additional modules through STARBUS. It was developed entirely during confinement and serves the mission of the Astrea-C vehicle.

STR-23

STR-23 is a project that is in its final stage to give way to the development of new avionics. STR-23 is an improved and compact version of Eos that includes practically the same elements on a single board with more security at both the software and hardware levels. The computational capacity has been increased as well as the number of peripherals and ports available on the STARBUS. It has been successfully validated in flight on the Lince mission by ejecting the parachutes to recover the vehicle. 

INTEGRATION

They avionics team is working on the integration of the electronics and software in FPGAs to be able to reduce the space and to parallelize complex algorithms.

They are working also on GNSS SDR, signal receiver, to be integrated into our vehicles, and allow for a greater height and velocity range.
Our Avionics team has made some publications about their work with PCBs. If you want to know more about what they do, and learn how they do it, click the link on the right and get to read their articles!

THE TEAM

SAUL LOPEZ

JAVIER LAZARO

MARÍA RUIZ

MOHAMAD ALIF FAHMY

ADRIÁN RAMOS

BRAIS GARCÍA

CARLOS ATAUN

CELIA TUNDIDOR

MANUEL PALENZUELA

JESÚS LÓPEZ

LUIS GALINDO

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