Aerospace Engineering

Terminology #

• OBC - on board computers
• C&DH - Command and Data Handling
• Subsystem - this image for tl;dr
• Telemetry - process of collecting data and transmitting it to a device

Links #

• Command & Data Handling - http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/en/organisation/departments/space-engineering/space-systems-engineering/expertise-areas/spacecraft-engineering/subsystem-design/c-and-dh/ (protip: navigate through the website for more information of what aerospace engineering is all about)
• C&DH Subsystem schema - http://ususat.usu.edu/cdh.html
• Open source mission control framework - https://github.com/nasa/openmct
• NASA open source software - https://software.nasa.gov/
• USM Aerospace Engineering guides - http://library.eng.usm.my/englib/downloadform/subject_guides/subject_guides_aerospace.pdf
• Streamlined flight software design - http://flightsoftware.jhuapl.edu/files/2010/FSW10_Stolper.pdf
• MRO Command & Data-handling Systems - https://mars.nasa.gov/MRO/mission/spacecraft/parts/command/
• C&DH Flight Software test framework: A Radiation Belt Storm Probes practice - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6496830/citations?tabFilter=papers
• SPACE HAUC Subsystems - https://www.uml.edu/Research/LoCSST/Research/spacehauc/subsystems.aspx
• SPACE HAUC source code - https://github.com/SpaceHAUC-Command-and-Data-Handling

Books #

• The Standard Handbook For Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineers

News and resources #

• Spaceflight101 - http://spaceflight101.com