Development Board for an In-Space Gamma Ray Bursts Detector
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager's Background & Transit Observer
Overview
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a telescope designed by the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, for wide-field imaging and spectroscopy in the medium energy gamma-ray band.
The first iteration of the telescope was balloon-borne, and the team is currently working on an in-space version of COSI, which is planned to be launched by NASA in 2027.
My role is the developer for the microcontroller in COSI's Background & Transit Observer (BTO). BTO is in charge of logging background gamma-ray energy levels, and sending the data back down to Earth. The chosen development board is SAM V71 Xplained Ultra, for its relatively robust architecture and versatility in hardware pin assignments.
Progress
April 15, 2023
Basic communication between the PC and microcontroller established
June 25, 2023
First iteration of the data collection and transmission system developed
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