@sathyndhira

I fixed the error, turns out it wasn’t anything much.

Added:

• Graphs that show Altitude Temperature and Velocity

Struggles:

• Getting the Port to communicate the data to Python

Next:

• When the LoRa Radio Parts Arrive I’ll build communication from the satellite to the Ground Control
• Make the graphs smoother (Right now each second is delayed)

The parts came in today and I tried to connect it from an Arduino script to a Python Script. It was hard and I failed in the end but I’ll fix it tomorrow.

Added:

• First hardware prototype with an ESP32-WROOM and BMP280.
• Built a python script to draw out graphs with time, velocity, altitude, and temperature.

Struggles:

• Logic was very hard to figure out (AI Help)
• The plotting library (matplotlib) was hard to configure and couldn’t get it to work in the end.

Next:

• Going to build a Ground Control station and code another ESP32 to do all the things a Ground Control would do
• When the LoRa radio arrives I’ll tune it and add it to the prototype

This is the first stage of my Satellite Probe. This project is going to take data from the environment and display it on a real Ground Control Panel.

Today was surprisingly simple and easy due to the already existing libraries for the LoRa, ESP, and BMP.

Accomplished:

• Wrote down all the logic I’ll need for the code in the future
• Initialized all the electronics parts that I’ll need and wrote code to gather and send data

Struggles:

• Not much just a lot of syntax errors

What Next:

• Parts will arrive soon (hopefully tomorrow)
  • This means soldering when needed and building a prototype to see if everything works
• Building Ground Control

This is the final devlog for this project! It was a great experience getting to build this.

Added:

• The ISS and it’s own path
• RF Engineering and displaying signal connection

Stuggles:

• Nothing much today, it was mostly just copy pasting previous code.

I got pretty far today. It was mostly just a repeat of last devlog, adding another satellite using similar code but the latitude coordinates were hard to manage.

Added:

• COSMOS-2 which is similar to COSMOS-1 but with different colors and goes North and South
• Control Panel on the top corner of the screen showing basic information such as activity

Struggles

• It was hard to control the latitude of COSMOS-2’s coordinates
• It took a while to learn how to create a sci-fi panel style

Next:

• Adding more information to the space panel

I created the first satellite (COSMOS-1) which orbits in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) with a designated path around the top of the Earth. I also set Mission Control to California!

Added:

• Goldstone Ground Control in California
• Fixed a Camera Tracking Bug to make a Cinematic Entrance to Ground Control
• Added COMOS-1, the first satellite of many to come, which orbits in LEO (Low-Earth-Orbit)
• Added COMOS-1’s flight path

Struggles:

• The flight path wouldn’t generate properly for a long time. Fixed it with an array which generates multiple points finally creating a circle.
• Had to use AI to fix many many typos that I couldn’t find :(.

Next Steps:

• Second Satellite going North to South And the ISS in real time.
• A Clean Panel Showing important information on the side.

This is the first step in this project. It visualizes the Earth with Cesium (which took me a long time before I started recording this to learn). I used HTML and Local Server within VS Code to create this simulation of Earth. Next, I need to add a coordinate plane for this simulation.

Hardware-In-the-Loop Satellite Simluation

This projects connects a testing bridge between two things: an Arduino UNO (Physical Microcontroller) which acts like a Flight Computer, and a Python Script in VS Code which acts as Ground Control.

As the orbital physics are simulated in Python and sent live over a serial data highway to the Arduino, the Arduino must process this information to execute decision-making logic, and showcase the simulation’s state based on hardware constraints.

Just started working on this OS. First time coding using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS so it took a while to get it working but I’m satisfied with the progress so far!