Backbone bus card
The electronics in the satellite are designed as a modular system. Each of the subsystems is produced on modular circuit board interconnected with each other with a backbone bus card. The backbone bus card holds the various intersystem communication buses as well as the subsystem power buses.
The modular system design was choosen instead of the stacked (104-pin) design which is more common in the cubesat community, because it simplifies the debug and integration work.
The Backbone Bus Card
The annual ANSAT workshop was held at the Andoya Rocket Range (ARR) from 19-20. june.
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) held a cubesat seminar to introduce the work being performed on their student satellite project NUTS. Three CubeSTAR students attended the seminar to learn about the NUTS and exchange information and experience with the other students.
In late January, five students from the University of Oslo attended the 1st IAA Conference on University Satellite Missions and Cubesat Workshop held in Rome.