Tokyo Institute of Technology ARLISS Project in 2003

摘要

Tokyo Institute of Technology participated in "ARocket Launch for International Student Satellites(ARLISS)" in 2003. The ARLISS project is aninternational, educational and practical project heldevery year since 1999. We have been designing anddeveloping very small satellite models called"CanSat", and conducting various technicalexperiments such as telemetry download, sensingdata or something new while each CanSat isdescending after separating from amateursolid-motor rockets. In the 5th ARLISS in 2003, weconducted an experiment about two-stepdeployment of a parachute and a parafoil. Theobjective of this experiment is to prevent fromspinning of the CanSat after deployment from therocket. The parafoil, adjusted properly and deployedwith sufficient balance, can be stable when theCanSat is flying. Another main experiment is toverify an original communication protocol, "SimpleRadio Link Layer (SRLL)". SRLL contains errorcorrection code, and we confirmed the performancein this experiment.