UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
This period addressed two key challenges that are key to the LEISA spacecraft concept. These challenges have remained unsolved until this period. One is the deployable electrically small biconic wideband UHF antenna that deploys to approximately 1.5m in length and .5 m in width. This performance period resulted in an antenna prototype that deploys from a diminutive 500 cubic centimeter volume. The concept continues to be perfected. Secondly, the remaining electronics must fit within the remaining 500 cubic centimeters of the diminutive spacecraft, leading the team to develop a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design using a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA. The resulting circuit handles the spectrogram capture as well as all command and data handling functions within an average power footprint of approximately 200mW, reserving energy for analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) during capture events. The team made a significant breakthrough in demonstrating the heart of this circuit design and its functionality at the required 400 mega sample per second (MSPS) rate.
1. Total Electron Content (TEC), magnetic field strength, refractive effects, plasma properties, and higher-order electron density profile effects.
2. Relationships between lightning effects and thunderstorm weather in the troposphere.
3. The potential relationship between the acoustic/seismic events around thunderstorms and Ionospheric weather.
4. Suitability of low-power FPGA processing architectures for space applications.
CubeSat components and ground equipment will be built and deployed that would sample broadband 20-200MHz sferic events in the time domain. In addition to gathering the data, the system would be capable of geo-locating the events to within approximately 1km. particularly useful in inverting the key scientific findings from the collected data. This provides a virtually limitless area of research possibilities for undergraduates including (but not limited to): receiver design, analysis, antennas, DSP processing, filter design, power, networking and communications.
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| AWARD OVERVIEW |
| Award Number |
0851916 |
Funding Agency |
National Science Foundation |
| Total Award Amount |
$474,240 |
Project Location - City |
Albuquerque |
| Award Date |
09/14/2009 |
Project Location - State |
NM |
| Project Status |
More than 50% Completed |
Project Location - Zip |
87131-0001
|
| Jobs Reported |
0.00 |
Congressional District |
01 |
| Project Location - Country |
US |
|
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Recipient Information
(Grants)
| Recipient Information (Grants) |
|
Recipient Name
|
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO |
| Recipient DUNS Number |
868853094
|
| Recipient Address |
1700 LOMAS BLVD NE STE 2200 |
| Recipient City |
ALBUQUERQUE |
| Recipient State |
New Mexico |
| Recipient Zip |
87106-3807 |
| Recipient Congressional District |
01 |
| Recipient Country |
USA |
Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
Yes |
| Top 5 Officers and Compensation |
| David J. Schmidly |
$594,600.00 |
| Paul B. Roth |
$553,204.00 |
| Paul R. Krebs |
$408,391.04 |
| David W. Harris |
$368,499.96 |
| Suzanne Ortega |
$306,241.22 |
|
Projects and Jobs Information
| Projects and Jobs Information |
| Project Title |
REU Site: Spade and Tropospheric Weather Processing Using DotSat |
| Project Status |
More than 50% Completed |
| Final Project Report Submitted |
No |
| Project Activities Description |
Computer & Information Science |
| Quarterly Activities/Project Description |
The REU team has made great progress in the development of the key electronics, antenna and physical deployment designs for the spacecraft. In particular, the team has completed the first capture of digital data from the analog-to-digital converters. The team has also developed a preliminary deployment design for the 30-300 MHz antenna that must fit into a portion of a CubeSat, yet deploy to approximately 1m in length. The design is a biconical antenna and is somewhat complex to compress to that shape. Finally, the team has begun the final version of the electronics/computer architecture and physical layout of the CubeSat. |
| Jobs Created |
0.00 |
| Description of Jobs Created |
No jobs reported this quarter. |
Purchaser Information
(Grants)
| Purchaser Information |
| Contracting Office ID |
Not Reported |
| Contracting Office Name |
Not Available |
| Contracting Office Region |
Not Available |
| TAS Major Program |
49-0101 |
| Award Information |
| Award Date |
09/14/2009 |
| Award Number |
0851916 |
| Order Number |
|
| Award Type |
Grants |
| Funding Agency ID |
49 |
| Funding Agency Name |
National Science Foundation |
| Funding Office Name |
Not Available |
| Awarding Agency ID |
49 |
| Awarding Agency Name |
National Science Foundation |
| Amount of Award |
$474,240 |
| Funds Invoiced/Received |
$309,643 |
| Expenditure Amount |
$309,643 |
| Infrastructure Expenditure Amount |
$0 |
| Infrastructure Purpose and Rationale |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Name |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Email |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Phone |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Address |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact City |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact State |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Zip |
Not Reported |
Product or Service Information
(Grants)
| Product or Service Information |
| Primary Activity Code |
U03.02 |
| Activity Description |
Computer & Information Science |
| Sub-Awards Information |
| Sub-awards to Organizations |
0 |
| Sub-award Amounts to Organizations |
$0 |
| Sub-Awards to Individuals |
0 |
| Sub-Award Amounts to Individuals |
$0 |
| Number of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
0 |
| Amount of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors greater than $25,000 |
0 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors greater than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
169 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
$59,217 |
| Location Information |
| Latitude, Longitude |
35º 5' 22",
-106º 37' 12" |
| Congressional District |
01 |
| Address 1 |
1 University of New Mexico |
| Address 2 |
|
| City |
Albuquerque |
| County |
Bernalillo |
| State |
NM |
| Zip |
87131-0001 |
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