Self Sustaining Solar Powered Cansat

The Cansat is an experimental planetary atmospheric vehicle designs to test a self-sustaining power system using solar cells.The goal of the research project is to build a self-sustaining can sized vehicle that will have a payload of multiple sensors that will use energy generated by the solar cells to run the cansat mission operations.The Cansat is being designed keeping in mind the low power budget available to run the various tasks assigned to the payload.The payload will contain a group of sensors and a built in radio communication system all powered by harvesting the power from the sun.The project will be demonstrated the ability to work on a scheduling algorithm for the various set of sensors in the payload, keeping in mind the limited energy source.The data transmission will be done using Bursts operations, to optimize energy usage.We will in the project launch an autonomous CanSat that releases a payload.The Cansat will be deployed from a rocket at an altitude of at least 500 plus meters.The container and payload will descend at 12 meters per second using a passive descent control system.The payload will be released from the container at 500 meters.The payload descent rate will be approximately 10 meters per second or less.Telemetry data will be collected as much as possible at a minimum of 1HZ rate in burst or continuous form.As for the Power, it will be harnessed from the environment using underlined Solar cells in a transparent Payload structure.In this research project we have developed a novel sensing and transmission schedule, with optimal power usage.