Payload Requirements 2022

Mission Critical Requirements

Driven by Rules and the Rocket

• The payload must be deployed from the rocket.
• The payload must conform to the 3U cubesat form factor.
• The payload must weigh at least 8.8lbs.
• Only 20% of the payload mass can be non-functional.
• The payload must be recoverable.
• The payload must have redundant recovery systems.
• The payload must land at less than 30 ft/s.
• The payload's location must be real-time tracked by ESRA Mission Control Center (MCC).
• Are we going mach? TODO

Primary Objective Requirements

Not mission critical, but top level

• The payload will live stream video to the ground during flight.
  
  

Derived Requirements

Requirements derived from MC and PO requirements

• high visibility streamer (go tigers)
• drogue chute

• one downward facing camera
• local (non-streamed) camera upward/sideward (maybe)
  • no reason to not put as many we can fit/power
  • vertical would be cool (see the parachute)
    • less overlapping information that downward and upward
• name idea: COTs in 4k
• we need to power the cameras
• we need a video transmitter
  • 2.4 GHz vs. 5.8 GHz
• how do we get signal to the ground
  • directional antenna somewhere
  • cool modulation - spreading sequence, something else

Secondary Objective Requirement(s)

driven, optional, fun

• the payload must speak in jims voice