Functional Testing of the Electrical Power System of the MIST Satellite

Sammanfattning: The Electrical Power System is the key subsystem for the survival of the satellite.It not only supplies power to the satellite by keeping the battery adequatelycharged, but it also provides crucial fault detection and recovery functions.The target of this thesis work is to characterize and test all the functionalitiesof the EPS of the MIST satellite in realistic operational conditions through theimplementation of hardware and software simulators. Such a comprehensiveframework is based on a MATLAB software, the MIST flight hardware, aswell as Solar Panel Simulators and Arduino-based dummy loads created byprevious students in the project. These tools are used to integrate all theseelements into an easy-to-use simulation environment that very closely mimicsconditions in actual orbital flight and that can be used as a model for suchsimulations in similar satellite projects. The purpose of the simulations in thisenvironment is to verify that the planned flight profile of the satellite is correctand safe, especially from a power subsystem point of view.