RBSP Devices

I've realized that I never put up the designs that I initially worked on at the Space Sciences Lab. The first is a testing system for the Spin Plane Boom to be deployed in the RBSP (Radiation Belt Storm Probes) NASA mission. Most of the system was already designed, but I made several enhancements and added a few sensors to the system for proper testing:

Operational position. The SPB is placed on the bottom and controlled by the motor on the side.

Safety sensors near LVDT (Linear variable differential transformer)

The device is operated by the outer motor and a motor on the inside which

winds the wire on SPB. This is all controlled by a program written in LabView. After making necessary design changes, we built a brand new 2nd system to do simultaneous testing.

The following is another testing device that I made a few adjustments to and built a copy of.

Phototransistor circuit