Documentation and source files for the CAD of the BIRDS5 satellite

The Mission Statement of the Project is:

Build Uganda and Zimbabwe’s first satellite while improving the standardized bus system for future missions, giving continuity to the satellite development of Japan and previous missions from BIRDS-1,2,3 and 4.

The project is led by Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan and involves students from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Trinidad and Tobago, and Japan.

Satellite Names: Taka (Japan), ZIMSAT-1 (Zimbabwe) and PearlAfricaSat-1 (Uganda)

Stakeholders: Uganda Science, Technology and Innovation Office of the President, Zimbabwe National Geospatial And Space Agency (ZINGSA), and Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) for Japan.

Project duration: 2018-2022

CubeSat: 1U (10x10x10) cm3, 2U (10x10x20) cm3

Weight: 1.13kg

Launch Date: 21st November 2022

BIRDS-5 has 5 main missions in total; attitude visualisation, Imaging classification Mission (IMG-CLS) and Store & Forward (SF- WARD), Particle Instrument for Nano-satellite(PINO), APRS-Digipeater mission (APRS-DP)

├── .gitattributes
├── 1U Drawings
│   ├── 0_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 10_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 12_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 13_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 14_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 1_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 2_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 3_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 4_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 5_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 6_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 7_1U_STD.pdf
│   ├── 8_1U_STD.pdf
│   └── 9_1U_STD.pdf
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── Screw list.docx

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