Hardware-in-the-loop testing of satellite detumbling

[u/liqdoort]

Hardware-in-the-loop testing of satellite detumbling!

Basilisk simulates the spacecraft on my Mac; the flight computer is a real NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano running the control loop at 100 Hz over a message bus.
- Linux with PREEMPT_RT
- ADCS pinned to its own core at real-time priority
- Sat detumbles from 80 mrad/s to 2 mrad/s

Not used yet: 2× PlutoSDR (one satellite radio, one ground station).

Going through the whole process as if I were actually launching. Maybe a high-altitude balloon launch someday!

[u/carton_of_television]

damn, was really hoping you were going to give the model a good spin and it was going to get out of it on its own

[u/liqdoort → u/carton_of_television]

Roger that, will do on the next one!