OreSat Star Tracker Software

Like all OreSat software projects it is built using OLAF (OreSat Linux App Framework), which it built ontop of CANopen for Python. See the oresat-olaf repo for more info about OLAF.

Algorithmic solving implemented with University of Washington HuskySat's LOST star tracker program.

NOTE: The prucam-ar013x kernel module is required to use the camera and will only work on the custom OreSat Star Tracker board. See the oresat-prucam-ar013x repo for more info.

Quickstart

Install Python dependenies

$ pip3 install -e . --group dev

Make a virtual CAN bus

$ sudo ip link add dev vcan0 type vcan
$ sudo ip link set vcan0 up

Run the Star Tracker app

$ python3 -m oresat_star_tracker

Can select the CAN bus to use (vcan0, can0, etc) with the -b BUS arg.

Can mock hardware by using the -m HARDWARE flag.

• The-m all flag can be used to mock all hardware (CAN bus is always required).
• The -m camera flag would only mock camera.

See other options with -h flag.

A basic Flask-based website for development and integration can be found at http://localhost:8000 when the software is running.

Unit Test

Run the unit tests

$ python3 -m unittest