Raspberry Pi has won the favor of fans around the world with its unique and rigorous design. Of course, successful unique designs (such as GPIO) will bring a large number of followers, including some well-known companies, such as NVIDIA, ASUS, Of course, there are also many domestic pi's, such as orange pie, banana pie, lychee pie, etc. The popular Raspberry Pi is not only unique but also inseparable from rigor. The high reliability brought by rigor has brought it a variety of applications, including civilian, commercial and military applications. You can use it in smart factories, It can be seen in automobiles, agriculture, aviation and even the Ukrainian battlefield. Let’s take a look at the various dazzling applications of Raspberry Pi in batches.
Aerospace
For the first time ever, a Raspberry Pi was used as a satellite’s onboard computer to achieve a flawless flight. Last month, GASPACS, the first nanosatellite to use a Raspberry Pi Zero as a flight computer, re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. Completed a record-breaking 117 days of space flight. GAASPACS accomplished all mission objectives and was generally considered a huge success.
GAASPACS was launched by the famous SpaceX Falcon 9 of the Space Exploration Company.
Raspberry Pi Satellite Launched
Photos beamed back to Earth from the onboard Raspberry Pi camera confirm that just 18 hours after deployment from the International Space Station , GAASPACS accomplished its primary mission goal by sending a perfect AeroBoom image.
Mission Verification
The main key tasks of this launch:
1. Deploy and photograph a one-meter-long inflatable boom from a 10-square-centimeter cubesat in low Earth orbit , and transmit clear images downwards. For the first time, it has been demonstrated that an ultra-miniature spacecraft can achieve self-stabilization in orbit.
2, GASPACS used a Raspberry Pi camera to capture images of AeroBoom. This is also the first time a Raspberry Pi camera has been used on a satellite.
3. Successfully verified the heartbeat resurrection ability of the Raspberry Pi host, which can automatically recover and run normally when various abnormalities occur.
4. It has once again been verified that the Raspberry Pi can effectively deal with various rays in space and achieve stable operation.
Project introduction:
Ground receiving antenna
Satellite motherboard
This is the GASPACS satellite, a guy with only 10 square centimeters
Super mini satellite
GASPACS is sponsored by NASA and designed by members of the Utah State University special team. This is the first one entirely made of CubeSat, developed by undergraduate students, is a mini-satellite with a total size of only 10 cubic centimeters . More than 80% of satellite driver software is written in the Python programming language. The project is a long-term project that will gradually verify various technologies required for human life in space.
Of course, this is not the first time that a Raspberry Pi has been taken to space. As early as December 2015, European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake used an Astro equipped with a Raspberry Pi-1 in the mission code-named "Principia". Pi was brought into space.
