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WHDL - 00010929

NNU Space Research Website Portal and Database

Jordan Poundstone

Resource Types

Academic (Thesis, Dissertation, Etc.)

Resource Languages

English

Institutional Repository

Description / Abstract

Submitted to the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science

NNU currently has two satellite projects: MakerSAT is the first satellite developed in Idaho and RFT-SAT is the second. While work on RFT-SAT was underway, development began on a website to host information about NNU’s space research projects and display data sent from the satellites. Information about the state of the projects, related news, contact information, and an image gallery can be accessed on the website without logging in. By logging in, users can gain access to the database to view data sent back to earth from the satellites. The database contains a table with data identifying each of the projects. Connected to this are various tables holding data sent back from the projects. The satellites will send back beacon packets with their locations and diagnostic data and data packets with anything collected during the science experiments. These packets will have different types of data so they require different tables to hold them and different display layouts on the website. The project consists of a website designed using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP; a database developed with MySQL; and a python application to parse data and upload it to the database.