Payload Research and Development Team

"Ex astris, scientia" – "From the stars, knowledge"

MDE: Memory Degradation Experiment

The Memory Degradation Experiment (MDE) is the scientific payload that will fly on EagleSat-2.

Space is a hostile environment for computers and the memory that enables computation and storage of data. MDE seeks to learn more about this problem by creating an error-rate data set on five types of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) computer memory chips.

  • Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Parts

  • Five Computer Memory Types

  • Memory Performance Data Analysis

  • Realtime Data Collection and Reporting

CRP: Cosmic Ray Payload

The Cosmic Ray Payload (CRP) is the second scientific payload on EagleSat 2.

Every second of every day Earth is bombarded by high energy particles originating outside our solar system. The CRP seeks to learn more about these particles and where they come from.

The CRP utilizes an array of CMOS sensors to calculate the energy and origin of every particle that hits EagleSat 2.

  • Eight Particle Detection Sensors

  • Particle Energy Detection

  • Particle Origin Detection

  • Particle Frequency Analysis