Rachel Morgan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Papers
29 Citations
Rachel Morgan is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: CubeSat & Deformable mirror. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 13 publications.
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Papers
Nanosatellite optical downlink experiment: design, simulation, and prototyping
Emily Clements,Raichelle Aniceto,Derek Barnes,David O. Caplan,James R. Clark,Inigo del Portillo,Christian Haughwout,Maxim Khatsenko,Ryan Kingsbury,Myron Lee,Rachel Morgan,J.C. Twichell,Kathleen Riesing,Hyosang Yoon,Caleb Ziegler,Kerri Cahoy +15 more
- 01 Sep 2016
TL;DR: The approach to transition prototype transmitter and receiver designs to a full end-to-end CubeSat-scale system is described, which includes link budget refinement, drive electronics miniaturization, packaging reduction, improvements to pointing and attitude estimation, implementation of modulation, coding, and interleaving, and ground station receiver design.
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Telemetry Fault-Detection Algorithms: Applications for Spacecraft Monitoring and Space Environment Sensing
TL;DR: The authors would like to acknowledge the U.S. Air Force Office of Sponsored Research grant FA9550-13-1-0099 and NASA for funding this work through NASA Space Technology and Research Fellowship grant NNX16AM74H.
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CubeSats for Astronomy and Astrophysics
TL;DR: With over 1000 CubeSats launched, there has been a corresponding increase in the availability and performance of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components compatible with the CubeSat standards, from solar panels and power systems to reaction wheels for three axis stabilization and precision attitude control.
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Optical calibration and first light for the deformable mirror demonstration mission CubeSat (DeMi)
Rachel Morgan,Ewan S. Douglas,Gregory Allan,Paula do Vale Pereira,Jennifer Gubner,Christian Haughwout,Bobby G. Holden,Thomas E. Murphy,John Merk,Mark Egan,G. Furesz,Danilo Roascio,Yinzi Xin,Kerri Cahoy +13 more
TL;DR: Ground testing data show that the DeMi SHWFS can measure individual actuator deflections on the MEMS DM to within 10 nm of interferometric calibration measurements and can meet the 12-nm precision mission requirement for actuators deflection voltages between 0 and 120 V.