Mission
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The ground station is a system that handles incoming telemetry and outgoing commands from the ground. It provides an easy way to access telemetry and a way to send commands back to telemetry providers. All devices interface over standard IPv4/IPv6, currently the only transport layer protocol supported is UDP. One major design consideration was configurability, the ground software should not change based on devices, a new rocket should only require a new configuration file. Platform compatibility was also another design consideration, ground software is able to run on any Linux platform. Lastly was scalability, the number of applications should not impact the performance of the core software.Currently the ground station has three latte pandas running, InfluxDB, Grafanna and Core are run on each machine. There is an ethernet switch for telemetry devices and a wireless router for mobile devices.
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Ground Station Block Diagram
