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New EyaNav Board Joins the EyasSat Family

posted Mar 9, 2009 7:43 PM by Tim White   [ updated Feb 26, 2010 2:28 PM by jim@coloradosatellite.com ]

(PARKER, Colo.) – An emerging leader in the world of space systems education, EyasSat, LLC, is now marketing its off-the-shelf EyaNav board to classrooms and laboratories worldwide. Customers who’ve experienced the firsthand benefits of the EyasSat desktop satellite can now integrate EyasSat, LLC’s EyaNav board into their robust training system.


Offered with complete design data, board layout drawings, parts list and firmware source code, the EyaNav is a useful tool for students and professionals. Gathering and parsing out relevant data, our innovative GPS board provides the data as telemetry in the downlink stream. For customers interested in designing their own experiment boards or supplying an interface for external controllers, the EyaNav is the perfect addition to an existing EyasSat system. In addition, the microcontroller functions as a standalone GPS receiver when connected to a PC with the provided umbilical.


“The EyaNav board is a great way to show students how GPS works,” says EyasSat, LLC owner Gerry Murphy. “When activated, the users see their location on a map—along with key GPS system parameters. And with the design data that comes with the EyaNav, customers have a jump start on designing and building their own EyasSat subsystem module.”


EyasSat customers enjoy the following standard features when they purchase an EyaNav microcontroller:


  • Simple, durable hardware design

  • Single-line or continuous telemetry read-out

  • Versatile positioning with the EyasSat module stack

  • Temperature sensor read by the thermal subsystem

  • CodeVisionAVR-C firmware


“In addition to the EyaNav, other add-ons are in the works as part of our goal to make EyasSat learning more effective—and always more fun,” says Murphy.


The EyasSat Classroom Satellite originated as an effort to provide practical satellite experience to students and professionals—without posing undue risk to costly flight hardware. Since the company’s inception, the EyasSat system has been adopted by prestigious organizations and educational facilities like NASA, Cape Canaveral AFS, France’s International Space University and the United States Air Force Academy.


For more information about EyaNav or EyasSat technology, contact:


EyasSat, LLC

Gerry Murphy, Owner

303-462-0096)

gmurphy@design-group.com