CATS Vega

The CATS Vega is an advanced general purpose flight computer for high performance rockets.

The board detects its own orientation relative to ground, removing any mounting constraints.
An internal Finite State Machine implements all the flight phases. At each transition, events are thrown that can be easily configured by the user.
Vega supports 2 pyro channels, 2 servo channels and general purpose I/Os for deployment events. Backup timers can also be set up.

Vega also implements a telemetry link to the Ground Station. The rocket's altitude, velocity, GNSS coordinates, battery voltage and the current flight phase are sent down to the ground with an update rate of 10Hz. The telemetry operates at 2.4GHz and is implemented using Frequency-hopping spread spectrum. To bind your ground station to Vega, only a "link phrase" needs to be set on both devices. Vega is also fully functional without the ground station.

All relevant information (including linear acceleration, angular velocity, temperature, barometric pressure, height, velocity, GNSS coordinates, current state and triggered actions) are logged to the board's flash chip. This data can be accessed by connecting Vega to a computer and just dragging and dropping the data into the CATS Configurator.

CATS Vega is the official flight computer used in EUROC rocketry competition.

SPECS:

Microcontroller: STM32F411
Flash Memory: 16MB
Input Voltage: 7-24V
Power Consumption: 100mA
IMU: LSM6DSO32
Barometer: MS5607
GNSS: MAX-M10S
Radio Frequency: ISM 2.4GHz
Radio Power: Up to 1W
Radio Range: Flight Tested to 10km
Pyro channels: 2 channels / Vin - 5A
Servo channels: 2 channels / 5V - 3A
Additional I/O: UART and 1 I/O
Size: 100 x 33 x 21 mm (without the antenna)